day 51: little things

Constipation.  That's what's happening today.  It may be gross, but this is my blog and I get to document the real things in my life.  As a mom of young children, that life happens to include a daily walk with bodily functions.  So B is spending most of the day looking like this.  And we've been reading lots of stories together.  B sneaks into E's room as often as he can and I happened to capture him in the act.  I saw these shadows coming through E's drapes, and I had to capture that.  I love that he has commandeered E's paci (he only gets his paci when he sleeps, so he was feeling pretty sneaky that he found one in E's room).  I love that you see the marker scribble marks on the easel that he did a few weeks ago.  I love his very serious approach to book reading.  The picture is a little grainy (due to an effect I tried in photoshop with gradiant layers) but I love it all the same.

While walking back from E's room to put away my camera, I passed the bathroom and had to stop again.  While gross again, this is my life; children lining up tractors and trucks on every possible surface in our home.  And that includes the toilet.