day 12 - who needs paint when you have toothpaste

The hook and eye locks on the doors upstairs have been a success for the most part. There have been some problems, however. For example, the bathroom door has a lock that is Ava's height so she can get in and out. It's only been a couple of days, but it is already my experience that this lock only works when she doesn't let her brothers into the bathroom.

And I thought they were playing in (trashing) her room. Silly me. It was quiet and I should have known better.






So I counted to ten. Several times. Then I think I might have made a comment about shipping them off to the circus to live with the monkeys. They screamed and cried "NO! NO!", but several hours later the three of them came up to me fully dressed in hats, flip flops, jackets, rubber boots (anything and everything they could find in the closet). They were going to the circus.

And boy were they pissed when they found out that they weren't.