Miscellaneous pictures

What a night!!! I'm trying to make goodies for Clara's school carnival, so of course everything goes wrong. First, my wonderful oven burns half of the brownies, so I decided to use the half that are usable and make a cake instead. While I am waiting for that to cool, Makayla gets sick and needs "the bucket." While I am downstairs fetching it, Holden reaches his little hands up onto the counter and starts grabbing a handful of my cake. Instead of doing something I will regret, I put him right to bed. It isn't too early and I'm trying to keep some sanity as Austin won't be home tonight (working all night). So, as I need to take a break from the parenting for a few minutes, so I thought I'd post some random pictures that I've taken and haven't gotten up here yet.

This is Makayla at back to school night trying out her desk.

Holden is enjoying a sucker. He loves going to the bank with me because he knows where to get a sucker once he gets in the door.

One day I was upstairs working on the computer and it got quiet downstairs, all of a sudden. I went to check it out, a little afraid of what I would find once I got there. I was pleasantly surprised that Holden was asleep in the doorway rather than writing on the walls, or some equally destructive behavior that he is well known for.

My friend Leslie likes to come over and scrapbook with me. She brings her daughter, Macy, who is Makayla's age, when possible. Macy is the youngest in her family, so she thinks playing with Holden and Clara is the best thing ever. Clara especially likes to snuggle with Macy. Sometimes a little too much!

This is just a candid shot of Makayla and Holden in my laundry basket.