4 going on 15

So, apparently I've already moved right into the "mom is lame" stage.

Since the lava monster thing worked so well, I thought I'd get creative again and try to use the girls' imagination to help me get some housework done... I suggested that we "feed" their dresser with clean folded clothes.

Instead of a chorus of "okay mom, that sounds really fun!" that I was hoping to hear... I got a mini-meltdown from K insisting that the dresser drawers were not mouths at all, but were in fact, simply dresser drawers. And the Academy Award for Best Drama goes to...

Thankfully, I already had an extra tool at my disposal... since for some reason, though the dresser does not have a mouth, lava monsters still exist. I sent all three of the girls to their beds (because they were all going crazy), "turned on" the lava, and left the room to fold some laundry. Thankfully, one of my boys was sleeping, and the other was content to let me fold towels as long as he was strapped to me in the wrap. After the towels were folded and J2 had had enough of the wrap, I changed his diaper and nursed him to sleep... that's when I noticed that the lava monsters had put C and D to sleep as well. :D (Though, the lava monsters didn't keep C in her bed... she fell asleep on mine... but close enough.)

Allow me to share the JOY that is 4 sleeping little ones:

I apologize for the darkness in the girls' room... but there was no way I was turning on a light for this.

As one final thought... why is it that the kids can be super creative, but I can't be? While they didn't allow me to turn their dresser into a hungry-for-clean-clothes creature, a few days ago they decided to turn the lava into popcorn and eat their way out of their bedroom... I explained that wasn't possible, and thankfully, they haven't done it since.