Service+Kids=Chaos

So this is what ALL of my towels look like when they are soaking wet and relaxing in the tub.

Let me rewind.

The girl I visit teach just had a baby. I was asked to organize dinners for her and her husband this week. Sounds simple enough right. Well, now that church has moved to the afternoon, Corbin doesn't get a nap. When he is sleepy he starts getting into things that aren't in his usual preschooler trouble making repertoire . He keeps us on our toes. Tonight I was alone, Derek had to work, but the evening was moving along smoothly. That is UNTIL I picked up the phone. So, normal kids see this as a universal signal to run amuck... right? Well add a sleepy Corbin to the mix and here is what happened in a matter of less than 30 min. and 3 phone calls (and each one was only a couple minutes).

First he decided to try to cut Coopers hair. How he got the scissors that we keep up high in a matter of seconds baffles me. So I hung up got the scissors away from him, calmed Cooper down and called the same person back.

One dinner down, next phone call, he finds a green marker and starts to write on the kitchen cupboards. I chase him down and schedule another meal...this time all in one call. It's getting late I need to make at least one more call so I decide to put Corbin in the bath (his favorite pass time). He should be content for a while. I get him settled in, schedule another dinner delivery and realize that the water is running in the tub. I head down the hall to turn it off and the carpet out side the bathroom door is not the right color Uh Oh! There must have been at least 2 inches of water on the bathroom floor and the tub was just running over. Corbin thinks it's the best thing ever.....I don't think he'll do that again however. So Corbin is in time out, I'm running around gathering towels to soak up our new indoor pool and Cooper is crying (but if he's crying he's not choking right...so he'll be fine). I let Corbin out of his room and went to get a fan to blow on the carpet and hurray the chaos it over.

When I realized that Cooper wasn't crying anymore, I went to check on him. This is what I found. Sleeping Cooper on the floor by the dining room table. He made it halfway to me before conking out I guess.

It took long enough to clean up the watery mess that by the time I was done, I wasn't so mad. Good thing too because Corbin was keeping busy playing with my "Plan of Salvation" props from my Sharing Time lesson today. Very cute, he was even doing and saying some of the things I did in primary today. That helped me get back in a good mood, too bad Derek won't have any dry towels when he comes home tonight.