Christmas vacation adventures - Day 2 - Snowmageddon and destruction

So this morning I was awakened by a 4 yr old who had gone downstairs first - grabbed a very crumbly shortbread and icing cookie and proceeded to squish in between Chris and I to settle in and eat his ill gotten gain.
It was 7:30am on a sunday, so I didn't care.

Sure - eat a cookie in my bed.
Be sure to leave the crumbs on daddy's side ok?

roll over back to sleep.

Only this child does not let us sleep -Why - He was up past 10:00 last night although that was partly my fault for being the kind caring mother I am, and not wanting him to freeze in the middle of the night.......

You see - his room is right over the garage, and since he sleeps with the door shut - his room tends to be the coldest in the house. Also since he tends to shun blankets of any kind while sleeping, I put footie jammies on, and (Silly me) got out a portable heater to put in his room. All was well until he saw that heater, and then he refused to come into his room, as if the heater was satan with an evil grin. I got him to come within 3 feet of the heater and feel "nice and warm" - to which he said "Nice and warm" because he is after all, highly skilled in repeating me.
But he would not go to bed with that heater in his room. He kept dragging me over to the closet and saying "put over there" - which is where his heater has been all summer - tucked away safely, not beckoning with it's evil orange glow of warmth.
Finally at 10pm I relented, and turned it off and put it away.
Joey bolted up into bed after that - easy peasy....
And after he was asleep, I put that heater back on!! - Wooo, score one for mom!

Thought the boy would sleep in but sadly no. I'm thinking that holiday = late nights and cranky mornings because my kids don't know how to sleep in, and probably won't until they are teenagers, or I really need them up for something.

Oh well. I have decided that no matter how cute he is, I will kick him out of bed for eating cookies.

Managed to drag myself out of bed and get dressed to see that Oh look - it's snowing again. How fun.

Came home from church around noon - we ended up getting at least another 6 inches of snow today.

Was enjoying a rather calm day in terms of the kids - I guess they aren't bored yet - or at least they dare not admit it for fear that I will send them out to shovel the driveway. again.

Of course today was also the day we destroy the lovely gingerbread house we created yesterday.
I was hoping it would last a few days, but a certain 4 yr old cannot look at that without trying to inhale it, so I thought it best for our collective sanity if I just let them eat it today. Besides - it's good bribe fodder.

"Hey boys - we're going to dig into this gingerbread house......"

"YAY"

"....Just as soon as you clean up your rooms!"

*silence*


HA! I can see the littel wheels going in their heads. They want something, but they have to clean first. I know they were trying to figure out a loophole. They could clean their rooms in 15 minutes but would rather spend 30 trying to figure out a way to get out of it.....They will be excellent lawyers one day, I'm sure. They like to argue until your ears bleed.

Still - It worked. Tidy rooms and ok let's put this lovely house on the table and take a picture....



Lovely

On your marks.....get set... (notice Duncan has some hammer destruction tool)


Hey, where's Joey?


And go!


Now when I say my kids are masters of destruction - I mean they are *really* *REALLY* good at breaking and destroying.

Oh look - There's Joey - Clever boy, got his piece and got outta there.


That look on his face pretty much sums up how he felt about the other boys pummeling poor gingerbread house to bits of ginger dust and all their karate chopping ways.

Ah but they did have fun! And that's what it's all about!
Today is officially the first day of winter and the shortest day (technically) of the year. Sure didn't feel like it, but they weren't terrible at all - just typical little boys who enjoy destruction.

4 more sleeps until the big day! I'm starting to get really excited.
Duncan is much better behaved today after yesterdays incident (in which I was a very very very mean mommy, but it worked so I don't regret it at all).