1. don’t put the straw in your ear
2. don’t hang upside down from the table
3. stop hitting your brother with the shelf
4. don’t put the baby’s nukkie in my shoe
4. close your eyes and i’ll kiss you, tomorrow i’ll miss you, i promise to always be true. and while i’m away, i’ll write home everyday, and send all my loving to you
6. that’s the fan, that’s a bookcase, that’s a book, that’s an oven
7. stop squeaking the bat at paco
8. goodnight nolie, goodnight nolie, goodnight nolie, it’s time to say goodbye
9. don’t put your juicebox in the VCR
10. you will get brain damage if you fall off that table
11. be gentle with spiderman
12. don’t eat the lotion
13. don’t lay on your brother
14. don’t hit your brother
15. don’t lick your brother
16. don’t eat your brother’s brownie
17. how did you get pizza on your socks?
18. don’t vaccuum the baby

for the first time ever, sister #3 let sister #4 and i babysit the fabulous becker boys, all three of them. after spending the evening with my nephews, i have a whole new respect for mothers. and, i think, mothers who have more than one child should have automatic get into heaven free cards, because that’s a lot of damn work. after the boys left, sister #4 and i could barely move we were so exhausted.

it was a lot of fun, though. Nolan and Cade just crack me up. Nolie has this vaccuuming fetish where he takes anything with a cord (in this case the Super Nintendo paddle) and runs it over every surface making vaccuum cleaner noises. it cracks me right up.