What happens when your kids are unsupervised...

Yesterday I was teaching Rebekah how to feed Simeon with a bottle, and this was what happened when the rest of the kids were unsupervised during that time...

While I was helping Rebekah in my room Sariah comes screaming at the top of her lungs into the house. She comes in my room wailing that her lips and tongue are burning, so I tell her to run to the bathroom and drink some water. She evidently had been picking the last of the peppers out of the garden and decided to eat some. She comes running back from the bathroom and wails that it's not working, so I get up and get her some milk. She drinks a huge glass of milk and starts wailing again, "it's not working. My lips are burning!" I get up off my bed again where Rebekah is with Simeon and have Sariah get a tortilla to see if that will help (works for me), but that didn't do the trick. Poor girl had eaten a Thai dragon pepper, and they are hotter than a jalapeno! I finally get the bright idea to get an ice pack out of the freezer and put it on her lips. The relief was instant, thank goodness. I tell her she can stick her tongue out if she wants to cool it off also, and for some reason that sent her into a fit of giggles. Silly kid. I talk to her for a minute, and realize I hear the cat meowing somewhere in the house. I look up and see...

, Joseph on the barstool in front of the washer having the time of his life. He has the cat in the washing machine and is opening and closing the lid over and over again. Thankfully I didn't have anything soaking in there at the time. I asked Joseph, "Did you put the kitty in the washing machine?" He looks at me with this huge grin on his face and proudly answers, "Yes!" Ahhhhhh!!!!!
Our cats put up with a lot from our kids. They are real troopers!

I had the hardest time not laughing at what Joseph was doing. It would only have spurred him on to new and higher achievements in toddlerhood. Poor Sariah looked terrible after her ordeal, and honestly, I had a hard time not laughing while she was trying to cool off her mouth. She puts absolutely everything in her mouth, and this time the results were a little over the top for her. Her lips were red and swollen for a few hours, and her face was slightly puffy too. At least the other cat was with her and not being terrorized by Joseph. Like I tell all those strangers that ask how I mange to have so many kids, "Life is always fun at our house!"