April Fools Day

Posted by Vulnadia on Apr 01, 2009 at 03:17 PM Okay, okay, the last thing that I had thought that I would need to worry about is the inherent ability of 3 yr olds to know what the heck April Fool's Day is all about. Boy am I silly and naive and well, outright stupid. Yep, I am having one of those days. A VERY bad day. It started with the kids getting up at the butt crack of dawn. Don't get me wrong, they were quiet about it, but their little tiny attitudes reflected their obvious lack of sleep. This meant that, although breakfast was served at 8, that Vivienne was quietly yet repeatedly asking for "FOOD" over and over again. It wouldn't have been soo very unnerving if I hadn't been trying to calm a royally miffed Kian who had managed to fall over backwards while standing in half of the rose petal cottage and then not want to get up based on the idea that the cottage half should not have dared to fall backward while he was standing in it. But alas, I had "FOOD" being chanted in my ear while Kian's wailing was in the other ear. Kai was unusually quiet. Yes there would be a reason for that! So, silly stupid mommie, to make much of time, decided to allow the kids to do their favorite thing: look out of the bedroom bay window and see cars and the azalea bushes that have flowered just outside my bedroom window. Don't get me wrong, I am not that stupid, and I was checking on them every 30 seconds or so while I was busy gathering dinner plates and lost breakfast cups and microwaving french fries and chicken strips for lunch. But alot can happen in 30 seconds, come to find out; A LOT! It got very quiet, and I noticed upon entering the bedroom that the bay window was uncommonly free of the usual trio. Nobody was playing hide & seek within the curtains. I thought that I had found Kai going through a box of cd cleaning supplies, so I sent him to the living room for his lunch. He went uncharacteristically without any real prodding. I should have known there was something much worse at hand. I then discovered that Kian and Vivienne had been busy in my bathroom. I knew this because there was water flooding out into the bathroom hallway and Vivienne was now curled up in a ball on the floor just inside my closet. She was very wet, and in tears. I picked her up and put her in the bedroom, then turned to extract a very wet Kian. It didn't dawn on me at first WHY he was so very wet. I just set about to mopping up all of the water unconditionally. I did remember to flush the toilet, but it didn't dawn on me why the water was such a funny color for a few minutes. I extracted one small Mcdonalds variety Madame Alexander doll that had refused to be flushed down the toilet successfully and shook her out and set her to dry on the counter. I got the water off of the walls, and off of the floor. i changed Vivienne's wet nightie and got her new fresh shoes, reassuring her that the dollie was going to be okay. I took her in to the dining room to eat her lunch, when I noticed that Kian was in tears bawling behind the couch shouting "Ted, OH NO, TED!" That was when I realized that apparently, in retaliation to the Madame Alexander getting flushed, Vivienne must have given Ted a swirly and a quite a swim because he was totally soaked. That was the reason behind the murky water. Ted always turns the water a dark olive green for some reason. Then I realized that Kian was soaked from head to toe, too. Yep, his hair was wet. Apparently, it hadn't been enough retribution just to give Ted his swirly and a bath. Vivienne had warranted the crimes against that dollie enough to give Kian a swirly too. Later, after the shock of all of this wears off, I might even find this funny and be kind of proud of her, but for the moment all I want to do is cry. You see, I am not done just yet, oh no, not at all. I got Kian changed, wrung Ted out in the kitchen sink as best as I could, then set him in the washer on the spin cycle...5 times in a row. Then he did a stint in the dryer for the past 3 hours in some attempt to dry him. I had to include dryer sheets too just to ensure that he would smell as good as he will look should he ever completely dry out. I got everyone settled back at the dining room table and took my triscuits (what I thought was going to be my lunch) back to my room to finish drying out the carpet wet-spots and start some work. That was when I realized that Kaiden hadn't been playing in the corner with that cd cleaning box. Nope, he had been meticulously popping the keys off of my laptop keyboard and putting most of the parts in the cd cleaner box for safe keeping. I just sat down and cried. I couldn't even breathe, I was so upset. This is not the first time this had happened, actually, and I knew that the chances of my getting it all back together providing i could find all of the pieces, were not going to be good at all. As soon as I pulled myself back together, I began to gather all of the broken off pieces and put them in a cup. There are exactly 3 pieces that make up every key on a laptop keyboard. I would have to locate all of them in order to salvage my computer. Somehow, I managed to find them all, even though they were not in the same spot as I had thought them to be originally. Three hours later, and I am able to get everything back together and in one piece for the most part and am back online and able to try and work. I THINK this is it for the moment, I really do. Maybe it is part of me being optimistic, I don't know. I hope it's over. I really wish someone would have told my trio that even though it's April Fool's Day, they really didn't have to go to all this trouble just for me!!! I mean, you are supposed to play practical jokes, not launch a full scale attack!!! I know you probably think that I am going to say, "April Fools" at any moment, now. I wish I could say that it all was just a joke, but I can't. This is just another day in the life with triplets!