Spilled Milk

I am relatively quite sure our family has now set the record for how many days in a row one kid can spill an entire glass of milk. No doubt the worst part of the whole affair is dealing with the towels in the utility room that were used to soak up the white disaster. Oh my freakin gosh! The overwhelming state of involuntary wretching doesn't even come close to getting near what it smells like or the feeling that consumes you when entering the room. So, the 1st time was just my fault. It happened at night and there were clothes in both washer and dryer so I switched those and figured I'd do the towels first thing in the morning so they didn't sit in the washer all night. I quickly concluded, after being greeted by the stink of my life the next morning, that the towels really needed to be washed the night before.

So, day 2. After towels have been run through TWICE to get the stink out milk spill #2 occurs. The children cleaned it up quietly and conveniently never got around to enlightening me to what had happened. Seeing as how it happened with the breakfast milk the towels, unknowingly to me, sat all day waiting for the night load of towels. Stink bomb #2, day 2.

Day 3. Spill # 3 and 4 occur. Towels were washed very quickly and thoroughly.

Day 4. Spill #5. We now have major city water issues and unfiltered river water is now running out of all faucets and any water entry point in our house, including ice maker, toilets, all faucets, dishwasher, washing machine, etc. Thus making it impossible to do any water related chores. Children are thrilled. This time the spill involves the entire bowl of cheerios....sopped up expertly by.......yes, of course.......nothing but towels. So, I now ponder in my state of exasperation the lesser of 2 evils.....washing anything (since, of course, clothes were involved in the milk saturation too) in completely disgusting, stinky, muddy brown river water or milky, curdled, stomach turning towels yet again. So, I opted for washing towels in the brown river water. Ugh!

And what is it about kids that they become soooo entirely incapable of walking, sitting or even just plain standing when they are going through growth spurts???? And even any kind of slight coordination with their hands seems to elude them. Poor Evye. Yes, it was she that has been the guilty and responsible one for the record amount of milk spills. Yesterday she was just walking along and in a sort of all arms and legs type of scene she fell and sprawled out all over the floor with nothing in front of her or behind her to blame her fall on. She laughed in an embarrassed little way and, not so gracefully, pulled herself up off the floor and continued on. Then at lunch she freakin just fell out of her chair. No one around, no anything. I was sitting on the couch nursing and heard her ricochet off of absolutely everything between she and the floor. A few days ago she went to sit in the chair and completely missed it! She ungracefully ended up in the floor yet again. And during last night's milk spill she was just waving her arms around while talking, completely oblivious to their length, and whopped her glass of milk over.......all over her, Grant, the table and the floor.

Sooooooooo, if she's having to grow into her ever lengthening body maybe this means she'll be tall???????