Aria recently has gotten into cleaning, which sounds fabulous, but unfortunately her favorite things to clean are dishes that are already clean.  She especially likes to use an exorbitant amount of soap, and if she had her way, she would definitely use windex on all the dishes as well.

Now that Zade is back from Utah, he's found Aria's little purple hat.  He wears it everywhere and puts up a stink if we try and take it away.  Tara took him to the store to try and let him pick out a different hat, but none were good enough for him (sigh).  Zade also has a knack for finding random things and claiming them as his precious possessions.  His favorite one this week was a bottle of Elmer's glue, which he wanted to cuddle with in bed.  Here he is with his trusty, oh so sanitary plunger.

Since I have been so busy working on my dissertation, Tara's having to carry the heavy load of taking care of the kids.  So she's been taking them to all sorts of places, like the Children's Museum.  I take about a half hour each night to play with the kids (i.e. let them maul me.)

Tara also enrolled the kids in a painting/craft class. Here's Zade painting a paper hat.

Last night, Aria decided she wanted to be Rapunzel, but her hair wasn't long enough.  Thus, she added hair extensions using a roll of toilet paper.  Before we knew it, she'd basically TP'd the living room.

Zade was Flynn Rider and was trying to cut her hair with a wooden spoon.  

(I'm not kidding about the purple hat.  See, it's in most of the pictures in this post if you look carefully)