Jennifer

This last week of Christmas break has been pretty uneventful...except for Jennifer getting into EVERYTHING!  One of the days last week Zac was looking for Jennifer.  She hadn't been making much noise.  He found her asleep on the top bunk in Aubrey's bed.

Zac's Dad sent each of us our own Christmas card this year.  Jennifer's was a snow globe.  She immediately put it up to her face.

Barb got Aubrey a makeup set for Christmas this year.  She has been giving herself and the neighbor girls daily makeovers.  She really thinks that makeup needs to go on your forehead.

Aubrey even gave Jennifer a makeover.  Complete with mustache.

We told Aubrey to store her makeup on top of her dresser so Jennifer couldn't get to it.  On Wednesday, Jennifer pushed a tote box all the way over to the dresser and pulled all the makeup down on the ground.  She put lip gloss all over her face and body.  Then she crushed up the eye shadows and lip sticks into her hands and ground them into the carpet.  It has stained the carpet.

On Friday, Jennifer discovered she could flush toilet paper down the toilet.  She has actually been pretty good about potty training herself.  This past week she has used the potty 5 times on her own without us prompting her.  Anyways, she overflowed the toilet with the toilet paper.  Zac cleaned up that mess.  Then we were all in our family room watching a movie except for Jennifer.  Zac put on a movie for her up in her bedroom, which she is usually really good about watching.  I had Aubrey go check on Jennifer and she said she was laying in bed watching the movie.  10 minutes later, Jennifer came downstairs and has brown stuff all over her face, belly button, arms, legs, etc.  Yep.  She had a messy diaper and played with it everywhere.  It was all over BOTH beds, all the drawers, the light switch, the walls, etc.  Gross!  As soon as we got her all cleaned up, I went back downstairs and heard the kitchen timer go off.  I was making homemade bread.  I got out a pastry brush and melted some butter and brushed the bread with the butter.  Lily started crying so I went to nurse Lily and left the pastry brush and bowl of butter on the counter.  Jennifer of course was found with it upstairs going to town licking all the butter up.  After we got THAT all cleaned up, I went back downstairs and I heard Eric and Aubrey yell for me.  Jennifer had plugged up the bathroom sink and filled it completely full of water.  It was about to overflow.  Zac got mad and turned to Jennifer and said, "You are quickly losing your spot as my favorite!"  And this is the reason why we are finished having kids.  Seriously.  Anyone want to babysit a 2 year old?

Later that night, our neighbors called us up and wanted to play games since it was New Years Eve.  So they came over with their kids and they all did great.  Jennifer even fell asleep while everyone was playing.

Today we had dinner at Nathan's house after church.  I had made brownies for dessert.  Jennifer kept on coming up to me asking if she could have one.  "Please Mom!  Yum!  Mom!  Jennifer yum!"  Nathan was in the kitchen and she pulled the same cuteness on him.  He gave her a brownie.  When she was finished she came running to me and asked me for another brownie.  I told her no and she ran over to Nathan crying and made him hold her.  He had after all, given her a brownie before.  She was really cute with him.  This is the game she plays.  She has the terrible two's more than any of our other children, but she also can give us those huge puppy dog eyes and be so sweet and cute.