like monkeys.... or hyenas.... or ....

Lately, the boys have been acting like .....

The first offense. While Sylvia that sitter was there, they went into the backyard, turned on the hose and got soaking wet. Getting wet is not a big deal. But then they took off their clothes, made a big mud puddle with the water and painted each other from head to toe with the mud. Sylvia soon discovers the mudfest and brings the boys into the house and cleans them up. When Nathan gets home he talks to them about what is appropriate outside and what is not (getting naked, painting each other with mud, etc.). He puts them into time out for a while.

The second offense. Not too long after the first offense, Nathan comes home to find Sylvia standing at the sliding glass door that leads to the backyard. She tells Nathan that the boys are outside playing in the water, completely soaked and they won't come in and she cannot go out there and get them. Nathan asks why she can't go out side and she tells him that every time she opens the door, the boys try to squirt her with the water. Nathan goes outside, the boys scatter because dad means business. Nathan cleans them up and they sit in their room for the rest of the night for playing in the water again and trying to squirt the babysitter.

The third offense. If anyone needs their garage floor painted, I have helpers. Yes, Nathan came home one day to find the boys in the garage, painting. They got out a can of paint, somehow managed to get the lid off the can of paint and then painted the floor of the garage as well as some tile we had out there. They claimed to be painting a wooden box we had made for Jared a couple of weeks ago. Thankfully, they didn't get paint all over themselves, just all over the garage. They spent the majority of the evening in their room and then had to scrape as much of the paint off as they could.

Of course they have never been perfect little angels but why all of sudden are they behaving so extremely? I know.... they are probably bored and, although we love Syvlia to death, she really doesn't discipline the kids. Now I know that this is probably normal behavior for little boys, but I was a perfect child, I am certain. I don't deserve this type of aggravation.