When the Cat's away the Mice will play

When Todd & I go out for the evening our kids play with the camera.

Taking all sorts of pictures of themselves as well as things in the house.

We're not informed of the photo shoots. They just show up on the camera after a night out.

But we figured it's not the worst thing they could do while we're gone.

And they all seem to get in on the act.

There wasn't enough room to get a picture of Spencer in.

Janelle is the one taking all the pictures. She would much rather be behind the camera than in front of it.

The Case of the Missing Silverware

What might you ask is this??



It's a picture of my silverware drawer after Hannah & Spencer decided to help unload the silverware from the dishwasher.

This one comes with another story though:


We had guests ( a new family in our church) over for dinner one night. When this occasion happens we bring out the "Sunday" dishes and silverware. These dishes and cutlery are stored separately from the everyday things. (At least they used to be until we started tearing the kitchen apart).

The next time we went to set the "Sunday" table, we noticed we were missing not just a little bit of silverware, but A LOT of silverware.

We couldn't figure out where it could have gone.

We had it all when the company came for dinner but it wasn't all there now.

The only thing we could think of was that perhaps it had gotten thrown away with the dessert plates.

This mystery went unsolved for several weeks.


Until one Sunday I went to choose a table cloth to put on the table.

There between two table cloths, on the bottom shelf in the pantry, laid the missing silverware.

Just where the 2 year old hands had "put it away".