Chaos

The Rowe/Carlson quartet performs one of their latest, greatest hits:



According to Madeleine, she and Nate were singing into lollipops.

I'm fairly surprised Julia had so much energy today, as she had some trouble getting to sleep last night. In fact, when I returned home from a doctor's appointment at 9pm, she was still awake, despite having been put to bed over an hour earlier. She made absolutely no attempt to hide the fact that she was still up, coming downstairs shortly after I'd walked in the door holding a snowflake wand she had constructed and decorated at an arts and crafts event this winter. Here's a general recap of the conversation Ethan and I had with her:

ETHAN: Julia! What are you doing?
JULIA: (holding out the snowflake wand and a sticky decoration) I'm feeling really terrible about this. I'm trying to make it better and it's not working!
ETHAN: What are you supposed to be doing right now?
JULIA: Uh... sleeping.
ETHAN: But you're doing arts and crafts?
ME: Julia! You're doing arts and crafts?
JULIA: Well, I can't fall asleep.
ME: Julia. You know what to do if you can't fall asleep. You can either lay down and think about things, or you can look through some books in your bed. Arts and crafts is not one of your options. It's nine o' clock at night. It's not time to be doing arts and crafts.
JULIA: Well, I'm just trying to make this better...
ME: Not tonight. Go put the wand away and get into bed.

Okay, Julia. Here's a big tip: If you're going to be getting out of bed and playing instead of sleeping, be sneaky about it. Don't come downstairs and broadcast what you're doing when you're supposed to be sleeping. I can only hope her utter inability to be clandestine continues into her teen years!