I overslept this morning, so Mom got extra kid duty. She finally sent Corwin off to jump on me to get me moving, even though I’m recovering from a devastating injury. After getting rid of Corwin, I was sent to give Charles a bath. Alice, of course, tagged along because Alice loves baths (Alice got a bath yesterday because Mom got tired of her pestering). Since Alice was still wearing yesterday’s clothes, I stripped her down to a diaper and let her hassle Charles in the tub. Eventually, of course, Alice toppled over in to the tub without getting her hair wet. I don’t think the boys ever managed that. I left her to play for a while, although she and Charles fought over the drain (Alice wanting to drain the water, Charles wanting to keep it). After a while I noticed the water looking a bit cloudy so I handed Alice off to Mom for a drying using the excuse of having to dry Charles. It turned out that Alice had pooped her diapers while in the tub so the quick exit and a bit of extra rinsing was for the best.
Alice and Charles were in grumpy moods, especially since Mom had to work and Alice was in the mood for Mommy time. But we got through that eventually, until it was time to leave. At this point Charles insisted that I print something for him, namely a picture of a large magnetic construct he had built the previous night.
I had done a photo-shoot that night, hoping to get some pictures before the construct got Aliced. Charles didn’t like any of those pictures, so I took another set. Charles liked on of those on the screen but once it was printed, he broke down because you couldn’t see where his yellow pipe connected to the tray in lower right corner1. So I took a third set of pictures, finally getting one Charles found acceptable. Of course, then we had a big fight about whether this counted as his one print of the day and why he should also get an “ENTER” sign…
1 You can see it here, but the printer clips a bit on the sides.