Wednesday, July 8, 2009

What happens when Dad is in charge?

The other day after dinner, we decided to switch things up a little bit. Usually Chris does the dishes while I give the kids baths, but we decided to change and have Chris do baths while I did dishes. I stripped the kids down and sent them off with Dad for "baths" while I started the dishes. I could hear a lot of laughing and giggling and bumping on the stairs... obviously not bath noise. After a while I decided to go check on what they were doing, and here is what I found:



He was putting the kids in laundry baskets and letting them take turns "riding" down the stairs in them. At least they were sticking to the small bottom stairs. Chris told me to grab the camera because he wanted photo evidence that they were doing it and having fun... I think mostly to bug the worriers in my family. After a while that was no longer good enough and he decided to switch them to the very steep top stairs. I refused to watch or photograph. At least he didn't let go of Steven's basket on the top stairs, but he just let Elise go flying. Uggh! She had a good time though, and was begging to do it over and over again. Although he wouldn't admit it, I think he decided it wasn't such a good idea as well, because after only about two runs he made the little daredevil go back to the small stairs, much to her dismay. At least it was good exercise for the kids though because he made them haul their baskets back to the to each time they finished if they wanted another ride. It was quite funny to see little Steven trying to manhandle a basket up the stairs.

2 comments:

Lindsay said...

That's hilarious! That is something that I can see Aaron doing with our kids. Forget baths, let's ride down the stairs in the laundry basket!

Unknown said...

OMG, that is so hilarious! In that first photo of your two kids Elise looks JUST LIKE YOU! That's fun that Chris plays with them...even if he is making them into little daredevils!