VENTING!!

Tonight as we were going over to grandpa and grandma's house for dinner (they live next door) Coulson asked if he could go back to our house to get something he forgot.  I told him that was fine just shut the door when he came out.  Well, just as we were all sitting down to dinner he came running in  followed by our dog Scout.  I guess that is what he forgot!  But, since he knows we don't bring the dog over for dinner I took him home and he got "scolded" mainly because that wasn't the only crazy thing he had done today.  Earlier, keep in mind this is Sunday, I found him playing in our kiddie pool NAKED and the other ward is driving by as they just got out of church, plus he decided our 5 week old kitten needed to go swimming in the water too!!!!  I guess it's partly my fault since I didn't put the pool away yesterday when they were done swimming in it.

Well, this gets even better.  After going back over to grandpa's house and eating dinner, our two youngest and their cousin Kayla, who are notorious trouble makers when they get together, turned the garden hose on in the chicken coop...flooding it...and then gathered all the eggs the chickens had laid that day (3 dozen)  and threw them all over the place.  On the chickens, on the walls, on the ground, I'm sure it was lots of fun, but they are all regretting it now.  While all this was going on and Coulson was repeatedly getting in trouble his Aunt Jenny asked him; "Is your mom mean?"

And what he said melted my heart.  "No, my mama is the best mama ever."  I LOVE this kid and all our kids "too much," but when he was born I was holding him in my arms at the hospital  I felt like I was going to need MORE love for him.  And it is SSOOO true.  He is full of energy, pranks, mischief and lives to hide and jump out to scare people, or hide just long enough that you start to wonder if he has been kidnapped.  I love him MORE because he makes us all laugh and keeps things interesting around our house and if I didn't have more love for him then I would probably have given up by now.  Or have torn all my hair out.