Toothpaste July 4th and Brody's sleeping habits!

Strange title for the day I know but the toothpaste incident was "the event of today." Dave and I have noticed that Brody gets into FAR more than any of the other kids did and we are not sure if that is his personality or if it is simply because he sees the other kids doing more than the first three ever saw... or maybe a little bit of both.

So Bro loves to brush his teeth which his second mom (Aubriel) is usually more than willing to help him out with this. This actually doesn't stress me out nearly as much as him just trying to do it himself... like as you can see he did today. Now the mess doesn't bother me either quite as much as the BLUE toothpaste on my floor. Now really as if toothpaste doesn't stress me out enough as I wonder how it really fits into my more "natural" lifestyle I aim towards "most" days. If I thought I could get my kids to simply use baking soda to brush their teeth I would and since Gage's dental problems I really have a mixed emotion with fluoride. I know dentist swear they need it but the fact that it was originally a poison to kill rats unsettles me some and that we have to watch how much of it is in our kid's water bothers me as well, it is like they tell us the kids need it even though they know it is bad but regardless the bottom line really being do they HAVE to make it blue?! Why should we even market a product that is suppose to go into ones mouth that looks like that? No wonder children put the strangest things in their mouths!

Okay on to our fourth of July pictures... Here they are before the fireworks















Kain and Gage of course loved the fireworks... Aubriel and Brodric not quite as much. I actually these two pictures might be the few we have of them not crying. Aubriel mostly just snuggled her head in Dave as you can see and after Brody got use to the noise he liked the "lights."

Now these pictures are even more random but I love how Brody will go and go all day and just take a "nap" where ever he might be... like watching TV.


Which then brings me to the day we couldn't find Bro anywhere and started kind of freaking out when he wasn't answering us. Finally Dave found him here... asleep....














Yes that would be under our bed.

Now the funny thing about this is that while I have been typing this I yet again had to go clean up toothpaste in the SAME place. I have no idea how he keeps getting it... it doesn't seem to matter how far up I put it or where. I may be the only mother that has to have her children's toothpaste kept under lock and key!