Fruity Loops Sunday

Our kids are slowly... oh so slowly...catching on that Sundays are supposed to be a day of rest.

For mom and dad.

Without fail, Jeff and I fall asleep. Sometimes the kids are lucky and we alternate our napping. But other days, they pretty much fend for themselves while we snooze away.

Not that we ever hit that nice, deep REM sleep. Heavens no! Just when I can feel my body start to sink into sleep - real sleep - a little pipsqueak voice says, "I'm huuungry!" or "Me watch a movie, Mom?" or "What can we do?" or "COOOOOLE!!!! Stop it!!!!"

When the kids brought over a bag of Fruit Loops and asked if they could have a snack I told them yep but I'm not getting any milk out, just eat it out of the bag. A few minutes later, having given up on having a restful nap, I overheard Pearl telling Cole she was going to make a rainbow. 

Curious I got up and went to investigate. 

Those two pipsqueaks had sorted out all the colors of the "Fruity Loops" as Cole calls them, into piles of each color. Pearl had lined them all up while singing the rainbow song:

Red, orange, yellow

Then green followed by blue.

Indigo and violet,

That's a rainbow song for you!

{Thank you Cat in the Hat on PBS Kids}

 Pearl is really creative. I was quite impressed so I got out my camera to try and get some pictures of her at work.

When Cole figured out my attention was on his sister, he decided he wanted to help too. As you can see in the picture, Pearl wasn't too keen on his help. I can hear her now, "COOOOOOOLE!!!!!!!!!"

That picture makes me giggle. And feel her pain... I totally remember screaming at Kimmy when she would come in my room and destroy my Legos. Little siblings can be a pain in the you-know-what sometimes. 

 Who says you can't sneak a few Fruit Loops while you work?

Trying to stop Cole from further destroying all of Pearl's hard work, I tossed him some marshmallows to make fluffy, white clouds out of. I think it was the perfect touch to our Fruity Loops rainbow.

Ta-daaaaaaa!

  

Such a simple thing to wake up to but I honestly wanted to frame that Fruity Loops rainbow and keep it forever.

It seems such a fitting image of the magic and innocence of childhood. 

Totally worth the nap.