Dahm Crackers, Scripture Power, and a Baby Beat Down.

Just another day in the life of us Clawsons...

Today I spent all morning cleaning my filthy house. I mean really cleaning. I scrubbed the kitchen on my hands and knees, hauled the vacuum up and down stairs, and took out piles of garbage from Steve's man cave. ( This is dangerous territory...) After I put Capri down for her nap, slapped a movie on for Camri, and got in my workout clothes, I had a date with Jillian Michaels. I was actually excited to work out this morning, which doesn't happen often. (Ok, I'm never excited, but hey, I still do it every day.) I had a great workout. An hour later I went upstairs to find my house trashed. Camri got into the "snack" cabinets and got out crackers, dropped them on my fabulously clean floor, stepped on them and drug crumbs into the front room as well. At some point she got a drink for herself, and dumped a bunch of water out of the Brita pitcher and all over the floor. Luckily the crackers absorbed most of it. Unluckily, she walked in that mixture as well, and it was all over in the carpet. Deflated, I cleaned the mess again. I was making something to eat when Camri came in and asked me for some "damn crackers". I was furious. Then I was ridden with guilt, thinking I had let my foul mouth be transferred to my daughter. I put her on time out and explained that we don't say that. A bit Sheepishly, she asked me, "Mommy, may I please have a damn cracker"? I was about to lose it again when she went to the cabinet and found the GRAHM crackers. I had punished her for a simple misunderstanding. Whoops. On comes the guilt, followed by the hysterical laughter. I thought it was so funny. I'll always think of them as dahm crackers now...

Here she is enjoying a dahm cracker...

Camri reads her scriptures with me in the morning during breakfast, and since she likes it so much, I found her a copy of her own. She calls it her "Scripture Power". She carries it around the house and pretends to read it. She likes to go through the pictures and find Jesus and Moroni. I thought it was just too cute and asked if I could take a couple shots of her with her scriptures. She obliged, and in the one picture she even yelled, "Scripture Power!!!". I'm pretty sure you can guess which one that was. :)

Today Capri seriously let this baby doll have it. She was yelling at it, squeezing, biting, and throwing this baby around for at least ten minutes. It was the funniest thing to see my sweet little angel beating down her baby doll. Usually she tries to give it her Binky's, but not today.