Double Trouble

The boys are really partners in crime around here.  Silence speaks VOLUMES.  When it is quiet...Kevin and I start sweating.   But when they are caught...their reactions are so funny!!  Cole is a runner.  He drops whatever he has...runs away and acts like it was Tommy's idea.  Tommy on the other hand, tries to remedy whatever they've done at the last minute.  If it can't be fixed, he just stands there and says sweetly like nothing is wrong, "Hi!" 

The other day, the boys were in the kitchen.  I walked out onto the back porch to water the plants and when I came back in...there was silence.  I said out loud, "Boys?  What are you doing?"  At that...there was a gasp...and then Tommy came tearing around the corner from the living room with two bananas in his hands, pushed them back up on the counter and ran out.  It cracked me up.

This week, I was in the family room when I noticed the silence.  Uh oh.  Then I heard it.   When I turned the corner into the kitchen there was an entire box of elbow macaroni on the floor!  At my intake of breath...Cole ran.  Tommy immediately sat down and started putting the macaroni back INTO the box.  :)  It was so funny!!  In the end...they both sat down and helped mommy clean it up.  Every once in a while Tommy would say, "hi!" just to be sure that all angles were covered.