cups and camp

We've had a problem with lack of cups lately. We have tons of those restaurant cups. I actually divided the stack in two and put half in storage. A while ago I was going many days between washing dishes, so I slowly got the spare stack out. Recently we have had few cups. One day I gathered up 8 cups from the bathroom and had the kids pick them up around the house (they aren't supposed to leave the kitchen), and around the yard. They picked up 8 cups outside and there are still a couple more. We then got a huge stack of restaurant cups, plus the pictures ones, 3 large colored, and 3 small colored. Now we are back to few. One of these days I'm going to assign cups and if they are gone the child is out of luck.

Benjamin prefers to shower himself with the sippy cup. It takes twenty minutes for him to sprinkle every last drop. I finally had enough. He is banned from sippy cups. I prefer him to dump it in one, half second dump. He's actually getting pretty good with a regular cup. The first two kids went to regular cups around the same age for a similar reason. Eric held on to his till 18 months and I think Karen was over two. Some days I wish she still used a sippy cup. That girl is miss accident.

Caitlyn went to Girl Scout camp last week. It was Wednesday to Friday. Each girl had to choose a job. Caitlyn chose "Trail Boss". Later she was awarded for keeping the counselors in line and knowing all the rules. She was acting herself! She left her camera, hat, and coat at camp. Hopefully they'll turn up in the lost and found. She had a great time. Yesterday she showed me how her loose tooth was sideways. I was very mean and pulled it out. She was hoping to keep it till her birthday. It has been very loose for months. Finally, Caitlyn has lost her first tooth. She'll be 7 in two months.

I love shopping for my new to me vehicle. I'm down to two options: Honda Pilot and Toyota Sienna. I'm not even pregnant. I just hate my van. I looked up safety ratings. If I get into a frontal offset collision in the aerostar the steering wheel is likely to pop off rendering the air bag useless. At least the dummy lived. I need them to test with a short dummy that doesn't fit the seat belt.