Do you see the resemblance?

Trent was leaving to take the boys to a bonfire the other night.  While he was in the house talking to me the boys were in the garage waiting for him.   We should have known they were up to something since we did not hear the normal screams and crying when the two of them are "playing" together.  When Trent walked out in the garage, both boys had poured baby powder on to each others head.   They looked at him with big smiles and told him "We wanted our hair to look like yours!"  He called me to the garage telling me he didn't know whether to spank them or hug them.   I told him this was just one of the moments you grab the camera.  

The next night we determined that we might have gone to easy on them.  That night was a bad night.  A whole lot of frustration and badness just all coming to a head - that is a blog for another time.   Trent was completely frustrated trying to figure out why our sink was leaking and  I was getting ready to run out the door to do some errands.   The boys decided to lighten things up by pulling their little trick from the night before, but this time much worse.  Not only were they covered  - the garage was covered, everything in the garage had a film of powder, the car.  It was just everywhere.   The garage smelled really nice but when you walked through there it felt like your lungs were coating with powder.   The boys and I cleaned up as best we could and the powder is no longer in the garage - mostly because it was empty.  

If you are thinking "Why in the heck is there baby powder in their garage anyway?"  The answer is for sand removal.  If the kids come home from the beach with sand stuck all over their bodies (like they do constantly) we put some baby powder in our hands and wipe it over the sand.  I swear it takes the sand off better than water.  Just a little tip I picked up somewhere.  Try it.  Just make sure your kids can't reach the powder.