The Teeter Family: Am I really going to miss these days?

So, today started out kind of slow. I wasn't feeling the best! I think I have seasonal allergies because I feel like I have a cold during the night and when I wake up, but if I get moving it's gone. I was supposed to go visiting teaching, but the person I was going to visit is also a buddy of mine, and happened to text me to see if I wanted her to just come to my zoo instead. I thought it was a great idea! Then my kids could destroy my things instead of hers! We like to craft together anyway and we have all the stuff to make family home evening boards so we were going to work on those while the kids played. My kids weren't very good at this, but her daughter on the other hand is such a quiet little angel. Havyn was so excited to see her Darby, but when she got here Havyn screamed in her face and wouldn't share her princess tiara. Wow, talk about traumatizing! Poor Darby. I carted Havyn off to her room to calm down more than once and Kai was running around with the peeler, while Kael wouldn't stay out of the pantry. I am pretty sure every time she comes over here she about gives up on being my friend because I literally live in a madhouse!
Tonight was when all the "fun" occured, though. Tyrell went off to work. Lucky him! I have been trying and trying to get at least an interview for a teaching job next year. In order to do that I want to be certain that my resume and cover letter are perfect so I had emailed and called the principal at the school I student taught. He was looking it over and going to give me a call this evening, and he did. Now, Kael had already been in the sink once today with running water, trying to clean his car.

I don't know why I didn't think he might go back there, but I was so focused on trying to listen to what this principal had to say and fix my materials that I just figured they would be good for 10 minutes. Not so! I heard this banging on my door and Koen screaming "mom, you need to come see what Kael is doing right now! Mom! Mom! Kael is doing something you need to see!" I come out, still on the phone, because I was worried he had a knife or something, and I could hear all kinds of screaming (I am sure it sounded so impressive to this principal). I get to the bottom of the stairs and turn to look in the kitchen and there's Kael just spraying away with hose on the sink.

All the kids were drenched because it was like a sprinkler watering my kitchen. Lovely, the counters are covered (including the Vallivue bond calling list I was asked to do and turn in), the floor has about 2 inches of water covering it as well. I get Kael off the counter and the water turned off, and he gets a dishrag and starts wiping the floor. Like that's gonna help much! I told Koen to run upstairs and get every single towel he could find so we could soak the mess up, and then every single one of them was going to bed.
As I am getting ready to get them out of the bathtub, Kai says, "Mom, there's poop in here." Just the words I really wanted to hear after all that mess I had just cleaned up. The pile of towels filled my ultra capacity washer full.