self portrait challenge: me and my excitables

i'm convinced i've been blessed with some of the best wee ones around. but damn, are they busy! always on the go. go go go. for me, this picture sybolizes it all. i set up my camera on the floor with the timing setting on, trying to capture a real second of my day- something less staged and less beautiful. my floors are flithy. i'm trying desperately to keep joey out of the bathroom while his sister "takes a dump" (as she's taken to calling it). he's obsessed with getting into the bathroom. he cannot be tamed until he's explored the rim of the toilet bowl, gotten some hairs wrapped up in his drooly fingers. grace screams "he's coming in the bathroom again! gate him! GATE HIM!" gray likes to "gate" joey with her body, meaning she slams herself up against him, trying to block him from anything- the bathroom, her little ponies, her bracelets, her food. everything in our house is always in motion. no sitting or relaxing during the day. beautiful, creative, fun energy. draining, baggy-eyed, whirlwind energy. it never stops. except, of course, sweet sweet bedtime.

happy self portrait challenge my dear peeps. thanks for peeking into my world.