Reign of the Judges

We are reading the Book of Mormon at night and have reached the book of Alma where the reign of the Judges begins.  We have a family tradition of saying "reign of the judges" in enthusiastic unison whenever the phrase comes up in the scriptures.  L doesn't really sit and pay attention but whenever we chorus the phrase, he comes running back into the front room yelling "REIGN OF THE JUDGES!"

Because L doesn't have any little siblings, his 4 year old speech sound so baby-like.  But I know from watching videos of the other children that most of them talked about the same when they were 4. 

Everyone loves to delight L.  L loves to torment everyone...  There are often conflicts with lP or G because L wants to jump on them.  M has a whole routine of encouraging phrases she uses to "race" L into doing whatever needs to be done.  B is L's best buddy and they are so adorable and hilarious even though they often are in conflict over toys. 

I assigned the children different chores for June and L has been assigned the bathroom.  The children each have done each zone and I like having L in charge of the bathroom because it doesn't bother me to spend 10 minutes cleaning it with him.  I'll have to remember to just accept spending 10 minutes cleaning it with the other children too.  I didn't teach them recently so I shouldn't expect them to know all that needs to be done in there.