naked pizza

Sunday afternoons are wonderful at our house. Church tends to be chaotic, noisy and exhausting (after all, we have children). So after church we dash home, stuff some lunch in the kiddos and take long, relaxing naps.

But the post church routine was especially ...entertaining... today. We got home from church and stripped the girls out of their beautiful Sunday dresses as I reheated leftover pizza. I told the girls that if they ate their pizza they could have a special treat--chocolate cupcakes. Realizing what a mess this would be, I announced we would be having naked pizza for lunch. Squealing with excitement, they sat down (wearing only panties or a diaper) and began to eat their pizza. Daddy soon joined (fully clothed) and provided the cheetos. (we did add orange juice if that helps to redeem the nutrition value a little bit) Soon, Ladybug was finished and received her "cuppy-cake". With a huge smile, she poked at it, tasted it, licked it and finally I pushed it onto her face just enough that she would take a bite. With renewed appreciation, she devoured it (without using her hands). Butterfly joined her in the cupcake eating chaos, stuffing their mouths, feeding bites to daddy, sharing frosting "nose kisses", licking crumbs off the table and generally making a much bigger mess than I ever thought necessary or even possible.

After our lunch of pizza, cheetos and cupcakes ("mom of the year", right here!), we decided to clean them up the same way most parents logically would: I told them to go get in the pool. The small wading pool was still set up and filled from yesterday so the girls ran outside, stripped off their panties and diaper and jumped into the pool. They splashed and squealed and climbed in and out but generally managed to clean off most of the frosting and cupcake mess. But then our "naked pizza" turned "naked cupcakes" turned "naked pool party" turned into more naked activities as Ladybug insisted on driving her push car, watering the flowers, swinging in her swing and petting the kitty, all completely naked. Meanwhile Butterfly retrieved her ball and took it back to the pool to play. And then eventually the kid sized picnic table managed to appear in the pool as well (daddy may have helped) and the girls used it for naked jungle gym.

Eventually they were clean so we herded them out of the water and now they are napping peacefully. (and fully clothed).