Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

Ok, so technically Elena is still not yet three, but I have some experience with three year olds and I can tell you that she is definately ACTING like a three year old. Just moments ago she was playing nicely downstairs and I took the mail out to the mailbox. In the less-than-minute that I was out of the house she got upstairs, closed the front door, and LOCKED it! UGH! Now technically I was not locked out. I could’ve gotten in the back door, but I was barefoot and our grass is rough and it was just the principle of the thing. So I stood outside the front door like someone in a tv show incessantly trying the doorknob and bending over to peek through the sidelight gesturing and trying to explain to a three year old how to unlock the door. While I was waiting around (because she was REALLY not getting it, and I knew the older children would be home from school any second and they would automatically go in the back door and then I could get their attention and have one of them unlock the door) I untangled our sad looking little welcome flag and discovered a tiny wasp nest built on our door that I promptly destroyed and then had to dodge from the large angry wasp that at just that moment had come back with something to build up his nest and was not happy to see it not in its place. I took up the little flag for defense and swung wildly. Seriously, the whole episode was like something you might see on a sitcom. Not to mention that I was in a black top with the sun beating down on me and I already said that I was barefooted, so you can imagine how good the burning wooden planks of our front “porch” felt. >SIGH<