Thunder and Chaos

We had 20 people in our house for lunch today - the 5 of us, plus a wide assortment of siblings and cousins. It was noisy and chaotic. Much geekery was had - Settlers of Catan, 6 laptops or so on the kitchen table after lunch. Plans and plots for a shared Stuff Server to hold photos and music and all sorts of stuff to be shared between all of us. Lots of noise and shrieking little people.

The lads were extra cranky this evening - required constant supervision to prevent them disemboweling and/or strangling one another. D on a major Favouriting binge - he basically wanted me to rank all the characters of the first Harry Potter book in order of favouriteness, via pairwise comparison. A gave E a nasty scratch across her face. Not sure why.

Have to say though, I'm pretty pleased with the boys' eating habits. Morning tea was chunks of cucumber, and when dinner wasn't coming quickly enough, they devoured bowls of cucumber, carrot, and lettuce. And came to blows over who got which pieces (on the other hand, they were coming to blows over pretty much anything - merely being within belting distance was sufficient provocation).