<!--QuoteBegin-Gavin+Jun 10 2004, 02:28 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Gavin @ Jun 10 2004, 02:28 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> LOL, sounds like a mad house, we've got this to come no doubt
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Gavin,
Oh, yeah, definately. Do you have your draperies and curtains down by now and everything valuable put away or stuck down? You won't believe what they can do to the house when they are chasing after each other.
Like I told Mark over on Bengals-L, no one can accurately describe to you what their energy level and intelligence is like until you live with them 24/7. It has to be experienced. I will bet that both you and Siobhan will have your mouths open in astonishment many times as well as laughing more than you ever have before. You learn not to hold objects as dear as before. Somehow, it doesn't matter how many times you pick up everything on the living room table(unless you have been going from disaster all day, of course haha) or say "no!" during a day. They are so smart that it quickly offsets how tired I get picking up the same things off the floor and straightening up the rooms after one of their high speed romps. It struck me as very funny the other day how many ways I have learned to say, "No!" and "Oh, no" since we adopted the boys. hehe They get very interested when I find another way they haven't heard yet. Of course, they still don't listen so they have to be removed from the situation. Generally, though, they don't hear no as often as they used to..stubborn little boys.
That's okay, though. They know that we will love them anyway and act accordingly. What is so amusing is that after they get in trouble, they wait a few minutes and then come in and show me how cute they are as if to say, "We know that you love us no matter what we do". The brats "have my number".
There is an unspoken agreement about that. <G>
I can hardly wait for you to get your boys and to have you start to post about them. Its so much fun to hear a new owner talk about their babies.
Nan