Yesterday I installed a new toilet seat.
First - Put the littles in the bathtub so I can keep an eye on them while I work. They were DISGUSTING anyways from eating chocolate chips.
Second - I tried to pry off the back nobby things from the toilet. That didn't work. Ah Hah... They are screwed on.
"All-righty... Now I see how this is connected." I think to myself.
Next thought - "So how do I unscrew this?" Go get the pliers from the garage and a butter knife. Butter knife you ask... To pop off the top nobby things of course. Got it! Oooh. I can use a flat head screw driver. Go get that from the garage.
Come back. Fish my pliers out of the tub where the littles took it. "Now, What is the best way to unscrew these from such an awkward position?" I think. Hmmm. "Hold the pliers at the nut and twist the plastic screw." Not as easy as it looks.
Try to move and slip from all the water on the ground that the littles have dumped out of the tub.
Yell at anybody moving. Turn to get the pliers and find them in the tub again
Go at this again. Finally get one screw undone. This is taking for ever and my arms feel like they are ready to fall off. Not to mention I am throughly disgusted at the grossness around these screws. EWWWW!
Get splashed with water from behind me. Yell some more. The bigs come in to see what's going on. Yell at no one in particular and rip the toilet seat off the toilet. Does this help? No. The other screw is still stuck.
Fish the pliers from the bathtub again.
FINALLY - both screws are out. Putting the new seat on was not big deal after that.
Start doing the happy dance and chanting, "Mama Got It! Mama Got It!" While all the kids start singing and chanting with me. SUCCESS!!!
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Then Collin decides he wants a cup of coffee. He sets his bottle under the coffee maker, tries to put the grounds in, and starts the water flowing. Jason comes into grounds all over the floor and counter and a bottle where a cup should be.
We clean this up and gate off the kitchen. Enough is enough. Or so we thought. Collin takes off his diaper (filled with poop), climbs into kitchen, puts crackers all over the kitchen floor, squats, and finishes his crap. Jason walks into a pile of crap on the floor surrounded by crackers. Who wouldn't think - I want a snack and I have to take a crap. Let's kill 2 birds with one stone and do it all on the kitchen floor??? Seems perfectly logical to me.
After this Jason was finally able to finish the shelves. 
Riley ate her hammer.
Ben looked through his telescope at the tv.
And Wyatt ate the crackers that Collin had crushed into the living room floor. (Thankfully poop free.)
All in all. One productive weekend.
