Vitamins or Candy? Does it matter when you are 3?

This is my first post ever as a blogger! Since this blog is all about my sweet and spunky twins I had to start off with this story.  About a month ago my kids were running all over the house at 7 am while I was frantically brushing my teeth, brushing my hair, getting dressed and finding my other favorite black ballet flat.  I had probably taken a total of 6 minutes to do all of this, but when you are 3 years old that is all the time you need to wreak havoc! When I walked down stairs I should have known something was awry because my kids were way too quiet but I thought to myself, wow they are being so good! I must be doing something right! Another sign of trouble were the completely full plates of waffles and fruit left on the breakfast table. But again I ignored it and thought oh they will just eat a great lunch.  On this morning we had gymnastics class so I was trying to round them both up to get in the car.  As is standard most mornings we are missing some essential item and this day it was Nathans shoes.  I'm all over the place looking when something under my dining room table catches my eye.  I push away a chair and to my horror is a large bottle of Flinstone vitamins upside down with the cap off.  I pick it up and 2 lonely vitamins fall out.  It was a 150 count bottle!  Well I pretty much flew off the handle! Immediately I called the 24 hour poison control hotline, told the lady what happened all the while feeling like an incompetent mother.  She assured me they would be ok even if one of them had eaten all 150.  After my panic died down I realized what these two little thiefs had really done.  That bottle of vitamins was on the second shelf of our top kitchen cabinets.  They had to have pushed a stool over, climb up on to the counter top and grab it! How in the world did they do this? All in 6 minutes?  To this day I am still bewildered that they cooked up this scheme and executed it so quickly and quietly.  I pretty much freaked them out when I started crying and to my knowledge they have not tried to do it again.  The worst part of the whole thing was about 1 in the afternoon I kept smelling this horrible stench and I could not figure out what it was.  I kept smelling my hair, my clothes, my fridge.  Then as I picked up my son to go upstairs for naps I gagged! It was coming from him!  His head and feet and hands were exuding this raunchy smell!  The overdose of vitamins had nowhere to go but out!  He must have done the majority of the eating! I was so grossed out and I think he was too.  This is the kind of thing that happens often in our house.