Anatomy of a Play Scene

I'm sure you moms out there are way too familiar with this scene. Perhaps even too familiar (and overwhelmed or disgusted) to read on further. For myself (and those of you who really care), I log this moment in time, as my 2- and 3-year-old children play. Mind you, with about none of the stuff littered around the rug...

Let's take a closer look (click on the picture and then maximize it...if you really care).

This is definitely one of those scenes where you've seen it a thousand times, you've supervised the forensics of (or cleaned it up yourself, in which case I can understand why this post might gross you out), or you've perhaps even participated in the composition of such scene. At any rate, I often find my own feet stumbling over these moments (imagine that), and thought, for once, I'd revel in it and commemorate it as just "Another Day in the Life." What a life!