I don’t typically attempt this task on my own. Not since baby number 2 arrived anyway. But my husband had to work that day and it had to be done, so the task was left to me. And my three kids.
I pulled into the parking lot of our vet’s office, put both girls in the stroller, grabbed the dog leash, and had instructed my son to walk beside the stroller.
My son was so excited about the favor we brought home from my friend’s wedding a few weeks ago. They gave out old fashioned root beer in bottles with a home made label. It was his first soda and he was so excited to drink “kid beer” as he called it.
I think he liked the idea of it more than the actual taste. He actually drank most of it the next day when it was flat.
We had an incident a few weeks ago at the park. One of those, turn your back for one seconds, incidents. The kids were frolicking in the grass and I turned to look at the baby, when I turned back my two year old was gone.
After suffering the sick feeling of panic in my stomach and running around like a crazy mama I heard her crying. She had fallen down during her frolic and I couldn’t see her in the tall grass.
My hubby and I had the sad realization the other day that we aren’t as good of parents as we thought we were. See our son is 4 years old and we haven’t taught him to ride a bike or to swim.
So, we decided it was time to get the boy a bike.
Hubby thought a consignment shop was a good idea, because why spend a butt load of money when you don’t have to.
Ever play the game Mad Gab? One team holds up a card with a gibberish phrase and the other team has to translate it. Translating what my two year old says is a lot like playing this game.
Case in point, last week my daughter was teasing my mom. My mom wanted her to call her Grandma and she knew this so she would call her everything but that. As they looked each other in the eye their charade went something like this…
In college I had some friends who had wipe off boards and would write up some funny or amusing phrase they’d over hear and it would stay on the "quote board" until the next memorable statement. Anyone else do this?
Well, I guess I am using this blog post as my quote board… here are a few memorable ones from the past several weeks.
While drinking some water one hot evening my son said to me, "Mom, soon this is going to be pee!
Ya know how they say Mom’s have eyes in the back of their head? I’m not sure exactly when my extra set will arrive… do my children have to reach a certain age, or do I need to have a certain number of children? Seems that with a 4 year old, a 2 year old, and an almost 1 year old… I could really use those extra set of eyes…NOW!
Since my son turned 4 I no longer require him to nap every day. But to keep my sanity ensure that he has some down time, I do require him to have a quiet, rest time in his room while his sisters are napping. Most of the time he ends up falling asleep. Other times, he reads or plays with toys on his bed. On Monday afternoon he found a red pen in his room during this time and decided to transform himself into Spider Man.
I was shopping at BJ’s the other day with the kids when we passed the jewelry counter.
My son asked, "Why is there jewelry at BJ’s?"
I responded, "So people can buy it."
He then said, "Yea… I guess if they were getting married and didn’t have a ring they could come here."
Hmmm…. clearly this Mommy doesn’t wear much jewelry, since my son thinks wedding rings are the only kind of jewelry one wears.
Kids like buttons. At least ours do. Our son was the first addict. We could keep him happy quiet for long periods of time by giving him the TV remote (with the TV off) and letting him just pound away. Him being the first, we were always careful when he got the phone. Wouldn’t want him to call someone unintentionally and have someone listening to uncensored Life at the Circus. He never really called anyone though, because life with one isn’t quite a circus, he just hit buttons.