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.
I love my son’s imagination! He is at age where I wish I could just freeze time. He cracks us with his antics these days. Check out last week’s comedy routines.
My son was playing on the deck when I suddenly heard him say, “Help Mom, I’m stuck.” I turned around to see this.
As I got him out of the basketball net, I asked him what on earth he was doing?
It was a big day for me. I know your thinking, yes, we know already, you got your power back. And yes I did, but that is not what I am referring to. I pulled into the parking lot of Target (which is 20 min away) with all 3 kids, at 8:30 AM. If you have kids, you recognize the monumental occasion this is.
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Traveling for 5 hours in a minivan with 3 young children and one dog sounds like a kicking good time, doesn’t it? Since my parents live a little over 5 hrs from us, we’ve gotten quite adjusted to the trip. And surprisingly, it isn’t that bad. We’ve had our bad trips (like the time my son got the stomach flu the morning we were heading back home and puked every 30 min the entire way home), but overall we’ve found the key to happiness is letting the kids entertain themselves.
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Remember the time when everything you encountered was new and exciting, something worthy of careful inspection? Bring back the kid in you and pause long enough to discover something new today.
I am entering this photo in the Nestle “The Kid in You” Photo Contest over at 5 Minutes for Mom for the chance to win a Nintendo Wii. (I played a Wii for the first time this weekend at the house of Muthering Heights and let’s just say the prize is appropriate because playing tennis really brought out the kid in all of us) !
Ever had one of those days where you take one step forward only to take two steps back? That’s what my days felt like this week… the good news is that my older two have been playing very well together, so well that I haven’t felt the need to go to playgroup or find a play date to get us all out of the house. They’ve enjoyed playing their various pretend games in one section of the house, while I was able to work on something productive in a different part.
Driving home the other day my 2 year old, called from the back of the van, “Excuse me mom, where’s baby?” I would have panicked had I not just heard her babbling moments before. Since, it was obvious she was there, I answered with something silly like, “Driving the car.” She erupted in giggles and thus began our newest comedy routine.
This was our conversation all the way to church this morning, in the parking lot after church while we were waiting for Daddy to finish talking, on the way out to lunch, on the way home….
Last week my two year old wanted desperatly to hold my 9 month old. This is a practice I don’t generally encourage, unless I am trying to take a picture of the kids together, then it’s used as a bribe. Let Mommy take your picture and you can hold your sister! This time however, it went the other way around…Mommy you can take a picture if you let me hold my sister.
Since Christmas my 4 year old son has built up quite a weapons arsenal.
A few days before Christmas my sister in law called to ask if it was OK for our son to have a toy gun for Christmas. Since we had just been to the store looking for one, I think our answer was pretty obvious.
In January my husband built wooden swords for him and my son to practice sword fighting.