I love cereal, so I have a few "boxes" for myself which are not what I feed my children. Mine are usually the over sugared fun ones and if my kids see them they want some. So I generally hide mine. In a moment of forgetfulness i left one box out on the counter all night. My 4 year old likes to wake up earlier than me sometimes, and will just go and sit in the living room with her toys and wait for my 11 month old to wake the rest of the house. So this morning was like none other, in my bumbling tiredness I poured a bowl of my beloved cereal, pour some delicious cold milk on it, grab a barbie spoon, sit at my computer and eat my first savory bite. In there was something MORE crunchy than cereal and a dog hair. GROSS, ok fluke right? so I take a second little more hesitant bite, yep, a chip and some onion peel. DUMP the bowl WHAT THE HECK... after some sweet questioning and bribery, my 4 year old admitted wanting to "See" my special cereal and dumped it on the floor, the sweet heart picked it all up, plus a few extra items, and put it all back in the box. AHH got to love her for cleaning, however I am having FRUITY PEBBLE withdrawals.
lol she also in the same day did this little diddy. girl: daddy daddy daddy dadddy daaaaaaaaaaaadddy dad dad dad dad dad dad. Dad: WHAT your driving me crazy what do you want. girl: DAAADDDDDDy.... dad: ugh you stinker tell me what it is and I wont get mad anymore but be QUITE. Girl: DAAADDDY I LOVE you <giggles and winks then runs away>
I have my 2 1/2 year old grandson for the weekend, as his momma is sick.
He dropped a deck of cards that went everywhere and I told him to help clean up his mess. He goes "No" - so I asked if he wanted to go to time out. "No" - and then he just stood there looking. So I said "One..." and he goes "Don't one, grandma!" and then starts picking up cards.
This morning I had some trouble getting my son's soccer uniform on. He kept running away and dancing. I finally asked "What ARE you doing!?" to which he replied "Sorry Mom, I'm getting distracted by the music in my head."
Ironically; another breakfast story.
It's football season, so hundreds to a couple thousand people walk by my house. I was sitting outside, the dog in hog heaven with the groups of college kids streaming by, when my front door slams open.
"FRENCH TOOOOOOOOOAST!" my son yells at the top of his lungs. Then slams the door and runs back inside the house.
The entire group right in front of my house paused midstep. Then blinked in unison. Time sped back up and they went on their way.
Yes. This surreal moment, and many others, brought to you by Parenthood. Also as a reminder to wear a condom tonight after the game.
My 2 year old is sitting IN the storage ottoman watching a video.
My bossy 4 yr old girl asked me yesterday...."mama, when will I be president of everybody?" As though it's just a given.
My daughter is 3 and has started mastering the art of manipulation...she was laying in bed the other night and it had been like 30 min since i'd laid her down and I just kept hearing her talk. So I went to check on her and I asked what she was up to...she goes "I can't sleep...I'm busy missing you so very much..." than reaches her little arms out and goes "will you lay with me??" I was like now baby you know ya need to go to sleep without....yes..yes I will lol...now is probably the time to ask for a car...
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My favorite cereals (well me real weakness is Cocoa Puffs) aren't ALL sweet sugary ones... but truly they are ALL full of sugar and almost no protein... so any cereal is a bowl of sugar, but I digress. My kids started doing virtual school online this year and understand that certain things that are not text book work can "count" as school time. The school does not provide a specific "health" curriculum, but a list of websites and suggestions, etc. My daughter (10) came to me this week and asked if she could take all the cereal out of the pantry and list the amount of sugar in each one and let it count for her health class. She didn't want to just look at the labels.. she wanted to pour a bowl of each, too, lol.
We had a late evening last week and I needed to get the kids fed in a hurry so we went to a local cafeteria. My 6 1/2 yr old daughter was first in line then my 5 yr old son then me. When she got to the jello, my daughter picked up a blue jello while I was distracted with ordering. My son starts throwing the biggest full on temper tantrum screaming "that's not hers!, that's not hers!" wanting her to put back the jello. He goes to her tray and trys to grab the jello. I bring him back to his tray and tell him to calm down and stop screaming. I told him it was available for her and he said "no, it's not available." He looks up at me crying, so sad saying "but Mommy it's going to make her sick." I look at the jello space and a piece of the blue jello had fallen out of the cup. I realized that someone else had probably chosen that cup of jello and then put it back but not on the cold part of the service window. So my son saw that his sister had chosen the jello that was not in the right spot so he thought it was dirty and would make her sick. As soon as I exchanged her jello he was immediately calm. There was no way he was going to let his sister eat that tainted jello. I was so proud and humbled at the same time. How easily we misinterpret our childrens motives and actions.
Ah where to begin? My daughter woke up the other morning and decided to be all sneaky like. She found her stool that we use so she can brush her teeth, climbed it, then climbed the bathroom sink. By time I realized what was up, she had completely covered herself in band aids. 30 of them...everywhere. What I really can't figure out is why she felt the need to put one between her eyes? She looks like Bert trying to cover up his unibrow. Two hours later it's still there. Maybe she is going for a new fashion statement?
We got a congress election paper in the mail. I was joking with my second daughter that "oh this is your boyfriend?" (The man was much older) She said "no,he's not my boyfriend and laugh about it." I told her to take the paper to daddy and show him. So she went to hand it to him and said "is this your man,daddy"? I thought it was cute and funny. :)
Martha,
This post is blog worthy!
E.
My seven year old son wows me a lot!! This morning he asked me why the Liberty Bell was cracked. I told him that I would look it up and get some more info for him. He told me that I needed to use google.com. Then he proceeded to ask me if I knew what google was. I have a simple mind but I can grasp that concept!!!! LMAO
I had bought some laundry detergent and set it on the table while I unloaded the rest of the groceries. It suddenly disappered and I searched the entire house with it. One night I was upstairs and it smelled highly of detergent in the hallway. I come downstairs and my son was washing his toy room windows with full strength detergent which made them very filmy. He had detergent rings in the carpet and puddles. At least the house smelled clean
My 18mo went to bed at like 715 the other night. We eat dinner late due to football practice.At about 800 the baby wakes up crying.(we are having a problem with him staying in his own bed) I say he can cry a minute while I eat. My husband goes up to check on him and says the baby hears him coming down the hall and takes a big sigh and says Ahh Mama..then my husband walks into the room and the baby starts screaming NO NO Uh Uh..my Mama...We thought it was hysterical considering my husband would probably have brought him down stairs and I went up and put him back to bed!
I knew he was so tired but he just would not fall asleep for his nap. I was going to wait to go to Target since he insisted he go so finally I just decided to go since he wasn't sleeping. Sure enough...fell asleep in the back of the cart!
My 3 year old was stalling from going to bed the other night and had on a nightgown with a sheer overlay to it. I was putting my older daughter to bed and was getting upset and telling her she needs to go back to her own bed and no she can not stay in here because she has her own bed to sleep in. I turn around and she has the overlay up over her head and squishing her face. The total bank robber look LOL I laughed so hard and told her to go show daddy saying give me all your money! LOL she went out laughing and said daddy give me back my money we busted out laughing more!
