Oh the things you do and say…
“Mya stop splashing in the tub.”
“I’m not.”
“Mya I can hear you splashing in the tub. Please stop.”
“I’m not splashing! My FEET are splashing.”
*sigh*
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It was beautiful day and I opened my bedroom window open a crack. About 6 inches to get some fresh air circulating in the house. Then I went downstairs to clean up the paper clutter in the basement. Luke decided to go outside…. so he pushed a chair up to the bedroom window, climbed up on the window sill and was 1/2 in and 1/2 onto the top of the garage when Laura came upstairs and found him. I don’t know why our children are so obsessed with climbing out of our window. It’s like ingrained in their DNA to climb, be mischievous and climb out of our window onto the garage all the time. Luke is only 20 months old!
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“RUN!!!!!!!!!!!”
I hear along with squeals of laughter and the boys racing upstairs.
“MOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!” screams Laura
*sigh* here we go again.
Laura furiously storms out of her room holding a poopy pair of underwear.
“The boys threw this in my bed! This is so disgusting!” she screams almost tearing up.
It was gross.
I walk up the stairs and I hear, “Here she comes! HIDE!!!”
I go upstairs and the boys are hiding under their blankets.
“Shhhh…. be quiet so she won’t find us.” Josh hisses to Brandon.
I quietly stand above them and don’t say anything.
For a few moments all is quiet so they peer out from their blankets and they see me hoovering right in front of their faces.
“AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH” They jump and scream, startled that I’m right there, then dive back under their blankets. This always amuses me cuz like I can’t find them.
They love to terrorize Laura. In the summer Josh stuck a frog in her bed, another day it was an earthworm and another time it was a dead fly.
They always get in trouble, but they obviously think the reaction is worth all the trouble they get into.
…. dang, these boys are way too much like me.
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I took Brandon out to buy him and Josh some shoes because some how over the winter their new shoes I bought for the fall managed to disappear. Brandon was so excited for a new pair of white Spiderman lace up shoes that he wore them to bed at night and slept with them on…. at least I know he likes them. He feels like a big boy now.
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“Mom, I can’t go out to do my flyers cuz it’s cold, snowing, windy, hailing and raining a bit,” whines Laura.
I do feel sorry for her because it is exactly as she describes outside.
“Fine, but you better get them done tomorrow after school.”
“Ok! Thanks!” she grins and off she goes.
10 minutes later I go downstairs and look outside. Laura, Joshua and Brandon are all jumping on the trampoline in the backyard while it is cold, snowing, windy, hailing and raining.
I just shake my head. They love jumping on the tramp when it’s raining.
30 min. later they come in laughing, exhausted and cold.
“So Laura, now I want you to go out and do your flyers,” I say.
“BUT MOOOMMM… It’s cold and snowing and windy and hailing and raining!!” she wails.
“Well, it obviously doesn’t bother you because you JUST got in from jumping on the tramp and playing in the snow, wind, rain and hail. Nice try. Go do your flyers!”
Defeated, off she went. She really didn’t have an argument and she knew it. She didn’t even try to argue.
I’m sure next time she’ll think it out better. She’s a quick learner.
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