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1. Cameron always, ALWAYS wants to listen to ‘Rock and Roll All Nite’ by KISS and ‘Ruby’ by The Kaiser Chiefs. It’s OK by me if I never hear these songs again.
2. Lily has taken to chewing on her hair. I’ve threatened to shave it off.
3. I’m convinced they are the slowest eaters in the world. It routinely takes them upwards of 40 minutes to eat breakfast. This leads to lots of nagging and unpleasantness every morning as we try to get out the door to work.
4. Cameron can’t just go to bed at night. He’s often up in 5 – 10 minute intervals at least a couple of times after we tuck him in.
5. Lily must be channeling her adolescence because the girl is so very sassy sometimes. This, of course, lands her in trouble for making nasty faces to us and THEN when we follow through on punishment she tries to back peddle and swears that she’ll be good. Too late sister! You should have made that choice when I asked you the first time. So, we do this song and dance for a few rounds until she’s ready to accept our terms upon first offer. It’s exhausting.
You know…I feel like I’m a pretty good mom. I take good care of my kids and I think we have great relationships. They know they can count on me for anything and we have a lot of fun together!
I’ve realized recently that I am a HUGE failure as a parent in at least one area; story telling.
Lately, Cameron has been asking me to tell him super hero stories. He’ll run up to me and say, “Mommy! Please tell me a Batman story!” Then he sits cross-legged on the floor and his big brown eyes gaze up at me with anticipation. My response?
“Once upon a time there was a man named Batman. He was very strong and brave and always saved the day. One day, he saw the bad guys so he chased them and captured them. Finally the city was safe and everyone lived happily ever after. The end.”
For the life of me I can’t make up a good story! Some parents are able weave elaborate tales of princesses and woodland animals and expand upon these stories every night. This, apparently, does not lie within my skill set. I want to be able to come up with creative stories for my kids but my mind just goes blank when faced with this challenge.
Do you make up stories for your kids? What’s your trick?
My youngest child is doing a great job at potty training and my oldest child is taking great joy in drawing potty sticker charts for him (complete with squares numbered 1 – 15).
Slow down time! You’re moving too fast!
The kids have been obsessed with superheroes lately. Lily doesn’t seem to have a clear favorite but Cam is partial to Batman. Apparently, they’ve been watching a Superman show at day care and they are LOVING this. We hear all about the adventures of The Flash (Lily: He’s faster than a CHEETAH, you guys!) and Superman (Cam: Superman DOES fly!) and Hawk Girl (Lily: She has wings AND arms!)
Tonight, Cameron got a pair of new Batman pajamas as a prize for filling up his potty chart with stickers. NOTE: Things seem to be going well on the potty training front! YAY! He’s running around in as Batman and Lily donned her Vidia costume so she could pretend to be Hawk Girl.
“I wanna be Hawk Girl.”
“C’mon Hawk Girl, let’s fly!”
“Cameron, say ‘Hi, Hawk Girl! Wanna fly?’”
“Hey, Hawk Girl! Wanna fly”
“Hawk Girl, I’ll rescue you!”
“I’m Hawk Girl!”
“Look at me as Hawk Girl!”
“Try to catch Hawk Girl!”
“Hawk Girl doesn’t do that!”
“What are you doing Hawk Girl?”
“Hawk Girl, don’t do that!”
All simple chatter from a couple of preschoolers, right? Yeah…but neither of the kids can really nail the ‘k’ sound at the end of Hawk so it sounds like they’re saying HOT girl. The phrases above take a slightly different meaning if you replace Hawk with Hot. Thought I doubt any guy has ever uttered the phrase, “Hot girl, don’t do that!”
