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Mr. A's Phrase of the Day #1

March 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

My husband posted on his blog the other day all the funny things our boys would say to him during the course of playing the Wii.  Then today I posted a little game where Mr. A would answer questions about me.  You know what?  Kids are really damn funny!  Mr. A. comes up with the darndest things and when he’s not making me pull my hair out from sheer frustration, he’s making me laugh my ass off.  So I’ve decided to start a fun little daily meme for myself.  Every day, I’m going to come post something crazy that this kid has said.  I think it will be fun to be able to go back at some point to see his antics and maybe I’ll just entertain a few of you along the way as well.

Today’s phrase is:

I was asking him why he made me fix a bowl of ice cream if he wasn’t hungry and was just going to waste it.

He replied:

“Because that’s what kids do.”

*sigh*

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Clorox Disinfecting Wipes

February 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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Everyone has these wipes, don’t they? The Disinfecting Wipes from Clorox are a must have for a house with toddlers.  I keep them in the boys’ bathroom for the 21,234,648 times that I have to wipe off the toilet seat from when someone pees on it.  Well today, they came in really handy.

Dennis: “Mom, go pee pee.  Help”

Mommy:  “Baby, did you go pee pee?”

Dennis:  “yes.  Help me.  Game”

The boys have a Leapster handheld game that they fight over daily.  The little ones particularly like to play it while sitting on the pot…Case in point, here is Eddie playing on the pot:

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Anyhow, got sidetracked.

I follow Dennis into the hallway where the potties are and I see the Leapster laying in front of the potty chair, drenched in pee!  *yuck!*  He somehow managed to pee all over this Leapster.  It was so gross!  He was so upset.  LOL

Here is where the Clorox Disinfecting Wipes came in REALLY handy!!!  You do the visual, I’m sure you can figure out what I had to do with them.  LOL!

The moral of the story?  Don’t let your 2yo boys play handheld video games while peeing…unless you have some Clorox Wipes on hand!

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Give a boy a hammer

February 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Mr. A came running into the house. “MOMMY! GRANDPA GAVE ME A HAMMER!!!!!” Really, it was that loud.

My first thought was, oh crap. This is the most destructive child ever created, what the hell is his grandpa thinking?? Obviously, he is not thinking at all.

But then I took 5 seconds to actually see the pure joy on my four year olds face. And I smiled.

We set a couple ground rules.
1. No playing with the tools unsupervised (that was broken on day 2)
2. No hitting your brothers with the hammer (so far…so good)
3. Clean up all your mess after you are done “working.” (uummm…not happening)

In the last couple days his daddy even added a pair of pliers and a couple screw drivers. His grandpa let him have an old tool box out of the shed. I have one happy four year old. That makes me happy.


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