If you notice any funny looking words this is the reason.
Under the category of things I never thought I would say:
"Honey, please don't put your toes in the rabbit's cage."
"Please don't put that blanket in the toilet"
"Mommy doesn't like pencils up her nose"
"Let's not do somersaults on the stairs"
"What is that smell???"
"Can anyone one tell me why Dad just fell down because his flip flop is stuck to the floor?"
"Has anyone seen the mate to this shoe?"
"Stay where you are. I'm calling Dad to help find you." Said today to my daughter on her cell phone.
From my kids:
"Mom, I want to work in a chocolate shop with those short people, you know, those niblets."
From me " I think you mean midgets and that isn't the right word to use."
"Will you heb-bee this up the stairs, it's very heb-bee" I think she meant carry it up the stairs because it was heavy.
I lost my wedding ring the other day in the midst of my daughter's IPOD dissappearing. I asked my son if he knew where it was and he put his hands in there air and proudly declared "All Gone!" We having been crawling around on our hands and knees for a week trying to figure out where he is putting these things.
The latest fascination my son has is rolling down the car window from his car seat and taking his shoes off. As you might expect, this is a dangerous combination which left my husband driving back and forth all over Denver, retracing his route to try to find the exact location where the boy tossed his shoe out. Amazingly, he found the shoe in a turn lane after about a half an hour and it had not even been run over. He said he thought the whole time about how I am so particular about kids shoes, how I only like Stride Right and how when Jake needs shoes it is always a whole day process since we drive to the outlet mall to get his shoes. And then I have to get other things, and go to the Coach outlet and drool over the beautiful bags and then he has to find a way to get back there and buy me one of those beautiful bags and so on.... And, would we even be able to find replacement sandals so late in the season?
I have spent at least an hour in the past week backtracking and searching for those shoes. In Kohl's the other day he took them both off and I was so upset about having to buy a new pair I actually had them call out over the loud speaker to help me look. He took one off in Target too but thankfully our observant cashier noticed the single shoe I had in my hand and said she had just turned one just like it to the customer service desk. Thank you by the way to the two other customers that helped me look. You might wonder how I could possibly miss him removing his shoes and tossing them. Well it seems I was busy collecting all the items that had been in the cart that he had thrown out. One at a time, every five feet. And did I mention he got his arm stuck when he was reaching into the cart to get those items? That accounted for some of the crying going on by the end of the trip by both of us. What do you do when your kids arm gets stuck between the carts bars? I thought we might have to call the fire department! And wouldn't you know that didn't stop him from doing it again.
