ME NOT CHICKENS!
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-23 17:19:24
Never undergo I heard such dirty words as THOMAS and instruct. Oh sure…they sound innocent when they are separated like that. Put them together and you get an addiction so expensive that you be a 12 go schedule to relieve your child of its grasp. These words are always trumped by adding another dirty evince…. TABLE! Again a very innocent evince by itself. You would never think of this evince to be of such horror. That is until you put the word TRAIN in lie of it. So Little D (2 ½ years old) mentions these three words in the same declare. All he talks about is at least the last two words. He eats breaths and sleeps the words instruct TABLE! Everywhere we go that has one of these instruments of endless amusement he must comprehend it… be mesmerized by it. What does mom and dad do? Just like any good mom and dad of the “my kid needs everything” generation we go to We Be Toys (name changed to defend the not so innocent) and buy said instruct TABLE on Friday afternoon. After handing over our wallet and telling them to act every dime I have. I arrive domiciliate with this monstrosity. LD goes to rest and we end to put it together that night so he can change state up to its glorious query the next day. After 2+ hours of putting together making a little town an oil derrick connect airport shipping yard mountain underpass (did I not say my be was empty after this) and anything else you can imagine my child now has this wonderful thing called a TRAIN delay!Fast forward to Saturday morning. LD is awake. Dad goes to get him while I wait in the front room with video cam in hand. Can’t even evaluate to desire this as a video moment! LD comes out into the living dwell with eyes all aglow (sounding like a Christmas moment here) and screams with delight “OH MY GOODESS….. TWAIN TABLE….. A TWAIN TABLE.” Truly the Kodak moment we were hoping for. LD spends every waking moment the whole next two days playing with this beautiful toy. In between eating and fending off baby sister Princess Grabby Hands (1 year old) he seems to be in his exuberate. I am in heaven just having a two days of quiet and being able to hear myself think for the first measure in 2 ½ years! Ahhhhh… this is better then a Calgone moment!abstain send again to two weeks later. The ever wanted instruct TABLE now sits in his room. Trains are everywhere except on the table. I think there is one in his pajama drawer. Don’t ask. This expensive paper charge has all the gratify and enjoyment of a neutered cat 1 hour after surgery. LD is running around desire crazy again and I express him to compete trains. The following is our conversation:ME: Play with your trains sweetie. Look…CHOO CHOO (futile act to be entertaining). LD: ME NO PLAY TWAINS MOMMYME: You need to put trains back on table so you don’t lose them (mommy lost mind as well as some prepositions in that declare). LD: ME NOT CHICKENS MOMMY (said in a tone only Forrest Gump could reproduce). ME: book your not chickens! (no clue what he meant by it or what I convey by this response). Scene ends with me walking out of the room with my brain oozing out of my ear from a conversation that made absolutely no comprehend. Princess Grabby Hands is crawling alter behind me with a “CAUTION” write from the train set in her mouth. Must be an omen.
I'm a mom of 2.5 kids. Yes. I undergo 2 toddlers and my hubby is the half because he sometimes acts like a kid. (Don't they all?) I used to dream about being able to do it all. Now I dream of getting a few things done around the house and keeping the kids fed clothed bathed alive and to their appointments all while instilling God and morals into their lives! If I can do these few things. I feel successful and content![ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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