So my blogging has been left on the back burner a bit. And my commenting too.
Today, we are taking a break from the Fun in the Sun adventures. Today, I am jotting down funny things I want to remember about the boys.
When we were out of town last weekend, we stopped in a part of town known for people looking the part of hippies. Who knows if they live the part too, I don't know them that well. Ducky was trying to explain what hippies were and how we knew when we saw one. Note to self... Do not tell boys what hippies are and then leave the windows down. Every time they saw someone they thought fit the description they would yell "There's one." About every person that walked by. A more careful explanation by me helped narrow it down. The funny part, they didn't call them hippies, they called them whippies. "There's a whippy, there's a girl whippy. Mommy, there is a kid whippy!" There were whippies everywhere. It is a wonder they didn't get whippylash from looking for them.
SweetE likes a certain kind of granola in the morning for breakfast, with milk. He tells me he wants the "tookie kind." I will be really sad when he starts pronouncing things properly.
I am gathering all the stuff for the boys favorites books. When I asked sweetE who his favorite friend is, he said sweetP. Ahhhh. In case anyone is wondering what these are, and want to borrow the idea, here it is. I make little scrapbooks that document the things the boys like each year. Topics include color, food, friend, game, adventure, animal, etc. I was finding that I was forgetting so many of the little details of their lives. The ones that I wish I knew about myself when I was little. The boys love them and will get them down and look through them.
SweetP has been challenging lately. He has a poker face when it comes to lying. Not so long ago honesty was important to him. Not so much anymore. He is a good liar and that is scary. This morning he told me that he did his reading. He gets up before me and since I had a mega migraine yesterday I slept later. He is supposed to read for 30 minutes every day. I want him to do this before he gets any screen time. This morning there were quite a few clues that he didn't really do it. So now I am going to have to make him do it with me. It bothers me that I don't feel like I can trust him anymore. There have been other things too, and when you catch him in it, he will say that he doesn't want to get in trouble. I need to think of a way that the consequences of lying are worse than the consequences of fessing up.
I am happy to announce that Velcro was deemed healthy at the vet today. He is coming up on his twelfth birthday this year and I am not ready for him to have health problems. He also went to the groomer and he smells good and is so soft.
There was some other stuff I wanted to jot down, but I have forgotten it already. I had a good memory once, long, long ago.
3 comments:
oh man i am still laughing about the "whippy's" that is soo cute and pertty halirous. I would have been laughing so hard in the car listening first off to doug and you explaining a hippie and then watching the boys take what you said and apply it by being on the lookout!! Oh how cute! i had a fun time yesterday..we need to do it again:)
I loved the whippy story, and your comment about whippylash ... very clever. What cute boys you have and I'm glad you're enjoying them as much as possible (hey, not doubt about it, motherhood is hard to enjoy sometimes!) and good for you for jotting things down. I need to do more of that, too. If only I had an instant computer to jot things down as soon as they happen, because otherwise I forget so quickly. It's a bummer getting old!
Wow, there are so many great gems in this post! The hippy/whippy story--hilarious; the favorite books--a fantastic idea; SweetE's favorite friend is SweetP--awww!
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