I Can't Stop

Delaney has this new thing she does when she starts crying...if you don't get her right away and calm her down, she gets so into the act of distress that she says she can't stop crying....it takes a long time, she's quite stubborn, for her to stop crying. Once, We drove the 35-40 minute drive to my parents house and she screamed for most of it because she didn't want me to sing. Its serious drama and I refuse to feed into it, so it last very long....so tonight, Ben yelled at her for something and she started crying and he told her to go to her room and she stood on the steps crying and said, "Oh no, its starting again, I don't think I'll be able to stop crying" lol Maybe its mean, but we are very amused by it...

Chocolate

So I pulled out a giant piece of Easter Chocolate, when my non-listening Delaney comes over and says she wants some. I told her that I'd love to give her some but since she doesn't listen, she doesn't get any. So she starts crying. And then begging. "Mommy, but I love you, I just wanna give you a hug" Nope, not buying it, go sit down, you're still in trouble. So then, her tone changes. "You have to share your food with other people. They're gonna call you a bad girl if you don't share. Its not nice not to share." Hmmm...Its also not nice to not listen....So I told her that I was gonna not only not share with her, I was also gonna eat it in front of her and enjoy it. (SO I reverted to 12 yo) And.....She's "not proud of me anymore!" LMAO

my belly

So I was making dinner when Delaney walked in the kitchen, looked at me, and while rubbing her stomach said, "I think my belly is getting a headache....

What's in a name?

So Delaney just brought me a rubber duck and kept referring to it as a her....so I asked how she knew it was a girl and she said, "Um, because I know her name"...So I asked what it is and she told me she'd tell me tomorrow....LOL

Bunny

So Saturday we went to an easter egg hunt and Donovan was obsessed with the Easter Bunny...would stand and stare at him, kept pointing and saying, "Er e is"...hilarious....He stood next to him at one point and crossed his arms after the bunny crossed his, would look in the same direction as the bunny....super cute stuff! And then, as if with total confusion, he looked at the Easter Bunny, looked at me, scrunched up his face and pointed to his feet and said, "Socks and shoes?" LOL It was a muddy field, so yes, the Easter bunny had on sneakers...LOL

In the lines....

So I came in the kitchen the other morning and the kids were sitting at the table coloring, when Delaney starts crying, "No! stop it Bugga, stop!" I look and my son is pulling at her paper, the giant color page that it is. Then she just sat and looked so upset for a minute so I ask what was wrong and she said, "I didn't color in the lines when he pulled it, now its exhausted! Its all exhausted!"

I like to do drawrings....

So Delaney is the queen bee now of coloring....She's actually getting pretty good at drawing actual things, to the point where you can actually make out a picture....its pretty impressive for someone her age, or so I think....Well, she brought her box of crayons over to me and her pad of paper, smiles and says, "Mom, pick an animal and I'll draw it for you" So being the big jerk I am, I said, "How about a snow leopard?" She thought for a second and said, "I fink its too hard for me right now, how about a bunny or a turtle cause those are the ones I know how to draw?" LOL Why don't you just tell me the animal you want me to pick? I did get a duck out of her though...

Commercials

So I'm sitting on the couch feeding the baby and watching TV out of the corner of my eye, when the "Your Baby Can Read" commercial comes on, the one with the flashcards and the genius babies that point to stuff after seeing the word, you know that commercial. Well, Delaney comes running over, very excited, pointing at the TV, and says, "Mom, our baby can read! See! You can read, baby, you can. Mom, let's read with our baby"

Didn't You Hear Me?

So Delaney just asked Ben if he could get down her UNO Moo game.....he said, "doesn't that game cause fights between you and your brother?" And yes is it does.....She just likes to line up the pieces according to color or animal and then put them away one at a time....totally kills time and plays nicely herself but our little Bugga boy grabs the piece and throws them or grabs and runs and she will chase him down, and wrestle the pieces away....so needless to say, always causes a fight...we play when he sleeps....but she looked at Ben and said, "I don't know what you're saying" So he repeated himself and said, "doesn't this game cause fights?"......She rolled her eyes, sighed and said, "Didn't you hear me? I don't know what you're saying." LOL

Shaggy

So when we were at the zoo, we were taking a snack break by the shark tank in the aquarium and this couple comes and stands near us, obviously staring at the fish....Delaney started to giggle, staring at them, so I waved her off and shook my head, don't stare at people....but the staring continued , so I, of course, looked over at them....very pretty girl, stylish, and her boyfriend seemed okay from behind, also stylish, tall and thin, tight jeans and shirt, flip flops and what looked like out of control Beiber hair, pretty long all over, nothing too weird....she ran over, full of excitement and said, "That guy looks like Shaggy!" I was so embarrassed, I grabbed her and told her to shoosh....but she was giggling and said, "but he does look like Shaggy" Just then the couple moved on, he was laughing a little, so I think he knew, but when I actually saw his face, he really did look like Shaggy!

Cleaning Up

So I was just on a whirl wind of anger....more a ranting of "I can't believe how messy this house is"....when I went into Delaney's room and did the typical mom "If you don't clean this place up, I'm throwing it all away" rant.....So she started scurrying and putting books on the shelf and dolls in their baskets and she told Donovan he needed to help since he always messes her room up....and they did, both together, start putting things away....I laughed so hard though as I heard her telling him, "Good job little Bugga, you're doing a good job cleaning up, I just love your face so much....We are girlfriends!" I sound like such a ding-dong, and I say I because I say those things all the time! LOL

Two minutes later though as he was dumping the books back off the shelf, she said, "That's it, I'm not proud of you anymore for cleaning, cause you're now doing a bad job" LOL

p.s. I never tell her I'm not proud of her....that's one she came up with herself....

knock knock

So my two year old is telling knock knock jokes....or rather a joke....if you want to even call it that....he says 'knock knock' Who's there? Then he says 'juice' and falls over laughing....we obviously fall over too because its pretty darn cute....so he continues to tell it....

JUICE! hahahahahahha

laundry

So I was folding laundry and Delaney decided to help me...She tries so hard to fold it like I do so she usually lays the clothes on the floor and then flips it into a ball....good effort on her part! She's such a good helper.....Well, she was folding hers and Donovan's clothes mainly and then she grabbed a pair of Ben's shorts size XXL and said, "Whoa, this is some big pants!"

Lip Gloss

Getting the kids ready for bed tonight and Delaney tells me she's gonna need some lip gloss....I told her no because she's going to bed and she informed me that "it helps you sleep better though" I never knew!

Earmuffs

Just had our worst store experience yet, which really wasn't so bad compared to some stories you hear. The trio and I went to Target to pick up a few things and Delaney was just flakey the whole trip. She did the 'run and hide behind racks' thing and didn't answer until the third time I called her.....would see something and just stand and stare in an aisle while I kept going....Had to go back and forcefully remove her several times...nothing like pushing two kids in a cart and pulling one by the arm.....she also was talking at the top of her lungs several times....again, nothing horrible, but just enough to annoy....we had several face to face 'you better stop this now' exchanges in between aisles....I even bought Donovan fruit snacks for being good and purposely did not give her one to prove a point....so as we are walking to the car, she is sulking and she says, "does anyone even like me?" What a sap....so I told her I always love her but there are moments when I don't, in fact, like the way she behaves, and this is one of them.....So she got in the car, found a pair of earmuffs on the floor and she put them on, with the head band over her eyes....I laughed when I saw it and asked what she was doing and she said, "Now I can't see that you're mad at me"....ha!

Leaking

My 6 month old is doing what most babies her age are doing...TEETHING! and as all moms know, with teething, comes drool....lots and lots of drool! So she's been soaking wet the last few days, been wearing bibs non-stop just to soak some of up....so my four-year-old looks at her, then looks at me and says "I think she's leaking"

Wishing

So I was telling Delaney that as soon as the weather gets nice and summer comes, we can do fun summer stuff, like catching lightning bugs and laying on a blanket under the stars making wishes. So she got very excited about the wishes. I told her its very easy to make wishes, you just need to find a star. "Star light, star bright, first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, have the wish I wish tonight" Of course she loved it, so we did it over and over and then she asked if she could make a wish, so I said absolutely! So she said, "I wish we could go to dinner with Gegie and Pap Pap last week" My husband laughed so hard. He said you're gonna have a super hard time getting that to be true. She also wished for bread to eat, ice cream and a pink bow with yellow polka dots for her wedding.

Morning!

Nothing like the whole house being awake at 4:30am....My son can climb out of his crib, so things are running a bit differently right now. This morning while I was feeding the baby, my husband left for work and Van jumped out of his crib when he heard the SUV start up. Scrambling downstairs, yelling, "Daddy, daddy!" I was trying to be quiet but telling him, "come in here Bugga, daddy's gone"....NOPE! Had to go downstairs to retrieve him, afraid he'd get outside....So as we are coming up the steps, Delaney pops out of her room crying because she just peed in her pull-up and she gets so frustrated when she does that. So after changing everyone, we tried to go back to sleep. Took til almost 7a to get everyone back down, but I did it. So I fell back asleep and around 8:30, Van comes running back in, and at the same time, Delaney rolls over looks at me and says, I don't believe its still time for you to be sleeping" Really?

DWTP

We're watching Dancing with the Stars and Delaney tells me that they are dancing like her. She is apparently dancing at night. She said "I wear a pretty dress that's red and green and white and I dance with Mickey and Minnie and Daisy at the clubhouse and with the princesses cause I like to dance at nighttime yesterday" She then proceeded to twirl around the living room and said, "That's how I do it when I dance." I think the 2am hair fix might be a larger part of the costume change during the 'Dancing With The Princesses"

Line Yooter

So I was singing the baby bumblebee song and Delaney got very serious and told me that there are bumblebees at school. So I said "really? Are you a bumblebee?" She said, "No, I'm a ladybug cause that's what my teacher calls me at my school when I pick a job." So I said, "what jobs do you pick? I didn't know you had jobs" She said, "yes, I'm a light helper, a door helper and a line yooter" I said, "Wow, a line yooter what's that?" So she jumped up and stood straight and stared at the wall and said, "That's how you do it. You stand in line and be a good girl" I laughed so hard. I said, "You mean a line leader? Do you lead the line of kids?" She said, "I stand there when I pick my job and then I do this (She ran over to the light switch and flicked it on and smiled) and I do a good job!"

The Hunt

With Easter so close, we've begun the hunting for eggs a little early. So this morning I ran around outside and hid eggs and then let the kids find them. Its so cute how excited they are when they see them and I did cheat a little with my 2 yo, he wasn't near as fast so I would point him in a direction and my 4 yo would listen to me and then run to where I was pointing and snatch the egg. So after that game, my daughter decided to hide the eggs. Well, my 2 yo was not missing out on the eggs this time, so instead of closing his eyes and counting, he trailed behind her and picked up the eggs as she laid them down. So funny to watch! That is until the 4yo saw that he had an armful of eggs and she started whining because "He's not playing the egg game right!"

No Yelling!

So I walked into my bathroom to find my daughter playing in the sink which she knows she's not allowed to do. I told her she knows better and I don't like it when she doesn't listen. So she looked at me and said, "hey, I don't like it when you yell at me" So after I yelled at her for talking back to me, I went about my business and came back in to find her playing in the sink, yet again. so I said, "Hey, I thought I just told you not to play in the sink" To which she responded, "Hey, I thought I told YOU, not to yell at me!"

The Confession

So here's a clue, my dear sweet child, when I walk into the room and your brother is crying and you look at me and say, "I didn't kick himself", you pretty much give yourself away.

Age....

We went to eat tonight and no matter where we go, my daughter has to use the restroom. I think its like an adventure to her....anyway, we were in the bathroom, and I noticed that she no longer needs or wants me to be with her in the stall, she no longer needs help with her pants or buttons and she most certainly does not need me to turn on the faucet or get her soap. SHE CAN DO IT! So, while I stared at her washing her hands, I asked her when she got to be so old. She looked at me and said, "It happened when I fell down the steps." LOL Now that I'm 34 I have to remember to hold on to the damn railing....I can't afford to age that fast!

The Picture

So I took the kids to Michaels today and we always get craft stuff to keep us busy so that mommy (me) doesn't go crazy....So today I picked up little wooden picture frames for the kids to decorate and we decided we would give them to daddy for his desk at work.....Well, Delaney got so excited over the frames, that while Donovan was napping, she decorated both frames (bad mommy was too busy doing work in another room to realize that she snagged his frame) Well, they were lovely if I do say so and she was super proud of them. So I said we'll have to find a good picture of you and one of Donovan to put in them for daddy's desk....She got all googly-eyed at me and said, "Or we can find pictures of just me for them, how about me picking flowers for you mommy, white and pink ones, that smell pretty and we can put those in the frames cause I love you so much!" LOL She kisses butt better than anyone ever!

Ridiculous!

My daughter is my biggest stumbling block for trying to get out the door.....No matter what I ask, there is drama involved....The girl has been putting her shoes on for months, a whole year I think, but because I told her tonight to put her socks and shoes on, suddenly, there are tears and an absolute "I don't know how" This obviously drives me insane, so while I was putting her shoes on, I told her she was ridiculous....Well, I did not know that its a bad word to toddlers....She started crying and said, "Don't say that to me, I don't want to be that, that's a bad word.....I don't want the police to come and get me!" I never knew.....but now that I do.....

In My Room

The girl kills me....She just told me she was gonna go put some different clothes on, something nicer for the mall....then as she's walking up the stairs she calls down, "Mom, If you need me, I'll be in my room okay, just call me" Is she almost 4 or 40?

No Shoes, No Shirt....

No Shoes, No shirt, no....underwear? My crazy daughter just showed up to lunch without her underwear or pants on...just a shirt....I asked where her underwear were and she said they're in the bathroom...."um, why?" I asked ...."Because I didn't want to get them dirty".......Confusion has set in....Last I checked, you fill a different set of cheeks with your food....no?

The Night Life...

There's nothing like a good peaceful sleep....nice dreams, interesting stuff in a far off land and I'm always thinner in my dreams...I like to dream....I DON'T like to get woken up from my dreams, but unfortunately, with three kids, more often than not, I get woken up....such was the case last night...Sometime after 2a.m., my daughter, the late night partier that she is, and I say that in all seriousness, came into our bedroom, walked to my side of the bed and said, in such a sincere tone, "Mom, can you put this ponytail in my hair?" WTH? I said "NO! Get your butt in your room, what are doing?" And then, from the corner of my eye, I see very bright lights, her room a glow, a loud blaring princess movie pouring from her door.....so I chase her into her room, turned off the overhead lights, of course the table lamp is on, can't have just one light on, turned the TV off and the VCR and stared at her, aghast that she's looking at me with contempt...."MOM! I was watching that!" Part of me wanted to laugh, a bigger part wanted to scream and that's the part that seemed to win out....so I did....I ranted for about 30 seconds about how she better put Barbie down, get in bed and I better not see or hear her the rest of the night.....She listened....but when she woke up this morning at 9:30a and crawled down the steps and said, "I'm so tired, I need to lay on the couch. Can you rub my back so I can sleep?" I really did have to laugh....and then of course post this....That child has quite the nightlife....God help us when she's older!

say what?

My daughter handed my husband one of her many naked Barbie dolls and a dress and said, "Daddy can you please cover up her nipples?" Luckily we were already sitting down or we would have fallen over with laughter....

The Motivational Speaker

Delaney kills me with her positive reinforcements....I always try to praise them when they're good and she in turn, does the same thing for everyone else...so funny coming from an almost 4 year old...Tonight during dinner, she got off her chair, came over to me, gave me a big hug and said, "I'm so proud of you mom for making dinner....Its so good" Then she told Tenley, "you are being such a big girl and eating all your food. Good job little girl"....and my favorite...while coloring, she looked at my picture and said, "Wow Mom, you're doing such a good job staying in the lines! It looks so pretty" Goodness she's awesome...don't upset her though....she did tell Donovan during dinner that she was not happy about him and his not eating....

Getting Clean

Whenever I hear water running, I go running....So I just found my daughter up in the bathroom, sink full of water, a few naked Barbies lounging in my sink and her, with toothbrush in hand....I ask what she is doing and of course she says she's bathing her Barbies....I say, "no you're not", and she says, "yes I am, they are smelly and need their areolas washed." LMAO!! We talk too much in this house and I'm pretty sure she meant 'areas' but hears me laugh about nursing and the size of one's 'areolas'....ooops!