Parenting Children

My husband and I sing- a lot. By telling you we sing loud and often, doesn’t man we are good singers by any means. Sometimes we think we are but we in reality, we are not. We don’t just sing, we sing popular songs, jingles, nursery rhymes mostly in opera form.
Don’t you wish you were our neighbors?

This opera singing has off on our children. My kids sing everything and everything all day long. They will sing the months of the year songs, hits they hear on the radio, kid songs or even Christmas carols (my favorite) all the time. My favorite is when I am in my office and my daughter uses the bathroom next door, she will sing at the top of her lungs whatever song she has in her head at that moment while she is doing her business.
How can it get better than that? Yesterday she was singing an Ace of Base song.
The only bad part of my kid’s singing is that sometimes they only know a line or two of the song. The same two lines over and over again is enough to drive a sane man wild. Perhaps we should send my kids to Afghanistan, they will flush Bin Laden out of any cave he is hiding in!

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There is one thing about children I didn’t learn from a book, parenting class or from family, I had to learn it on my own: children are all strange. Not strange, look there is a tony person in out house that depends on us for everything, but strange with idiosyncrasies. They start out as cute little things, then turn into full habits. Whether it is what or how they eat or dress or play, every parent has a story to share about their children.

When my daughter was about 18 months old she needed to have a something in her hand at all times. First it was a small plastic care bear doll, then it turned into a stick of some sort. It could be a spatula, a rain stick, anything like that and she carried it around wherever she went. Around the same time my son would make a disgusted face every first bite of food he took. Not the second bite, not just new foods, every first bite of anything would get “the face”.

My son started being “strange” about clothes when he was 3. He wouldn’t wear striped shirts (he had 30 of them) he wouldn’t wear anything with the bear logo of The Gap on it, and he wouldn’t wear any collared shirts. That left us with his 4 ugly t shirts with trucks or spiderman on it. So boring. Thank goodness he grew out of that but it did take a good year.

So tell me, what weird or wacky things do your kids do?

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Something I thought I would never say to my 4.5 year old:

“Honey, how did you get poop on your heel and your arm? and where are your pants?”

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Here is a funny kid complilation to make you smile this weekend.

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R: “Mommy is my nail polish dry yet?”

Me: “Yes, I think it is”

R: “so I can pick my nose now?”

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I thought twins were fun:

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L: Oh God!
Me: L! We don’t say that
L: ooohhhhh.
L: Oh Jesus!

R: Mom, when I am a baby in your belly again I promise not to kick you!
Me: Gee, thanks

L: whispers sometimg to me
Me: I can’t hear you
L: quiet again
Me: Speak up, L, I can’t hear you!
L: still so quietly sayig something
me: Forget, it I can’t hear you!
L: finally yelling at me “Mom, I told you a hunderd times! Gosh!”

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We are in the car on the way to the greatest place on Earth (Target) and this was our conversation:

R: Mommy what do you say when there are a lot of gooses?

Me: You mean when there are more then one goose?

R: Yes

Me: If there is more then one you say geese, if there is only one you say “goose”.

R: Yes!

Me: If there is one mouse you say “mouse” if there are more then one you say “mice”

R: yes Mommy!

R: If there is one alligator, we say alligator, if there is more then one you say “crocodile!”

How cute is that? I am starting to love year four more then I thought I would.

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