They can drive me crazy, but they can also be pretty funny

[janradder]

1. Éiden has been calling me "man" for the past two weeks, as in "Hey, man," "Okay, man," and "What's up, man?" Tonight he started calling me "babes."

2. This afternoon, after lunch, the boys forgot to ask for dessert and didn't remember until this evening. When I told them I wasn't going to give them dessert (we have a "no sweets before bed" policy to help them get to sleep), Arie, in outrage, said, "If you don't give us dessert, I'm going to write your name down saying that you took dessert away from us!" "Go ahead," said. So after reading them their stories, I found this note stuck to our door underneath a flashing light, in case anyone might not notice it otherwise: "Daddy -- unacceptable" and underneath that, he drew a triangle with an exclamation mark in the center, like an error message on a computer. Under that triangle, he wrote, "see back." On the other side, it said, "you took away dessert!"

Comments

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I hope you're going to keep that note for ever and ever.

[timalyne.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of the time that Chloe (age 2) was angry with me and said, "I'm going to take you back to the store and NOT buy you!"

Your kids are awesome.

[joelarnold.livejournal.com]

That's awesome!

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

::giggles::

[janradder.livejournal.com]

I would if I knew where the note was, but after he made sure I saw it this morning (smiling happily), Arie ran off with it somewhere. It'll probably turn up later (the kid doesn't ever throw anything out).

[janradder.livejournal.com]

Thanks (When one or both of the boys are being particularly unpleasant, Haddayr and I sometimes joke that we should return them because they're defective).