Mom Rule #19

I'm not a mom who has it all, but what I've got is good enough. In fact, it's great.

Mom Rule #152

WD40 really can get Crayon off a plasma tv

Mom Rule #453

Never wear Spanx when trying out a new water pill

Boys don't like Princess Movies

Me: what do you want to watch for movie night tonight?
Thing 2: Belle!
Thing 1: No princess movies!
Me: why not?
Thing 1: Boys don't like princess movies.
Me: why not?
Thing 1: Because I'm a boy and I can't like those movies
Me: who told you that?
Thing 1: Jason from school said boys don't like princess movies.
Me: so if Jason told you that boys don't like robot movies, would you stop watching them?
Thing 1: but I like robots
Me: Well, I guess you can't watch Star Wars anymore
Thing 1: why not? I like Star Wars
Me: Well, it's a princess movie. Without Princess Leia, we wouldn't have a movie.
Thing 1: that's a very valid argument mommy.

LOL I got my kid to say very valid argument at age 4.

Child Musings

#1: I took Thing 1 shopping and to get his eye glasses fixed. The cart was shaking on the way to the cart, and he said "My butt is shaking". I started laughing, and he giggled, too. Then he somberly said "no, seriously, my butt is shaking".

#2: Thing 2 fell off the couch today (while I was cooking dinner). She comes up to me crying that she fell down. Thing 1 tells her "well, really, what did you expect?"

#3: Also, apparently, I'm Bot (from Team Umizoomi). Per Thing 1 "I'm Geo, sister's Millie, and you're Bot because you have the biggest belly for the belly screen". When I asked him who daddy was, he stopped and said "No one, he's always the problem".

#4: Oh, and for the record, I'm the Red Ranger b/c "he's the leader and the one in charge". FYI-he's also told me "you're always right, huh mom?!"

Updated: I'm not a nighlock b/c his BFF at school is the Red Ranger. So much for being the one in charge.

#5: Thing 2 likes to tell everyone she meets that "moms don't fart". The teachers happily shared her revelations with them.

I told him eating dirt was a bad idea...

My husband had to have a liver biopsy. Early in the morning, I had to drop him off at the hospital, which sparked quite a few questions from Thing 1 and Thing 2. I explained that Daddy needs to have a tiny piece of his liver in his belly taken out so that the doctors can make him healthy.

My husband proceeds to take it a step further and say "it looks like a long worm". After all questions answered and we drop Daddy off at the hospital, I take the kids to school. I don't normally do the morning drop offs, so the teachers innocently remark "Mommy's doing drop off's this morning!"

"Oh! Is he okay?" the teacher asks me. Before I could answer, Thing 2 answers "Daddy's got worms in his belly".

Small treasures

It's amazing what a reasonably clean house and a shower can do for the soul.