I took Pickle to basketball practice the other night. He was so rowdy all day, I was hoping that he would listen and co-operate with his coach at practice.
About 5 minutes into practice, I felt sorry for the coach.
All the boys were being rowdy and none of them were listening. They were pushing, laughing, jumping around and throwing themselves on the ground. In an effort to get them to listen to him, the coach made them run punishment laps. After the laps, some of the boys started listening, but not mine.
The coach told my son to run 2 laps for not listening. Five other boys hands shot up in the air and they started begging "Can I run laps, Can I run laps?"
The poor coach tried to explain to them that it was for punishment and not for fun.
Nobody believed him.
After the six boys ran laps, some of the other boys started pushing each other down and laughing. The coach tried a different approach. "No more horse playing guys. We have to practice. The next person to act up will have to do push-ups."
All hands shot up....Whats a push-up? It sounds fun. I want to try that...and my favorite.....I loves those, my mom buys them all the time.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
The Biter
Drama has a few new nicknames right now....the Biter and Puppy.
Ever since she could pick up things, everything has gone in her mouth. Now she is starting to bite everything...including people.
She refuses to walk so she has trouble carrying things in her hands and crawling. At some point over the weekend, she realized that she could carry stuff in her mouth while she crawled. She crawls to the toy, picks it up with her mouth and then crawls to where she wants to play with it and then spits it out of her mouth.
Pickle said "Mom we don't need a puppy any more because we have Puppy ******!"
Ever since she could pick up things, everything has gone in her mouth. Now she is starting to bite everything...including people.
She refuses to walk so she has trouble carrying things in her hands and crawling. At some point over the weekend, she realized that she could carry stuff in her mouth while she crawled. She crawls to the toy, picks it up with her mouth and then crawls to where she wants to play with it and then spits it out of her mouth.
Pickle said "Mom we don't need a puppy any more because we have Puppy ******!"
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Soap Castles
The weather this summer has been brutal!
For this reason, I have been forced to find ways to entertain Pickle inside. The other day, he wanted to go swimming, but the water in the pool was too hot (and sudsy...don't ask, I sure didn't).
Instead we decided to play with water inside.
Pickle was so excited to be given free reign in the bathroom. He grabbed toys, wash rags, and unbeknown to me, soap and shampoo.
I gave him the only rule I could think of, no water on the floor, and left him in there alone to play and have fun at the sink.
He had been in there about 10 minutes when he said "Mom come look."
I went in there and he had a sink over-flowing with suds!
"Look at my soap castles! Do you like them?!?"
"Yes they are beautiful!"
That night when I went to give him a bath, I found out that he had used his whole brand new bottle of body wash for his soap castles....
When Chef got home from fixing the car, he found out that Pickle had used all the hand soap and an enitre can of shaving cream....
They were beautiful castles!
For this reason, I have been forced to find ways to entertain Pickle inside. The other day, he wanted to go swimming, but the water in the pool was too hot (and sudsy...don't ask, I sure didn't).
Instead we decided to play with water inside.
Pickle was so excited to be given free reign in the bathroom. He grabbed toys, wash rags, and unbeknown to me, soap and shampoo.
I gave him the only rule I could think of, no water on the floor, and left him in there alone to play and have fun at the sink.
He had been in there about 10 minutes when he said "Mom come look."
I went in there and he had a sink over-flowing with suds!
"Look at my soap castles! Do you like them?!?"
"Yes they are beautiful!"
That night when I went to give him a bath, I found out that he had used his whole brand new bottle of body wash for his soap castles....
When Chef got home from fixing the car, he found out that Pickle had used all the hand soap and an enitre can of shaving cream....
They were beautiful castles!
Chew. Swallow. Repeat.
I say these words too many times a day. Sometimes, I even include the words open mouth and insert food. See, the boy has a real problem eating. And by that I mean, he loves to talk (mainly at inappropriate times like while eating, while anyone else is talking, and especially while you are going to the bathroom).
His talking started out as a good thing. Family conversations while eating are a good thing, right? Well in my case the answer is no. Here's why....it generally takes the boy about an hour to finish eating ANYTHING. When we give him a popsicle it usually melts before he can finish. He reports that he is hungry every time I pick him up from school because "they don't give him enough time to eat his lunch." I talked to the teacher and she says that he talks during lunch to the point that he has to sit by the teacher or her assistant in order to get him to eat the small bit that he does.
At a loss of what to do to encourage him to talk at different and more appropriate times, we have tried many things.
1. Riding in the car with radio off......I try this everyday. I ask him lots of questions and he responds with one word answers. After about 5 minutes, he starts asking me to please turn on the radio, and he continues to ask every few minutes for the entire drive.
2. No TV until he talks about his day....all he talks about is what cartoon he is missing. Then he starts to cry because he has missed cartoon and ends up losing tv for the day (which is not such a bad thing, unless you are the one that has to listen to the all day tantrum).
3. Board Games...These encourage lots of talking about the game, mainly how the other person or people are playing wrong...and some cheating, but that is another post all together.
4. Arts and Crafts...This one is working the best! He will talk about the craft that we are doing, crafts he has done in the past and crafts he wants to do soon.
All day long, I cannot get him to talk about his day, things he learned in school or pretty much anything, but , without fail, as soon as you put the food in front of him, he finds he has so much to talk about.
His talking started out as a good thing. Family conversations while eating are a good thing, right? Well in my case the answer is no. Here's why....it generally takes the boy about an hour to finish eating ANYTHING. When we give him a popsicle it usually melts before he can finish. He reports that he is hungry every time I pick him up from school because "they don't give him enough time to eat his lunch." I talked to the teacher and she says that he talks during lunch to the point that he has to sit by the teacher or her assistant in order to get him to eat the small bit that he does.
At a loss of what to do to encourage him to talk at different and more appropriate times, we have tried many things.
1. Riding in the car with radio off......I try this everyday. I ask him lots of questions and he responds with one word answers. After about 5 minutes, he starts asking me to please turn on the radio, and he continues to ask every few minutes for the entire drive.
2. No TV until he talks about his day....all he talks about is what cartoon he is missing. Then he starts to cry because he has missed cartoon and ends up losing tv for the day (which is not such a bad thing, unless you are the one that has to listen to the all day tantrum).
3. Board Games...These encourage lots of talking about the game, mainly how the other person or people are playing wrong...and some cheating, but that is another post all together.
4. Arts and Crafts...This one is working the best! He will talk about the craft that we are doing, crafts he has done in the past and crafts he wants to do soon.
All day long, I cannot get him to talk about his day, things he learned in school or pretty much anything, but , without fail, as soon as you put the food in front of him, he finds he has so much to talk about.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Chef's Mail
Today Chef got a letter addressed to him from the Research Institute of Mother and Child Care. Curious, I opened it up expecting brochures for various child care places or possibly pediatricians in our area. Instead it was a survey and this is how it read:
Dear Mr. InsaneDaddy
Dear Mr. InsaneDaddy
This survey is easy and will only take a few minutes to complete. The questions apply to the youngest infant in your home, regardless of whether you breastfeed or use infant formula.
After I stopped laughing uncontrollably, I was left wondering
A) Whose job is it to check the surveys before they get mailed out
B) Where does a man get that type of "equipment"
C) How can I convince Chef that he should breastfeed the next one?
A Stroll Around the Lake
Today we went to the park to feed the ducks. They were not interested in eating.
We decided to walk around the lake. About half way around, we saw something poke it's head out of the water and then quickly disappear. We stopped to see if it would come back up.
While we were waiting, we were talking about what it might be. I had no ideas. Chef thought it might be a Water Moccasin.
Pickle said, "No silly, it's a Sea Monster."
We also saw swans with their heads in the water and their butts up in the air. Pickle thought this the funniest thing. That night when we put Drama in her bed, she put her face down on the mattress and her butt up in the air and started moving around and making funny noises.
Pickle said, "Look guys, Drama is a swan!"
We decided to walk around the lake. About half way around, we saw something poke it's head out of the water and then quickly disappear. We stopped to see if it would come back up.
While we were waiting, we were talking about what it might be. I had no ideas. Chef thought it might be a Water Moccasin.
Pickle said, "No silly, it's a Sea Monster."
We also saw swans with their heads in the water and their butts up in the air. Pickle thought this the funniest thing. That night when we put Drama in her bed, she put her face down on the mattress and her butt up in the air and started moving around and making funny noises.
Pickle said, "Look guys, Drama is a swan!"
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
It's that time of year.....AGAIN!!!!
Everybody in my house is sick!
Runny noses, coughs, and fevers. And I am sure that congestion and vomiting are not too far behind.
Fun times!!
Runny noses, coughs, and fevers. And I am sure that congestion and vomiting are not too far behind.
Fun times!!
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