I have a Friday WTF in my head but it’s a bit emotional and frankly, I feel like I’m pms’ing because I’ve eaten half a loaf of chocolate chip banana bread (after eating half the bag of chocolate chips last night while I was baking it) and want to murder a few of my co-workers. SO, I’ll save that one because it’s actually a goodie.
Instead, let me leave you parents with this. WTF is up with your kids starting the day all sunshine and smiles and kisses…like this…
And then reverting to Satan like this….WTF????
Dude – here is the thing. It’s Curious George – he makes pancakes, he goes camping, he crashes a dump truck and goes to a costume party. Do you know how I know?? Because we’ve read the goddamn book 400000 times this week. So really, do you need to freak out because I won’t read it 4000001 times??? My sincere apologies for instead choosing to get dressed for work. You can talk to your therapist about it in 20 years.
And yes, I promise not to show this at your wedding.
I love you.
Ha ha….Ava has also discovered the morning delay tactic of reading books and not just any book)….but there are worse things in the world for her to want, so I am kinda happy about it even when it ends in full out tears. On a similar note…one day I went in to wake her up for the day, she took one look at me flipped her head away and said, ‘no no mamma, no!’. I can’t wait to hear what she’ll say to me at age 15 when I wake her up.
Lol… that was ironically adorable. The things I have to look forward to… joy!
JUst wait….now I get 40001 ways to not eat breakfast before school…Really…does she need to know what the weather will be in all 51 states and Canada…
Our mornings turn out like this allll the time. It all starts the same way every day. Boy does exactly what yours does… smiles… says he had a good sleep… except then he starts this game where he pretends he’s going back to sleep – every day. Yup, every GD day. If I can’t manipulate him out of the crib with some sort of foolish trick, I lose patience and take him out against his will – his oh-so-strong will. And there it starts. Because he’s not in control, FREAKS the F out. It’s great really, considering all that extra time we have in the mornings……….
My days are filled with at least one of my three switching to satan in a matter of minutes. I’ve just learned to ignore it and then says “do you need a hug” on most days it works. Although….it’s not really working with the older one anymore because he will usually vocalize with every bad word he knows now. So it’s hard to ignore, when out comes “you’re a stupid, F*&^’in dumb head”. Sending you a big hug on your crap day….. I’m usually feeling like Will in the 2nd video every night by bedtime….wish I could just freak out like that too and roll around my bed!! My husband would probably send me to the loonie bin!!! Gotta love motherhood…
Love it!
And yes, my kids will be paying some serious dough for therapy to get over all the terrible things I’ve done to them – or rather not done FOR them in their short lives. As I frequently say (in my mind, though I’m sorely tempted to say it out loud sometimes): “sucks being you”.
Let’s just hope our kids have kids of their own so it will all make sense to them in the end!
Oh Sara – I just finished going through this 10 minutes ago. At least they forgive quickly! The worst is when they do it in public. You see the looks of people thinking “is it too much to ask for you to just read him the book one more time?”. I’d like to subject them to 100001 readings and see how chipper they are after that.
The videos were too cute, but I can’t believe you actually wake Will up in the morning. The mommy does this in “Mommy Kisses” (another book I have read too many times) and every time I read it I think ‘what mother in her right mind would wake her child up rather than squeeze every last minute of nap out of him?’ I suspect it has more to do with getting to work on time…
OMG – not to laugh but that is way too funny. Sweet kid and love the name sign on his door!!
Oh yes Rocket ships and I must sing the ‘zoom zoom zoom’ song every time he wears them! I’m having a great visual of the maniacal clown!
OK. The rocket ship jammies?! Perfection. Yeah, life is tough for these kids. My daughter is SO NOT a morning person so we get the second video from her while my morning guy jumps around like a maniacal clown trying to “make her feel better” (aka pissing her off). Good times folks.
Too funny!
Eva does the same – only at night. She wants book after book after book.
(And usually I wake up more like the second video and it takes me a shower to feel like the first one)