Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Practicing for Valentine's Day

Do I really care that much about Valentine's Day? Not really. But it's always good to practice making some of the treats beforehand, just to make sure they turn out how they should on the real day...in other words, I was craving chocolate today!

So grown up...yet so very young

It's easy to forget sometimes that my 6 yr old is just 6 years old. Sometimes he seems wise beyond his years. The other day, however, I was reminded of just how young he really is. He was looking at the globe and asked me if that was what the earth really looked like. I told him yes. He then asked, "Does it have the words on it, too?"

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Clouds


Megan informed me the other day that she does not care for "the cheese with the clouds in it." :)

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Trouble? Who Me?!?! (Part 2)

What is it with Joshua & locking doors?!
He was playing so nicely up in his sister's room. After a short while, I heard him banging on the door over & over. Intuitively, I just knew he'd locked himself in her room. I put the baby in her exersaucer so I could have peace of mind that she was in a safe place while I went to check out the situation.

Sure enough, the door is locked from the INSIDE. As you can see, it's not just a push-button lock that I could easily manipulate to open from my side of the door. So, the only option I had was to take a screwdriver & remove the doorknob. I finally got the knob off on my side & it dropped into Josh's hand on the other side. That's when the tears started flowing for him as he thought he had broken the door & probably figured he was going to be in big trouble. In spite of my attempts to tell him it was o.k., he was not in trouble, he continued to cry & be upset. I ran back downstairs and managed to find a leftover sucker in a cupboard & unwrapped it & pushed it under the door for him in hopes that it would calm him down while I worked to get him out of the room. (It didn't really work.)

Even with the knobs off the door, the lock wasn't coming undone. I finally had to wedge the screwdriver between the moulding of the door and pry the latch open that way. I was thrilled when the door suddenly popped right open. I could just picture the headlines:

MOM SAVES 2 YEAR OLD BOY FROM HIS OWN PREDICAMENT IN 10 MINUTES!

Maybe I shouldn't be proud of the time it took...maybe it means I'm a lousy "breaker and enterer" but regardless, I saved my little boy! He happily picked up his sucker & continued his day as though nothing had happened. I proceeded with my day as well, preparing dinner for the family...except with greasy black fingerprints on my shirt from his little hands & a slight pink stain from his sucker rubbing on me. (Figures I was wearing a white shirt!!)

Thursday, January 10, 2008

Trouble? Who, ME?!

See this cute little face? Well, just read on to see what this little angel-in-disguise pulled on me today...

My charming little 2-yr-old accidentally locked me out of the house
for 10 minutes! I had gone out to bring the trash cans up from the
curb & when I tried to open the door to the house, I couldn't! He had
turned the deadbolt just far enough for it to latch. Ugh!!! The
oldest 2 kids were in the basement & Kaitlyn, thankfully, was snapped
into her chair at the kitchen table with a snack, so I knew she was
o.k. I told Josh to unlock the door & he GIGGLED!! I then started
yelling for Nathan or Megan, but they couldn't hear me. Each time I'd
shout for one of the kids, Josh would copy me, shouting their names as
well. No luck. I then ran to the front door & rang the doorbell a
million times. The dog started barking, but apparently my oldest were
completely oblivious to all the commotion upstairs. I ran back to the
locked mudroom door & yelled for Josh to go get Nathan. It was like
he finally realized this wasn't a big joke. He tried, but for the
first time, of course, he actually COULDN'T get the childproof door knob cover to
work. At this point I decide to run to the backyard and see if I can get
him to open the sliding glass door as I knew I had only one of the
locks to that door fastened. So here I am, barefoot but wearing cheap
sandals & running through the snow in the yard to try to get in from
the back of the house. Plan A was to try to get Josh to unlock & open
the slider. Plan B was to go bang on the window well cover over the
window to the basement & hope that Nathan would come upstairs to see
what the deal was. Thankfully Plan A worked & I successfully made it
inside. On the bright side, I finally wizened up and have
put a spare key in our mudroom for any other events such as this.