Friday, May 19, 2006
Grumpy Free Socks
With three little ones in our home, each of them getting dressed each day is quite the experience. You try to let the boys (aged 4 and 5) break out on their own by selecting their own outfits. It can make for quite the colour clash.
The latest is Parker who has now insisted on dressing for school the night before. He is adamant that he can save himself a pile of time in the early hours by not having to be bothered with getting dressed for school. I suggested putting on five outfits and that way he could just peel off a layer each day and be ready for the next. Mom wasn’t too happy with that suggestion as Parker thought it was a great idea.
Tanner takes the opposite approach. He tries to stay in his pajamas all day so that he's not bothered with it come bedtime.
Our daughter Mackenzie has started a new dressing option. My little grade-two-goober felt that she was waking up grumpy each morning. In discussions with her little friend Edward, he suggested that she wear socks to bed each night and that she surely would not be grumpy in the morning. Not the best habit to develop when the temperature is reaching 30 degrees each day but she now claims to be grumpy-free each morning.
The latest is Parker who has now insisted on dressing for school the night before. He is adamant that he can save himself a pile of time in the early hours by not having to be bothered with getting dressed for school. I suggested putting on five outfits and that way he could just peel off a layer each day and be ready for the next. Mom wasn’t too happy with that suggestion as Parker thought it was a great idea.
Tanner takes the opposite approach. He tries to stay in his pajamas all day so that he's not bothered with it come bedtime.
Our daughter Mackenzie has started a new dressing option. My little grade-two-goober felt that she was waking up grumpy each morning. In discussions with her little friend Edward, he suggested that she wear socks to bed each night and that she surely would not be grumpy in the morning. Not the best habit to develop when the temperature is reaching 30 degrees each day but she now claims to be grumpy-free each morning.
Monday, May 08, 2006
Heelie Boy!
Heelies are pretty amazing shoes. There is no shortage of them around any school in the city. I’m sure if someone from fifty years ago managed to construct a time machine, travel to current day and back, they would be telling tales of how the children of the future have learned to magically float instead of walking.
Parker has become pretty good on the heelies. This was not the case in the beginning. Quite a few drops on his tea kettle represented the beginning of his heelie career.
But now I can’t get the kid to stop. Who needs a running start or a slightly downgrade hill when a pack-horse like dad is around. “Pull me dad” he’ll yell.
His cut-off factor has gone up incrementally with the heelies as well. As long as he has momentum and a straight line, it matters not who is in his way. We’re working on fixing that one.
The other day we picked up his grandma at the airport. He was quick to discover one of the best heelie-straight-aways yet, the pedway from the parking garage over to the airport. As he whizzed by, heading straight for the roadway, my heart gave way, but the kid had mastered the curving stop. Lighten up dad said the look of his sly-grin face.
“Ahhh to heelie with it!”
Parker has become pretty good on the heelies. This was not the case in the beginning. Quite a few drops on his tea kettle represented the beginning of his heelie career.
But now I can’t get the kid to stop. Who needs a running start or a slightly downgrade hill when a pack-horse like dad is around. “Pull me dad” he’ll yell.
His cut-off factor has gone up incrementally with the heelies as well. As long as he has momentum and a straight line, it matters not who is in his way. We’re working on fixing that one.
The other day we picked up his grandma at the airport. He was quick to discover one of the best heelie-straight-aways yet, the pedway from the parking garage over to the airport. As he whizzed by, heading straight for the roadway, my heart gave way, but the kid had mastered the curving stop. Lighten up dad said the look of his sly-grin face.
“Ahhh to heelie with it!”
Toss Cushions Anonymous
I believe I will have to resort to hanging posters of my wife throughout the city’s stores. The sign will say “Warning! This individual is a compulsive toss cushion purchaser. If you see this individual looking at, or worse yet, contemplating buying toss cushions, please ask her to leave the store immediately.”
I have instituted a toss cushion purchase ban in the past before but now it is being flagrantly disregarded.
This is starting to become a problem in our house as the “not currently good enough” old toss cushions are starting to pile up. Personally I was a big fan of toss cushion sets number 17 and 23. Of course, who could forget toss cushion set number 31 with all of those fancy tassels and such.
Even though they know her habit is going to get mommy committed into TCA (Toss Cushions Anonymous), the kids are big fans of her habitual buying as the toss cushions make great accessories to the furniture fort building in our house.
I have instituted a toss cushion purchase ban in the past before but now it is being flagrantly disregarded.
This is starting to become a problem in our house as the “not currently good enough” old toss cushions are starting to pile up. Personally I was a big fan of toss cushion sets number 17 and 23. Of course, who could forget toss cushion set number 31 with all of those fancy tassels and such.
Even though they know her habit is going to get mommy committed into TCA (Toss Cushions Anonymous), the kids are big fans of her habitual buying as the toss cushions make great accessories to the furniture fort building in our house.
