Well Megan has been gone for 2 1/2 days now, and I have been watching the boys. I figure as I have been doing everything else in her place I might as well fill in for her and post something as well. Any of you dads out there that have ever spent a few days alone with your kids know that I am about to go crazy. I wish we had some family nearby so I could enlist their help, but instead I will just have to hope that I will be able to restore the house to a normal(clean and orderly) state by the time Megan comes home and that I will be able to regain my sanity once she is back.
Now, don't get me wrong the boys have been great (at least a portion of this is due to their ability to adjust to my lower levels of patience than they are used to with Megan). We have had a lot of fun and as soon as Luke wakes up from his nap we are going to go to the splash park. I think it has just been a good reminder of how hard it is to stay home with kids and not be able to go to work etc for a break.
I am amazed that Megan has made the decision to be a stay at home mom and find it near unbelievable that she has stuck with that decision through 3 boys. I know that she feels strongly about wanting to be at home for the kids, and I am grateful that she is strong enough to keep with it. I am sure it is great for the kids. Hopefully when Jimmy starts school next year it will start to be a little easier for her, wishful thinking I know, as it will probably only get worse when I go back to school. Either way I am glad she can find enough time to keep the house in order, teach and entertain our children, take care of everything else I ask of her and still have enough time to be a great wife. I guess I will have to be more lenient and forgiving when she is on edge after a long day with the boys.
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Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"
I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"
Jimmy and I are listening to "Give Said the Little Stream" and Jimmy says "How does it talk?" I said "How does what talk?" He said, "The stream, it doesn't have a mouth, how can it talk?"
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Funny Things Kids Say
We were at church and during the sacrament I was talking to Luke about Jesus. I told him that Jesus bled and died for us. Luke looked at me with a very concerned look and said, "Did Heavenly Father give Jesus a band-aid when he was bleeding?"
We were about to walk out the door so I told Luke to go potty. He came out of the bathroom saying, "I can't go! The batteries in my pee pee are dead!"
After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).
Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"
We have a saying in our house. It's "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" But Ben has his own version of this. He says "you get what you WANT and you don't throw a fit!"
Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.
Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"
We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."
I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)
We were about to walk out the door so I told Luke to go potty. He came out of the bathroom saying, "I can't go! The batteries in my pee pee are dead!"
After Ben finished a big meal he said, "my tummy is so big and full I look like Grandpa now!" (sorry dad).
Ben pointed to a picture of the prophet and said, "That's President Monckley!"
We have a saying in our house. It's "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit!" But Ben has his own version of this. He says "you get what you WANT and you don't throw a fit!"
Jimmy said that he is allergic to babies. I asked him how he knew and he said that he gets sick when he smells them.
Ben asked me for another piece of halloween candy and I said, "Mommy is ready for the halloween candy to be gone" and Ben said, "Yea, gone in my mouth!"
We were driving past the gas station sign and Ben said, "I see a lowercase 5 on that sign."
I was talking to Jimmy about election day and asking him if his teacher voted and he said that she was "absent" that day. (I finally realized what he meant. She had just mailed in an absentee ballot.)
Ben put a whole bunch of toilet paper in the garbage and I told him that is a no, no. He said, "no it's a yes, yes!"
I tell Jimmy on a regular basis that needs to talk nicely. He yelled something across the room to me and I gave him the look that said I didn't like the tone of his voice and he said, "I was yelling nicely!"
Jimmy and I are listening to "Give Said the Little Stream" and Jimmy says "How does it talk?" I said "How does what talk?" He said, "The stream, it doesn't have a mouth, how can it talk?"
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5 comments:
Go Jim! I am sorry that we are not closer too. Your family pictures turned out amazing! How did you get everybody to look and smile at the same time?!
Looking forward to seeing you, Ethan can't stop talking about it.
Megan is amazing! You are very lucky! She is the best and so sweet. Where did she go?
Your family pictures are darling!
I am so glad to know that someone else considers their family a team! Check out our blog www.teambartmess.blogspot.com
Way to go in giving your wife a little break!
too bad you coudn't post that in the sports section of the paper! you are a good dad, jim, your kids are lucky to have the both of you!
What a good dad! It sounds like you had a blast at Palmyra.
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