Kids of EB

[ventilator]

although I haven't taken him out to the store with underwear instead of pull up quite yet...I'm not that brave yet

no guts....no glory.

Also, no poo in the car seat

 

[snickerd3]

Minisnick had a yoda momment last night.

He was looking for his kindle. Mr snick said he would help to try and find it

minisnick response..."there is no try"

 

[kevo_55]

Mini-Kevo really likes to say "no" these days.

I asked her if she wanted to go outside and she then said no while trying to put on her coat.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

Mrs Dex found one of my Playboy's stashed under my son's mattress over the weekend...

 

[snickerd3]

uh oh...how old is minidex?

 

[Ble_PE]

Time for the birds and the bees talk?

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

He is almost 8 (2nd grade). Mrs Dex had a "pre-birds & bees" talk with him when she found it. It was more along the lines of "Did you see anything there that you don't understand". He didn't get in trouble, but we did let him know that it wasn't cool to steal Dad's things.

 

[snickerd3]

The mention of the playboys reminds me of one of the houses we viewed when we were house hunting...the guy had probably a yrs worth stuffed in the magazine rack in the bathroom for the world to see. YOu'd think the realtor would mention to him to not keep that sort of thing out in plain site.

 

[MA_PE]

It was around that time (kids ~8-10) that my wife told me I should give up the subscription, so I did.

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

I was already giving mine up. It's up to $30/year and each issue has about 5% fewer pictures than the previous one (the cover girl now gets 3 pages of pics + centerfold = fail). They've even gone as far as to start combining issues (like a Jan/Feb "double" issue). I remember when I first started it was only $15 a year and they gave away free bonus issues or DVD's each year. Now they're just over charging for ads for cars, cigarettes, and cologne.

 

[YMZ PE]

I was buying training toothpaste at the store just now and considered buying the older kids toothpaste because MiniYMZ brushes like a big girl now. Then I looked down at the Pullups I was buying and thought about how she's consistently getting up in the middle of the night to use the potty, and she's pretty much stopped using the little potty and only uses the adult-size toilet now.

I almost started to cry in the middle of the store. She just freaking turned 3! Why is she growing up so fast?

 

[Lumber Jim]

Before long she won't even ask for help, she'll just do it on her own (ALL the steps for brushing teeth). At least they still need us to scare the boogy man away...

 

[Supe]

Junior decided she was too cool for sleeping with her bedroom door open last night, and insisted that I close it after tucking her in. She says it's because she's too old to sleep with the door open, but my money is on it making the pattern from her light up stuffed animal thingy show up better on the ceiling.

 

[Ble_PE]

I was buying training toothpaste at the store just now and considered buying the older kids toothpaste because MiniYMZ brushes like a big girl now. Then I looked down at the Pullups I was buying and thought about how she's consistently getting up in the middle of the night to use the potty, and she's pretty much stopped using the little potty and only uses the adult-size toilet now.

I almost started to cry in the middle of the store. She just freaking turned 3! Why is she growing up so fast?

It's crazy how fast they grow up. I can't believe I have two full-fledged kids in the house now and no babies. I just saw a quote that I thought summed up being a parent perfectly:

Parenting: the longest days but the shortest years.

 

[snickerd3]

minisnick is making it through nap time with staying dry, but overnights are still a problem. THis kids can sleep through anything...once he is out you can shake him and he wont even crake an eyelid.

ALthough his music tastes are interesting for a 3 yr old. The radio was on scan the other day and he wanted to listen to the Elvis song that was playing and this morning the radio has a back in the day feature song each morning and today it was baby got back and he wanted me to turn up the volume because he liked it.

 

[Ble_PE]

^He likes big butts and he cannot lie!!

 

[snickerd3]

^Which is probably why he likes the song. he thinks butts are funny.

 

[kevo_55]

LOL!

Speaking of music and kids, mini-Kevo was bee-boxing when I had some Beastie Boys playing in the car the other day.

The thing is that I actually was doing some bee boxing infront of her to get her to laugh maybe a few weeks ago. I can't believe that she remembered that.

 

[YMZ PE]

^Which is probably why he likes the song. he thinks butts are funny.

Looking at our sense of humor here on EB, some things never change.

 

[Judowolf PE]

So Ms Wolf and I took off yesterday to take our 11 yr old lil wolf to the local college for his Elementary School District's Academic Bowl. This is his third year doing it and they took 3rd out of 9 schools. They have placed all three years he's been on the team, 1st two years ago and 2nd last year. It's amazing how much they know this early on. We have been planning a trip to Cape Ann, MA (coast near Boston) and he asked if we could tour Harvard while we are there this summer, he's got much bigger plans than I had imagined I suppose...