Big Ole Fail This Week!
Up until this year, 2013, I would say I had it pretty easy. By whose standards, well mine I guess. Easy meaning compared to this year's happenings, it's been a piece of cake. Lately baby Neil's mischief has brought back Sophie's toddler years and those years were enough to make any mom check herself into the loony bin. But as the years went by, I soon forgot them. That is...until now. I would often say, "If I got through Sophie's destruction, I can (literally) handle whatever this baby throws my way!" Well here we are and I'm getting it thrown at me from all different directions as if to say, "Ha, how do you like me now!" Yep, I'm sticking my foot in my mouth alright. Ok, ok, it's not THAT bad, well maybe to some it is. A mom's gotta do a little whining too, I mean we learn from the best!
Here's a little peek at what baby Neil's been up to or into, whichever way you want to look at it. During the Sophie years I had to buy special child-proof locks to put on our pantry and laundry room door because that leads out into the garage. With these locks on the doors, even without locking them, it makes them hard to turn. Well baby boy has figured it out. Just this week, he has gone outside into the garage when he felt like it and I found him playing with the sidewalk chalk, no coat, shoes or socks. That was fun finding him there. Next day, he figured since he was able to go outside and that door is locked, he might as well try the pantry door to see what he could find in there. You guessed it...he found a box of instant cafe mocha and evenly spread it all around my kitchen floor. I just don't know how much more "fun" I can take? Apparently I needed more because today Sophie didn't lock the pantry door after she came home from school and little "Houdini in training" decided to check out the pantry again to see what he could find. He found the paper napkins and played 152 pick-up with them and a baggie full of tea leaves thrown around the kitchen. I'm just having a ball over here, don't you wanna join me?!
Are you thinking that I should be watching him more? Well if that's what you are thinking you must either A) don't have kids B) all your kids are grown C) have only one kid that you say is an angel and never gets into anything or D) are a person out of touch with reality. Anyway, I have a house to keep, calls to make, laundry to do, kids to feed, fights to referee, contractors to monitor, homework to check, games to play, toys to pick-up, taxi service to provide and 20 questions to answer every hour- SO- no, my eyes are not on baby Neil 24/7. He's a baby and baby's are busy and with busy comes exploring and with exploring comes learing. See the pattern here. Well by #3 you get pretty good at figuring stuff out so you'd think I'd be ahead of the game. Sometimes I am and then other times I think that this one isn't going to do what the other's did and WHAMMO they got me. It's those times that I have to stop, take a bunch of deep breaths and continue on...ok, maybe a little bit of shouting along with the deep breaths, a glass of wine, a couple Advil and a few prayers for patience, I didn't say I was perfect.
Then at night when all my babies are asleep and all I have are my thoughts, I think about the days happenings and I think, small kids, small problems. One day they will be grown and I'll be wishing for the laundry door escapes and spontaneous pantry reorganizations. Right now I'll focus on the sweet smiles, big hugs and kisses, lots of lovin and the 20 innocent questions an hour.
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