Yep, you have to laugh when your children are smart alecs. They don't leave you any choice. Yesterday I was having a tiny tiny little bit of trouble backing out of the drive, and of course, Bobby and Brian happened to be in the living room, with Brian looking out the window. Bobby tells me that a certain someone told him that they shouldn't let old people drive. And you all thought Brian was nice.
Then last night Bobby and I got to watch Erin and Jill for awhile, put in a DVDfor them to watch, and couldn't for anything get the sound working. (there did happen to be a little mute button pressed on the remote that we didn't know about, but whatever.) We finally got some music going that we thought went with the movie, and were so proud of ourselves, when Jill and Erin were rolling hysterically on the couch, saying that's the CD, take the CD out, that's not the movie. We entertained them far more than that movie ever will.
Mark suggested we have them in bed by 8:30, maybe 9:00 since it wasn't a school night, and since Grandpa and Mimi were there. Well, we finally had them in bed by 9:45. They sure are good at stalling us, claiming they can't find the books they want to read, picking out the ones with lots of reading in them, Jill insisting on certain toothpaste that we never did find, and I finally told her she could use one of the toothpastes on the counter or brush without toothpaste (she chose without toothpaste). It will be my luck she'll have a cavity tomorrow morning. or rather Mark and Kim's luck. I let Jill have a chocolate chip cookie that she told me Mommy and Daddy let her have - Mark told me Jill would probably tell us she was allowed to have a pint of ice cream, too but that didn't make it so. But it turns out the chocolate chip cookie was allowed.
Erin couldn't find the green blankie she needs to sleep with every night, so the hunt was on. Never found it, but we found something else that worked. We thought we could have lights out before Mark and Kim came home, but they got to kiss Erin good night...or we could have told them she'd been sleeping for hours.
It was a very entertaining Friday evening and a fun Friday, smart alec Brian and all.
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I just giggled when I read this - always an adventure with children like Erin and Jill and Brian. Wait a minute - there's no one LIKE Erin and Jill and Brian. Well, that makes it even better.
Love, Judy/Nana
I think my exact words were, "is that Mrs. Driscoll backing out of our driveway?"
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