When you tell your child to do something do you give them the reason why? Is the reason why they obey without fighting? Here are my 2 cents. This is just how I am, I am not saying it is the only way.
(And yes, I realize now how badly framed this is but I didn’t have the time to redo it;)
I just had yet another weird and hilarious conversation with my 4 year old. I was doing her hair and joking about nibbling on her ears. I said I like her ears. Then NerdPud says, “I like pickles but I don’t like to eat them!” I asked her what she would like about pickles if she doesn’t like to eat them. I mean what else does she do with them? She said that she likes to look at the word pickles.
Abstractly I understand it but she is only 4! She doesn’t even read that well. Can she really be a word nerd already? Kids! They are so cute and crazy;).
I am very aware that my girls are both very nerdy and very girlie. I mean the NerdPie’s favorite color is purple and the NerdPud is pink!
So it should come as no surprise that my girls were playing Mommy and Baby outside together. But not without a nerdy twist. NerdPie (the 8 year old) was coming back outside after dumping the garbage. From the door she says, “Where’s my baby cyborg?” Yup, that is my girls;).
Okay, I’ve always been very open with the fact I’m a spoiled wife. My my line is even “I’m spoiled and I like it that way”. But I realize there’s yet another sign that I was very spoiled wife and this one is a little extreme.
So NerdDad and I plan our evenings that we do separate stuff on the same night and we hire a babysitter. We find that more a more efficient so that we spend more nights at home together. The plan for tonight was that I would go to the Girls Night Out happening a New Covenant and NerdDad would work. So about three o’clock this afternoon I was upstairs doing laundry and curling my hair. When all of a sudden I hear the Nerdster say, “I have to throw up!” of course the first thing I do is to tell him to just go throw up and of course he threw up mostly on the bathroom floor.
As you can imagine, this is change the plan for tonight. But here’s the deal I have with NerdDad, if no one else throws up (including the Nerdster) I will stay home with the kids tonight. But, if there is anymore throwing up NerdDad will stay home with them. Yes, some of this is because I do not handle throw up well. But I think most of this is because I’m spoiled. I mean how many dads do you know who’d be willing to be the parent with the puking child when there are options?
So yes I’m spoiled and I like it that way :-). And my husband’s a rockstar!
Aah, the insight holiday specials give us about our children!
So I was snuggled in with the Nerdlings watching the Michael Buble Christmas Special and on comes Justin Bieber. So these girls start screaming on the show to the point that they are crying. So NerdPie asks why these girls are so worked up over silly Justin Bieber. I tell her that they’re very excited to see this singer that they all think it’s cute and wonderful. She shook her head in disbelief. She says plainly,”They’re freaking out over some person they don’t even know!” So I asked her who she would get excited and freak about seeing. She looks me straight in the face and says plainly, “My dead grandfather.” So I ask which one and she said either of them. We went on to talk about why we both think that this reaction to stars is silly.
Is it wrong to say how proud I am of my 8-year-old little girl that she has not bought in to all this craziness over pop stars. Is this due to the homeschooling or the extreme nerdiness? Either way it’s a win.
Ok, so I have had it with the term breeders. Someone can be a shmuck without blaming the fact they had kids. Dollars to donuts they would still be jerks with out kids! Or are people just jealous. Any way! Here are some of my other thoughts.
(PS, don’t pick on my camera angle. I should get my tripod next week.;)
Life with kids is always entertaining but I think having nerdy kids makes it just that much more fun. Here are a couple of exchanges from just this morning.
I am snuggling the NerdPud (almost 4 ). I looked at her and told her she was my heart. She looks at me and says, “Mom, I can’t be a heart. My head is an oval.”
NerdPie (almost 8 ) is coloring a Phoenician ship for history. She says she is making a ladies barge. I don’t know what is cuter, that it is pink or that she called it a barge. She then went on to define what a barge is for her 5 year old brother.
Nerdlings;).
I think we all have those days when things go badly. Not just 1 thing goes wrong but many things and seem to be related. Well, my baby girl had one of those days.
Now let me preface this with the fact that NerdPud is a flip flop master. While she will only turn four in 14 days, she has been wearing flip flops for over a year. But anyway.
Incident 1: We are finishing checking out at Costco. She kind of ran around the front of the cart and slipped and fell. Her cheek landed hard on the polished concrete floor. The picture was a couple ours after and before her cheek turned purple. Needless to say, her face got a lot worse from here.
Incident 2: She is playing Red Light/Green Light with her siblings. They are all taking turns being the person to call it out. When it was NerdPud’s turn she backs up to the fence with her hands behind her tush. That leads to a handful of splinters. She still hasn’t let us take them all out.
Incident 3: After getting a handful of splinters she was climbing on the plastic structure and bumped her bottom teeth and lip on it.
And thus closed NerdPud’s bad, horrible, no good rotten day. But she did live to fight on;).