PART THE FIRST: JAIL TIME
Truett: What’s that, momma, what’s that?
Me: It’s a bird cage, son. To keep birds so they don’t fly away.
Tru: No, it’s not a bird cage. It’s a jail. When Mickey Mouse is never listen to mommy, he will go to jail.
PART THE SECOND: WAIT, YOU’RE ACTUALLY LISTENING TO ME
You know how it is when you have kids. Most of the time when you tell them to do something, you don’t expect them to actually do it. Like when I have to say “NO” to that scoop of ice cream when they’re nursing a cold and I know that no amount of explaining will prevent the impending meltdown. But I still take the time to explain it rationally like they understand anyway. 9 out of 10 times it’s a futile endeavor.
But then there’s that one time when it works and they actually listen.
Truett is still as resistant to school as ever. Especially after our trip to Melbourne, he seems to have regressed and every morning, he’ll get very upset on the way to school. Then yesterday while he was coming up with various maladies to avoid going to school, I tried explaining that it was Gymnastics Thursday, his favorite day YAY WE”RE GOING TO HAVE SO MUCH FUN DOING SOMERSAULTS WOOT! He pondered a moment then nodded his head and said “ok, I will go to school.”
And I was all “GYMNASTICS IS AWESOME YOU’RE GOING TO LOVE…wait, did you just say ok? That’s it? No tantrums or tears? You mean I don’t have to juggle or do cartwheels to distract you from screaming? Just talking actually works? That’s new. Very well, um, great.
PART THE THIRD: RULES? WHAT RULES?
The frustrating thing about playing with kids is that they don’t have any rules. But the great thing about playing with kids is also that they don’t have any rules.
Blame it on my lack of creativity but when I make a head, there’s got to be a specified number of eyes and ears and mouth, even if that head belongs to a potato.
When it was their turn to make the head, they came up with this.
Which is genius actually because what do you know, a potato does have a lot of eyes.
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LOL! Love their version of the Mr. Potato Head – genius!
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Haha well they obviously didn’t plan for the many eyes on the potato bit but you’re right, it’s still accidentally genius.
And apparently lots of roots. It’s ready to be planted!
Oh ya, the roots! Nice one.
Hilarious! Their creation really got me laughing. What do we know about kids? They are always there to throw us a few surprises every now and then. And you have double those surprises.
Well, waddya know? The kids ARE smarter than we think! I could do with five hands too… :P
hahahahahaha they are right!! potatoes do have lots of eyes!!!! not sure about the hands though….
We were playing a very similar set of toys at a friend’s place. It’s so true that the Mr or Mrs Potato that adults created were all so boring, must be 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 ears, etc. While the kids were so much more creative!