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The kids aren't allowed in my room under normal circumstances. I just can't stand having them around when Scott and I are spending time together. >.< It annoys me more than anything. When they're supposed to be in bed, they better stay in bed! Or at least in their rooms. Aaron will whine and we'll go to him sometimes, when we can tell he's having a nightmare and not just being a brat. But yeah...it's just annoying sometimes.
Windows should have regulated sizes, I swear every window in our house was custom cut. >.< It makes it so expensive!! As far as trouble children go, I think Sakura is mine. She is the one that instigates most of the fights, and then comes crying to me when something goes wrong or the twins fight back. :/ She gets mad when Aaron takes a ball from her room. The thing is she rarely plays with anything of hers until someone else finds it and wants to play with it. As soon as they have something that is hers all hell breaks loose. |
LOL. Each kid has their own personality, don't they? And it's "amusing" to see how they interact with each other!! My two are close in age and usually pretty good -both alone and apart- but they still have their "moments" and they still have their fights - that's for sure!!
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I'm tired of mine interacting ill with each other. >.<
How old are yours Blaze? I swear I knew at one point, but can't remember right now. Mine are close in age, Kura is 5 and a half and the twins will be 4 in Sept. So almost 2 years difference. Ya know except for the twins part. xD They were like a minute apart. haha. Melody and Sakura both want to be with other people, just not each other, and Aaron just wants to be alone, or with Sakura...but only sometimes...they just fight so much. Today I'm stopping fights when they start and putting kids in the corner. Yesterday was my day from Hell, I refuse to go through that again! |
*nod* I understand, Mel!! My two are 19 months apart, ages 7 and (newly) 9 yrs old. I *just* warned them, as a matter of fact, that I was repeating myself which meant they weren't listening and that they had a choice to make: either listen to me now (and stop wrestling on the couch and go play quietly for a while), or spend some time in time out. They're playing in the other room now... and except for the occasional explosion sounds, quietly. :D
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I'm excited - and scared - and stressed - and happy- and just about everything else you can imagine :XD
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LOL!! *determines you "normal mommy-to-be"* :XD
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Yup, that sounds about right Sia. xD
Blazwe- explosions? scary. I'm scared of my kids getting older...but at the same time I'm looking forward to it. lol. |
LOL... it's play explosions sounds, Mel... like "crash!" and "ppcchherrrr" and whatever (it doesn't translate very well to written text). It's just amazing how quickly the time has gone by. I can't believe my eldest is 9 already!! ... but you "grow" with them, and it's really neat seeing how they develop.
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That's true, I was shocked when my daughter turned 5 last January though. xD I have no idea where that time went! I swear she was just a cute little chubby 3 year old...and then out of no where she turned 5! *le sigh*
I get what you're saying now about the explosions though. Do you have two boys? my son plays like that a lot the girls will try to play but he always ends up blowing up or crashing into their cars. xD |
Yes, I have two boys. It works out nicely most of the time 'cuz they play together fairly well most days. When they don't though.... >.>
I never believed the "boy/girl" thing ... until I had boys who insisted on playing with cars. But, to their credit (imo), they also have cabbage patch babies that they tend to as well. Nice, emotionally balanced, boys!! *beams* :D |
Woohoo!! Aaron Loves playing with the barbie plane my daughter got for Christmas. xD It's cute. He attempts to ride on it. haha.
He doesn't mind dolls, and the girls like playing with cars/trucks/trains too. So I still don't believe in the boy/girl gender only toys. If they want to play with something let them play with it! |
exactly, Mel! Our society has inflicted and enforced too many differences on us / the kids. I don't think it's healthy. Healthy is balanced, IMO... and that means liking the color pink, if you want, if you're male or playing with dolls or cars or anything else "non-gender" if that's what you want to do. My kids still tend to gravitate towards the "boy" things though... on the whole.
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I think my kids generally gravitate towards the "girl" stuff, but they all want to dress up like super heros and have swords and shields etc. I think balanced is more important as well.
I baby sat a boy a while ago whose father hated me (or disliked greatly? xD) because I would let his son color in a care bears coloring book with the color pink. Well, his father never dropped off other coloring books or anything so what we had was what got used. I had a cars one, but Aaron always got to it first. And really? his dad was going to throw a fit over what color crayon his son choose to use? How insecure do you have to be to act like that as a parent? Just because your son is coloring with a pink crayon doesn't mean he's going to be gay! >.< UGH. But he was also a military man so there you have it... I'm so glad my hubby was raised by lesbians. xD |
ROFL! You're right... that sounds like a real insecure parent. And a non-creative one at that (pet peeve = "a dog is supposed to be brown, not blue!!" mentality when kids are coloring)!
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I hate that too! That dog can be whatever color it wants to! Sometimes it's more fun to have pink and purple plaid animals to be drawn than black or brown ones. :/
He was quite the insecure parent. It really annoyed me, because his son was a relatively nice kid. Granted this is the same parent who didn't like that his son listened to me instead of him when he told his son to hit my husband in the crotch. The kids looked at me and I gave him the "mom look" and he decided against hitting my hubby. ;D |
OMG... he TOLD his son to hit a grown man (your husband no less) in the crotch?? I'm sorry, but he sounds like an utter ass! *shakes head* some parents... honestly!! :roll: I'm glad the kid listened to you instead!
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Yeah it's something he taught his son because he thought it was hilarious. Whenever he would have his son on the hanger deck he would tell him to hit whoever else was there in the crotch and laugh about it. I found it totally distasteful. But I guess when your child starts listening to their baby sitter more than their parent you start to feel unnecessary. And it was about at that point that he stopped bringing his son over here. Which was okay by me, since he was also starting to leave his son with me until 5 or 6 some nights when they got off work at 4. I'm sorry but your kids are your responsibility NOT mine. So I started charging him more. >.> In hindsight I think I wanted to be freed from that responsibility. The dad was a complete ass and I hated when he was over here. He was always starting stuff, he broke my dishwasher one day when pretending he knew how to fix it, and he kept trying to instigate fights between me and hubby. Total Ass.
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Wow. He really, really sounds like an ass, Mel. Glad you're not in that situation any more. He's also very likely gonna have his hands full of rebellious and violent kid though in a few years if what you say is any indication of the level of respect that man has for anybody...
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The guy had a problem with women. He divorced his ex wife when she cheated on him and has hated women since. Kinda decided that they were only there for sex and raising his child. :roll: I feel bad for my hubby since he still has to work with the twit. ^^;;
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Oh, that's one of my favorite male attitudes! :roll: Sheeesh!
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What good are women! I feel bad for his son, he's going to have a hard life because his dad is an idiot. >.<
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Wait... There is another male attitude... O_O Just Kidding... Dillon is more feminine then me even... That ideal is all too common in my town... I am going to beat it out of my boys!!!! They will put their mother and wife on a pedestal where she belongs unless the wife does something REALLY wrong that is!!!
My little sister has a problem with the boys playing dress up >.>* it just pisses me off... I don't actively buy dolls for the boys cause well... Have you seen how much MORE expensive "girls" stuff is to "boys" stuff... Mikes has had a few dolls in his day and sean plays with my dolls... He loves to cuddle my law baby twins lol... But both still prefer cars and action figures *shrugs* IDK... But they both love to play dress up... I think even if I bought tutu and fairy princess stuff they would dig it! |
My daughters don't cuddle baby dolls. >.> I find most of the baby dolls people get them creepy and apparently so do they. xD They do however LOVE their stuffed animals. Mostly ones of water animals are the ones they choose (I swear I don't make it that way they do it on their own!!) So I'm totally okay with that. Aaron doesn't do anything with his stuffed animals, and given the choice would choose to have musical stuff over stuffed animals.
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Mikes and Aaron have a lot in common... Mikes wants nothing to do with stuffed animals and all of the dolls in the past have met not so pleasant fates... O_o
Baby dolls are creepy... Though I like my la babies and my cabbage patch ^^ |
I haven't found a cabbage patch doll I like yet, they all have these big fat faces and just don't appeal to me. xD I have one growing up, my mom got it because it shared a birthday with me, but I never did like the thing...I don't even remember it's name. o.o My sister had like 6 of them, and we always cast them in our doll collection as the mob or some other evil organization bent on destruction to the other prettier dolls. ^^;;
I have considered attempting to make aaron a stuffed helicopter. I think that would go over well. LOL. |
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