Every morning the boys are suppose to play upstairs for 30 mins by themselves. We call it "Brother Play Time." A few weeks ago, I sent the boys up to play and I heard the TV click on. I stood at the bottom of the stairs and yelled up for them to turn it off. William yelled back..."Mom, we are playing doctor's waiting room. We are pretending we are at the doctor's office, so we are watching TV while we wait for them to call our names." It was such a clever answer, I had to let it slide this once.
William had been a real pill for me last week. One night as I tucked him in, I asked him why he was acting so naughty lately. With a straight face he said, "well mom, some naughty bugs bit me and made me naughty." Then he went on to shoot these imaginary naughty bugs with his super hero lasers. I joined in and after we shot all of the naughty bugs, I told him I expected him to be good the next day. Sure enough he was better behaved the next morning. Go figure.
I was shopping at Costco with Logan one day. On one of the aisles we came across a guy wearing scrubs. Keep in mind he was in his mid-twenties, very athletic with longer brown hair. Logan points at the guy and loudly says, "Is that Daddy?" He turned around and gave me this shocked but polite smile. I tried to explain that my husband wears scrubs every day to work. Logan was only referring to the scrubs. I wanted to say, my son knows who his Daddy is. I'm pretty sure the guy thought Logan and I were both a little nuts.
With Spring came the return of the wild rabbits. I hate how they eat our grass and poop all over the backyard. The kids and I were on a mission this year to scare them away once and for all. It became a game for the boys. They loved doing random bunny checks. If there was a bunny in the yard, they would burst out the backdoor yelling, screaming and chasing them. These bunnies were very persistent. We threw balls at them, I sent the kids out banging pots and pans, we tried to block all of their entry points, but they just kept coming back. One day I sent the kids out on a bunny chase. They seemed to be happy running around the backyard so I thought they just wanted to stay outside and play. I started to do the dishes and get ready for dinner. A few minutes later the backdoor flies open and William excitedly says, "We have been petting the cutes baby bunny. I have always wondered what a baby bunny feels like. Turns out they are soft and fuzzy. Just like I thought!!" My mouth fell open, "What!?! There are baby bunnies out there?" William, "Well, there were 3 of them. We were only able to catch 1." I rushed outside and sure enough, there was the cutest little wild bunny hiding under the grill. Now it all made sense why the rabbits kept coming back. They had picked our backyard to have their babies. The next morning the baby bunny was gone and we haven't seen them since.
William and Logan were playing in the backyard today when William came inside carrying something. He said, "look at this long piece of rubber I found." I glanced over and nodded then went back to making dinner. He tore it into a few pieces then sat it down on the kitchen table and went back out to play. Awhile later I went over to the table to throw the rubber away before dinner. Much to my surprise, it was not rubber, but the skin of a small snake! I ran outside demanding William show me where he found it. He pointed behind the grill. I looked around and luckily didn't see any little snakes. I then reminded the boys to not play in the small corner behind the grill, I guess I made the mistake of thinking that went without saying!
