Break vs. Brake

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Missouri. Lizzy and I took advantage of the weather by sitting on the deck at the apartment reading books. I must have read her about 12 books when I told Lizzy that mommy needed a break.

She continued to jump on me, unawaringly kick my chair, etc. I then asked Lizzy if she knew what a break was. She answered me with a know-it-all attitude and said, "Yes...It's on a bicycle!"

Scram

Tonight I read a book to Lizzy and Sawyer before they went to bed. Sawyer picked out a Sesame Street book. While I was reading to them, Sawyer asks me, "What does 'scram' mean?"

I explained that Oscar the Grouch was just trying to let Elmo know that he needed some space and quiet time.

Later, Lizzy was on the toilet and I walked into the bathroom. She politely asked, "Mom, can you scram?"

Wicked Stepmom

The other day Sawyer asked me if he could have a piece of chewing gum. Of course, I told him "No." His reaction to that?

He told me I was not his mom and I was a mean, mean lady. Lizzy chimed in, "Yeah, she is our stepmom."

For the rest of the day, the kids introduced me as their stepmom everywhere we went.

Sawyer's Box of Crayons

We have been working with Sawyer for a while helping him identify his colors. Nothing makes us happier than when he gets his colors correct.

Yesterday my son comes in and says to me, "Mama, I know my colors. Want to see?"

I was a little preoccupied, so, I had my head down when he started going through his colors. "This is orange. This is green. This is yellow..."

When I looked up to see if he had gotten the colors correct, I realized that he had gotten all my various Tampax tampon sizes and was using them to demonstrate his knowledge of colors.

He had gotten all of his colors right though!

Camel Love

We took the kids to the Kansas City Zoo on Saturday. It was great. There was a train, a tram, a boat ride, paddle boat rides, a carousel, and camel rides. There was actually another exhibit away from the camel rides where there were more camels. As we were approaching the camels, we could hear moaning and groaning. When we came around the corner, we could see the camels were in a comprising position.

Kerpatrick was pushing one stroller and I had the double stroller. Kerpatrick exclaimed, "Oh, God!" and took off in a full sprint.

The kids were asking, "Mommy, what are the camels doing?" I replied, "Ask, daddy." Kerpatrick shouted from ahead, "No, thank you!!!" All the people around us started laughing.

When I finally caught up to Kerpatrick, I jokingly asked, "Hey, KP! Did you see those camels' "hump"?"

His reply? "That's one for the blog!"

PIMP

So, I was just texting one of BFFs and made up my own texting acronym....PIMP. It stands for Peed In My Pants. Kerpatrick thought it was blog worthy.