Kid Quotes (# 21): A Collection of Short Stories

"The Dinner Machine"

So the other day we were all playing outside (me and the kids) and it was about to rain, so I told the kids to hurry up because we need to get in the house.  I was carrying Brodie and the big kids were in front of me, and as we came around the side of the garage Chloe starts pointing over to the grill on the porch and says, "LOOK!  The Dinner Machine!" 

If only, if only... LOL



The End.



"A Midnight Snack"

Last night we're laying in bed and hear a funny noise.  I'm a pretty light sleeper specially having the big kids in bed with us so I open my eyes and turn over...to find Cooper, in bed, watching TV, finishing off a Charleston Chew candy bar, and covered in chocolate...

So I say, "Cooper!  What are you doing?!" to which he replies very simply, "My hungry."  I said,  "Well you can't eat a candy bar in the middle of the night!"  and he says again, "But my hungry."  (I'm dying trying not to crack up right now...)  So I asked, "Well wasn't it dark out there?  How did you get that?" and he says, "Yeah, but me climb on counter.  Me hungry."  Needless to say he had to be cleaned up and he fell asleep.

The End.

"Sucker Thief"

Yesterday we were at "the haircut place" (as the kids call it), for a second day in a row, getting Brodie's haircut fixed.  Like I said, this was the SECOND day in a row we'd been there and the first day all three kids got suckers when Brodie was all done.  Yesterday I had my mom (grandma) with me too. She was playing with Coop and Chlo while I sat with Bro getting his haircut.  All the sudden Chlo shows up in front of grandma with a sucker...  Grandma asks, "Chloe.  Did you ask for that of did you just take it?!"  to which Chloe replies with the diva-est of attitudes, "I just took it..." bringing snickers from grandma AND the rest of "the haircut place" waiting room...

Don't worry...She had to come back and ask nicely AND ask for one for Cooper too. :)

The End.

Update x3

So I thought it was time for a little update although there isn't too much going on right now...

For starters, we've obviously made our final decision NOT to start Cooper in preschool this year.  Literally a "last minute" decision, and technically we could still enroll him even now if we really wanted to and they'd have to take him because he has a speech plan, but after much discussion we decided not to start him yet.  A lot has changed in the last few months though.  His speech is MUCH improved and I don't think he's behind at all anymore.  In fact, I think if they did another evaluation right now he probably wouldn't even qualify for a speech plan anymore.  His last evaluation was 8 months ago in January, so I know he has improved tremendously in 8 months.  He's doing great.  He's also completely potty trained now, which was surprisingly easy.  We started him around March and he pretty much had it down within the first 8 weeks and has done great all summer.  So although he's potty trained and probably would be ready to start preschool, we still have some hold ups regarding his "would be" teacher whom Josh has met now as well...I'd rather he start with the 4 year old teacher next year, so that's our plan is to start him next year with the 4 year old class.

As for Chloe, by this time next year, she'll be almost 4 herself, but not quite yet, so if we wanted to start them together we'd have to start him in the 4 year old class and her in the 3 year old class...so I'm guess she might not start until she's 4 either, which really isn't all that "shocking" to me because I was under the impression that kids didn't start preschool until 4 anyway. LOL  So for now, nobody is starting school, but we may begin to look into "Toddler Time" or some other type of "class" they can attend to get some social interaction on a more regular basis.  They do see kids in our family or at the park or the fountains or the mall, but nothing on a regular basis, so I think we'll look into that.

Back to Chloe though, she's becoming a bit of a handful lately.  She's going through that "testing" phase where she's trying to test her boundaries with us.  We'll tell her something and she'll just stare and give us one of her diva looks, which she really does have.  She has such a big attitude for such a small girl LOL  It's "cute" to an extent, but it's also difficult to handle because we're trying to be serious with her, but we also want to laugh at the same time.  We can't always laugh though because one of the boundaries she's testing is hitting and throwing toys....big no no, so we definitely have to get serious with her then which is when she sticks out her bottom lip pouting and puts her hand down...Again, kind of want to laugh, but we have to stay firm.  This has been going on for a couple weeks now so overall I think the boundary testing phase is coming to an end thankfully. 

Although, not so thankfully, potty training has also come to an end... After about six straight weeks of training with no progress we decided she's just not ready yet.  Mentally not ready at least.  She's stubborn (one thing she got from me).  She knows what to do and knows what we want her to do it, but she wants it done in her own time.  That's my conclusion on it LOL  Which, as much as I'd like her potty trained and out of diapers, it's really not up to me, so as long as she's trained before preschool, which at this point looks like she has another two years to work on it LOL, I'm more than happy to wait until she's ready.  She has still been using the potty on occasion, but we're definitely not "pushing" it as hard as we were before.  We'll probably give her a month or two then try again and see how it goes, but she'll come around when she's ready.

And lastly is little Brode man, who's also doing just great.  His speech is REALLY taking off these days and he tries to imitate a lot of what we're all saying.  It doesn't always come out exactly right, but it's definitely close enough that you can tell what he's saying.  He has said pizza, pancakes, cheese, hot dog, and sis, all within the last few days, plus several more and a couple phrases too.  He's drinking out of regular cups or sippy cups during the day, and still having a bottle at night, which I'm not TOO worried about just yet because he doesn't seem all that attached too it, so I don't think it will be as difficult to break him as it was to break Chloe.  She'd STILL take a bottle if I let her LOL

Anyway, there's a little update on the kiddos for everyone, and as always, thanks for checking in!

Kid Quotes (# 20)

I was making the kids cheeseburgers for lunch and I had it almost ready so I told Cooper to go tell Chloe that her burger is ready.  He turns around and yells, "Sissy!  Your burger ready!  Come eat!"  She comes into the kitchen, and I said, "Here's your burger", and she goes, "Uh no.  Me want chicken nuggets." 

Diva *cough cough*

So I started to say, "Chloe, this isn't some made-to-order restaurant" and Cooper interrupts me, turns to her and says, "Yeah.  This not a restaurant Sissy.  This our house!"

I just died.

Oh, and she ate the burger.  Picky kids-0.  Mommy-1.  :)

Kid Quotes (# 19) "Was that you?"

So early this morning I was still in bed with Chloe, Brodie was in his crib kind of/sort of awake, and Daddy and Cooper were upstairs.  Well I rolled over a little bit, kind of like half asleep and I let one rip.  "One" being a fart. It was fairly loud actually.  I didn't think much of it so I continued to roll over, but after the fart sneaks out I hear Brodie's little voice go, "Daddy?"

Yep.  That's how often my wonderful hubby farts.  Our 15 month old hears a fart and just assumes it must've been dad.  Love it.

The Potty Project-"Potty Princess" Part VII.5 Mini Update

Mission: Potty Training
Mission Target: Chloe Poston
Mission Status: In progress...

Just a short update for those curious how today went.  I convinced Joshua to let Chloe wear her big girl undies out in public, and it went okay.  She wore them all the way into town, no problem, then as soon as we got into the theatre I took her and Bub to the bathroom where they both went. Yay!  Then we got our snacks and headed into the movie.  She got through the entire movie just fine, but we were trying to clean up our mess and collect our stuff and we didn't get out of there in time and she had an accident in the theatre.  Luckily the training pants are fairly absorbent, so it wasn't a big mess, and Josh took her into the bathroom to clean up.  He sat her on the toilet, but she didn't go, so he just changed her clothes. After that they asked to play in the fountains and within ten minutes of being at the fountains (only about 20 minutes after her theatre accident) she had yet another accident in the grass.  She just kind of squated and started peeing.  *sigh*  After this second accident we changed her into a Pull Up (mostly because that's all we had since I only brought one change of clothes LOL) and she stayed dry all the way home.  At home she used the potty and put on her big girl undies again, but started to have another accident in the dining room, but stopped herself.  Josh put her on the potty and she finished there.

So overall, I believe it was three hits and three misses today.  Not awful, but not as well I was hoping for.  She still doesn't seem to be extremely bothered by having an accident and isn't at all interested in telling us that she has to go, which makes me worried that she's not quite ready, but since she doesn't seem to have a problem USING the potty and isn't resisting it, I think we'll just keep plugging away at it.

And just for fun....

In her Pull Up at the fountains

And Bro didn't want to get wet LOL

The Potty Project-"Potty Princess" Part VII They're Here! They're Here!

Mission: Potty Training
Mission Target: Chloe Poston
Mission Status: In progess...

Chloe's new big girl underwear are finally HERE!  Got 'em in the mail yesterday.  Of course, she had not taken a nap all day and had been dosing off in the chair when grandma brought them in, so she was not in the mood to see 'em when she woke up. Although (little side note), she'd only been napping for about 20 min and then she sat straight up all the sudden and seemed okay, but a few minutes later she started whinning and crying a little.  I asked Josh if she had a diaper or anything on and he said, "No", so I suggested she probably had to go to the bathroom, so he put her on the potty and she WENT.  A lot.  So she woke up mid nap in order to go potty!  Pretty big step! Not something I'll expect all too frequently, but we were still very proud of her.

Anyway, back to the training underwear.  We got two packs for three pants each and she opened 'em this morning.  They're a size 3T, the biggest they had, and seemed to fit fairly well.  They fit okay in the back and of course have a ton of extra room in the front, but that's to be expected LOL  She was really excited about 'em and seems to like 'em.  She wore 'em for about 30 minutes before I asked Josh when was the last time she'd been on the potty.  He said it'd been a whlie so we decided to put her on it.  She'd been playing in the room with Bubba and didn't necessarily want a "time out" to go potty, but the second I set her on there she starte peeing a ton, so I'm pretty sure she'd been holding it, so as not to go in her new underwear!  Yippee!  (Oh and I should update to say that we've gotten past the "pee on command" thing.  I can now say, "Okay let's go to the potty", and she will hold it until we get to the seat, which is helpful because I can now tell her to go to the potty and allow her to walk in there on her own, bringing us one step closer to her actually going into the bathroom by herself.)

Anyway, we're going on a "family outting" today since it's Josh's day off, and I haven't checked with Joshua yet, but personally I'd like to allow her to go out in her new big girl pants and see how she does today.  Hopefully I can clear that with my boss (*wink wink* because we all know who the REAL boss is).

So here are her new underwear!

Gerber Training Pants (packaged and open to get an idea of size)

From the front

And the back

Toddler Bed was a...BUST

So we made our first attempt at moving Brodie into a toddler bed today and it was a complete bust.  Well maybe not a "complete" bust, but a bust none the less.

I first put him down for his first nap (he usually takes two still) at about 10am.  I laid him in the bed with his baba and put Gnomeo and Juliet on (he likes a little "background" noise). I left and didn't hear a peep from him for like 30 minutes so I decide to check on him.  Awake.  LOL  He was still in the bed though which I thought was pretty good, but he had pooped, so I figured that was probably what kept him from going to sleep.  Of course he climbed down as soon as he heard the door open, so I brought him upstairs, let him play some more, fed him some lunch, then gave all the kids a bath.

After his bath I made another attempt at a nap at about 12:30pm.  I again laid him down with a baba and left his movie on for him.  He laid right down without a problem and appeared to be getting cozy.  Not another peep for 30 minutes so I went to check on him again...awake. LOL  This time he'd gotten out of bed and was playing with Handy Manny tools, so again I brought him BACK upstairs and let him play some more.

About 2:30pm I gave him a snack, then brought him downstairs to try yet again.  Again 30 minutes passed, went to check...awake, and had pooped again.  What the heck?  So at this point I've given up on a nap for him.  He doesn't seem cranky at all, so hey, I'm just going to let him play...

About 5pm rolls around he Daddy finds him asleep on the guest bed LOL, so we bring him downstairs again. He wakes up a little, but looks as if he's going to go back to sleep...nope.  Ten minutes later I hear him at the bottom of the stairs with poop AGAIN.  Now I'm thinking he has to have some sort of stomach bug because that's too much pooping.

He's been awake the rest of the night, had one more poop (now diarrhea), and we tried to put him in bed AGAIN about 8:15pm, but yet again he was still awake when we checked on him, so I guess we'll have to put the crib back and forget the toddler bed for now LOL  I don't know if it was just a "bad day" to start with all the pooping and what not, but he's only 15 months so we'll try again sooner or later.

He's definitely attached to his crib though.  He loves going to bed (nigh nigh) and loves playing in it and will just stay in there and play or watch morning cartoons with the big kids no problem.  It's funny because Josh actually pointed out each of their "security blankets".  Cooper's was the pacifier (his ninny) that he had til he was 2, Chloe's was the bottle (just finally broke her of it earlier this year), and Brodie's is apparently his crib. LOL 

Anyway, here's little man in the big boy bed :)