Mommathon

I have commented before on how I can't believe some of the crazy things that come out of my mouth and I have noticed that many of these conversations center around food. Kids will do that to you! Two of my recent favorites:

Colm, the dog doesn't eat pickles.

(To Liam) Why are you rubbing cheese on my leg?

Click here to test how many states you can name in ten minutes. I came up with all but six...not too shabby, but definitely room for improvement. How did you do?

If you don't already know, Liam is a picky eater and in the past two weeks he has eaten two of his forbidden foods. He ate pizza last week-with sauce on it! Tonight he ate turkey, as in on a sandwich! Sean is SO patient with Liam. I just don't have the patience to fight him! Somehow Sean has been able to get him to eat things he would NEVER eat for me. You know what he ate in January? A HAMBURGER! Yes, a hambuger, people. He hasn't eaten one since, but he ate it without much of a fight and he said he liked it. I am going to make them for dinner this week...we'll see what happens.

We went to Cabela'sthis weekend since we had to get out of the house since people were coming to look at it. We had never been there and I knew it had a lot of animals that I thought the kids might enjoy. Okay, I knew the animals would be dead, but I didn't realize there would be SO MANY of them. Seriously, it gave me the chills!!! Also, if they knew who killed the animal they had a little plaque with the shooter's name and the year it was "taken" next to the animal. One of them had been dead since 1938. That thing's been dead longer than most people I know have been living. We don't hunt and if you don't hunt either, you probably don't want to go there. It's just weird.

I got thismagazine for Colm for Christmas and it is perfect for him. It says it is for ages 2-6, but I would say it is probably for kids who are 2 1/2 to 4 1/2 maybe...it's hard to say since all kids are different. (If you want to borrow one of ours first to see if it is something you would be interested in let me know.) It has short stories, rhymes, easy hidden picture games, poems, finger plays and more. It is made by the same people who make Highlights magazine.

Colm did a great job yesterday post surgery, but you could tell he was hurting. The doctor gave us Tylenol with codeine and I gave it to him religiously, but he was still walking around half bent over like I did after I had my C-sections. That didn't seem to stop him from running around though. At one point he lifted up his shirt to show me his incision and he said, "Why doctor do dat?" Poor guy.

Okay, maybe not THE BEST, but pretty darn close. I went to the bathroom at the hospital today and this is what I saw! Have you ever been in public and had to use the restroom and you have your little one with you and you aren't quite sure what to do with them while you are going to the bathroom? THIS is what you do with them! It's like a carseat thing that you strap them in so they will stay put for two seconds so you can do your business. How smart is that?!