Bad parenting moment #764?

Kate Mason blog post on messes.

BabyCenter's pic list of epic messes!

Yeah, that's about right...

Slow Your Home blog. Awesomesauce.

Forget coloring. This is all LJ wants to do with crayons.

 

I spilled something this morning and looked at Finn and said "Man, all I've done today is make messes...you ever have a day where it feels like all you do is make messes?"

Finn: Yeah everyday.

Me: Why on earth would you say that?! You don't make that many messes.

Finn: Because everyday when I get home from school you say 'Finn clean up...you get home from school and make tons of messes for me to clean up'.

DOH!!! Guess I need to give some more thought to how I present things to her.

In the end, sure kids make some pretty crazy messes. But sometimes, making messes is what it's all about! At least I know she was hearing me.

Now to work on reinforcing their cleanup behaviors...

Wrinkles and a "crazy" appendage

Kids say some of the most truthful (and funny) things.

Case in point. Last week while having a conversation with my daughter over dinner, she mentions that the great grandmother of a friend of hers at school just passed away at age 102! I say something to the effect of wow, that's pretty old for a person. She lived a long life and must have seen some pretty amazing things in all those years. To which Finn - with a far off contemplative look in her eye - says very matter of factually, "Yeah. She must have had a LOT of wrinkles."

And one of my recent faves...while our little man was getting into his five-point harness car seat the other day, Cat hears him struggling and getting frustrated, followed by a very huffy grumble/growl/moan, "Aarghh!" She asks him whats the matter and he says - with a scowl on his face and frustration in his voice - "I can't get my seat belt buckled! My penis is doing crazy things!"

How can you NOT love that kind of brutal honesty from kids?! :)