"I'm Living In A Circus!"
For the past 4 years of my life, since the birth of my second son, I have felt like I've been living inside a circus tent with a bunch of animals.There's something to be said about being the only woman in a house filled with 4 little boys and 1 big boy. There is a lot of testosterone!
When I say testosterone, here's what I mean.....
My 4 boy's idea of fun is to tie my 4 year old to the bunk bed poles with duct tape. Then, they attach as many toys as they can find to the ceiling fan, turn it on, and hope that they hit the 4 year old in the head on their way down. All the time, my 4 year old is cracking up.
Another thing that they think is fun is to get on the top bunk of the bunk bed and jump into the air and land on pillows. The things is, their room is so small that they end up plowing straight into the wall.
When I hear all the crashing sounds going off around me, I know what it is. Of course, they get in trouble. But, boys will be boys. They wait until I'm not looking and start thinking of new things to do.
Here's a example of what my 7 year old did to me when he was 3. I was exhausted. He was sitting with me on the couch, watching tv, and I fell asleep. I didn't mean to, but I did.
I woke up and couldn't move. I was thinking, "Oh no, someone has broken into my house and tied me up."
Then I looked down. My cute little boy had found duct tape and managed to tie me down to the couch with the tape. He had wrapped it around and around until I couldn't budge at all. Can you imagine trying to explain to a 3 year old to go get the scissors, "BUT HOLD THEM DOWN"! It took forever to get out of that mess.
This is the perfect example of what can happen when you turn your back or fall asleep with the kids in the house. Don't do it!
If you have animals, it's even worse, for them. The toys are simply replaced with the cats and dogs!
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Labels: boys, bunk bed, ceiling fan, duct tape, jumping
posted by Melissa Swanson at 3:13 PM
Melissa is a student, a working mom, and the mother of 4 boys (ages 4, 7, 8, and 10). She is costantly fueled by the tenacity of her boys and their ability to make her laugh! What they say is true, "Laughter is the best medicine!"
4 Comments:
I love that picture of the baby with duct tape on the wall. I wish you had a picture of them taping your son to the pole, Ha. I don't think that anything that goes on in your household is out of the ordinary for having 4 boys. I'm sure things can get crazy. I'm the mother of 4 grown boys and 3 grand-children that are also boys. I know exactly how you feel. Let them be boys as long as they're safe. Get lots of pictures so you can use it as blackmail when they start having girlfriends, Ha.
Thanks for the laugh. It sent me back a ways.
I thought about showing a picture of that, but i didn't want to offend the overly-sensitive parents that might be reading. If you don't have boys, you don't understand that those types of things are truly funny to them. I'm sure there are some girls that are the same way.
Thank you for writing me. It's good to know that I'm not the only one out there that's been through this. I'm just glad we don't have pets. Poor pets! LOL!
How in the world did you not wake up?!?! LOLOL
That annoying sound duct tape makes when you pull it out would have been enough to wake me! Guess I'm a light sleeper :)
Mine do more quite things...like sneak off and cut their own hair!!! Niiiiiice :)
I'm honestly not sure why I didn't wake up. That's something I didn't think of. I must have been really out of it.
It's good to know that I'm not the only ones with kids that cut their hair, LOL!
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