Life with Boys The Sequel.
The fun never ends...
- Boys have the best imaginations EVER. Once I watched
them work together to build a big bond fire in our living room.
Brown pillows were the logs, and red pillow shams with multicolored
thin stripes were placed on top for the fire.
- My rough and tumble boys still like soft things. Everybody
likes to sleep by me especially when I wear silky PJs. Jack used to
be sort of possessive over soft pretty pink things so I made him
pinky promise me when he was two that he would never kiss a girl
until he got married.
- Boys growl and roar.
- Boys have this "tough guy" tone I'm fascinated with
when they communicate about stereotypical-boy things like cars or
sports. They all do it as soon as they can talk.
- Boots and cape required. Underwear optional.
- Boys wrestle. Then they wrestle some more. And when
they greet each other, they wrestle. And when it is not
wrestling, it is playing "punch" or just a good hearty
tackle. They are even born knowing what to wear for this
bonding experience.....Pants (or underwear.) No Shirt. Socks
on their hands.
- Quote #539: "Don't clean up this pile, Mom.
It's special."
- How do boys under six know how to talk "army"?
- Boys greet other boys they love with punching or tackling. My
boys always punch their uncles when they first see them.
- I heart superhero underwear.
- Boys ALWAYS try to turn an ordinary task into a game. For
example, "Come and let me put on your shoes." Might turn
into a chase. They see how close they can get to you then run away
screaming to see if you'll chase them. After they see your not in
the mood to play, they'll comply.
- When boys approach you, they stop about three feet away from
you and then jump the remaining distance. All my boys do this.
Every. Single. Time.
- Beans = tackling fuel.
- What Mom says is considered. What Daddy says is law.
- Boys will obey for safety that is explained logically, but
they don't have a real sense of danger. They think that the
reason they busted their head on the ground was just a fluke, and
therefore will hang upside down in the swing immediately again with
their dirt-stained tear streaks still fresh on their faces.
- Boys love naked time.
- Boys wander. We are constantly reminding them to stay
close. After number three, Wayne said we went from man to man
to zone coverage.
- I'm not proud of this, but all my boys have at least one
chipped tooth, and my four-year-old is mithing two from
rough-housing.
- Boys thinks it's funny when their mama says bad
words.(Bungle. Dumb. Butt.---you know. The real badies.)
- Even boys like bubble baths and candles lit by the tub.
- Boys have a fascination with their special part that I do not
understand. That's all I'll say about that except that when
Ben-dudey was born, the doctor said, "Looks like another
machine gun!"
- Where there is a boy in your bed, there will also be sand.
- In a house of boys, it is inevitable to have feet on the
table.
- Oh it's not just an inner tube, it's a force field.
- Parents of boys say things like, "Well, we're just not
allowed to take weapons into Wal-mart. You'll have to leave
your quadruple-iron-headed spear here in the truck."
- Never, and I mean never look under the car seat. And the
worst is when you have to remove one to let someone ride with you.
- Embarrassing quote #757: "Is that a mole or a
nipple?"
- My boys have no concept that
people get sick and die. Six-year-old Luke had never even
heard of the word, "disease." Obviously the only
real explanation for death is that, "he must have eaten a
mushroom from the woods." The mushrooms from the store
are okay though.
- Even if they don't admit it, boys like girls. My baby
daddy had a, "girls aren't so bad" talk with them that
produced the top ten best girls list. Yep. Yours Truly
made number one and the rest of the gals on the list should feel mighty proud
too. It was well thought out.
- A mother who raised four boys recently made a comment that
brought freedom to my inner most being...."We didn't have
company for TEN YEARS!" ...Yes! I know why!!!!
- Nobody quite "gets" you like a family with boys. Love my friends who parent little little engines fueled by testosterone. I feel at rest with them because, "they know how it is."
- Manners are a privilege for boys to have, and it brings a
sense of honor to them when they use them. The best is when manners
are used inappropriately. Like parents may be in a serious
conversation with another adult. Boy passes gas that no one
would otherwise ever know about, then you hear, "Pardon Me!
I pooted." REALLY loud. We try to teach them to say pardon me only as loud as the gas itself. (That's handed down from Don Bohannon.) Or how about this classic...
Parent--- "Ben, come and help me pick up these toys please." Ben-- "No thank you." or maybe when one says "Yes, Sir" to a lady who looks like a sir.
- To quote the Coach from the Boys home at the Mustard Seed
Ranch, "If you have one boy, you have one boy working. If
you have two boys, you have half a boy working."
----Could not be more true. His math skills are impeccable.
- Daddys of boys FINALLY have somebody who will play with them.
- No matter what age...boys can EAT!
- Classic example of Blaylock Boy conversation: 'There are two
reason why a terror bird won't poop on our car. They can't fly
and they are dead."
- Boys are natural protectors.
- A ball is the most destructive force found in a house full of
boys. AND the only real toy a boy needs.
- Parents of boys say things like, "That was really
amazing, but don't ever do it again."
- Brothers love their brothers.
- When should you clip a boy's fingernails? When they are
long enough to stay dirty even after a hot soaking bath.
My personal favorite is when you clip the nail and the dirt stays on
as is so it has to be knocked off.
- Boys get REALLY excited to show their brothers something amazing.
A cool trick. An awesome toy. A pile of poo.
- Sleeping boys are the best snugglers.
- The crawl space under the register at the grocery store is The Bat Cave. Just F.Y.I.
- It's fun to have a house full of boys and even more fun to talk about it with other parents who live in a house full of boys.
- Parents of boys are exhausted....and happy.
