Life With Boys Part 2

Life with Boys  The Sequel.   The fun never ends...

1. 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.
   
   
2. 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.
   
   
3. Boys growl and roar.
   
   
4. 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.
   
   
5. Boots and cape required.  Underwear optional.
   
   
6. 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.
   
   
7. Quote #539:  "Don't clean up this pile, Mom.  It's special."
   
   
8. How do boys under six know how to talk "army"?
   
   
9. Boys greet other boys they love with punching or tackling. My boys always punch their uncles when they first see them.
   
   
10. I heart superhero underwear.
    
    
11. 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.
    
    
12. 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.
    
    
13. Beans = tackling fuel.
    
    
14. What Mom says is considered.  What Daddy says is law.
    
    
15. 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.
    
    
16. Boys love naked time.
    
    
17. Boys wander.  We are constantly reminding them to stay close.  After number three, Wayne said we went from man to man to zone coverage.
    
    
18. 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.
    
    
19. Boys thinks it's funny when their mama says bad words.(Bungle. Dumb. Butt.---you know.  The real badies.)
    
    
20. Even boys like bubble baths and candles lit by the tub.
    
    
21. 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!"
    
    
22. Where there is a boy in your bed, there will also be sand.
    
    
23. In a house of boys, it is inevitable to have feet on the table.
    
    
24. Oh it's not just an inner tube, it's a force field.
    
    
25. 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."
    
    
26. 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.
    
    
27. Embarrassing quote #757:  "Is that a mole or a nipple?"
    
    
28. 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.
    
    
29. 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.
    
    
30. 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!!!!
    
    
31. 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."
    
    
32. 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. 
    
    
33. 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.
    
    
34. Daddys of boys FINALLY have somebody who will play with them.
    
    
35. No matter what age...boys can EAT!
    
    
36. 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."
    
    
37. Boys are natural protectors.
    
    
38. A ball is the most destructive force found in a house full of boys. AND the only real toy a boy needs.
    
    
39. Parents of boys say things like, "That was really amazing, but don't ever do it again."
    
    
40. Brothers love their brothers.
    
    
41. 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.
    
    
42. Boys get REALLY excited to show their brothers something amazing.  A cool trick.  An awesome toy.  A pile of poo.
    
    
43. Sleeping boys are the best snugglers.
    
    
44. The crawl space under the register at the grocery store is The Bat Cave.  Just F.Y.I.
    
    
45. 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. 
46. Parents of boys are exhausted....and happy.

Looking forward to my house full of boys tomorrow.