Sometimes being a mother is not all it is cracked up to be. There are always diapers to change, noses to wipes, food to prepare, and children to play with.(And I only have 2!)But sometimes you have a day that makes all other careers seem very boring and undesirable. Today was one of those days.
It was supposed to be Clean House Friday (I try and do real cleaning on Fridays). Jonathan turned it into Naked Cleaning Day. He likes to run around in the mornings that he doesn't have preschool without underwear under his pj's (after he takes off his saturated pull-up). He watches TV, eats breakfast, goes to the bathroom, and gets dressed. Today when he came out of the bathroom, he turned left out of the bathroom toward the kitchen instead of right toward his bedroom. I was cleaning my cabinets out, so I didn't notice at first, but he had neglected to put on any clothes. He then proceeded to spend the next 2-3 hours playing in the nude. It was hilarious. He helped me clean up clutter, played with Sarah, and pretended he was a bear (maybe b/c he was bare). I finally made him put clothes on b/c he wanted to go outside and play. When I told him that he couldn't play outside without clothes, he wanted to know why I was outside in my pajamas. Yikes!
Later on, I needed to go to the grocery store. It took us 20 minutes to get out of the house! All I needed was for him to find some socks and shoes. He came out with boots and no socks. Then I noticed that he needed to change his underwear (he's learning to wipe himself). All I'm thinking is "just change your underwear, put your shorts back on and get some sandals on". He comes out with a shirt, no undies, one sandal. I send him back. He comes back out with a shirt, undies, and one sock on. I send him back a third time in a louder voice. He starts to cry. Holy Cow!
We did finally make it to the store.
After dinner tonight he spent another 20 minutes without pants on while he was waiting on Daddy and shower time.
Oh well- I love this age....sometimes.
2 comments:
John David loves to "go commando" as he calls it, wearing his p.j.s without undies after waking up and taking off his diaper. My brother taught him the idea...lovely! Would still love to get together with you and the kids. I'm due in about 5 weeks so the time is getting short! We may just have to wait until she's here.
too funny! my boys always have undies on (unless they are getting in the shower or getting dressed), but they do LOVE to run around without their shirts on. quinn will run upstairs and say "i'll be right back with a surprise". he ALWAYS comes back down shirtless with the biggest grin & giggle. makes me laugh every single time!
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