Not Me Monday...Kid Edition...

Yes Ladies and Gents, it has been quite awhile since I sat down and confessed all my imperfections as a mom, wife, woman, human being...but I have been kind of busy creating a life and trying to keep that little life fed and clean and quiet (it's apparently asking to much for sleep) while also trying to keep the other small humans who live here...my sweet adorable other babies...from tearing the place down and eating every scrap of food in the house. So, please forgive my absence.


Not Me Monday was created by MckMama as a form of therapy for all of us who want to admit that we "DID NOT" do something that might be considered less than perfect...because don;t we all do everything right all the time? Anyway, this week I have decided that I would make this a kid edition...pretty much a Lucy edition, since this adorable 2 year old of mine has recently taken up the hobby of undoing, untying, unfolding, unpacking everything she can get her hands on.

Read on then head on over to MckMama's to catch some other great Not Me's!...


Recently~


~Lucy did not get a hold of a container of dental floss that she received from the dentist and unwind the entire container!


~She also does not get out of her bed several times every night before falling asleep. If she did get out of her bed she certainly would not sneak downstairs and hang out on the couch by herself, or run full throttle to her brother's room and sit in his closet while pulling his sleeping bag and tent out of the box and covering herself up with it, or going in my room and hiding behind my door and sitting quieter than she has ever been in her entire life! (That was NOT a nasty run-on sentence).


~I did not have to put Ruby's diapers on the top shelf of her closet because Lucy most certainly would never help herself to these tiny diapers and proceed to put one on EVERY DOLL IN THE HOUSE!!!


~I do not assume that when Lucy is quiet she is up to no good...I mean really, shouldn't a mother trust her child??? HA! When Lucy was too quiet (the term too quiet sounds ominous doesn't it?) the other day I found her in her new favorite spot to hang out...the tiny pantry (just a closet folks...not a walk-in). She was sitting on the floor and had helped herself to 2 fruit roll ups and had 3 more in her lap waiting to be eaten. I did not have to move the snack basket to the top shelf.


~She knows that when I am nursing Ruby that I will be occupied for a while so that is when she strikes the hardest.


~She does not go into the pantry and get a bag of chips out. When I tell her no she does not stare me down as she slowly unfolds the bag to get it open. As I continue to tell her no and ask/tell her to put the bag in the pantry she does not slowly put her hand down into the bag. When I make a move to get up to take it away from her she does not then quickly shove her hand into the bag and grab as many chips as she can (turning most of them to crumbs in the process) and shove them into her mouth before I can even get to her.

The pouty look...I feel sorry for the guy that falls for THAT one :)

~As I mentioned above, Lucy does not get out of her bed at night. Well, the past couple of nights she also has not taken her pull-up off then put her pajamas back on before bringing me the dry pull-up balled up into her hand. I did not have to put her pull-up back on her 3 times last night before she finally fell asleep (I was not having to do this while trying to calm a very cranky baby). About an hour later after Lucy had fallen asleep I did not hear John fussing. He did not come down and tell me that Lucy had taken her pull-up off again before falling asleep and had already wet the bed!

~Lucy does not enjoy swiping my purse off the counter when she knows I am not looking. She does not find a spot to hide in the dining room and definitely does not take everything out of my purse. She does not dig out the pack of sugarless gum and eat as many pieces as she can before I smell the gum and find her or Abby finds her. She did not chew and swallow 4 pieces of minty gum the other day.

~Lucy also does not give me near heart failure when she walks up to me as sweet as pie and opens her mouth to show me the latest toy/object she is holding in there. I have not found elastic hair ties, blocks, matchbox car tires, etc in there. I have not found strings from my couch pillows and a tiny red piece of Lego (about the size of a BB) in her poopy diapers. She thought the Lego was a Nerd (candy).

~ And finally (not because I have run out of material but because I have to go), just this morning she did not crush a handful of crackers and spread them all over the living room floor, she did not take my makeup sponge and tear it in half, and she did not sneak my contact case and hide behind my bedroom and dump the solution AND the contacts onto the carpet!

~ I have NOT been asking myself why we chose not to put this little darling into pre-school this year :)

I know this does not make me sound like a very attentive mother but I swear I am watching her. She waits until I have to give another child some attention to make her move. Now I know why she was such a patient and calm baby...she was casing the joint!

I mean really...would YOU trust this face :)

There's a lot of SNEAKY behind that cheesy grin!!!

...side note...can you believe my husband wants to get that beautiful blond hair cut off???? I've told him he better be ready for a fight of epic proportions if he does it too!!

P.S. Lucy really can be a very sweet little monkey and we love her dearly but she has just been very...well...ummmm...challenging lately!