That pretty much sums up the weekend (snore. I know), along with a little list I started called "Alarming independence, Opie":
- unbuckles car seat while vehicle is traveling 65 mph on highway
- reaches weedkiller on garage shelf, uses it to "clean" tricycle
Tempered, I'll admit, by "Welcome independence, Jo":
- puts Opie down for nap: reads book, snuggles on chair, leaves room with stay-in-your-bed! admonition
- reads self to sleep, including switching off the light
- assists Opie with five a.m. drink of water request, without waking parents
Huh. I now sound like I paid far more attention to my groundcover than my children, at least in the past 72 hours. Well sometimes that's just life in suburbia. OK? OK?
9 comments:
I love pachysandra. I think it's really beautiful.
Your weekend sounds a bit eventful afterall. :)
we inherited a house with goutweed all through the garden as groundcover. it chokes out everything else and requires weekly weeding to stay anywhere close to on top of it. it's killing us.
pachysandra is prettier, i must say. :)
and independence...funny how it's so relative.
I did a bunch of weeding a few weeks ago. Looked around to find Jacob ingesting dandelion greens and Nate playing with the dog in the road. Good parenting skills on my part.
But at least the kids were occupied.
Ha!
Maybe Jo could convince Opie to work on the groundcover?
Now how can I get my older son to give his brother water at 5 am? What's your secret? You might just be able to rule the world with that one!
I am familiar with both types of independence. I have to say I like your names for them.
Yeah- what is up? Saturday Finn walked out of the living room and I could hear him talking so I knew he was close and I was assuming he was talking to his dad and found him outside in the driveway talking to our neighbor. When did that start?
Pachysandra. Ugh. At least give us some color for all that hassle would ya?
been there, done that. transplanting pachysandra gets old quickly.
i love that one kid put the other to bed. that would be a reason to have two. oh well.
Oh I love that stuff. Can I have some? Thought I couldn't get it to look nearly as beautiful as you have!
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