Toddlers are Quackers

[MayhemMarr]

ooo speaking of Halloween costumes my 4y wants to be a Bat sooo here I sit crocheting him up a bat wing cape

 

[MayhemMarr]

Didn't see them... Yet!
Hi! Welcome to BYC! Yes, it sounds like you can count your brother. Does anyone collect eggs alone? At 18 mos, I could stand at the door while Duckling got eggs. Now, I am outside the coop feeding birds or messing with something, and she goes in and does her thing. I LOVE IT!!!

I remember washing dishes when I was three. They got rewashed later, but I got to do them. Let me rephrase. I think they got rewashed. My father had me doing them. He may not have rewashed them. LOL! With that many kids, I am surprised you let them do dishes before they can do them right. We had 7 under ten. My mother didn't let us cook at all, and we could only bake when she didn't have to be in there with us. Funny since my grandfather owned a bakery. But, he was a jerk about letting her in the kitchen. Anyway, she was short on patience in the kitchen. Anywhere else, she was fine. Everyone wanted to be at our house after school and during the summer. Heck, we even had college kids (four one Christmas) staying with us. And for prom, my mother was the person to go to for hair!

I was letting them but then we ended up with thumb print eggs and swinging basket games

so now they have to be monitored. my 5y 'Chewy' is probably the best with the flock, he is our chicken wrangler lol and resident coffee maker. my 12y SAM he is a budding chef, he can cook and bake with the best of them, my Bird 4y is a stepping right in line behind his daddy and is bound for the Corps if he ever grows lol he still wears 2T jeans him and the baby are the same size

and boy he is the definition of sour patch kid he hit the terrible twos and never left.

That is my goal to be the hang out house for my boys and their friends I figure better home and safe than who knows where and doing who knows what

 

[BullChick]

ooo speaking of Halloween costumes my 4y wants to be a Bat sooo here I sit crocheting him up a bat wing cape

Gotta love it! My mother also did FHA. The city version of 4H. She used to make all of our summer clothes and costumes. The best costume was the pillow. Warm on the Halloweens that were snowy. Not worn on the ones that were in the eighties and nineties! LOL! But it was used from my oldest sister on down. I think we even put my youngest brother to sleep on it.

Ah, the games children play. I think we would have been throwing eggs at each other if we got into the mood.
Don't give up on the 4p-yr-old. He could be a late bloomer. And I am so glad you know what SPK are!! My husband didn't!!

 

[Chaos18]

How does somebody not know what SPK are?

 

[BullChick]

The same way a guy that was in the Navy doesn't know how to make a bed or fold a flag. NO IDEA!!

 

[MayhemMarr]

OH MAAAAN!!!!! yeah yeah my hubs retired Marine doesn't make the bed and can't seem to find the dirty clothes basket to save his life (I hate finding random dirty socks EVERYWHERE) I swear he is worse than the kids

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Toddlers are nuts I am a mom to 5 boys (6 if you add in my 13y/o brother who spends over half his time out here on the farm) my boys rang in age from 12 down to 18m and ooooohhhhh boy are they something else they will fight over collecting eggs so much so that I had to set up a schedule for who gets to go in with me on which days, and ugh my latest headache has been the "he's breathing on me" from my 4y in regards to my 12y but when it comes to helping out and cuddling they are the best (even if I have to re wash the dishes)

Hi!!! lol your kids sound fun

Now that she is asleep, I can type and ... maybe stop eating raw cookie dough.

We got some important stuff some today! First, I lowered her coat hook by the front door. She decided to wear her green jacket around the house today, and when she took it off, she tossed it on the floor. I decided to not fuss. It is a normal kid thing to do. But, not putting the hook at her level was OCD of me. So we did that. She seems happy about it. For some reason, I have had (clean) cat litter spilled on the floor in the front hall for like a year. I swept a bunch up, but out of sight, out of mind (No comment). Today, it was cleaned up. While I was at it, Duckling carried the nozzle, and we went up to clean her room... Which got rearranged at bedtime last night, in between stories. That includes the cobwebs outside her door that I see when I am checking on her before I go to bed, but not in the morning.
We also got some laundry done. I meant to have her hang it on the line this morning, but kept getting sidetracked (like with dishes). So, it will go in the dryer.
I have figured out that my Pekin girl is intentionally laying in the neighbor's yard (the one that said I hurt her because I didn't want to give her eggs. The eggs from a bird she swore she has had before. The eggs she has been incubating, and just asked me how to take care of!!!). She taught the Muscovy to do the same. So, I have been keeping the birds cooped in the morning. To keep Duckling happy, I let them out early. And Duckling fed and watered.
She almost pooped in the potty... She knows she should have. It actually is funny... I scared the poop out of her!

She tried the potty a few times with no success. I turned the vacuum on while she was carrying the hose, and she went!

why do you want to stop eating cookie dough?

ooo speaking of Halloween costumes my 4y wants to be a Bat sooo here I sit crocheting him up a bat wing cape

Gotta love it! My mother also did FHA. The city version of 4H. She used to make all of our summer clothes and costumes. The best costume was the pillow. Warm on the Halloweens that were snowy. Not worn on the ones that were in the eighties and nineties! LOL! But it was used from my oldest sister on down. I think we even put my youngest brother to sleep on it.

Ah, the games children play. I think we would have been throwing eggs at each other if we got into the mood.
Don't give up on the 4p-yr-old. He could be a late bloomer. And I am so glad you know what SPK are!! My husband didn't!!

what about the garbage pail kids

The same way a guy that was in the Navy doesn't know how to make a bed or fold a flag. NO IDEA!!

pay someone to do it for you?

 

[MayhemMarr]

they are a riot and I love it, I get a lot of looks and comments when I take all of them out especially when I have my Brother(Bubbers) because then we end up having the all range of hair color from blazing red to blond to near black and all boys. but hey its life and its wonderful no matter what... ooo Batgirl is awesome,

 

[BullChick]

why do you want to stop eating cookie dough?

Good question.

what about the garbage pail kids
My mother didn't allow them in the house. She is still disgusted that anyone would condone making fun of less fortunate kids.
pay someone to do it for you?
He did without the bed making until he kidnapped me. He didn't see a point in paying for that. Other things. Not that.

 

[BullChick]

they are a riot and I love it, I get a lot of looks and comments when I take all of them out especially when I have my Brother(Bubbers) because then we end up having the all range of hair color from blazing red to blond to near black and all boys. but hey its life and its wonderful no matter what... ooo Batgirl is awesome,

People used to ask what orphanage we were from.