Sometimes you forget they’re people
“I’m hungry. I’m thirsty. I wanna watch Dragon Tales. I’m hungry. I wanna go to the park. But Mooooom! HE! No HE!! I’m hungry. I, I, I, I I I I…”
That there? The sounds of my house. Day in and day out I hear the same couple dozen words in various combinations. Almost every sentence contains the word “hungry” or “HE!” So my routine is generally: Feed kids. Water kids. Pull Kid 1 off of Kid 2. Rock Kid 3. Put Kid 2 in Time Out for kicking Kid 1 in the face repeatedly. Feed kids. Tell kids they’ve had enough to eat before 9am. Console Kid 2 and put ice on his bite wound. Feed kids. Wrangle kids for diaper changes. More time outs. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Sometimes though, if I take a few seconds to listen just a little more closely, I’ll hear something different.
I was sitting on the couch nursing the baby, and out of the corner of my eye I could see Beckett, the two-year-old, wielding two hard plastic dinosaurs. He positioned one in a drawer from the play kitchen, and crawled the other up the first one’s back as he chanted, “Sube! Sube! Sube!” He then narrated an entire conversation, something to do with, “Get in mah mouf! No, you CAN’T! Oh no, I falling!” as one dinosaur slammed into the other in a fierce battle.
He continued the dino demolition as I stifled my laughter and remembered back a couple weeks ago, when we were on vacation and I was able to overhear a conversation between the two boys as I laid in bed. There was a bathroom right next to the room I was sleeping in, and Sawyer had come down to use it and Beckett had followed.
“Hey Sawyer!”
“Hi, Beckett. I’m going potty.”
“Okay Sawyer, that’s foiiiine.” (Apparently I gave birth to an Aussie?)
“Sawyer, are you having good time at Grandma’s house?” (very slow and enunciated, as typical for the two-year-old)
“Yes, Beckett. Now, I have to go potty.”
“Okay, that’s foiiiine.”
“Beckett, there is poop on my butt.”
“Oh YEAH, Sawyer, there is poop on your butt!”
“Haha. NICE.”
Yes, sometimes if you listen, you’re reminded that they’re not just mindless food receptacles. They’re people, and they like to talk about poop just as much as the rest of us.
Aww what a sweet conversation
I need to remember this too…
And we’ve got a growing interest in poop over here too, which comes in handy for me because nathan loves taking a rolled-up-poopy diaper to the diaper pail for me. “It has poop in it!! Whee!” lol
Oh and I think we’ll see you tomorrow at the picnic!
haha aww it sounds as you have some cute boys, which i’m not doubting.
Btw i’m a new really, i found your blog trough diaperbagprincess.com
i’m looking forward to reading more from you
Haha..sounds just like my life..but only I have 2 girls and 1 boy..so I deal with more drama I think..lol..girl drama!!
Hahaha, that is great. I love it when the kids actually sit there and converse – it doesn’t happen often since they’re usually screaming at each other, but sometimes they surprise me.
Aw, that is so adorable. My one nephew has a Brooklyn accent when he says “girl” so it ends up being “goil”. We live in western Canada, btw, so it’s hilarious
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