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Jun
20
A typical evening conversation, from 5:15 – 5:18 PM:
Riley: HI MOMMY HI MOMMY HI MOMMYYYYY
Me: Hi, Riley! How are you doing?
Riley: Good! I’m having macaroni and CHEESE!
Me: Hey, that sounds good. Hey, babe!
JB: Hey!
Riley: AND SHOCLATE MILK!
Me: Mmm, that sounds like a good dinner! Hi, Dylan!
Dylan: *mad wriggling*
Riley: HEY MOMMY? HEY MOMMY? HEY MOMMY?
Me: Yes?
Riley: I have some SHOCLATE MILK!
Dylan: WHEEEEEEW!
JB: Hey, did you see this check from-
Riley: AND MOMMY? MOMMY? MOMMY? My shirt is ALL WET!
Me: Did your shirt get wet at school?
Riley: YEAH!
Dylan: WHEEEEW! EEEEEEeeeee.
JB: – maybe we should deposit this tonight, I was thinking we’d—
Riley: I played in the WATER and I was going SPLASH SPLASH SPLASH like THIS!
Dylan: HOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Riley: And I was SPLASH SPLASH with my hand like a BOAT and then the boat go UNDERWATER and see all the FISH, MOMMY!
Me: Wow!
Dylan: Eeeeeeeeeeeyah! *poooooooooooooot*
Me: Hmm, I think Dylan’s diaper needs—
JB: How was work?
Me: Oh, it was—
Riley: And then the BOAT turn into an AIRPLANE and FLY REAL HIGH, hey, HOW DO THAT?
Me: Uh, I don’t—
Riley: HOW DO THAT, how get in the air and FLY REAL HIGH?
JB: Well, maybe—
Dylan: WHEEEEEEOOOOOO. AAGOO.
Riley: DYLAN SAID AGOO!
Me: And how was your day?
JB: Not bad, it was kind of—
Riley: HEY MOMMY AND DADDY? MOMMY AND DADDY?
Me/JB: Yes?
Riley: What DOING?
Me: Well, trying to have a—
Dylan: EEEEYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
Riley: The wheels on the bus go ROUND AND ROUND—
Dylan: WHEEEEEEEAAAAAHH!
Riley: ROUND AND ROUND—
Me: Do we have any—
Riley: ALL THROUGH THE TOOOOWN—
JB: Did you hear about the—
Dylan: WAAAOOO! Plttthkpt.
Riley: -ON THE BUS SAY WAH WAH WAH
Cat: MOWWW! EERROOOW!
Dog: *whine whine whine whine*
Dylan: GLLPTH. HEEW!
Riley: -SAY SHHH SSHHH SHHH
JB: I—
Me: Should—
Riley: ALLLLLL THROUGH THE—
Dylan: AAAAAAA—
Cat: MEOW
Dog: *WHINE*
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Brillant.
OMG I’m DYING over here. For that is hilarious. In fact I might have–oh wait, yes, yes I have indeed peed in my pants.
again, you described a typical evening at my house as well! (That is, until I resorted to using the TV to distract the boy so that hubby and i could have a conversation. Please don’t tell my mom!)
Okay, this made me bust out laughing for realz. I hate to tell you, though–it keeps on going; our six-year-old does the same thing sometimes…
Heee! That’s it exactly. EXACTLY. Only sometimes? The happily singing person(s) are madly screaming instead.
Awesome.
My personal favorite line: when Dylan says: HOOOOOOOOO!
Just so randomly different from the rest of his noises…..
Sounds like dinner with my 2 year old. I don’t think I have had an adult conversation in ages!
You captured it perfectly.
A phrase I say far more than I’d like is, “What was I saying again?”
That is so close to my day as well. Sadly, mine are 16 and 9…(sigh)
I’m diein, this is too funny !!!!!
Janet,
Miami
Dude, I totally know that song.
You should try playing it backwards. It will blow your mind.
HA HA HA!! Sounds pretty much like my house too. Too funny.
Soundtrack of my life.
By the time I was half way through, I was laughing so hard I could hardly read the rest through the tears. . . priceless!
I totally wrote a post about this some time ago, and our house only has one kid. Until October, then my husband and I will have to communicate telepathically, apparently.
http://yestertimeblog.com/2007/10/11/married-life-with-a-two-year-old/
P.S. Your littlest one has the cutest smile EVER
You could be at my house.
Sounds exactly like my house. :)
You should go on the road. Because that? THAT was fantastically awesome.
Exactly like home. Its a wonder we ever get a word with eachother…
Love it!
Oh, Lord. We’re expecting our first boy in a couple of months, and this alternated between cracking me up and scaring the bejeesus out of me. I cannot WAIT to meet this kid. Er, mine. Not yours. Although yours are evidently lovely, and I’m sure I would enjoy meeting them as well.
Just you wait until Dylan can yell “MOMMY AND DADDY?!? MOMMY AND DADDY?!?!” too. You and the hubby won’t get to string more than 3 words together until midnight.
my admiration for those of you who choose to have children is LIMITLESS. i can’t even handle my cats all up in my grill when i get home.
I notice the children have a great deal of enthusiasm, for everything from the mundane (breathing to Mac and Cheese) to the truly exciting (boats that turn into airplanes).
HYSTERICAL. I loved it!!
Ha Ha HA!
“Dylan: *pooooooooot*”
It’s too much.
You are so brilliant.
I was in tears already and then the animals joined in too and I completely lost it. I’m going to come back and read this entry a few more times, it is SOOOO FUNNNNNNY.
Wow. There’s a whole lot going on in that three minutes. I would need at least two hours of complete silence to recover.
Wait…were you at MY house last night?
ha ha ha ha!!! My nights to a T….but add a six year old with attitude. (and no baby poops…just two dogs farting under the table!) Thanks for the post…I needed an afternoon laugh to get me through until 5.
Hoi. I’m completing exhausted just from reading that. My 9yr old puts me through the same routine. He wants to talk just to be part of the conversation regardless of wether or not his input is even relevant to the topic OR my personal favorite, he tries to finish my sentences. A statement like “I’m gonna head down to the mailbox real quick, I’ll be right back.” Will turn into,
ME:” I’m gonna-”
HIM:”Make gyros tonight?”
ME:”No, I’m gonna-”
HIM: “Go to the store?”
ME: “No, well ya, maybe. I was gonna say-”
HIM: “You’re going to take a shower first?”
ME:”That too-
HIM: “Well what are you gonna do then?”
ME: “I was trying to tell you but you keep interrupting…” *SILENCE* (because I almost forgot what I was going to tell him)
HIM: “WEEEELLLLL?”
ME:”IwasjusttryingtosaythatI’m gonnaheaddowntothemailboxrealquickandI’llberightback!”
HIM:”Goll Mom…”
*Insert his best, “What’s YOOURR problem” look, HERE*
Ha ha HAAA. HA!
Ho my crap. That sounds just like our house. Though, thankfully, we have no dog to add to the chaos.
*LOL* Thanks for the giggle!!!!
Oh been there, done that, have the t-shirt!
Haahaahaahaaa…this is AWESOME!
Oh god — this IS my life. Exactly!
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!
so awesome I feel like i’m there!
Sorta exactly the same here, except minus the cat, minus the baby, and throw in my final words: ‘Oh fuck, I give up.’
I could of blogged this conversation yesterday. Now that Rylan is nearly one, he is trying to keep up with the 2 yr old. I don’t see my husband and I having any kind of conversation for years to come. :(
But hey! It’s funny when it is happening to someone else!! Is that wrong? Hee.
LOL!!
Totally my house too, but we have a 3-week-old, and 2 dogs and 3 cats. Good lord.
It’s especially fun when the 3-year-old and I fight about EVERYTHING, which is what we did yesterday.
Riley cracks me up….just wait till they’re teens. then they dont want to talk to you!!!….
You are my hero. I swear, our homes are identical (except mine are girls). I felt like you were looking in my living room window, describing my world!
Subtract the baby, add 2 more cats (one of whom I’ve decided is from the special sub-species “Felis catus alwaysunderfooticus”), and you’ve described every mealtime at my house. Awesome!
made my morning – brilliant!
I love it! It captures exactly life around here too!
We are on vacation right now, which means we are trapped in the hotel room or the car with our three big talkers. There is no escape. We are exhausted.
When they get bored of us, they just talk at other, random people, in stores or in elevators. Usually leaving them shell-shocked.
Mine is going to be 16 next week and, sadly, we still have these conversations.
I LOLed, not gonna lie. Brilliant entry..:-)
Sounds like my house. Except, I’ve got teenagers, and the minute I get in the door, they start with the questions. In the meantime, I can hardly hear them because both of the dogs are so happy to see me, they can’t stop barking. It doesn’t get any better, sorry!
So true. We let our kids eat in front of the t.v. just so we can have adult conversation because once dinner is over it’s all about the kids until bedtime.