Monday Mischief

yellingbanana

I’ve been reading that we need more activity, so I’ll throw some threads out there to mix things up! 

What mischief has/have your pets or kids gotten into? Or maybe it was you? Your boss, friend, velociraptor? Let it all out! 

brynn_mamaof4

I’ll just go through each kid lol

Yesterday my 4 year old played a really fun game of “let’s throw mommy’s keys into the ground ivy somewhere” (which is literally my entire backyard). She wasn’t being devious.. she was actually being super cute and playing hide n seek. I just didn’t realize she had my keys lol. They are not ever going to be fund. Luckily I have a couple spares 🤦🏼‍♀️

My 9 year old son is driving me batty, or maybe I’m just a little more easily annoyed and insensitive due to pregnancy hormones. He is by far my sweetest and most loving child - far more than his sisters. But that also means he is the most sensitive. Lately if he is upset about something the level of pouting/mopping is CRAZY! Like every puppy on earth has suddenly been murdered. It irritates me like no other... I have resorted to telling him to go to his room and he is welcome to come out when he can fix his face and stop pouting, the choice is his.

my almost 13 year old daughter is dealing with fun hormones now as well, pretty sure her period will be starting soon. She is pretty level headed and VERY black and white, to the point where you can be like well dang, ok then. I do love that about her because I am the same way, but her emotional maturity/social awareness needs an upgrade. Combined with hormones at times I’m just like 😳🤪. Overall I do feel lucky though because she’s such a great girl who is smart and kind. She’s just very... blunt. 

mrosek91

@brynn_mamaof4, I am not looking forward to having teenagers. The one good thing about the fact I have all boys, is I can make their father give them the talk. As much as I want a girl, that is what I'm going to console myself with if I don't get one. Good Luck!!

My 3yo is my mischief maker. That boy has the most killer smile, I wonder if there's a correlation.... He loves to tell me "I'm listening" as he proceeds to do something against the rules. Of course right now, I'm blanking on some of his more recent antics, but one from dinner last night is he decided to pour his cup of water all over the table, and then lap it up like a puppy. 

texas_t

My nearly 2 year old likes to carry things to me when he's done with them. "All done all done all done all done" while he's precariously balancing a plate with half his breakfast on it, etc.... 

Liz101015

My two year old has learned the phrase "i cannot do this right now" and says it all the time whenever we ask him anything and gives the most sly smile I have ever seen. Do you want to call auntie now I cannot, do you want to go outside ... I cannot, anything... i cannot. Its hilarious 

yellingbanana

@brynn_mamaof4 are you sure that you didn’t just sneak into my home and record my children for that description? Your teenager daughter sounds so much like mine. And my 9yr daughter is the same as your son. And my almost 4yr son sounds like your toddler! It’s actually pretty eerie.

littlelibelula

Yesterday I learned that my one year old knows how to shake his head. 

When I found him he had one foot on the chair and the other on the table. I looked at him about to say No! and he looked at me with a big smile and shook his head. And then finished climbing onto the table. 
He's so cute when he climbs on the table, but obviously not allowed. 

I try to cook in the kitchen and when it becomes silent I have to rush in and scoop him off the chair or the table. 
Last week he spilled water all over the table and proceeded to get into the last bag of homemade halloween chocolate chip cookies. He was just sitting there so cute with the pile of smashed cookies. 

brynn_mamaof4

@yellingbanana omg too funny!!! I wonder if it has something to do with pecking order combined with similar/same age gaps?! I love our gaps so much and wouldn’t have changed the way I did it but the one thing I find exhausting is constantly switching between extremely different levels of emotional maturity, sometime within the same breath! 

mimser

My beloved baby (he's 3) beagle took himself on a walk on Friday afternoon! When my fiancé noticed and told me, I could not get my shit together and they were back before I was out of the house. He brought him back under his arm like a purse, after I saw that he was alive and unharmed, it looked hilarious. We got lucky because he just went to our back alley, but he was quite far down the the block!

We always joked that this dog is not really a problem solver and we were never worried he would try to escape. So we felt a mix of disappointment and pride. Pride because we were like "oh he's actually a dog!"