Happy Retirement / Flashback Friday - Taking the Fall for a Good Cause

 

 

First of all, I would like to say:

To my favorite mom!  It's bittersweet for me, because we work together, but I'm so happy for you, and love you.

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This is the most viewed post of my old blog.  I love reading it myself, because Alyssa always has something up her sleeve.  Plus, I miss her being a baby.  Hope you enjoy!


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Anyone who doesn't know my daughter, has no idea how incredibly intelligent she is. As you can see in the pictures, I have a huge layout for her so I can get my work done, and she can be entertained. Well, she has figured out a couple ways to get me to gear my eye towards her instead.

Step 1. Things in the mouth.
As you can see, I have a cushy little rug for her to play on since we have all tile floors. I also put down a play mat from ikea that has a ton of cool bugs and stuff on it- that she refuses to look at. But lets focus our attention on the speckled rug in the back. She has figured out how to pull all of the little speckle pieces out and put them in her mouth, thus me having to get up, and take it out of her mouth- giving her a good reason to cry and therefore, me having to pick her up to calm her down.

This is when I thought I was being the smart one... or was I - by replacing this rug with her room rug?

Step 2. Taking the plunge.
She has gotten very good at standing up- and even better as using this to her advantage. She will stand up- exhibit A. Then she will look back to see if there is anything behind her, look at me to make sure I'm not looking, then fall down and cry- exhibit B. Thus leads to me picking her up, to comfort her.
Exhibit A

Exhibit B


Step 3. "Sleeping"
Next thing she tries is pretend sleeping. She has started this since I started putting her in time out. She will lay there very still, and very quiet. Then I go to pick her up to put her in bed, or in her swing, and she usually will "wake up" and be so happy and wide awake. So, I go to put her down, and she starts to scream. Other times, she will stay "asleep" and I put her down and that is when she decides to "wake up" and sometimes she will play in her swing with the little toys, and other times she just cries. I seem to have outsmarted her on this one, so she will lay there silently as long as she can, then just start crying so I will.... drum roll please....... Pick her up.


Finally she does give in, and decides that maybe a nap is the best option... or is it? The world may never know!

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What are some of the funny things your kids have tried to pull?  Tell me in the comments.

Tata,
Emily

Flashback Friday- Favorite Teachers and Fake Vomit

 With so many great stories from my child hood, how does one choose?   That is why I am making Fridays, Flashback Fridays.  I will share with you something from my past that still makes me smile when I think about it.

Mandie was my best friend growing up. Everything we did was funny, so you will get to hear a lot about her on this blog.

Kids do really stupid things.  It isn't hard to make a 6 year old crack up.  When I look back on my life, and some of the things I thought were great, I would like to punch myself in the face.  I know some people thought I was probably annoying, but oh well.  What was even better was the fact that I had friends, like Mandie, who brought out the best in me.


I had an awesome teacher when I was in 1st grade.  I don't know if it was the excitement from being in school, or if she, in all her wrinkled glory was just that amazing.  Her name was Mrs. Billups.  She seemed like she was 110, but I was only 6, so my perception may have been a bit skewed.  I actually tried to find a picture of her, and since I couldn't, you will just have to base this story on this picture:

This lady is adorable, by the way
 

She was just so nice, and so caring.  She was the grandma type that you could just go sit in her lap, and she loved what she did.  Teachers are a lot different now, because the times are different.  I do remember her having an altercation with one of my class-mates.  He was pretty high strung, and ended up throwing a chair at her.  I was pretty mad at him.  He may has well pulled my heart out of my chest.  She was that cool

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Anyways - I remember Mandie and I playing this game over and over again.  I had fake vomit.

This very one, actually

For hours, one of us would be the teacher (Mrs. Billups) and the other, a student.  The teacher would place the vomit in her mouth, and vomiting it onto the floor, while the student would plea "Mrs Billups, don't die!"  After one would vomit it onto the floor, and the other plea, then the roles would switch, and the other one would put the fake vomit in their mouth.  Is there a punch line?  Why, Yes, there is.  Shortly after playing this game, we got the dreaded news that Mrs. Billups, did in fact, die.

It's so gross to think too, about the fact that not only did it go from one mouth to the other, but also onto the floor (which I may add, my room probably was not clean)

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Tell me in the comments something that you did that you thought was hilarious back in the day.  I would love to hear about it!

TaTa for Now!
Emily