For those of you who have children, or are familiar with them, you know that God made 'em cute so that you don't kill 'em. Enter SeanMike. Now this little fellow is indeed one of God's cutest creations. He's also one of the lippiest! What a kid!! He's at that age where he'll ask me if he can do something and I try not to say "no" too often because then it just causes resentment, but when I do say no, I expect that my child who is doing the asking of ... whatever ... heeds my words and the conversation comes to an end. Such is not the case with little Mr. Man. My God he's argumentative. Who does the get that from? Not me!!--ahem-- He truly is my father-in-law thru and thru, God rest his soul. My father-in-law, Lorne, was a truly wonderful man whom we lost to cancer in January, 2001, nearly a year before Sean was born. He would have loved Sean so much because the two of them are two peas in a pod. People used to comment that Lorne had dancing eyes. The same people will make the same observation in Sean. I certainly am going to work to earn my "good mummy" status with this kid. He's head strong, he's argumentative, and he's stubborn. But my God, he's beautiful. And he's the funniest person I've ever met. No one can make me laugh like Sean can.
He was using the washroom yesterday and when he was done, I had to remind him (again!) to wash his hands. Of course he lied to me (again!) and said he did. I told him I didn't hear any water run, therefore I knew he lied to me and to get his arse back in the bathroom and wash his hands.
"Why do I have to??", he shouts!
"Because you need to wash all the poop germs off your hands!", says I.
He mutters something under his breath and I hear the water run for all of 3 seconds and then the comment, dripping with attitude:
"There, did ya hear the water THAT time??"
OH, my GOD!!! Kenny & I just giggled, and then we had to put our amused face away and be parents. But I'm telling you, it's harder and harder these days to hide the fact that the kid kills us on a regular basis.
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