It is 9:00pm, we ( the entire family) are getting in the car to leave my Mothers home.
It goes something like this;
Jaxson jumps in buckels up, click
Hazel in her seat and buckeled, click, click, click
Liam............Liam, remember Liam is 2 ( Mr. Autonomy)
I DO IT I DO IT I DO IT I DO IT I DO IT I DO IT I DO IT
We let him attempt to do his buckel for at least 5minutes, then try to distract him long enough to push the seat belt together, click...................click...........................click
Finally
Angelo, Click
Me, Click
We are all in (hurray) it has only been 15minutes since we started, almost record time.
Next I turn around and say
" It is an hour past your bed time, so I don't want to hear anything about it being to sunny to go to sleep when we get home"
Jaxson" okay"
Liam"okay"
With that we are off. We have been driving two minutes when Angelo says" look at how beautiful the mountians look" Jaxson says energeticly " Yes, it is because they are not sleeping"
Here we go, the following conversation will take place at least 10 more times this car ride
Jaxson "it is not bed time"
Me " yes Jaxson it is actually past bed time"
Jaxson" but it is not dark"
Me " I know dear, in the summer time it is still light outside when we go to sleep"
Jaxson" look that person is not asleep" ( indicating someone walking, jumping, talking, doing anything but sleeping that he can see outside the window)
Me "Well I am not his/her mommy"
Angelo" It is bed time when we say it is bedtime" (said gruffly, Angelo is not a night owl by any stretch of the imagination)
Not only will we repeat this conversation until we get home, we have had this same conversation so many times all the player have memorized their lines. There are no surprises, no one ever says anything different. Yet we continue every night to have this conversation, LOL.
Meanwhile, Liam has taken a chocolate cookie( from Grandma) and covered his entire body in slimey chocolate saliva & stuck the crumbs to it.
During the entire car ride Hazel will be talking (to whom is anyones guess), playing with her toes, and every once in awhile laugh out loud.
While on intermission from the " Conversation" I will stare aimlessly out the window, no thinking just alot of staring. I think I am trying to gear up for the inevitable bed time antics.
Angelo is chewing a straw, I am sure he is just trying to keep himself undercontrol ( the straw gets it, not the kids)
This is our family
he is learning to count, saying new words, and always putting fun sentances together
