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MOM OF BOYS: COMIC RELIEF FOR MOMS OF THE MALE VARIETY {ROUND 14}

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I began jotting down things I hear around the house from my boys because, well, they make me laugh. In an attempt to give others a giggle, it’s now turned in to a full on Mom of Boys series on the 3rd Sunday of each month. It gives me a good reminder each month why I love my silly boys so much and it’s so fun to look back on months past as they grow up. If you missed our first Mom of Boys posts be sure to go back!

Let’s explain how this will work and who things were said by…

A = my skinny, karate obsessed, 6 1/2 year old
L = my spunky, snack loving, 3 1/2 year old
J = my geeky chic husband
M = me aka mom of boys

This is in no way meant to be a parenting lesson. Just a little peek into our crazy and at times comical lives.

Mom of boys…things you never thought you’d hear in your home, then you birthed a boy.

L: Sixty eleven.
A: There is no sixty eleven. It’s seventy one.

A: What is that noise? Is it a tarantula in the trees?

M: Ew, that’s gross. I don’t like that it shoots a puddle of blood when you hit them with a ninja star.
A: Mom, it’s a ninja game, that’s what they are supposed to do. And anyway it’s not blood, it’s jelly. They hold jelly in their pockets and when they get hit it falls out and they’re like, “Oh no! My jelly!”

L: Can you get me a snack?
M: What do you want?
L: candy
M: Candy? No way, you had ice cream for breakfast.
L: But that’s not candy.

L: My teacher learned it to me.

L: I smell cake in here. No, I smell wet smoke. No, I smell little cold air.

L: Moms are wrapped in toilet paper.

M: Why, is it because were soft and cuddly?
L: Yeah. Monsters never go to sleep. Skeletons are wrapped only in bones.

A: Mom next time can we get a watermelon and paint it like a zombie and then bash one side so it looks like the brains?

A: I won’t get romantic eyes until I’m 16

L: I love you.
M: I love you more.
L: I love you most.
M: I love you mostist.
L: I love you Googleplex.

L: L starts with my name.

J: You don’t get to be thrown up if you haven’t eaten.

J: Don’t eat those carrots. You don’t get any more vegetables until you eat your meat.

Our Favorite comment from last Mom of Boys post was from Chastity of A Cowboy’s Life…

C: Where did you get your boobs mommy?
M: I was born with them because I’m a girl.
C: No! Where did you get them?
M: The Lord gave them to me.
C: No, you bought them at Walmart.

Have your kids made you laugh lately? What comical or off the wall things have you said or overheard your kids say? Share in the comments and we will choose our favorites to share in our Mom of Boys post on November 16th.

Mom of Boys: Comic Relief for Moms of the Male Variety {Round 13}

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About a year ago, I began jotting down things I hear around the house from my boys because, well, they make me laugh. In an attempt to give others a giggle, it’s now turned in to a full on Mom of Boys series on the 3rd Sunday of each month. It gives me a good reminder each month why I love my silly boys so much and it’s so fun to look back on months past as they grow up. And now I have one more boy to add to the mix, though he won’t be saying much at first so you won’t see him show up here for a while. If you missed our first Mom of Boys posts be sure to go back!

 

This is in no way meant to be a parenting lesson. Just a little peek into our crazy and at times comical lives.

Mom of boys…things you never thought you’d hear in your home, then you birthed a boy.

Let’s explain how this will work and who things were said by…

A = my skinny, karate obsessed, 6 1/2 year old
L = my spunky, snack loving, 3 1/2 year old
J = my geeky chic husband
M = me aka mom of boys

M: That man is shaving his head while he drives. That’s the weirdest thing I’ve ever seen.
A: Not weirder than a pirate turning into a monkey singing a little silly song.

L: Why are we going this way?
M: Because we need to take some money to the boy who mows the lawn so we’re driving through the neighborhood.
L: A hood is a hat.
M: You’re right.

L: Aiden, my undies are cooler than yours.
A: No, mine are dragon.
L: Well dragons are a bit cool.
A: Well daddy likes dragons and he doesn’t like lightning McQueen that much.

A: How come the only place nectarines are having a party is in my stomach?

Have your kids made you laugh lately? What comical or off the wall things have you said or overheard your kids say? Share in the comments and we will choose our favorites to share in our Mom of Boys post on September 21st.

Mom of Boys: Comic Relief for Moms of the Male Variety {Round 12}

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A few months ago, I started jotting down things I hear around the house from my boys because, well, they make me laugh. In an attempt to give others a chuckle, it’s now turned in to a Mom of Boys series on the 3rd Sunday of each month. It gives me a good reminder each month why I love my silly boys so much and it’s so fun to look back on months past as they grow up. If you missed our first Mom of Boys posts be sure to go back and check them out!

Let’s explain how this will work and who things were said by…

A = my skinny, karate obsessed, 6 1/2 year old
L = my spunky, snack loving, 3 1/2 year old
J = my geeky chic husband
M = me aka mom of boys

This is in no way meant to be a parenting lesson. Just a little peek into our crazy and at times comical lives.

Mom of boys…things you never thought you’d hear in your home, then you birthed a boy.

A: Mom for my birthday I want to go to the moon.
L: For my birthday I want to go to a waterpark.

L: Let’s take one of those popcorn seeds and plant it outside and it will grow a popcorn tree.

A: Dude, did you see I threw your head in to the ground?
C (A’s best friend): Yes, thank you!

L: We can’t ever punch people. Or kick them in to lava. Or kick them in to acid that would sink them.

A: Mom we should get one of those electricity cars so we never have to get gas.
M: Ya, but you still have to plug it in.
L: Mom, let’s get a candy car so we can just pull candies off it any time we want.
A: We should have a candy world where trees are candy, houses are cupcakes, buildings are cakes and the earth would be a gumball.

L: Yeah but if we lived at Santa’s house and we want a cookie we have to ask.

A: I tooted and now I smell cheese cracker.

(On our way to a wedding reception)
A: Mom, if someone gives her the present can I give it to her?
M: No one gives her the present, we put it on the table.
A: Oh, and then do we give her all the presents at the end like a birthday party?

Our favorite comment from last month comes from Susan, she says:

My 3 year old will steal your drink (any drink) so we are trying to teach him to ask first. While eyeing his dad’s glass of milk,  dad grabs it and drinks. P very loudly exclaims, “Daaaad, ask first.” I nearly choked laughing so hard. Well at least he is getting the concept.

Have your kids made you laugh lately? What comical or off the wall things have you said or overheard your kids say? Share in the comments and we will choose our favorites to share in our next Mom of Boys post on September 21st (we’re skipping August since we’ll be adding little boy #3 to our family that week).

Chest Upgrade – A Sauder Review

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With baby boy #3 on the way in just a few more more weeks we’ve been doing some shifting to get the new nursery ready including moving our other two boys in to the same room. Bunk beds from my husbands childhood made this fairly simple, but storage space was an issue. Their room is fairly small and the existing dresser, closet and nightstand were bursting at the seams with clothes, books, and toys. I was thrilled when Sauder contacted me to try out one of their pieces. It could not have come at a better time!

I jumped right in searching Sauder.com for a piece that would fit our needs. I love the wish list feature that allows you to keep track of pieces that you love when you fall in love with a whole slew like I did. I decided to to visit the style lab and take the “find Your Furniture Style” quiz to help me narrow things down and end up with a piece that really fit. My style was “transitional” and it recommended the Shoal Creek Collection. They were totally right. I love the clean lines with the fun hardware that comes with this collection. I ultimately chose the Shoal Creek 4 Drawer Chest in the Oiled Oak Finish. The vertical design was perfect to fit in the boys small room. Here’s a sneak peek…

When the box arrived I was impressed at the packaging. It had extra reinforcement on the corners to ensure the contents would not be damaged which I love. There’s nothing worse than having to send it back before you even get started!

We pulled out all the pieces and got to work. My husband loved the clarity of the instructions. He was an English major and is usually pained with the horrendous explanations inside instruction booklets, but this time he kept commenting on how well things were written and laid out. We never had questions or hesitations on how things should go. They were very clear and even comical (in a good way) as shown in the picture below.

Something that was a great help to us with so many tiny parts to keep track of was to take them all out and separate them into muffin tins. This made them easy to spot and grab without sifting through and possibly losing any.

We actually built this for family night one evening. It was really cute to see my oldest work together with his Dad to create something for his room. He loves learning to use tools and many of the steps were simple enough for him to help with while closely supervised of course. Even preggo mom got in on some of the action assembling a few drawers while Daddy read to the boys at bedtime.

The next morning we moved the chest in to their room and I could not wait to style it up to fit their paleontologist theme. With the simple addition of a plastic dinosaur, dinosaur book, oil lantern, and a piece of authentic dino poop (as found in the desert of Utah by a neighbors dino bone hunting grandpa) it was all set as the perfect addition and storage solution.

Now everyone’s clothes have a place and there’s even room for sizes transitioning from one boy to another!

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Sauder. The opinions and text are all mine.