This week has been particularly trying with my boys. Summer is here. School is out. We have more time on our hands. Which means….
I’m saying even more crazy stuff.
For example:
I like to listen to a radio station that plays “oldies.” I really like their “Disco Lunch Hour.” The other day, we listened to “You Dropped the Bomb On Me” and my boys loved the bomb sound effects, etc. Later in the lunch hour, we heard K.C. and the Sunshine Band sing, “Shake Your Booty.” I thought it was fun to sing while I reminisced about weekends spent at the roller skating rink as a child. What I didn’t think about was that my boys would latch on to the whole “Shake Your Booty” thing. The boys loved the lyrics, mostly because K.C. said the word, “Booty.” For the rest of the day, my boys ran around saying the word “Booty” and laughing like wild hyenas.
Ah, to have three little boys….
Herein starts a new list of crazy stuff I’ve said to my kids this past week. Enjoy the insanity that is my life:
#1 – “Stop saying the word, “Booty”! It isn’t funny. And, No, you may not sing “Shake Your Booty” at church! I mean it!”
#2 – “Do not try to go down the slip n’ slide naked…..especially before it gets wet.” (He didn’t listen to me and had to “recover” inside for an hour after the incident)
#3 – “Just because Daddy lets you pee outside in the backyard does not mean that you can just pee outside at the park.”
#4 – “I don’t care that the Hulk runs around without shoes and no shirt. You must be fully clothed when we go to the grocery store.” (said to the child who went down the slip n’ slide naked)
#5 – “Farting in the bathtub does not make the tub into a bubble bath.”
#6 – “A rattlesnake would not make a good pet. I don’t care if they have them at the zoo. In fact, no snake would be a good pet for us. Think of something else…please.”
#7 – “Why do I make up the bed every morning when we just mess the bed up again at night? hmmmm. Good question.”
#8 – “You may not have a popcicle for breakfast. I don’t care if it is made with “real fruit juice” like it says on the box.”
#9 – “Please go to sleep. One day when you are an adult, you will wish you had a nap time. Seriously.”
#10 – “Why do Mommies wear makeup? Well….your Mommy wears it so I don’t scare anyone when I go out in public.”

Thanks, K.C. for the lyrics "Shake Your Booty" (not really)