Timmy @ 2

While on holiday in America,Timmy's babysitter Sabina was telling a flashback Timmy story.  I had forgot all about it.  Now I have my blog to remember.

It was early in the morning, the day after Halloween.  I had already gone to work (that would be about 5:30am to miss the traffic in Northern VA, yuck) and Sabina,who graciouslly came over the house in the dark,was sleeping on the couch when the doorbell rang.  Our neighbor Nancy, who lived across the street, was standing there with Timmy and asked; "Do you want this?"

Nancy explained how she also woke to a doorbell and a little boy with his hand held out saying; "Candy, Candy!"

We knew then that there was something about Timmy.

Timmy the Magician

Timmy the magician shows how he can be in two places at one time.  It happens really, really quickly.

Craig pulls into the driveway and spots Timmy on the roof.  Craig comes into the house, Timmy is in the shower.

Then comes the look - the one where he tries to looked innocent, after all he was in the shower at the time.

Oh yeah he tried to lie his way out of it.  Then painfully told the truth.  Then had no TV, no computer, and no play station for the day.


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Timmy Story x 2

My husband and I exchanged "Timmy Stories" after work the other day and I went first.

I was entering Timmys room that morning to wake him up for school and I smelled vomit.  His pillow was wet, but there were no chunks.  I looked around for the chunks - no chunks anywhere, just the smell.  The waking Timmy was rolling around and I hear this crinkling sound like that of a baby's toy.  It was coming from his pillow.  After inspection of the pillow I find a one kilo bag of once frozen peas/carrots under his pillow case.  Timmys reply was "My pillow was hot"

Craig was driving home from picking Timmy up from Lil Antz afterschool care and got a thumbs up from a passing car.  Only the driver was delivering the thumbs up to the back seat passenger.  Looking in his rear-view mirror Craig spies Timmy with half his finger lost inside his nose.  So he yells to the back seat "Pick me a winner".  Holding up his finger Timmy exclaims: "It's a loser".

I wonder what happens at school?

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Freeze Frame Chocolate

Freeze frame - an image capturing a moment in a single instance.

Its 6:10 am, Spongebob is shouting in the background; "got to make those crabby patties". Timmy, our border-line ADHD kid, fully dressed for school enters stage right from the kitchen. Spots me from the corner of his eye, freezes in mid-stride, with hands cupped together holding a volcano size mound of chocolate chips. With mouth hanging open and a surprised then defeated look on his face, I knew exactly what he was thinking in that single moment.... "if only I made it to the couch."

It would of been a perfect start of any kids day - chocolate always improves your disposition.







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Rain in the Desert

I lost my Timmy (my youngest - he is 7) for 15 minutes this morning while getting ready to take him to vacation daycare and after a night of rain. My search tactics were;

1.) Random calling his name in the house but not too loud to wake his older brothers at 7:00 in the morning. NO Timmy.

2.) Basic calling his name from the front and back door but not too loud as to bother the neighbors. NO Timmy.

3.) Go outside and check on top of the shed (last time it rained he was up on top of the shed inspecting for water damage to the gutters.) It doesn't rain much in the middle of the desert. Its like snow to people winter climates. NO Timmy.

4.) Do a complete circle around the house hoping he didn't fall from the roof, not that he has ever climbed up there. Checked the park in the back on my way around. NO Timmy.

5.) Expanded the perimeter of my search, which included checking up and down the road. Put the trash cans down to the road for Timmy's older brother. NO Timmy.

6.) Go back inside and look under the bed, he could be hiding there, but probably not very plausible since it rained last night. NO Timmy.

7.) Go back outside and check up the road. Ah ha, a little boy barefooted in soaking wet pajamas with a broken umbrella in his hands and a large grin on his face. TIMMY!

My first inclination was to yell, which I did. But the grin on his face was full of fun and excitement it just made me stop and think - he's just a kid living for the moment. Learn from this 7 year old I told myself and we walked inside as he chattered away about all the damage from the rain.

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Timmy making a path for all the water to go into the gutter after vacation care.











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Bagel Diversion

I’m currently reading the book World Wide Wave by David Meerman Scott. The book title caught my attention because I have always been fascinated with how it only takes one person to affect several if not thousands. The wave is spread by a trigger, which is different depending on your audience. My audience is my children which I’m always trying to look for their trigger.

At home I'm the negotiator, trying to bring peace to the family tribe. This is a thankless job. I have devised ways to combat the daily challenges that arise and hope I'm fast and ingenious enough to settle the one off situations. Which reminds me of an instance this past week with my border-line ADHD (at least that is what we are hoping) seven year old. He comes into the kitchen asking for the bagel he spied the night before. I think his stomach has a brain. The bagel had been already eaten by one of his older brothers so I could just feel the waves of the impending explosion. So my mind was working double time to come up with a clever response to him. When he was rummaging around the frig trying to find the bagel I quickly asked him;
“So, what would you think you would like for breakfast if there were no bagels?” In which he blurted out, “there are no more bagels?”, which I confirmed.
I could see his mind working double time and he replied;
“I can make a bagel……get me two pieces of bread.”
I didn’t set that coming, but surprisingly if you give your kids a choice to solve things they do so in the most interesting ways. Of course that’s our Timmy.
I’m not always that quick in thinking of clever ways to side track an episode, but I’m getting better with practice. Okay, so this is my fourth child and I should be an expert. But my reply would be “They are all different and have different triggers to handling their different ways.
Kids ask adult questions all the time because they are curious. By turning the table and asking them how they might handle a situation, then they own the problem not you.

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