The kids went to bed on their own tonight, but never went to sleep. They were waiting for me to come give them their hugs and kisses.
I finally went into their room and said good night. On the way out William asked me to get him socks (I haven't folded them and put them in his drawer so he doesn't know where any are).
W: "Mom, Mom, get me socks, I can't sleep with out them"
M: "Hold on Billy, I'm looking for them"
W: "On the computer?"
He's on to me; I can't pull one over on him any more:-)
Guess I better get off the computer and go find the kid socks.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
peanut butter cracker
William when you drop your graham cracker with peanut butter on the floor, peanut butter side down, you may NOT pick it up and put it back on your plate to eat it! No 5 second rule for that one!
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Part two
Then in the afternoon after William got home he asked if he could watch some TV. He likes watching in the living room because we have more channels than in my bedroom. So I let him watch on the “big” TV. We also have “On Demand” on the big TV. William recently figured out how to work this feature of the cable.
“On Demand” for those of you who don’t have it is a storage of movies & shows on the, cable box, that you can watch any time with just a press of the remote control. They change them each month to keep it fresh. William has only ventured into the Disney XD channel. He knows to press 1 on the remote then find the kids block, then under kids he can find PBS kids, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Disney XD and some other channels that have shows he likes.
On Demand also has a feature where you can rent movies. They have new movies for $4.99 and older movies for $2.99. So the baby is being picked up and I walked them out to the car and come back to hear William say I think I’m watching “hotel for dogs”. Now this is a new title so I got very worried when he said that. I told him not to press anything else I would be there in a minute.
So I go over and stop the movie he is watching, it was an older title so I thought maybe it was a free movie. NOT the case! I look and it’s a $2.99 movie. I think to myself, that’s not to bad, we can watch it tonight and I’ll teach him what movies he’s not allowed to watch because you have to “buy” them for the day. Then the light bulb goes on and I’m thinking back to about 30 minutes before this when he was watching “Horton hears a who”. At the time he said he was watching it I thought this was an old movie and may be a free one on HBO. NOT the case.
I decided I needed to go into the saved portion of the “On Demand” feature. This is where all the movies and shows you have watched sit for 24 hours in case you had to stop in the middle or wanted to watch a second time you can just find it there real fast. Oh was I surprised when I went to the saved programs. Here is what I saw
Homeward Bound II $2.99
Ella Enchanted $2.99
E.T. $2.99
Dr. Seuss’ Horton $4.99
Bolt $4.99
BeverlyHills Chihuahua $4.99
Then there were about 10 other show titles that were free. William was trying to find a show to watch and he just clicked on the movie (not knowing you had pay for them) watched the start of the movie for about 2 minutes then turned it off and moved on to another movie to watch.
I started doing math in my head and totaled it up to $24.00! $24.00 for movies we had already watched, for movies that I have on video tape, movies that are on “regular” channels for FREE!
I sent him into my room where he couldn’t run my cable bill through the roof any more and I got on the phone with the cable company.
Now I always have a problem when I call the cable company, it just never goes well and it’s always a fight. So I geared up for the fight but I was going to try to be “oh so kind” first. The man on the other end was wonderful!!!!!! I explained what happened and he asked what the titles were. I told him the first two and he stared laughing. He said he could see all the titles and they were all “rented” 2 minutes apart, which basically meant he believed me that the kid did it. You rent a movie and have it for 24 hours, so had it been 2 hours later he would have thought I had watched the movies, so it was a good thing I caught him when I did.
I gave both kids a nice little lesson on “On Demand”. They now know how to check to see if something is free or if you have to pay for it. Hopefully I will not have any more problems until William is a teenage boy and figures out all the Pay per view channels:-0 Maybe I’ll go lock those right now!
“On Demand” for those of you who don’t have it is a storage of movies & shows on the, cable box, that you can watch any time with just a press of the remote control. They change them each month to keep it fresh. William has only ventured into the Disney XD channel. He knows to press 1 on the remote then find the kids block, then under kids he can find PBS kids, Nickelodeon, Noggin, Disney XD and some other channels that have shows he likes.
On Demand also has a feature where you can rent movies. They have new movies for $4.99 and older movies for $2.99. So the baby is being picked up and I walked them out to the car and come back to hear William say I think I’m watching “hotel for dogs”. Now this is a new title so I got very worried when he said that. I told him not to press anything else I would be there in a minute.
So I go over and stop the movie he is watching, it was an older title so I thought maybe it was a free movie. NOT the case! I look and it’s a $2.99 movie. I think to myself, that’s not to bad, we can watch it tonight and I’ll teach him what movies he’s not allowed to watch because you have to “buy” them for the day. Then the light bulb goes on and I’m thinking back to about 30 minutes before this when he was watching “Horton hears a who”. At the time he said he was watching it I thought this was an old movie and may be a free one on HBO. NOT the case.
I decided I needed to go into the saved portion of the “On Demand” feature. This is where all the movies and shows you have watched sit for 24 hours in case you had to stop in the middle or wanted to watch a second time you can just find it there real fast. Oh was I surprised when I went to the saved programs. Here is what I saw
Homeward Bound II $2.99
Ella Enchanted $2.99
E.T. $2.99
Dr. Seuss’ Horton $4.99
Bolt $4.99
BeverlyHills Chihuahua $4.99
Then there were about 10 other show titles that were free. William was trying to find a show to watch and he just clicked on the movie (not knowing you had pay for them) watched the start of the movie for about 2 minutes then turned it off and moved on to another movie to watch.
I started doing math in my head and totaled it up to $24.00! $24.00 for movies we had already watched, for movies that I have on video tape, movies that are on “regular” channels for FREE!
I sent him into my room where he couldn’t run my cable bill through the roof any more and I got on the phone with the cable company.
Now I always have a problem when I call the cable company, it just never goes well and it’s always a fight. So I geared up for the fight but I was going to try to be “oh so kind” first. The man on the other end was wonderful!!!!!! I explained what happened and he asked what the titles were. I told him the first two and he stared laughing. He said he could see all the titles and they were all “rented” 2 minutes apart, which basically meant he believed me that the kid did it. You rent a movie and have it for 24 hours, so had it been 2 hours later he would have thought I had watched the movies, so it was a good thing I caught him when I did.
I gave both kids a nice little lesson on “On Demand”. They now know how to check to see if something is free or if you have to pay for it. Hopefully I will not have any more problems until William is a teenage boy and figures out all the Pay per view channels:-0 Maybe I’ll go lock those right now!
Part one
I know I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Not sure what’s going to happen next year when William is in school full day. I’m not going to have anything funny to write about.
Today I watched my friend’s 8 month old son. We walked to school, I had my two kids, the forth grader down the street, then we picked up Natalie’s friend and her brother. When we got to the friends house William ran up and told them we had the baby with us. There younger sister (4 years old) came out to see him.
The 4 year old comes walking over to join the 3 kids already surrounding the stroller.
4 yr old: Oh the baby
William: come on over; he won’t bite.
4 yr old: Oh ok, hi baby
The baby was like the monkey in the zoo. He was in his stroller and there were 4 kids surrounding him all talking to him, cooing, gurgling and making funny faces at him. (I would love to know what he was thinking at that moment). I got the kids to school and had a nice morning with the baby.
Today I watched my friend’s 8 month old son. We walked to school, I had my two kids, the forth grader down the street, then we picked up Natalie’s friend and her brother. When we got to the friends house William ran up and told them we had the baby with us. There younger sister (4 years old) came out to see him.
The 4 year old comes walking over to join the 3 kids already surrounding the stroller.
4 yr old: Oh the baby
William: come on over; he won’t bite.
4 yr old: Oh ok, hi baby
The baby was like the monkey in the zoo. He was in his stroller and there were 4 kids surrounding him all talking to him, cooing, gurgling and making funny faces at him. (I would love to know what he was thinking at that moment). I got the kids to school and had a nice morning with the baby.
Friday, May 1, 2009
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Wow, I have some serious A-D-D going on with the house work today. I was emptying the dishwasher, not sure why I stopped. Then I was in the laundry room taking cloths out of the dryer so I could put the stuff in the washer into the dryer. I walked to the bedroom to hang the stuff up and on the walk back looked over and saw the dishwasher open and went to finish putting that stuff away. I stopped myself and went back to the laundry to get the wet stuff into the dryer.
Now I’m here instead of the kitchen putting stuff away.
Here are a few funny little sayings from my kids and my friends kids. This is just to hold you over because I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Hopefully I’ll get back to blogging soon. The kids will be out of school in 25 days (according to Natalie) then I should have some free time to be at the computer instead of running back and forth to the school being a book fairy in training.
I just thought of this one because I found my blue tooth, “ear bud” and I have it attached to my ear right now.
As I said it’s called a blue tooth and a few years back when I got it and William was little he was asking about it one day.
W: Mom, where is your tooth fairy?
M: What tooth fairy?
W: You know your tooth fairy that you put in your ear and talk to.
M: You mean my blue tooth?
W: Yea, your blue tooth fairy.
It was very cute
My friends little girl said this one. Her older daughter had a tick on her arm and her younger daughter wanted to see it. So she came running over asking
MOM, where is the lunatic? I want to see the lunatic that is on sister. Mom, can I see it, can I see the lunatic?
I love that story! We were just talking about ticks the other day because William had one over the weekend. So my friend told me that story again, it always gives me a good laugh.
Now I’m here instead of the kitchen putting stuff away.
Here are a few funny little sayings from my kids and my friends kids. This is just to hold you over because I’ve been a bad blogger lately. Hopefully I’ll get back to blogging soon. The kids will be out of school in 25 days (according to Natalie) then I should have some free time to be at the computer instead of running back and forth to the school being a book fairy in training.
I just thought of this one because I found my blue tooth, “ear bud” and I have it attached to my ear right now.
As I said it’s called a blue tooth and a few years back when I got it and William was little he was asking about it one day.
W: Mom, where is your tooth fairy?
M: What tooth fairy?
W: You know your tooth fairy that you put in your ear and talk to.
M: You mean my blue tooth?
W: Yea, your blue tooth fairy.
It was very cute
My friends little girl said this one. Her older daughter had a tick on her arm and her younger daughter wanted to see it. So she came running over asking
MOM, where is the lunatic? I want to see the lunatic that is on sister. Mom, can I see it, can I see the lunatic?
I love that story! We were just talking about ticks the other day because William had one over the weekend. So my friend told me that story again, it always gives me a good laugh.
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