Wednesday, April 25, 2012

My Morning

My morning started with the boys stumbling into my room at 7:00 am announcing that Madeline had woken them up before they were ready. They were not thrilled.While I was drying my hair, I had these conversations:
Maddie (running in): Colin pushed me down!
Me: Why?
Maddie: Because I tripped him.
Colin (running in): Ethan won't give me the ball and I want it!
Me: Neither of you can have the ball. It's time to get dressed. Go tell Ethan.
Colin runs out, then runs back in, announcing: Ethan says he won't get dressed!
Me: Tell Ethan I need to talk to him.
Ethan comes in and I ask him why he's refusing to get dressed. He says (very confused), "I was getting dressed!"
Me: Colin, why did you say Ethan said he wouldn't get dressed?
Colin (shrugs): I don't know. I thought he said that.

All a little too much before 8:00 am!

Then on the way to preschool, Colin (who is very tired because his sister woke him up too early) is crying half the way there because the song he was listening to on the radio ended and, despite daily conversations about the concept of "live" radio over the last month, he is still not getting why I can't rewind it. I finally say I don't control the radio, that the radio guy decides what songs to play, and then he's crying asking why the radio guy is SO mean and turned off his song when he still wanted to hear it.

We are going to bed early tonight!