One for the mums

This has been doing the rounds on Facebook and it made me chuckle so thought I would share it here!


THE MUMMY TEST

I was out walking with my 4 year old daughter. She picked up
something off the ground and started to put it in her mouth. I took the item away from her and I asked her not to do that. 
"Why?" my daughter asked.
... "Because it's been laying outside, you don't know where it's been, it's dirty and probably has germs" I replied.
At this point, my daughter looked at me with total admiration and asked, "Wow! How do you know all this stuff?"
"Uh," ...I was thinking quickly,"All moms know this stuff. It's on the Mummy Test. You have to know it, or they don't let you be a Mummy."
We walked along in silence for 2 or 3 minutes, but she was evidently pondering this new information.
"OH...I get it!" she beamed, "So if you don't pass the test you have to be the daddy"
"Exactly" I replied back with a big smile on my face and joy in my heart.

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Invisible man

Charlie has been going to nursery for about 18 months now.   Every time I pick him up I ask him about his day and I get the same response 'I just played'.  If I ask who with he says 'a little girl' or 'some children' or some equally vague answer, it is very rare that he will mention another child by name.  He also insists on calling all the staff 'Nursery' which I find quite embarrassing but they find hilarious!!  The staff have told me that there are a couple of children that he really gets on with and they always play together but he will never talk about them outside of nursery.

Recently the nursery decided they were going to have a party day, they had the normal party foods and games and also a magician.  When I came to pick Charlie up he was very animated and was chattering away about all the things they had done and, in particular, the balloon animals the magician had made.  As he was in a chatty mood I thought I would try broaching the subject of his friends;

Me:  Did your friends enjoy the party?
Charlie:  Yes they got balloon animals too
Me:  Cool, who got what?
Charlie:  They all got balloon animals?
Me (taking different tack):  Did you all play party games?
Charlie:  The other children did but not me
Me:  Why not?
Charlie:   They didn't ask me
Me:  I am sure they did
Charlie:  Nope
Me:  Why not?
Charlie:  They couldn't see me
Me:  Why, were you hiding?
Charlie:  No (whispers conspiratorially) they couldn't see me because I was invisible because they just don't believe in me

Ummm that was not the answer I was expecting!

As a footnote I should add that I did check with the nursery staff the next time he was in and he has been joining in fine with all the games and at no point did he turn invisible..

Hair today, gone tomorrow

We are a family of geeks.  There is no denying it.  The actor Wil Wheaton once said that being a geek is not about the things you love but how you love them and it is very true.  My particular geek love is Lego  I spend ridiculous amounts of money on it, I spend hours sorting bricks into separate piles so I can find any particular brick I need a little quicker,  I have shelves of  Lego castles and buildings (much to my husbands annoyance) and I spend hours on eBay trying to get a bargain on the stuff.  And it would seem that Charlie and Alex are following firmly in my footsteps.

They are still a little young to really build much short of a few very long straight towers but they are crazy about the mini figures so you will often find little Lego men and women hiding in all kinds of strange places in our house.  They have the Lego Clutch Powers film on DVD that came out a few years ago and it is a close second in favourite film status to The Hobbit.  In the film there is a female character who carries around spare hair for when she wants a change of style.  This has led to a little confusion with Charlie;

Charlie - Mum where is your other hair?

Me - What other hair?

Charlie - Your spare hair

Me - What are you talking about?

Charlie - Yesterday you had your other hair on, today you have new hair so where is the other hair?

Me - You mean I had it tied up in a ponytail yesterday

Charlie - Yes where is your ponytail hair

Me - Its the same hair, I have just got it down today

Charlie - No you take it off and swap it for different hair

Me - No I don't honest!

Charlie - Yes you do!

Me -(pick up hair band and tie it back) - You see?

Charlie - Yes (brief pause) ...So is your other hair in the bedroom then?

I gave up then!

What do babies actually see in the womb...

There have been a lot of theories about what babies see and feel in the womb, if anything, but has anyone ever thought to ask the children themselves?  When I was pregnant with Alex, naturally Charlie was very curious and wanted to try and understand what was going on in his own way.  I explained that his brother was very small and had to stay in my tummy until he was big enough and then I would go to the hospital and the doctors would take him out (fortunately he didn't ask too many questions about that bit!)

One night recently as I was settling Alex down to bed I could hear Charlie explaining all this to his Dad 

Charlie - When I was really really little I lived in Mummy's tummy
Daddy - That's right
Charlie - It was a bit scary though
Daddy - Was it?
Charlie - Yes because there were crabs, because Mummy ate crabs....and worms...and a BIG GIANT SHARK!

So there you go, one of the universes many mysteries solved and all we had to do was ask :)

Always the charmer..

Charlie has recently become obsessed with the film The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey.  Since buying it just over a week ago I can now recite most of the script and have learnt all the Dwarves songs.  Charlie spends much of the movie shouting at the Dwarves to ATTACK the Elves and running around waving an imaginary sword. However today he wanted to have a discussion about it, it went a little like this...

Charlie - We are just like the Hobbit film
Me - What do you mean?
Charlie - Well I am like Bilbo Baggins and you are like that funny little monster
Me - Which one?
Charlie - Gollum

Just what every mother wants to hear!!!!