Thanks so much for agreeing to babysit my boys! They are so excited to play with someone new. It's kind of strange that you haven't shown up, as I thought you were going to be over yesterday. I'm sure you have a good excuse. Anyway, when you DO finally arrive and if you are looking for things to do with them, I'd recommend that you forget parks like this...
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and toys like these...
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| I'm actually BEGGING you on this one. Legos are not our friends. The critical pieces run & hide. Other pieces seek to inflict awful pain on your barefeet. There are also millions of them. MILLIONS. http://www.utne.com/ |
and possibly even this place...
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| Not that you were going to whisk them away to Florida... Were you?! http://www.britsinamerica.us/ |
and just give my sons access to any or all of these...
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| WHEEEEE!!! Hey, let's jam the door so that no one can get in or out! So awesome!! www.commercialdoorcompany.com |
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| BOPBOPBOPBOPBOPBOPBOPBOPBOP!!!! (The sound of the it being opened & closed, of course.) www.ricklax.com |
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| If they were in this store, their feet would either be sticking right out in the open from inside the rack or they would try to be "camouflaging" themselves by standing directly in front of the rack begging to be found. www.facebook.com |
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The 6-year-old will try to salt each chip at a Mexican restaurant. The 3-year-old will want to copy. You will want to throw both shakers into a nearby plant. You may also try to hide in the nearby plant. www.terilus.blogspot.com |
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| The goal here is to either knock one of the stands down. In another type of barricade, the goal would be to snap the belt back into the pedestal/stand thingy. The overall goal is to make you pull all of your hair out. www.brassfinders.com |
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| This is an especially popular attraction in public restrooms where strangers are present. www.faqs.com |
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| The boys want to do their own waving. They would like to be solely responsible for beckoning the paper towel from the dispenser. Paper towels given to them might as well be covered in koala poo. www.beehivehairdresser.com |
They will be entertained for hours!
GOD BE WITH YOU.
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What about the front seat of the car? They could just sit there in the driveway for hours, feeling like little badasses because they get to sit in the FRONT SEAT!!!! That works for my kids anyway :P I'll be over around 6.
My son enjoys emptying my wallet, one piece at a time, then takes each note (yes, real money) and puts them all over the place. It's a real fun game of hide and seek!
My youngest likes to go through my purse and pull every single item out.
My 2 year old likes to line up his matchbox cars in a perfectly straight line all the way across the living room. God help you if you even think about going near it!
There's playing games on my smartphone, going back and forth un the table in a restaurant, kicking the back of my seat in the car and jumping down several steps.
What?
My son loves going to restaurant loos on his own. But then he calls me to lift him up to reach soap. Paper towels always the winner. Oh and licking salt shakers. Every single time!
Wonna split a sitter?
Too funny! Thanks for the great laugh this morning-
What about pats of butter? I know those keep Meg entertained -- and thoroughly greasy -- when we are out.
I think your kids and my kids would get along very, very well!
Having raised 3 boys....I can identify!
ROFL!!!!!!!! You covered every major thing that kids love that drive us crazy. Just last night my daughter was flicking my bedroom light on and off and looking in fascination at the light as if doing it for the very first time. Personally I still like the rotating door.
Ok, maybe it's just me, but I think turning the light on and off in a public bathroom while there are strangers in there is HILARIOUS!!!
In my experience nothing is so entertaining as a ginormous cardboard box. Little boys have this in common with cats, although cats have a different standard for 'ginormous'.
I've said on a number of occasions for people not to buy my kids Christmas presents, just give them a big package of red Solo cups. Best toy ever.
When you find this babysitter, let me know b/c I am sending my kids over too. They LOVE to play in the bathroom.
I used to love doing all of the above as a kid. Great minds ... am I right?
Hilarious post even to non-parents.
Oh wait! Did you say salt on the chips? Or must take a trip? Where are the instructions on the fridge?!!! HELP!!!
So funny! I remember playing with some of these things when I was little, and now Trinity's favorite department store game is hiding in clothing racks... Gotta love cheap entertainment!
Ah yes the salt and pepper shakers - UGH! Funny stuff Kelley - hadn't thought of the rope..
Don't forget the kitchen cupboards!
Pearl
What about riding UNDER the cart, on that rack where cases of soda and large boxes of Tide are supposed to be hauled? Or sitting UNDER the restaurant table on everybody's feet? My kids were definitely clothes rack dwellers.
The car alarm key fob, the garlic press, knives at the table of nice restaurants.....
Oh yes, those line dividers! Hate hate this things. You would think after one fell over on Alex's head they would learn their lesson!
Great post KKelley, and I think this just proves that boys are so much lower maintenance than girls, we can play with anything (I'm mean innocent things, don't go there!) Your boys sound like a lot of fun.
You have pretty much got them all covered. Except that blasted elevator button. My kids love the elevator button. Oh, and the blood pressure machine at the grocery store.
I'm not proud to admit this, but sometimes I send my son into the middle of the clothing racks on purpose just to get a break while shopping. I tell him to look for hidden treasures which buys me at least 10 minutes.
Grocery baskets. I'm paranoid they're going to take the skin off the back of my heel like I did to my mom when I was 8.
Soda machines at fast food places.
That stupid extra seat belt on the back-back row of my SUV. It stows away in the ceiling but the kids are constantly pulling it out. It just hangs there in the middle of my line of sight when I look out the rearview mirror.
The baby. She's 18 months old and they still think she's a toy. This one works out quite well, since it occupies at least 2 of the kids. All 4 if they get into a big argument.
Mine likes shoes and slippers...wait, that's my dog Archie...But I'm sure if he could do all those things, he WOOF..I mean would!
LoL. Agree with all of them but you forgot escalators. Those are entertainment for hours at the mall. LoL.
the clothing racks just perplex me. and my boys? say they smell like hamburgers. i have no idea.
Very funny. I personally wish I'd never let my 7 yr old touch my iPhone bc now he's obsessed with it.
YES, the camper is soooo worth it. We bought ours used 6 years ago and LOVE it. The very best part is staying dry and having space when it (invariably) rains.
I thought we were trading kids?? I'll glady take a 6 and a 3 - you can have my meloncholy 14, up and down 11 and sassy 9. They like keyboards, laptops, remote controls, wallets with money, xbox and lots and lots of unhealthy snacks.
Jeez I wish I were one of your kids ... I would love to play with all of that stuff. Honestly though I know from experience that stepping on Lego heads is NOT as painful as stepping on the salt and pepper shaker tops!! W.C.C.
Thank you. I don't feel like a bad mother after reading this. Or, at least, not like the *only* bad mother...
I just laughed so hard. All the non toys that our kids love to play with. We invest so much time with books and educational games and workbooks and then they want to spend hours and hours with the cones the construction workers forgot to pick up, you know the ones, all greasy and black and the kids say it's their best found treasure all year. LOL
HO-LY CRAP! For serious! My kid is the exact same way! What the heck is it about those line stanchion things! When I worked at Cold Stone back in the day I literally developed a twitch because of all the kids that would not leave those things alone!!
Gosh! Instead of going to Aquatica yesterday we could have gone shopping, let the girls get lost under the racks and made pit stops to the dirty smelly public restrooms for fun with the paper towel machines, except ours here locally are so lazy they never actually fill the damn things and i'm running out of the bathroom with wet hands to use napkins out of my car because us Mothers actually know how to keep this shit in our compartments:)
Hilarious. Mine like those movie theatre stand thingys too! Especially at the post office and the workers give them the "I'm-going-to-go-postal-on-your-kid-if-he-doesn't-stop" look.
Really.
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