Wow, I miss the carefree days of staying at home. I like my job but I miss the time I used to spend with my girls. The baby is growing up so fast she turned three this month and she is just like having your own personal tornado. You pull her out of one thing only to turn around and find a mess where she used to be. I think most of what she does I miss now that I am working outside the home. I mostly notice how much she tries and usually succeeds in being just like her older sisters (8) and (16).

I am thinking I should check into what it would take for my family to be product testers for child safety items. Well let me explain. My dh bought a child safety lock to put on the refrigerator because dd3 would get into it constantly eating up all the cheese and doing finger art in the butter as well as dragging out or just eating whatever she fancied. We have found all kinds of lovely things in the refrigerator like little footprints, shoes, the TV remote and whatever she wants to hide from us so that she can keep us from doing something she didn’t want us to. Like changing the channel on the TV or putting on her shoes that she decided she didn’t like.

Anyway, He put it on and went to the living room, in comes dd3 with cheese. He goes, “Hey how did you open the refrigerator? To which dd3 responds, “Here, Daddy I show you just like this.” and opens the lock. Did I mention that the instructions say to desist use of the product when child defeats it. I noticed they don’t mention refund if the child defeats it in the first five minutes you have it.

My dh and I were discussing the future with this darling little one as she grows up. Doesn’t it already sound exciting? She is so fast and so smart. She is a little Houdini as well. We have locks on several doors in the house just to keep her out of everything. We will find her pouring out all the body wash or using it as lotion or using half a bottle of lotion to cover her little body. And I just love it when she opens up all the tampons. You know my dh loves that one as well. No, not really, He calls our house “the estrogen hell of his own making“. I can’t really blame him I am a little overwhelmed with all the girly stuff as well. I was always kind of a tomboy myself. I like to dress up occasionally but not very often I am much more about comfort. Not the oldest or the youngest they are much more about how pretty can I look. The middle one doesn’t really care right now. I am sure that will change one day but for now we just remind her to take a bath whether she thinks she needs it or not. She would much more prefer a shower but every time she does that our bathroom looks like it is in the middle of the rainforest. I don’t understand how you can get water all over the bathroom when you have shower doors but if you think it is impossible or at least very difficult my children will prove it can be done with great ease.

Sorry I was talking about the future with dd3. She will grab someone’s cell phone when they aren’t looking and proceed to call people. Now the scary part about this is she doesn’t always grab the same person’s phone but she always knows who she is calling. I find that amazing since we all have different people in different speed dial spots. Anyway my dh and I were talking about how we would have to deal with her in the future. Right, we were thinking about grounding her from her cell phone or the computer… My dh says “Heck as good as she is on the computer (Did I mention that she loves to IM and type or talk as she calls it.) I’ll ground her from them and she will have me locked out.” Yep our future AARP years are going to be very busy, teaching a teenager to drive or who knows it maybe some kind of flight license by then and taking all kinds of technology classes just to stay one step ahead of the little genius we birthed. I better figure on some better retirement funds. I’ll go get on that right after I go clean up the latest mess... ‘til next time…