the cleaning fairy, or I finally win one.

The cleaning fairy visits

So the little green monster was moody all morning, so I asked him

“What’s wrong, monster?”

“Mom, mom.  I never telled you this before but I used to have a fairy and daddy did too but now they are gone and that makes me sad.”

“Oh why did they go? I don’t know they just did. Mine was named Tinkerbelle and she would come when I whistled.  Dad’s was named bob.  And ever since I had a little sister she won’t come any more and that makes me sad!”

“ I don’t think she stopped coming because of your little sister…”

“I think she did, maybe we’ll have to get rid of sister”

“But wouldn’t you miss her too? A lot?”

“yeah probably”

“maybe she left because your room is too messy, and she didn’t like to come over anymore to play, she might get stuck!”

“ MOM! I think your right! I’m going to go clean my room.”

(his actual filthy room)

And he did

I’m pretty sure that was a jedi mind trick. I successfully navigated four year old logic and won!

Have you ever had a similar win?

A love affair with broccoli

A love affair with broccoli

Sorry readers it has been so long I’m trying to learn to balance school home and still writing this blog for fun.

So lately the little green monster has been really interested in temporary tattoos.  Finding myself out of them and in need of a bribe I told him I would DRAW a tattoo with markers on him as long as he promised  not to draw on himself. He agreed , so I told him that he could have any tattoo he wanted…and this is what we got…

 (sorry it's hard to see he'd already had a bath)

What is it? a tree? Cloud? An explosion? Nope it’s broccoli. I told him I’d draw anything and he chose broccoli.

That was a few weeks ago, but I was reminded of it today  during snack time,  he wanted a bowl of whonu cookies and milk. I vetoed that(go figure) and set him down with a bowl of broccoli and a glass for milk. I look over and he’s dipping his broccoli in milk. Delish.

I’m just going to jot this down as a mommy win and hope he always loves his broccoli!