Impressed
March 20, 2007
Yesterday, in the midst of the after school rush of snacks and homework, it got unusually quiet. Eerie. Then I heard Dylan gasp.
“WHAT DID YOU DO?” Dylan bellowed from upstairs.
I ran up the stairs to a billow of smoke in the bedroom hallway, turned the corner into Thomas’ room and everything was white.
Baby powder covered every surface of the tiny room. Thomas looked at me, saw the shock on my face, and began to cry and say “I’m sowwy, I’m sowwy.”
Dylan stood there scowling at his brother, and I started to laugh. My brother and I had done the exact same thing in the bathroom when we were little. No one was hurt, the vaccuum would take care of it, and it smelled nice.
My kids stood there staring at me, until I finally said, “It’s okay. I’m not impressed, but it’s okay.”
I shooed them out and cleaned up the mess within 10 minutes and carried on.
At dinner, Thomas ate very little and began his silliness routine of running around, pounding on the hardwood, generally being a loud kid.
I called him over to where I was sitting and asked him, “Are you finished eating your dinner?”
He looked me in the eye and said, “Yes. ARE YOU IMPRESSED?”
March 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
The silence is always worrisome.
March 20th, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Oh my son has done that before!! Too funny!! So….were you impressed by him being finished eating?
March 20th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
ROFLMAO. Okay..that is HILARIOUS. I just want to know if you kept a straight face after he said that
‘Cause me…I’d a been laughing off my chair.
March 20th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Dude……come to think of it,it’s quiet HERE right now…..
March 20th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
That is hysterical.
March 20th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
I’m impressed, he’s pretty smart!
March 20th, 2007 at 9:46 pm
He is a very smart kid. He makes me giggle lol. If it weren’t for these little clips of your daily life with them, I’d go crazy missing the little guys!
March 21st, 2007 at 8:52 am
Now that’s funny; I don’t care who you are!
March 21st, 2007 at 12:32 pm
Way to keep them on their toes!
March 21st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
ha! That’s so cute! What a doll!
March 21st, 2007 at 10:06 pm
why yes, I am!
What a cutie. And I’m impressed that you didn’t lose your cool, too!
thank you both for the grin
March 22nd, 2007 at 1:20 am
It’s ok with me if kids express that kind of behavior. I’ve done such things when I was a kid. It’s good that he knew what he did was wrong.
March 22nd, 2007 at 10:33 pm
Children have their own special way of giving joy to their parents.
Your son probably did impressed you. He is a smart boy.