Did I Commit A Crime!!!!

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Tomorrow is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!  Don't get me wrong I Love my DD.  But how many times in a day should someone have to hear MOM?  Mom I'm bored!  Mom I 'm hungry!  Mom Can I...!  Mom where's my...!  Mom can you...!   Mom Mom Mom MOm MOm MOm MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM MOM.......!!!!!!

Lexi has gotten off to a great start this morning with 17 MOM's within 45 minutes before the bus got here.  No one to play with, nothing to do, so and so get' to go...., on and on and on.  Now tell me how special she is, LOL.

I know I'm not the only one so fess up.  Tell me how your child or doodle drives you crazy so I can feel better:))

 

[Sharon & Monty]

From the moment my daughter opened her eyes, she never stopped talking.  She had tons of "important" things that she had to share.  I can so relate to MOM, MOM, MOM, MOM, MOM.  It never stopped.  Until one day it did, she grew up. :(  Enjoy while you can.  I now have a doodle that always needs something.

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Sharon, thanks for the reminder to enjoy her.

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Oh but Tina, she really is so special!  That picture of her with Clover playing "dress up" shows how special she is.  But I totally get the "Mom, Mom, Mom" thing....for me now it's "Nana, Nana, Nana".  The thing is now they (grandkids) go home at the end of the day.  Maybe you could try a game with her.  Tell her she gets to say "Mom" only three times each hour....so she needs to plan how she's going to use those "Moms".  If she's been able to do it, at the end of the day she'll get a "special surprise".  I'd also give her one "free Mom" each day, just in case.  I also really like the Camp idea....LOL.

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Jane, I was ready to be Nana when my great niece (now DD) came to visit for a week and the rest is history.  Just thinking about her condition at that time, the Mom, Mom, Mom thing doesn't seem so bad.

I like the idea of making a game out of it this will help her develop self control skills.  Which is something we have been working on.  Thanks so much.

 

[Jane, Guinness and Murphy]

Tina, I so admire what you're doing for Lexi.  Maybe she's just so happy to have you in her life and to know that she's your daughter now, that she just loves having someone as wonderful as you to call Mom.  She probably just loves being able to say...Mom.

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Jane, I have a feeling you would do the same thing.  Thank you for the compliment.

[Lucy & AnnaBelle's Mom]

I love this idea Jane ..... you are so clever!  As for Camp, last summer my niece who was 5, turning 6 in July wanted to go to Church camp with her best friend who was 18 months older.  Church camp was 6 days and 5 nights away from home.  We were horrified when her Mother agreed to let her go -- you can't send a 5 year old to sleep away camp.  There was also a lady from her Church that was a camp counselor.  She had the best time ever ...... the pictures were adorable ...... she talked about it forever ..... oh the stories!  She was the youngest camper there and so she was well looked after.  Never got homesick and didn't want to come home!  Of course she is going back this summer!  Obviously for some kids that would never have worked, but fortunately it worked perfectly for Miss Emma!

[Adina P]

Doodle Boca: does figure eights around me and my toddler or around her or pokes us if we're trying to watch tv or doing anything on the couch.  And by figure eights I don't mean fast speedy ones...just winds around us so that my toddler inevitably falls down.  If there are 2 inches between me and a wall and LOTS of space in front of me, Boca will try to squeeze in past me within those 2 inches.   But it's mostly the poking and prodding with her snout that drives me bananas. 

 

Doodle Rosco: He's just gotten more stubborn and selectively 'deaf', more counter surfing for less and less obvious foodstuffs, and stares me down for the hour before lunch or dinner.

 

Child: She amuses me and makes me smile SOOO much I almost can't think of anything annoying.  Perhaps just 'whining' when asking for things and asking for "help help help" for all sorts of things she IS capable of doing on her own.  I'm still loving hearing "Mooooommmy" all day long, but she will get creative and call me by my first name when I don't respond to Mommy ... =)

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Natalie is at that fun stage.  My granddaughter does the same thing and uses Mom's first name if she doesn't respond. 

Squeezing between the wall and me is very annoying I have to admit.  Everyone at our house is affected by selective "deafness", lol.

[Ginny Nightingale]

Good suggestions! I remember those days too with my second daughter, especially. She wanted me to talk to her all day--her sister and little brother were more independent.

Well, now she is going to be 27 and she is trying to live her own life--too hard! I didn't hear from her other than an occasional short email for four months before she came home for Christmas and then another 4 months before she came home for mother's day--torture! I called her, but she has caller ID, so straight to the voicemail I would go. 

Really, enjoy it--I never thought I would see the day when my daughter would stop talking to me, but it came, big time. And I miss her! Hence, the three doodles I now surround myself with! LOL!

[Tina, Clover, Plus 5 More]

Not a big fan of caller ID either.  Thanks for the reminder.

[Phoebe's Mom]

I so get it!  Mom of four with my youngest being seven years old and a fabulous talker filling my day with (as he tells me) 'really good questions' and 'lots of good thoughts.'  I have them in a variety of camps plus we go to our pool club and give Phoebe lots of showers with the hose and tons of 4-5 mile walks.  I know how hard it is to hear MOM all day (believe me, I never counted but I must total 1000 times a days at least...ha ha ha) but I now have my 14 year old soon-to-be HS sophomore telling me that he has only three more years before he leaves for college.  I will take MOM all day over hearing that as it breaks this mom's heart. :(     good luck...I have 8.5 school days left!