Raise your hand if there are days when you get really tired of hearing, “Mommy!” all day long. For me, today is one of those days. I’m looking forward to 8pm, because that means a reprieve from:
“Mommy, look at this!”
“Mommy, what me!”
“Mommy, look what I made!”
“Mommy, you see this?”
“Mommy, I want…”
“Mommy, can I…”
“Mommy, look at Ryan”
“Mommy, I need…”
GAH. I need an answering service, because Mommy isn’t here right now!
Name: Alyssa
Name: Ryan

Uhhg, how is it that kids can see you wishing you’d have some sort of emergency just to not be talked to anymore for the next five minutes and yet still become more insistent? I thought feeling invisible was something kids had to develop, but no- as soon as they learn names they learn to smack you in the face while repeatedly calling yours!! ‘I’m right here!! Can you see me? I’m the annoying thing jumping on your lap screaming in your face!!!’
Gotta love em!
@P.A. What I really love is how they could be absolutely quiet and self-entertaining for an hour or more, yet the minute I pick up the phone to make a call they’re suddenly in my face, talking to me, wanting stuff, or worse yet, squealing and shrieking because they’re playing or squabbling with one another. And the more important the phone call is, the louder they will be!