Next Stop....HOME!!!
Mindless Ramblings and other useless thoughts
My 3 year old has this habit of yelling out our itinerary when we leave one place and go to another. I'm not exactly sure how it started, but it is now a habit. We all pile into the car into our assigned seats since there are various types of car seats attatched to the ones the manufactures put in. As we do so, strapping each child into their law required additional seat, she will say "NEXT STOP..." Sometimes she finishes the sentence, others she wants me to fill in the blank and match her enthusiasm. Today while leaving playgroup she happily got into her seat and said "NEXT STOP..." and I echoed her enthusiam and said "HOME!"
This was not the correct answer. She is now refusing to get into her seat. I'm not sure where they get ideas, but she impatiently informed me that our next stop would be Pizza Hut. Um, no, I calmly tell her, we are going home. 3 year olds are not calm rational people. She starts to yell at my why Home is not an option. That Pizza Hut NEEDS to be our next stop. Then the part I hate: The tears. Not sure why she thought we were eating lunch out. Yes, we do occasionally eat at Pizza Hut after play group (Ok in our 3 years of going, we have done it maybe 10 times, and we go to play group 2 times a month!). I once again tell her we will be going home for lunch. I correctly figure out that eating is the driving force of Pizza Hut and think this battle is over. She lets me strap her in, and I get into "daddy's seat" so I can drive home.
Tears and yelling start again shortly after manuvering the family car into traffic. "Next Stop The Bread Store!" "No, we went to the bread store yesterday. We are going home for lunch. Next Stop HOME!". She pouts, but resigns herself to the fact that we are going home for lunch.
We do get home without further incident. Lunch is PB&J on rolls from the bread store. Her opinion? "I want orange crakers that are square in the cavinet" (She is 3 and still has some mispronouncd words. When I speak in her language, I use her spellings LOL!) After some mommy detective work, I figure out she wants some cheeze its. She is right. They are orange, square and in the cabinet she pointed to. Handful of them sooth all tears.
Oh to be 3 again. To be chauffered from one activity to another. To have your meals placed in front of you, and even have some imput to make them more to your liking! To be SENT TO YOUR ROOM! By yourself! Why doesn't anyone ever send me to my room? I think I need a time out!
But not today. After I get more laundry going, I have to get dinner going, then I have to intercept my almost 5YO and pile everyone in the car again. "Next stop...Dentist!". I will say it with such enthusiasm that not one of them question the motivation and not one of them have a glimmer of doubt that this is going to be a fun ride! Ah yes. That is where it started. This mom's attempt to get everyone in the car and into their seats in time to get wherever we are going. Even the dentist. The 3 YO will no doublt look forward to "Next stop home!" As we leave the dentist later today. That is, of course, unless she is hungry!
My 3 year old has this habit of yelling out our itinerary when we leave one place and go to another. I'm not exactly sure how it started, but it is now a habit. We all pile into the car into our assigned seats since there are various types of car seats attatched to the ones the manufactures put in. As we do so, strapping each child into their law required additional seat, she will say "NEXT STOP..." Sometimes she finishes the sentence, others she wants me to fill in the blank and match her enthusiasm. Today while leaving playgroup she happily got into her seat and said "NEXT STOP..." and I echoed her enthusiam and said "HOME!"
This was not the correct answer. She is now refusing to get into her seat. I'm not sure where they get ideas, but she impatiently informed me that our next stop would be Pizza Hut. Um, no, I calmly tell her, we are going home. 3 year olds are not calm rational people. She starts to yell at my why Home is not an option. That Pizza Hut NEEDS to be our next stop. Then the part I hate: The tears. Not sure why she thought we were eating lunch out. Yes, we do occasionally eat at Pizza Hut after play group (Ok in our 3 years of going, we have done it maybe 10 times, and we go to play group 2 times a month!). I once again tell her we will be going home for lunch. I correctly figure out that eating is the driving force of Pizza Hut and think this battle is over. She lets me strap her in, and I get into "daddy's seat" so I can drive home.
Tears and yelling start again shortly after manuvering the family car into traffic. "Next Stop The Bread Store!" "No, we went to the bread store yesterday. We are going home for lunch. Next Stop HOME!". She pouts, but resigns herself to the fact that we are going home for lunch.
We do get home without further incident. Lunch is PB&J on rolls from the bread store. Her opinion? "I want orange crakers that are square in the cavinet" (She is 3 and still has some mispronouncd words. When I speak in her language, I use her spellings LOL!) After some mommy detective work, I figure out she wants some cheeze its. She is right. They are orange, square and in the cabinet she pointed to. Handful of them sooth all tears.
Oh to be 3 again. To be chauffered from one activity to another. To have your meals placed in front of you, and even have some imput to make them more to your liking! To be SENT TO YOUR ROOM! By yourself! Why doesn't anyone ever send me to my room? I think I need a time out!
But not today. After I get more laundry going, I have to get dinner going, then I have to intercept my almost 5YO and pile everyone in the car again. "Next stop...Dentist!". I will say it with such enthusiasm that not one of them question the motivation and not one of them have a glimmer of doubt that this is going to be a fun ride! Ah yes. That is where it started. This mom's attempt to get everyone in the car and into their seats in time to get wherever we are going. Even the dentist. The 3 YO will no doublt look forward to "Next stop home!" As we leave the dentist later today. That is, of course, unless she is hungry!
posted by Elena at 1:27 PM
3 Comments:
yeh, I wanna be sent to my room too! LOL
Great work here, Elena. Very easy reading, and it holds ones attention. Was that your friend who said its a newspaper column in the making? He might be right.
Kudos to you!
~kim
Yes, Rick is my friend, the best man at our wedding, and the guy lucky enough to have one of our children named after!
I used to love having him hang around us...DH would send US on dates when DH was out of town! And when we bought this house, he moved in, too!! Then he went and got a life, found a wonderful woman that would tolerate him long term, married her, and then moved out of state!
I miss you, Rick!
~Elena
Ditto kiddo.
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