You have GOT to be kidding me!?!@#$#$#!!!@!#$!#$

I try to live by the mantra, "if you're going to laugh at this situation later, you may as well laugh now" I really try not to take myself so serious, really I try........But I sometimes have an inner battle going on between thinking how witty Carson is, and what I should be teaching him. No one wants to have wild children especially when you take them places and they embarrass you. I want to have well-behaved children who know how to have fun, but

remember how they should act when they are in a public place. I believe that in order to teach that, a child needs boundaries and consistency.....................which will be barricades at our house this week..........

Garry had a gig that was for the 21 & older club tonight, and I wanted to go so we decided to leave the kids with Garry's parents. On our way out the door, Carson was trying to sneak his DS and some lego dudes. I told him no and after a bit of a fit he handed them over. After which he reminded me that he didn't have pockets so that was all (clue #1). I didn't think anything about it I thought it was slightly strange when pulled up at the end of the evening, Carson went running across Garry's parents house, and in the back of my mind I thought what is he trying to hide? But that was as far as I thought. We stayed for a few minutes, and as we were getting ready to leave, he dropped one of his little lego dudes on the floor and Natalie picked it up. He looked at me all sheepish, and said, "oops!" Where'd she get that??? Once again, I figured he had just snuck one, still not even beginning to grasp where he might have snuck it...........

So....how many of these......

do you suppose you can fit in a pair of these, and let's not even begin to talk about comfort........

7, that's how many!!#$!@#! Carson thought he was SOOOOOOO funny. And sadly it was all I could do to keep a straight face. I mean that honestly could not have been comfortable. He gets so bound and determined that he is going to do something and no one is going to stop him.

I firmly believe in natural consequences..........You sneak lego's...........lego's go away for as of yet an undetermined amount of time............Carson even helped me put them all in the bin, still acting all smug like he had pulled off the crime of the century. You know what finally set him off, and made him angry................................................I mixed up his lego's and put the ones in the drawer in with the ones in the bin........... He believed that to be the end of the world this evening.

I felt very proud of myself for no screaming, or threats of spanks, but simply reminding the boy that you do the crime, you do the time.....................

Sometimes it is hard to teach your kid a lesson, when really I want to laugh at his creativity.