you know you’re a parent when..

Hehe the other day hubby and i were driving along childless and I said look theres an airplane and he pointed out that he isnt really interested in seeing every airplane that goes past and the kids arent in the car now.
Great now i have jack in the box in my head.

whats also really sad is that when someone says yummy, i think to myself 'fruit salad, yummy yummy'

how sad are we!!!

oh why oh why did i read this thread.. about to go to bed and now have multiple sad kids siongs stuck in my head.. that and Agadoo from reading Robyn's other post.

ARRRGGH!!

Oh I did a post on my blog about this last year! It's sooo similar to what you guys where saying. Except written when I was a nanny... it's pretty long but I've copied and pasted it anyway...




The Realisation

On the way home from work tonight, I caught myself doing something I was embarrassed about. No, not speeding, and no I didn't give the finger to the guy who pulled out in front of me. I was singing. Now this is nothing unusual for me, as I don't have a radio in my old lil car, so I often sing. And when it's raining, I sing in time to the windscreen wipers - as I was tonight. It's not the singing I was embarrassed about, it's what I was singing.

It was a very upbeat version of Baa Baa Black Sheep. In time with the windscreen wipers. And I didn't realise it until I'd been driving for at least 5 minutes.

So I had a little laugh at myself. Then a few minutes later, I realised I'd started singing again - this time it was There Was a Great Big Moose. So I stopped myself. And a few more minutes down the road, it was Baa Baa Black Sheep again. I swear, it was like a never-ending circle that I just couldn't stop!

See, the 2 1/2 year olds favourite song at the moment is Baa Baa Black Sheep - it has been for a while, and when I want him to sit still for teeth brushing or hair washing, I just sing that song. And the older kids like the Moose song. I sing them both many many times each time I'm there, so of course it's natural I just keep going when I leave...

So on the way home, I started composing a list in my head.


You know you've been doing childcare long enough when:

8. You can recognise the "I need to pee" dance a mile off.

7. You somehow seem to find room on your lap for 3 children.

6. Poo? Nothing.

5. You can simultaniously feed one child, wipe another's nose and watch another do a handstand, all while singing "there was a great big moose".

4. When your husband doesn't want his vegetables, you offer him one chocolate raisin after dinner if he eats them.

3. You can easily read "Where's Spot?" seven times in a row.

2. The baby covers you with a combination of snot, spit and baby food, and you're not phased at all.

1. You sing "baa baa black sheep" when you're driving by yourself, and only realise you're doing so after the seventh run through.

ha ha, we're a hi-5 house too. and yep its always int he cd player, so i pout my music on then once that cds finished it skips over to the hi-5 and i don't even realise till it's halfway thru and i've been singing along to it for ages.. again no kids at home.

Kobes preschool is very PC and they sing baa baa rainbow sheep! Couldnt figure out what the heck he was singing for ages until I heard them one day when i was there.

You know you're a parent when...

you laugh through a thread like this one, go to read something else and then think "Hang on a minute, I've done at least one of those things!"

Or in my case, most of those things!

"Hey there shakey-shakey... shaking is fun to do..."

Paws wrote: "Make some noise, Make a sound, make some music to dance around too, make some noise, make a sound, make some music to dance around too, jump up and down too, sing out loud too, making music for you!" *ahem*

OOOOO, thats my favourite - Gen, you have to go to a Hi-5 show next time.