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fattartsrock
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Topic: you know youre a parent when.. Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:39pm |
I know it's been done, but I'm too lazy to look
You know you're a parent when...
You have friken wiggles songs going round in your head all day instead of normal songs (toot toot chuga luga big red car..) or songs from mainly music (got one going round now.. Jack inthe box, jack in the box nice and still, will you come out, will you come out, YES I WILL.. my hands are shaking, shaking, shaking, my hands are shaking JUST LIKE THIS..)
And, you find yourself going "Look!! big truck/car/train/bus/ass/hair/zit" when you are in the car ALONE...
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:42pm |
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.
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:47pm |
*evil laugh* I'm happy to share, it's driving me nuts.. still, it took me 2 days to get big red car out of my head..
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:49pm |
whats also really sad is that when someone says yummy, i think to myself 'fruit salad, yummy yummy'
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:50pm |
ME TOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! and do the actions...
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 9:55pm |
how sad are we!!!
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 10:43pm |
aggh the wiggles have alot to answer too. james just got his frist wiggles dvd and i already know most of the songs by heart and tonight had wags the dog braks all day and night in my head its driving me bonkers
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Posted: 20 June 2007 at 11:02pm |
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!!
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 6:26am |
I yelled to lewis yesterday in the car."look at the lambies" and he told me it wasn't that interesting...no, no kids in the car.
the worst thing is when you have a kids cd in the car going, you sing along (as you do) and about 2 minutes before you get to your destination, realise there are no kids in the car and YOU COULD'VE HAD ANY BLOODY MUSIC YOU WANT!!!
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 7:46am |
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.
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 8:44am |
When you're pretty sure you could stand in for one of the Hi 5 members if called too!
Not wiggles in our house...Hi 5...I won't admit to how many songs I know or how often I find myself humming them or what actions I know to go with the songs.
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 9:24am |
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.
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 9:24am |
I have a rule that I am planning on never breaking. No kids music in the car cd player. My car, my music! Jake likes my music anyway, he boogies and hand claps away at it all (and goes to sleep nicely if its Salmonella Dub, thats our sleepy time music!)
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 9:45am |
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.
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 9:49am |
mum2paris wrote:
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. |
"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!"
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 11:24am |
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!
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 1:49pm |
"can you point.. your fingers and do the twist..."
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 1:51pm |
"Hey there shakey-shakey... shaking is fun to do..."
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 2:05pm |
my2angels wrote:
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. |
yep james childcare do the same and i went mad at the techers frist there are no rainbow sheep and yes there are black sheep but they are rear i cant stand this pc stuff drives me nuts soo its black sheep here
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Posted: 21 June 2007 at 2:07pm |
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!"
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OOOOO, thats my favourite - Gen, you have to go to a Hi-5 show next time.
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