You Know You are a Mom of Boys When... Volume 4

1-... This is what your most of your Friday/ Saturdays consist of.... football (or sports) (in this case, Clemson Spring game)

2- ... Conversation between me, Ashton, and Shepherd
Ashton- "Bennett, Shepherd said you were the worst at Minecraft."
Me- "Ashton, dont say that even if Shepherd told you that.  That is how rumors and gossip and mean words get spread.  You have the choose to stop it so it doesnt hurt someone's feelings.  Don't use your tongue as a weapon."
Shepherd- "Eww mom.  That's just gross."

3- ... During March Madness, your table looks like this.

8 brackets

The winning bracket.... Shepherd

Our family (plus our upstairs neighbors AKA, my parents) all filled out a basketball bracket.  The winner gets to pick his/ her movie. The losers have to pay for their own ticket and pitch in and pay for the winner's ticket and concession.
Welp, ol' Shepherd won... and of course, he wants to see Boss Baby.  Multiple participants in the bracket game have tried to back out of going to this movie but I told if I have to sit through it, so do you.  We watched it Tuesday night and it was... eh, pretty stupid.  Even Shep said he thought it would be funnier.  I took a picture but I know mom will not approve of the picture so I will refrain from posting it (I did put it on Instagram- haha. Mom, you will not see it on there.) :)

4- You make a deal with your 4 year old that if he will give up sucking/ sleeping with his blanket that you will buy him two stuffed Paw Patrol characters.  Marshall and Zuma should arrive at our house in a couple days and Bennett has been totally blanket free with 3 days now.  I had started rolling his blanket into a little roll so he couldnt cram as much in his mouth.  I used electrical tape to keep it tightly rolled... the little snot still figured out a way to suck a fair amount of it and because it was rolled, the moisture was more condensed and created a nasty little rash on his  mouth.  I told him that was it and we (he) agreed that a hurting mouth was not worth sucking on blankie (plus getting two Paw Patrols was a pretty good deal.)  I am very proud of him but must admit that I will kind of miss that ol' rag.

Here are some pics of good ol' blankie over the years... and they way Bennett loved it.  It really feels like we are saying good bye to a old friend

Blankets are good for carrides (and car naps)

Blankies are good for naps.

Balnkets are good for toting around Carowinds

Blankets are good for sucking in the middle of the floor.
This wasnt the true blankie but it was all he could find at the time.

Blankets are good for props in a impromptu photo shoots... Notice the progression of blanket

He realizes he is sitting on it.

Tries to get it out from under himself.

Gives up and just leans over to love it. How did my baby grow so fast!!!

5-  When the Easter baskets turn into Adidas gym sacks, Pokemon yak (have I  mentioned how much I despise Pokemon), super hero stuff, Adidas shoes/ shorts/ soccer socks, sunglasses, Wii remotes, and of course some candy.  I look at these bags/ baskets this year and see little boys growing up.

The loot

All packaged up! 

6- This posting was not as funny as many "You Know" posts, however this one is a good one to end on... Chad, the boys, and Chad's parents took the boys to Texas Roadhouse to eat lunch.  While waiting on a table, some random stranger walked by and Bennett gave him a moussie in the housie.  In case you dont know what a moussie in the housie is- well, you take your pointer finger and give a quick poke to the butt area (I really dont want to type butthole, but essentially, that is what you do.)
Anyway, I wasnt even there and I was humiliated.  We are hoping that Bennett thought it was someone in our family (that would make it a little better I suppose.)
He also tapped the butt of a little girl who is a family friend (she is Ashton's age, so 9).  She had on these little dance shorts and he just walked by and gave her heiney a little tap.  She turned around and said, "what are you doing?"  I saw it happen and immediately told him not to do that and he needed to keep his hands to himself (the little girl thought it was funny and Bennett now understands that he cant do that).  Glad he learned that lesson before 4K.  Yikes!

There you have it... a small installment of "You Know You are a Mom to Boys When..."

Easter post and pics are up next...