Are we the only ones?
Are we the only family whose possessions fall out of our car every time we open the door?
The only family where an underwear-wearing-only kid falls asleep on the sofa?
The only family whose two-year-old son is neither potty-trained nor able to communicate in traditionally “normal” manners?
The only family whose son associates every animal not with its proper name but by the noise that the animal makes?
Are we the only family who can never locate matching socks and whose son seems to be always sporting seasonally inappropriate footwear?
The only family that says “yes” when their child asks, “Can we make popsicles out of this pickle juice?”
The only family that lets their kids eat food in the car despite countless declarations that food would no longer be allowed in said car?
The only family that has a kitchen table frequently featuring a slimy green creature in a mason jar as some sort of living centerpiece?
Are we the only family whose children dress up for Halloween, even when it’s not Halloween, as characters from television shows they have neither heard of nor watched?
Anyway, just curious.
8 Comments
Lara
Well, in our house there are no sons, so we have daughters fall asleep on the couch in their underwear…usually on top of multiple loads of laundry. Other than the fact that there are no boys in our house, everything else sounds just like our house!! Glad to know we're not the only ones!!
Barbara
Lacey, your family is totally normal… just remember, everyone has their own definition of normal… but everything mentioned soons very normal to me! (and my kids are older!)
Julianna
is it totally normal for someone who came over to dinner to fall asleep on your couch and proceed to stay there the entire night? 🙂
LaceyKeigley
Totally normal.
Yes it is. 🙂
Meghan
we refer to animals by their sounds too…at least well into their 2nd or 3rd year….and my children are most often in underwear/diapers only, although I can never get them to fall asleep anywhere other than at bedtime in their beds… we also, as parents, say things like "fridgerfrater" and "cheese popsicle" and "plip plops" instead of normal variations of refridgerator, string cheese, flip flops. You know, totally. normal.
LaceyKeigley
I hear you.
And sometimes it's sort of sad when the kids begin to actually say the words correctly.
Sally
Yep. You're a loner here. Because we never have to step back from the car when we open car doors, in fear of being washed away by weeks-old french fries and run-down tractor toys. And I would certainly not think of having socks unpaired, in the basket that should be holding our library books.
🙂
Lacey
Sometimes when I view our car through other people's eyes – I am both disgusted and ashamed.
But mostly, I just don't care.