damn you, bridget. damn you, i say! such little foresight into the summer... and now it's too late!
what am i talking about? a bored william. for the second week in a row, most of his buds are in camps. lax camps, survival camps, how to be a millionaire camps (i think only the first is true)... camps, nevertheless! and when there is a bored william in the house everybody knows it. why didn't i sign him up for a camp myself? good question. who does he expect his play pal to be all week? ME (lindsey is here too, mind you, but she is not play pal material for william. just his parents. score!).
but this is what today will look like unless i get off my very pregnant butt and make fun for him or take him somewhere (which i do! not all the time, but i do!): he will walk in circles around the kitchen island. he can do this for give or take 10 minutes. then he'll ask me a question. something like, "can i google yachts and see if i can sell enough legos to buy one?" to which i'll say no. then he'll say, "whyyyy?" and my eyes will bug out of my head because it'll have been the 16th time i've answered the question why. then he will come and lay down on the computer room rug and lurch around, his body almost convulsing. bored seizures? i google it. they don't exist. i let him continue lurching. this goes on for about 7 minutes. then he'll ask, "can we have lunch?" we just had lunch. then, "can i call anthony?" only to get anthony's answering machine because, like all his other friends, he is at camp. he does this with about five more friends and gets all voice mails only confirming his boredom. he'll say, "i am soooo bored." this will happen give or take 43 times today.
do you get where i'm going with this?
i love you william. but you are not so good at independent play.
AND, if you haven't had enough of me, i'm over at alex's blog today too. check it out! she's pretty cool. and funny. so go.
Poor William! But soon enough you'll have lots of "jobs" for to do, right?!
ReplyDeleteAnd are you sick of people asking you if you're in labor yet?
My office runs a million camps at our university in the summer. I'm going to be all over them.
ReplyDeleteI had one dad call me last week asking about signing his first grader up. For next year. She'll finally be old enough. His words.
Dude sounded so excited I felt like I broke his heart a little bit when I told him to call back next March.
Now I know why. Maybe little girl is trying to sell their kitchen utensils to buy a pony.
@jamie, no labor yet! but i haven't been asked too many times so you can ask :)
ReplyDelete@mellyb, can i send him to your place?
and guess what - a friend just called (their mom must've read my blog). he's got a playdate. hallelujah!
Summer vacation. A parent's dream:-) xoxo
ReplyDeleteLol. Oh boy. The downsides of summer vacation. Lucky you that he's going on a playdate :) I loved your guest post. It makes me miss traveling even though I'm deathly afraid of planes. And yay for being 39 weeks.. I am so excited to see your baby.. He's going to be seriously adorable.
ReplyDeleteha my mom used to make my brother run stairs when he was bored and bugging her. literally run up and down the stairs until he'd pass out on the couch, too tired to follow her around and complain. she's a genius, that woman.
ReplyDelete@wildchild, genius is true! we have had the kids, mostly william, run laps around the house before. if only we could get him on some sort of energy-powered hamster wheel... he could supply it for the whole street!
ReplyDeleteI remember being bored like William in the summer now I would give ANYTHING to have a summer vacation with nothing to do!! Funny how things change :)
ReplyDeleteWhat an adorable post!
ReplyDeleteLauren- so true!
ReplyDeleteThere are some kids who are good at entertaining themselves and some who are not. I totally am not and I feel sorry for my mom now.
I recently saw an idea William may be able to utilize well...maybe it was on Pinterest? It's a 'Bored Jar.' Basically a jar filled with paper with with things to do, whether it be a craft, an adventure, a challenge, or even, dun dun dun, a chore. If he says "I'm bored!" He has to take a paper out of the jar! And do it!
ReplyDeleteTell William that only boring people get bored and he is NOT boring. We also have a required lap run/scooter when the convulsions and complaints start as well as the "bored jar". Ideas like: puzzles, solitaire card games, draw me a picture, read a book, throw Buddy the ball, take Buddy on a walk, make a lego castle, clean the toilets, etc. It actually works well. But having 2 other, similarly-aged-brothers helps more (at least from my perspective). I'm not even pregnant (thank you Jesus!) and I feel your pain.
ReplyDeleteYou're a great mom!!! Don't forget it. And thank God for play dates at other peoples houses.
PS I just read your guest blogpost and I love that Argentina is #1 on your places to visit. You are welcome here anytime and I promise that the vacation sex will rock here too. (Sorry, I went there too... couldn't resist.)
ReplyDelete@kristafro- i like your ideas! thank you for your message, and please... as far as the vacation sex goes, i went there too. and i bet it's good in argentina!!!! :)
ReplyDeleteFunny because I have a William as well. He doesn't handle boredom so well and we're only counting down the days to kindergarten. Oh how I look forward to school!
ReplyDeleteOh gosh. I understand. My youngest brother has to CONSTANTLY be entertained. He can't do anything by himself. He always has to be going, going, going. And when he's bored... it's the end of the world. It's a never ending, exhausting cycle.
ReplyDeleteThese two need to be friends, I think.
You are really quite funny. :)
ReplyDeleteI swear you just described my 10 year old son to a t!!!!! I found your blog last night and LOVE it :)
ReplyDelete~ Natalie Jesup,Ga
I think the fact that you didn't send him to camp is a bonus. Built in diaper changer anyone? Now all you have to do is convince him he's having fun when he's doing it.
ReplyDeleteI say make bets--is baby going to pee on the wall or isn't he?
My dad always took me to the library during the summer, and let me LOAD UP on books... maybe give that a try? : )
ReplyDeleteWelcome.to.my.world.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't I look into summer camps for my boy again? I don't have the pregnant and tired excuse.
I just genuinely suck.
Can you get him to Canada? If so, I have a playmate here who is as bored as William is.
xo
babymama
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i love how honest you are! it makes me feel better to know other people feel similar to me when i roll my eyes and want to pull my hair out when the kids i nanny for are being ridiculous!
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