Five is getting dangerous
Five is starting to get dangerous. For awhile, C has been getting up on the weekends and for the most part, going downstairs and watching tv while letting us sleep in a bit more. She knows how to work the remote, and can make herself some cereal for breakfast (it gets a little messy, but it's so worth it for the extra sleep!).
One Sunday morning she decided she'd like some cucumber for breakfast. Not a problem, it's a veggie, right? Except. She cut it up. Herself. With a knife. A butter knife, but a knife nonetheless. So we had the lecture about asking a grownup for help the next time she wants to use a knife.
The next weekend she gets up and goes downstairs. After a while she comes back upstairs and starts complaining that the "numbers are going too fast". Numbers? Going too fast? This is all too much to comprehend first thing in the morning. Apparently she saw a commercial that was selling cake decorating tools (Betty Crocker something) and wanted it. Because she wanted a cake that she decorated with a butterfly and grass. She actually pushed the chair over to the phone, got it and started dialing.
Today, D finds her one digit away from connecting to an operator to order AquaDots. You have to laugh, especially when you ask her where she would tell the person to send them, she's not 100 percent on the address!
Although, it might be a fun experiment to see if she actually could order something, not being 18 or having a credit card.
posted by Sue at 9:50 PM
4 Comments:
Let's how she and Son #1 don't get together to conspire...he's been getting credit card solicitation for years now. I've called and written the company to no avail. You'd think the fact that he 7 (at the time) and unemployed would get their attention, but noooooo.... I finally got annoyed so I'd return the application with his name and age (only) written in crayon using their own postage-paid envelope.
My kids aren't so great with the phone, but boy, do they have the dot.com down pat. "Mom, you order by going to www. ..." Oy vey!
that should read "let's hope..." Not enough caffeine yet this morning.
Elle, she knows the whole dot com routine too! She gets excited and says "they have a dot com" we can go to!
I have a feeling if she ever did make a call, somehow she'd come up with however many numbers make up a credit card number and with her luck, it'd be someone's actual credit card number...
I can't stop laughing! My kids want aquadots too. Unfortunately mine wont go downstairs and get something to eat OR turn on the TV. Something about having Mommy up and paying attentiom to them at 6:30 am is more invigorating for them.
We have a rule in our house that we don't buy anything off the tv. As in, "don't beg for that horrible doll that pushes around in the baby walker that you see on the commercial".
Although, aquadots look kind of cool.
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