Sunday, May 29, 2011

grammy and the flyflap

This has been another weekend of life lessons learned.  For me.  For Maddie.  And especially for Jack.
I learned:
If you spray Scrubbing Bubbles on the shower walls then climb in naked and wipe the walls down with an old rag, you can then wash (with a clean puff, not that old rag) while still standing in said shower.

End result: a sparkling clean shower, and sparkling clean mmm....self.  Two tasks done and dusted in one step.  Sort of.




Maddie learned:
Girls are strong.  And boys are lazy.  Especially if those boys are your cousin and your brother.


Jack learned the importance of the order you don  your clothes and accessories:

The helmet always goes on first.  Even if your grammy and gramps are laughing at you wearing only your underwear and helmet.  You don't give an inch.  Because every 6 year old knows what is important in life.

I also learned:
You can stop a whining kid tattling on another kid dead in their tracks with a flyflap:
Jack: Maddie just hit me in the head with the light saber!
Me: Come here and I'll hit you with the flyflap. (sotto voce)
Jack: What?!
Me: Come here and I will hit you with the flyflap.
Jack: But Maddie hit me with the light saber!
Me: Come here and I will hit you with the flyflap.
Jack: Why you gonna hit me with the flyflap?  Maddie hit me with the light saber!
Me: Because when I hit you with the flyflap, it will make you forget all about that tap with the light saber.  Because tattle tales get hit with fly flaps.
Jack: (BIG eyes and silence.  Then he turned and walked quietly away)

*Grammy wins again*

Jack looks sad to be leaving doesn't he? 

This was the last lesson he learned today:

There are no McDonalds' on the way home from my house.




Here endeth the lesson.

9 comments:

  1. FUNNY! We call it a flyflap too...love it!

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  2. Thanks PCN...that flyflap does way more swatting than flapping around our house :D
    ~cath
    @jonesbabie on Twitter

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  3. I learned the cleaning the shower trick a couple of years ago. I was tired of wet bleached clothes so naked was the only way to go. Love the photo of the helmets.

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  4. @hocam: My oldest daughter just arrived to pick up the kids and read the post and said "you don't know to clean the shower naked?...I've done that for years!" Which proves you are never too old to learn new tricks. :D Thanks Mary..I like the helmet photo too :D
    ~cath
    @jonesbabie on Twitter

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  5. Love the shower trick! I should do that, only problem we have 4 showers here at the hostel :( Maybe I will be super clean :)

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  6. Count me among the naked shower cleaners! Been doing it for years.

    I like Maddie's lesson best :)

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  7. @Nelieta: You would be squeeky clean! :D

    @Kathy: Where have I been all those years? I feel so naive...and...dirty... :D :D

    ~cath xo
    @jonesbabie on Twitter

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  8. We always called it a fly swatter. Never heard fly flap before! Funny.

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  9. @Barbara: that is what we call it in our family but I am not sure where the word came from...I think it was part of my indoctrination into the south :D

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