This post brought to you by Clorox // Did you know that National Parents Day is coming up? I for one, would like to nominate myself for the National Parent award. My house is spotless 100% of the time, not a pillow out of place. My children behave like angels at home and in public. They were all potty trained within their first year and never have they ever had any accidents from that point forward. Never have we ever had spilled milk at the dinner table or a dryer lint explosion in laundry room… ok, well the last one did happen… yesterday. So, I may have exaggerated a bit… Let's be honest with ourselves. Life is messy sometimes… Life is silly and together it can be messy fun.
Case in point… my son.
This photo pretty much sums up all of my efforts at potty training the boy. He is far more interested in wearing the toilet seat, than sitting on it an using it as it is intended. Every ounce of me is cringing at all the possible germs that are jumping on board his face at that moment, but rather than jumping up and sterilizing the boy, I took two seconds to document the real story. He'll thank me some day for sure.
I could have a thousand perfect photos of Gage with him looking like a perfect gentleman like this…
Which is nice, or I can tell the real story about when he played Mister Distructo during nap time and emptied out all of the diapers into his bed…
… Instead of taking a nap. Don't even get me started on when he decided to play finger paints, in his bed, with a not so desirable paint medium from inside his diaper. I have to admit, I didn't snap a photo of that one. I had a hard time seeing the silver lining on that fun episode at the time.
He also was so kind to unroll all of the toilet paper for me when I was sick, in bed…
What a kind and thoughtful boy he is. And then there are those days when it's just to hard being three…
The poor boy, it's hard having three big sisters and not being able to get your way all, or any of the time really.
Then there are those precious moments that we never want to forget. Those moments that aren't scripted that quietly tap us on the shoulder, sometime we miss them. Those are the special moments I want to remember forever…
I am so grateful for camera phones and fabulous apps like Instagram that make documenting these moments so easy. I regret to say, I don't have very many of these types of photos of my girls at that age, because I NEVER had a camera in hand when the messy fun was happening. I'm making up for it now… I try and look through the haze a frustrating parent moments to find the silly, the messy and the downright embarrassing at times…
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It may not be pretty, or perfect but I'm still down right proud of my family and proud to be a parent.
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