Samples.... Really?!

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I absolutely love my children with all that I am. They make me laugh and cry within minutes of each other sometimes. They are loud and rambunctious but also loving and gentle. They have the goofiest sense of humor that can lighten up anyone’s day. Need a good laugh or to be reassured you’re a kick ass parent…. come hang out with my kids for a while. You will then realize your kids are angels and you have nothing to worry about. Or you will laugh so hard you’ll risk wetting yourself. Now, I’m not saying this to bash my parenting skills. No, No! I am simply saying I am raising one child with disabilities and two very strong-willed children. It can make for a very entertaining atmosphere in my home. Who am I kidding, it makes for a very entertaining atmosphere anywhere we go.

Let’s just look at a few things my two spirited children have accomplished since we have move into our Coop Community in October 2017. My 4-year-old son has come running into the playground common space in a size 24-month cat costume from Halloween. Yes, he managed to squeeze almost every part of his naked body into it…. minus his butt cheeks. He ran around the playground, while meowing, unphased by the fact multiple children and their parents were present and watching. Talk about confidence! Can I have some of that Little Man? Even just a quarter of what you have!

Oh, and the best part, this wasn’t the first or last time he has done this. He has also done it with a 12-18 month white and pink unicorn costume. Yes, you read that right. As if the cat wasn’t a shock enough for our new friends. He pulled out the smaller, more girlish, unicorn. This is the same boy, who also wore his stormtrooper costume out and around town while I ran errands. He also raids his sister’s dresser and finds her bathing suits, yes, bathing suits. He loves wearing her pink Minnie Mouse one piece almost as much as he loves wearing her hot pink or blue and pink floral bikini bottoms. Oh, and he totally wears them in public while we are playing in the back! Yup, he would probably sport the Borat bathing suit if he had the chance. I mean he basically did when he stuffed himself into the one piece. Keep being you, Dude!!! Don’t change for anyone!!!

Now, I come to my 2-year-old daughter. She is something special. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. She is a streaker! I think her whole goal in life is to see how often she can get away with wearing no clothes. I mean she totally strips down to nothing anywhere: outside, inside, at stores!! Oh and I should add…. She is an escape artist. This child has got naked and run down the street with me chasing and screaming at her. All while I’m met with some looks of disgust, humor, empathy and total and utter shock!

Oh, she also eats/drinks EVERYTHING!!!! Food falls on the floor. Forget the dog… My daughter has it and is eating it before you can even say anything. She goes head first into the water table and drinks that water instead of the water readily available to her in the water bottle. And to jump way accross the line, she tries, and has succeeded once or twice, to drink water from the toilet. Seriously, am I raising a child or a dog! I have seriously questioned this more than once.

But the icing on the cake with her, is she makes herself at home in anyone’s house. For instance, she walks into my neighbour’s house and takes food out of their fridge. She really takes the saying what’s yours is mine to a whole other level. My neighbour has told me some interesting stories about her too. Like the time she walked into the shower while my neighbour was in there. When she took off her diaper while visiting my neighbour and proceeded to put her finger in her butt and then tasted the poo. Yes, lets just stop here for a moment. Let that last part sink in! I don’t know about you, but I think I just threw up in my mouth a bit!! Yes, her hands have been sterilized since then!! And Bless my neighbors, they are amazing and take it all in stride! I probably shouldn’t have been as surprised as I was to find this out. I mean she thinks farts are hilarious and she goes around mooning people. Seems like a logical progression to poop tasting right!?

Anyway, I’ve come to think my stranger danger talks are falling on dead ears with her. Just today, she booked it out the fence and around the corner. I was frantically looking for her, when a lady comes out of her house carrying her. Yes, she saw an open front door and decided it was a good idea to walk into the house. But she didn’t just stay in the entryway! No!! She walked up the stairs and into one of the bedrooms with pink bunk beds and started climbing on them. The lady who lived there was in the next room putting her baby down for a nap and thought her older children had come back from the babysitters early. Nope! It was my daughter playing in their bedroom!!! Ugh… I need to leash this child!!!

She has gotten better as she's getting older about not running away anymore. So that's a really good thing. There was a while there were I was really worried: And seriously considering a leash for her.