Yeah so 2 weekends ago (October 7th) was my husbands 28th birthday. So originally I invited a few of his really close friends up for the weekend to party and eat mad chinese food. Well that fell through, but come to find out that Jake and Michelle were going to be in the Boston area for the weekend so we where all like "Hey get your asses up here and stay the weekend, bring the kids it will be a blast!" So they came up and we had a blast!
Jake and Michelle have 2 kids, Lena (2 1/2 years old) and Thalia (3 months old). The first thing Jake tells me is that "This weekend is either going to make or break you. You're either gonna want kids more or never want kids ever!"
Well friday is my day off and Michelle had some meeting to go to so I was surrogate mother for the day! Man was that fun, I had little Thalia on the front of me in one of those baby backpack things, and Lena either walked or was in her stroller. Jake and I and the kids went to
Wrentham Outlets to do a little shopping since it was a nice sunny day. So towards the end of the day we got hungry so we went to the food court to get something to eat. Well I had to pee and Jake was feeding Thalia, so I had to take Lena into the bathroom with me. It was a little weird taking someone else's kid to the bathroom, especially when you're the one that has to go. So as I'm peeing Lena's like "You're peeing!" and as I was whipping Lena was like "Yay you did it!" It was a little weird for me cause all I could think about was this is child porn and I'm gonna get arrested some how. Even though I'm sure most people thought she was my kids so there really wasn't a problem. Anywho-so after lunch we picked up Michelle and then headed back to my house for some dinner, bday cake and presents!
The next day we all went to Boston to go to the
New England Aquarium, man was that crazy! Besides the fact that it took us about an hour to park, it was semi rainy that day so EVERYONE was at the aquarium. So we did that for a few hours, then we headed off to
Chuck E. Cheese's because it would be fun and we figured there wouldn't be a lot of people there. We had fun, but man was there a shit load of people there!
Onto Sunday, we slept in and then headed on out to the
Cracker Barrel for breakfast...man they got some good food there! After breakfast we went back to our house and relaxed for a bit before Jake and Michelle had to leave. Now going back to the begining of the weekend to prepare my story....
As most people know when kids are young they like to repeat the things they hear. Well we have 2 cats, Hermes and Zazou, Lena was chasing Hermes all over the house saying how soft and cute he was. Well my other cat Zazou, she's a little shy so I was telling Lena that "Zazou is shy so you have to be extra gentle with her because she thinks you're going to hurt her." Well after I said that Zazou jumped off the chair and ran for her box, and of course Lena ran after her. And as Lena was running after Zazou she was saying "Bazoo I love you, I would never hurt you!" (By the way 2 year olds don't talk so well so Zazou turned into Bazoo and Zaboo.) Later I was talking to Zazou telling her that it was ok, Lena won't hurt you sweet heart. So Lena was saying the same thing "It's ok sweet tart, I love you Bazoo, you're so cute."
And getting to the point of the story...Lena and I were playing with some Legos or "blocks" as she calls them. I was building something and ran out of the color I needed so I said "Oh damn" and "Shit". Well right after I said that Lena goes "Oh damn!" and she said it like 3 times, well when Michelle heard that, Lena's middle name got used. But it was also kinda funny cause a 2 year old was swearing so Michelle was yelling at Lena while trying not to laugh! Then Lena said "Shit!", so of course we had to hold back more laughter! So I said to Michelle "Well I guess there's no more swearing around Lena!" And Michelle said "We swear all the time and she NEVER repeats what we say!" So then I was like "Well I guess there's no more swearing around Lena for K-Lo!" (Cause pretty much Lena said it cause I said it.)
So I learned that you can swear around your own kids, but don't swear around someone elses kids cause when they start swearing, it's all your fault!
And as far as the make or break thing...originally we wanted to wait a few years to have kids because of all the hassel. Having kids is a full time job and we didn't want to have to deal with that crap or deal with luggin around all of our kids crap. So for me I definitely wanted to wait because it was getting to the point where I didn't even really want to have kids cause they're such a hassel!
But after that weekend, I wanted kids sooner then later! Even though it was someone elses kids and they were only here for 2 1/2 days, we took on a lot of responsibility with their kids. We know that every child and parent is different, but they gave us an idea of what our kids might be like since the 4 of us are so much alike and have the same morals and values when it comes to raising a family. And as far as lugging around our kids crap, it just doesn't seem like such a big hassel any more.
I'm excited about having kids, and I miss having Lena and Thalia around! Thalia didn't do much but eat, sleep and poop, but Lena...that's where all the fun is. She is such a well manored girl and such a sweet heart.
So when we are a little more financially stable we'll be ready to have kids because of the experience we had this weekend. Which is much better then forcing the idea of kids on someone because you're getting older and don't want to wait any longer to have them, but you're not really ready!
So thank you Jake and Michelle! :)
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