typical morning

ninja: "mommy, my tummy hurts. there's so milk in it. so a lot of it."

me: "well, maybe that's why mommy pours your milk in a cup and doesn't let you drown yourself with drinking from the gallon."

ninja: "i didn't drown. im not swimming."

Ninja training: Batman

Ninja seriously spends at least 15 mins upside down on a daily basis. 

Think his obsession with "The Bat" is going a little too far?

And just for fun:
pic of a random bat that decided to grace us
with his presence a few months back.

Is that a serious question?

Ninja: "Daddy gonna spank me when he gets home?"

After Tarzan-swinging from the cords,
he has officially broken his first set of blinds.

I'm gonna go with, yes.

What happens at Grandma's house, stays at Grandma's house...

...unless your mom likes to blog about you.

For some reason, Ninja was on a roll the other weekend. (Making up for lost sick time???)

We were at Grandma's house for no more than 5 minutes when my sister comes out of the upstairs bathroom saying, "Uh, Meag...ya might wanna come up here." Great.

This might freak you out a bit-but he is totally ok...it wasn't as bad as it sounds.

Ninja found himself a bottle of rubbing alcohol (that was nearly empty), dumped it out, rinsed it, filled it up with water and was chugging it when my sister walked in on him...he was supposed to be in there peeing. Apparently, he was "sooo thirsty" and I shouldn't worry because he "cleaned it like Mommy does." *headache*

Of course, Ninja & his "incidents" were the topic of conversation for the next 20 mins amongst his many aunts & uncles. One of which said, "well at least he didn't go up there and cut his hair,"  which in turn sparked another 20 minute convo of when/how/why all of my siblings cut their hair "around his age." (shocker) The obvious, "I'm surprised he hasn't tried it yet" comment was made. (Really, people? SHUT UP!) AND I'm pretty sure someone mentioned the fact that there were hair cutting scissors in the basement bathroom. (I think you know where I'm going with this.) 

An hour later..."MOMMM! I cut my hair!!!"

You'd think my family would learn by now...*shakes head*

Oh yeah-he also tried to EAT my brother's deodorant.

         

ANNND...I'm not done. The reason I waited so long to tell these stories is because about 3 days after we left my mom's, I got a call from her asking me if I could please find out if Ninja flushed anything down her toilet. Apparently no amount of plunging was unclogging it. So I ask Alex, what did you put in Gracky's (<--that's was he calls her...don't ask) toilet? He says, "Um...some soap, a candle and a ball." Of course you did, son. 

She just got it working again a few days ago. I just HAD to find out if it was Ninja's doing. They had to take the entire toilet out to find the hard, rubber dog ball that was wedged inside. 

Ok, now I'm done. Oh wait...the night before Gma's house was eventful as well. Check out that Ninja tale here.

AGAIN with the nail polish...

One lovely Saturday night, Ninja & I were going through the normal nighttime routine-bath, jammies, brush teeth, potty, etc. When he was done I sent him to his room to pick out a book to read. 

Of course he didn't do that.

God forbid I should use the bathroom. It takes what, a minute, to pee & wash your hands? Unfortunately for me, a minute in Ninjaland is 30 mins in the real world, because by the time I came out of the bathroom he sure as heck wasn't in his room. 

He was in the kitchen...painting his nails (and my kitchen floor) with dark red, xtreme wear/quick dry (of course) nail polish. I lost an entire bottle of nail polish remover that night (and 11 days later, there's STILL nail polish on some of his toes-kudos to Sally Hansen xtreme wear nail polish).

At least he sat on the tile floor to do his handiwork, unlike last time.

lesson learned

Oh, I'm sorry, did that giant leap off of the counter hurt your foot? 

Maybe you shouldn't be sneaky & 

try to jump off when you hear me coming.

Maybe you shouldn't be on the counter trying to eat 

an entire bag of marshmallows in the first place.

Go to your room if you're going to cry. 

It's too loud for Mommy to muster up any sympathy.

"We cannot learn without pain." 

Who said that?

Oh, I think it was Aristotle.

I haven't forgotten about you!

I haven't written any posts lately because Ninja has been super sick with an ear infection, sinus infection AND pink eye. Pain in my...ugh.


Before you start thinking that he's been too sick to be naughty enough to merit a blog post, you are wrong. He's been plenty naughty! But on top of him being sick and the holidays...I just haven't had time. GAH! Lame excuse. Sorry.


We will be back soon!

Super Cool Sick Day FORT!