being an attorney everyday.

It must be more frustrating to be a lawyer, but being a parent is sometimes more frustrating then being an actual lawyer.  It's a 24 hour debate with your kids, you spent 14 hours to debate and 10 hours to sleep, but you are actually spending the time thinking about how and what you can say to make your point across with the most authorities and the simplest logic to get the least amount of talk backs.

Tony went bike riding, and he was so tired.  He came home and told me that he just "hit the wall" when going uphill.  Brandan over heard it and said, Daddy, you got ouchy? Don't hit the wall, go around it.

Trying to get brandan to read more, the text on the books reads "Sam said to his car...." (from transformers) I pointed to each word and ask him to "repeat after me", so he said, "repeat after me, sam said to his car".  Then he asked me why is Sam sad? His car is not nice, makes him sad. --left me speechless.

Brandan saw his toy in the container inside the garage. He wanted to play with it, so i told him that George is painting our house and when he is done, we can bring his toy inside.  So George came and finished as much as he could but still got weeks worth of work to do. When he left, Brandan asked "are you done?" So George said "yes".  The minute he walks out of the door, Brandan asked for his toy.  When i said yes, he said "you told me, mommy, you told me when George finish, i can play with my toy" He's got a good point so i had to give in.

i was cleaning up toys for them. When i was throwing a few items into the box, they fell out. So i asked Brandan to help me pick them up and put them into the box. He tells me the same way i talk to him "mommy, i told you don't throw your toys, i told you don't drop them, i have to help you again and again and again. Sigh--!"  All i could say was "sorry!"

Lexi sat on the potty, and tried to move her hand over into the toilet to play with the "water", then i told her NO, caught on the spot, she was shocked, and dropped her little toy into the toilet.  When i put my tool in to get the toy out, Lexi said "No mommy, no touching, go time out"