What A Wonderful Life We Have....: Any Ideas???

Funny Moments in our Lives

7-31-08
Translations of a one year old
~fingo=flamingo
~tappy=taffy
~rella=Cinderella
~Pull-ups=underwear
~pancakes=anything-cupcakes, cake, pancakes...
~feezing=wrap me up and snuggle
~feep-fops=whatever shoe you can find to put on her
~Mananin=Lima
~pop-its=rice crispies

~vinanin=vitamin
~posicle=popsicle
......More to come.....
7-18-08
Pinto was visiting Grandma Bean today and while she was there, the garbage man came. Or in her words gdjflkjlkfjman. Yeah the middle sounds like that. Anyway, Ever since then she has obsessed all afternoon about it. How the garbage was stinky, it is now gone, and the garbage man, has gone away. The simple things to worry about on a summer day.
7-16-08
Lima for some crazy reason has always said that when she is tired, she is "busy".

6-20-08

We saw baby animals today. When we got home, Lima and Pinto proceeded to be a sheep and a cow. So they were fed lunch on the floor cut into bite size pieces and they had to have a drinking trough also. Apparently we live in a barn.

6-15-08

So Lima was in primary practicing in singing time for Father's Day. The chorister said that they were going to where ties while singing and she abruptly told her no, it wouldn't match her dress. Whoa, I wonder how she will be at 5.

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Any Ideas???

So it seems that the tattle-tail fairy has landed at our house and cast her magic spell on my oldest, also know as Lima. We are at a loss as how to make the fairy disappear. We have tried magic mind your own business dust, the fairies only worry about fairies spells, and much more magic tricks that come with the wand. But now it is out of idea dust. SO.... if anyone has any, and I mean any (we are now reaching desperation), ideas on how to curb this problem, I am up for the input. I love my four year old, but I want the sweet side of egocentrism back!!!

6 comments:

Shepherd Family ACALPM said...: yikes, good luck with that, we really haven't gotten that far in live yet! Allie is still pretty good...Sorry I am no help!; 6/26/08, 5:50 AM
Ina said...: I sorry that fairy has not landed at our house yet. The whineing and bad attitude fairies seam to prefer our house, but I will keep my eyes and ears open for some new dust for you.; 6/26/08, 7:14 AM
Cameron/Melissa said...: My house is full of this dust. I read, (but I think our kids may be a little young,) that if two of them are always tattling then you punish both of them for whatever you hear that is annoying. So if they are fighting and tattling they both get in trouble. But if there is only one as in your case then I am a little unsure. Maybe she gets in trouble too for every tattle. Really just be proud that she understands what is good and bad... and good luck; 6/26/08, 8:51 AM
Lindsey said...: I actually remember one of my elementary school teachers explaining this concept to me when I was tattling. She simply told me that I was tattling and explained when it was okay to tell on someone else (when you are concerned about them or what they are doing). It worked and hey, I remember it to this day....100 years later. :); 6/26/08, 9:20 AM
Mama Bean said...: Thanks to everyone for the input. We will try it out!!!; 6/30/08, 8:36 PM
Melissa and Mike said...: When I taught first graders tattling was constant!! One of the ideas I heard was to have a tattle bear...and the kids went and told the bear all of their "concerns" and then told the teacher only "emergency" things such as "Doo-Bee-Doo is dying, bleeding, etc." so if it wasn't someone being hurt then "talk to the bear". We also had tattle books, one that was "nice tattles" or good things you noticed about others and one was "naughty tattle"...the not so good things. It was nice because we were also working on our handwriting skills so it killed two birds with one stone if you know what I mean.
=0) Doesn't really help with a four year old, so best of luck with that!; 7/3/08, 6:13 PM