How To Keep Boys Quiet.

After 3 1/2 years, today was the day I worked out how to keep my 2 boys quiet (at least for 5 minutes). Feed them 2 minute noodles for breakfast. Bailey chose them and I just facilitated the process. Quiet, oh so quiet.

5 minutes later
"I have noodles all over my pyjamas" and then everything went downhill from there, including all the noodles which were now all over the floor.
 I just realised why kids should never have 2 minute noodles for breakfast (apart from the health issue). 5 mins of silence against 20mins of cleaning up. They can have something else tomorrow.

We were going to kindy karate this morning. What a great name. It's karate lessons for kids from 3-5 years old. As it takes so much longer to get kids ready than what it truly imaginable, we were running late for our 1st class. 2 minutes later we were there. The class was a bit closer to home than I thought. And I didn't speed. I got stuck behind a concrete truck. Gave me time to remember to breath, and as it turned out the class started late because someone else got lost.

What a great class. I was so inspired I even contemplated joining up. What amazing discipline required and expected. There was only 3 little boys in the class looking so teeny tiny in this great big warehouse with this great big instructor with the most booming voice. Brandon did fantastically. It blew me away. I had said to him before we started if he liked it he could come back and if he didn't then that was fine and we had learnt something new. He loved it and he was so unbelievably good at it. I think we have found the perfect fit for him sport wise.

Once finished we drove around to a new park and played and played and played. Lots of other little kids there as well. Then we had to run and run and run. Then we super jumped and super jumped and super jumped some more. Then we walked and walked and walked. Then we found an underpass so we went back and forth many many times. Then we rolled down a hill and then the 2 boys stopped. I had worn them out. I discovered their stopping point. 3 hours of full on exercise and activity. Never sitting down once. What a day of discovery about my 2 little boys. Driving home we saw some kangaroos (as you do in suburbia). So we all got out of the car again and investigated and learnt.

Now I sit here by the computer with 2 boys asleep. Hooray!!!!  Mind you I'm tired. I think my stopping point had been at the 2 hour mark. The things you just do.

Everything I write now is pre-empting what will happen this afternoon. I am heading out tonight with some girlfriends to go to a Bunnings Ladies Night. I am in two minds about it because I have a whole lot of preconceived ideas as to what it may be like. But because I am trying to teach the boys never to presume and to always give everything a try, well the same applies to me. I can't say it and then not do it.

So this is what will happen this afternoon. Will let you know tomorrow if there was any deviation from my tale. The boys will wake up with their halo's shinning. They will tell me they love me and that I am the best mummy in their whole world. Bailey will change his own nappy and may even put powder on if he so desires. They will make themselves some lunch and will even make some for me too. They will clean up after themselves and not spill, or throw, any food on the ground. We will bake some banana muffins and they will tell me not to bother cleaning up because they are so happy to do it. After all, Brandon will say "We made the mess so we'll clean it up." Daddy will come home and the 2 boys will actually let daddy in the door before they start wanting to be thrown up in the air and taken for rides on his shoulders. They will understand that daddy works very hard and so they too will make daddy up some afternoon tea.

Seeming as the boys are still in the kitchen in my fairytale, they will cook a lovely gourmet dinner, cleaning up again after themselves, bath themselves, say goodnight to daddy only, because mummy won't be there, and go straight to sleep. Where they will stay sleeping until  tomorrow morning at a time that mummy deems as fair and reasonable.

Am positive that's how it will all pan out. After all it is my fairytale. I did learn today how to keep 2 boys quiet for awhile and it's not from giving them 2 minute noodles. It's simply having fun, having lots of adventures, answering a lot of questions and overall just being there.