April marks the 15th anniversary of my blog, so during the A-Z blogging challenge, I will be sharing previous posts from over 2,100 I have written.
Over the years, I have shared stories about Wally and Theo when they were young. I found a series of posts I did called The Reasonings of Wally. Below are a couple of them from 2012 and 2013.
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This happened when Wally was four years old.
Ward and I came home from work and went upstairs with Theo. He sat quietly on the floor, looking at a book, while we changed our clothes and discussed how our days had gone. Soon we went downstairs to join Wally, who was watching Sesame Street. Theo toddled in front of us, and when he reached the kitchen floor, his feet slid out from under him, and I heard a loud crack as his head hit the floor. That was soon followed by loud crying. As I went to see if he was hurt, I slipped too, but fortunately didn't go all the way down. We both had slipped on a wet floor, and luckily, Theo was not badly hurt.
As it turns out, Wally was no longer watching Sesame Street. He was standing in the middle of the family room (next to the kitchen) with the garden hose in his hand, spewing water everywhere. At that point, Ward and I just about lost it. Trying to get control of the situation, I immediately sent Wally to his room and told him to get on his bed and not move until we came to talk to him. Next, while Ward took the hose outside and turned off the water, I dried off Theo and put him in his high chair to keep him out of the way. And then we began the long task of trying to clean up the water. There was about 1/4" of water on the tile floors, and the carpets next to them were soaked. The whole drying process actually took days, but after an hour or so, we had most of the water sopped up.
Then, to deal with Wally. We still found him on his bed. He knew that we were not happy and was afraid to move. After a few sentences about the danger of wet floors and the problems that come with wet carpets, we asked the question we had been wondering about the most.
"Wally, what were you thinking?"
He slowly replied. "Well, my good mind was on vacation in Alaska, and my bad mind said, 'Do it, do it. It will be fun.'"
And there you have it. The reasoning of a four-year-old Wally.
Ward and I came home from work and went upstairs with Theo. He sat quietly on the floor, looking at a book, while we changed our clothes and discussed how our days had gone. Soon we went downstairs to join Wally, who was watching Sesame Street. Theo toddled in front of us, and when he reached the kitchen floor, his feet slid out from under him, and I heard a loud crack as his head hit the floor. That was soon followed by loud crying. As I went to see if he was hurt, I slipped too, but fortunately didn't go all the way down. We both had slipped on a wet floor, and luckily, Theo was not badly hurt.As it turns out, Wally was no longer watching Sesame Street. He was standing in the middle of the family room (next to the kitchen) with the garden hose in his hand, spewing water everywhere. At that point, Ward and I just about lost it. Trying to get control of the situation, I immediately sent Wally to his room and told him to get on his bed and not move until we came to talk to him. Next, while Ward took the hose outside and turned off the water, I dried off Theo and put him in his high chair to keep him out of the way. And then we began the long task of trying to clean up the water. There was about 1/4" of water on the tile floors, and the carpets next to them were soaked. The whole drying process actually took days, but after an hour or so, we had most of the water sopped up.
Then, to deal with Wally. We still found him on his bed. He knew that we were not happy and was afraid to move. After a few sentences about the danger of wet floors and the problems that come with wet carpets, we asked the question we had been wondering about the most.
"Wally, what were you thinking?"
He slowly replied. "Well, my good mind was on vacation in Alaska, and my bad mind said, 'Do it, do it. It will be fun.'"
And there you have it. The reasoning of a four-year-old Wally.
Note: Recently, I was recounting this story to a friend, and she wondered how Wally got the hose if the doors were locked. I just laughed because both of my kids were escape artists.
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Reasonings of Wally
or The Logic of the Young
A conversation with a young Wally.
"Wally, I see you were eating ice cream again without asking first. This has been happening too much lately. I am worried about your lack of willpower."
"Mama, my willpower is usually very good. Except when I get caught."
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Until next time...
Wally was smart. I like his logic. These does make fun stories to tell.
ReplyDeleteHave a lovely day.
Kids do say the darndest things and my kids were no exception. Wally has remained logical as an adult.
DeleteThat is a really funny story (I say from afar, not having had to deal with the mess). I laughed out loud. Literally. And I'm thankful that my kids kept their experiments with the water hose and sand (building a dam on our patio) outside. Gotta admire their ingenuity.
ReplyDeleteI have so many more kids' experiment stories to tell. Maybe I'll pick up this series again. How big was the dam your kids built? My kids and a few of their cousins spent the afternoon building a dam in a creek with rocks that was pretty big. However, it had to be taken down because potential flooding.
DeleteIt covered our entire back patio, which is quite large. They moved the sand from the sandbox (about 20 feet away) to the patio, along with yard debris, and made a landscape, with mountains, valleys, and rivers. We have an irrigation well (thankfully not hooked up to city water, so the cost is cheaper) and they ran the water from the hose onto their landscape, damming parts of it to see where new rivers would form. I was used to them running the water in the sandbox and didn't think much about it (I could see their heads bobbing around through the window) until I went outside. I'm not someone who worries about fancy aesthetics with my home, which was a good thing, since this wasn't the last time they did it. The sheer amount of labor involved was impressive. They did clean up the mess when asked!
DeleteWow! I'm impressed. So elaborate, so much work, and so much cooperation. I would have been proud even if it made a mess.
DeleteThat's funny!
ReplyDeleteIt made me smile remembering it.
DeleteAs the mother of guys, who have had similar moments, this post made me laugh and recall some of the things mine said at times.
ReplyDeleteI bet you have a lot of stories to tell, too, with three boys.
DeleteAll you can do is laugh!! Kids really will just do whatever, and it's a cute story now , haha!
ReplyDeleteKids keep surprising you with the different ways their brains are working, that's for sure. :)
DeleteSooo funny!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
I didn't even know that Wally had heard of Alaska at that point. You never know what kids are thinking.
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