Day 37

When my alarm went off this morning, I turned it back off immediately! I didn’t want to get out of bed, but I knew I still had to go to work, so I rolled over and began resetting my alarm to go off at 6:45 then went back to sleep. Although it seemed like I had slept for another hour, it had only been 20 minutes! WTH? I guess that was my body’s way of telling me to get my butt out of bed! Fine!

I go ahead and get the girls up – I know we are late getting up, but we can at least get SOME exercise done. We head out the door and start walking. I tell the girls to keep up or they will have to run – so they kept up… I guess we were all experiencing a little bit of tired delirium, because we were acting so stupid.

At first we were speed walking. Well I was speed walking and the girls were acting like idiots trying to stretch out their strides and arms as far as they would go. They looked like wounded zombies running after someone’s brains! It was completely pitiful! I’m sure we woke up all the houses down the block either from yelling or laughing – they’ll get over it. They finally started walking right and I kept hearing bits of their conversation – it went something like this:

“You can’t say “YO MAMA” because she’s yo mama too!” (I guess they were telling jokes.) “Gross! You just wait! I’m going to save a big stinking time-bomb that will make you pass out!” “You need to start wearing a bra – shut up !” “Get off me!” “Walk with mom!” “It smells like fresh dog poop – ohhhh – you’re gross!” “I can’t breathe!” “I’m melting!” “At least mom is in front of us – she didn’t have her mouth open!”

After all of this, Kiki is now by my side. She is running in front of me because Kitty is about to push her and she thinks she is safer in front of me. WRONG! Then she turns around and says “my shoulder hurts, can you give me a piggy-back ride?” Umm NO! She turns around and pulls a wedgie out of her butt and then immediately pulls her pants up only to say “oh man, I gave myself another wedgie!” We are laughing and carrying on when we hit our turn around mark. I take several steps when I here Kiki yell “carry me!” I didn’t get to take another step before I feel her whole body jump on my back – Huummph! Down we go – my knees hit the concrete and the weight of her body is pressing my face into the ground. WTH?!!! I want to throw her off of me just as fast as she jumped on, but she’s heavy! Oh my! I thought my back was broke! We get up and she is apologizing and I’m picking stickers out of my ankles! Kitty is laughing so hard she needs to pee and Kiki is now scared for her life and yelling at Kitty to “Stop Laughing!”

I don’t say another word on the way home–and the girls kept up with my speed! Yes it is funny now, but unexpectedly eating dirt at 5:30 in the morning is NOT FUNNY! My back still hurts!

I guess kids will be kids and if we survive them being kids then it makes for a lot of funny memories to talk about down the road!

Do you have any funny piggy-back ride moments?