In the car on the way home from school, Boo’s favourite song of the moment came on the radio.
“Chasing Cars” by Snow patrol
I unconsciously started singing.
Boo hates that. Shuddup. He hates EVERYONES singing, not just my off key efforts.
Boo turned to me and started singing with me.
We were harmonizing in the car.
He kept looking at me and smiling the sweetest loving smile. No yelling, no screaming, no slapping-me-round-the-head. Just singing along and smiling.
Got a bit difficult to drive for a while there. You see I, um, had something in my eye. Which was causing my vision to become blurred and water to trickle down my face.
Boo kept singing. Boo kept smiling. Boo kept looking at me like I was the most wonderful thing in the world. Even better than a mustard sandwich.
Then we got home. He ran around and opened my car door, like he always does and said:
‘Open the door, open the fucking door’
and then sunk his teeth into the door jamb.
Back to reality. But that bubble of bliss in the car was wonderful while it lasted.
And here for your viewing pleasure (DO NOT watch this with small children in the room!) the inspiration for Boo’s request to open the door. No, I don’t let him watch this sort of thing, I found him watching it this morning when he greeted me with ‘Mee-fucking-ooow’.
Oh, and while I was writing this he pulled out another tooth. A fucking BACK tooth! How the hell does he do it?
I gotta find this kid another hobby. He is going to run out of teeth.
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Can’t view the video, stinking dialup.
I like bubbles, bubbles are good.
I actually got kisses the other day, it’s about time. Damn Toddler.
Have I told you lately what an awesome mumma you are?
Aww sweet, Kelley. The singing part I mean. Not the biting or the swearing, that’s not sweet but it sounds as though it was worth it.
Just on a tangent here, I was telling my mother all about your blog and Boo and mustard. Your bloggy tales took up the vast majority of the car trip (an hour). It was really nice to laugh for a while after the crap week we’ve had. So thanks. MWA
ROFPMSL at Postman Pat. Thats a classic. Good thing my kids are in bed.
ooooh you and Boo have excellent taste in music. My cat bought me that CD last Christmas cause he knew I loved it. Hope you’re eye’s OK (wink). Would love to have been a fly on the wall for that – sounds great. Why is it that we have some of the best moments with our kids in the car – is it because we can’t do the 50 million things that we feel we should be doing when we are at home, so they don’t have our undivided attention??? Dunno, but sure feels like that sometimes.
Ummm, no suggestions for hobbies for Boo. Guess you’ll come up with something.
The sound’s dead on my puter so couldn’t hear the clip. 🙂 How sweet about the singing… DS5 has never been able to tolerate me singing, even as a baby trying to sing lullabies resulted in louder screams… but if you heard me sing, you’d know that’s not unreasonable. 🙂 Best wishes for good sleep tonight.
Maya CAN’T STAND it when someone tries to sing with her either. I wonder if it’s a sensory thing?… Makes a stolen moment like the one you and Boo had all the more precious.
LOVED the video.
Gosh that clip made me laugh….had to double check the kids were actually asleep!
God Bless Boo…I love snow Patrol too!
Kirstie
(yes I’m commenting…just don’t tell anyone!)
Thanks for coming over to comment, you are invited to our Thanksgiving anytime, which has a lot of food and keeps teeth too busy to pull out! 🙂
You’re definitely better than a mustard sandwich — better than a mustard sandwich with bunny lettuce, in fact! ;^) Love the moment with Boo — so, so sweet! 🙂
It’s an amazing life you lead and an amazing person you are.
Just wow.
a back tooth mee-fuckin-owwwch
when dd was a baby i’d always sing to her, and she remembers bits of it. At times i like angry head banging music while driving my car. To which the kids happily sing along too until there’s swearing then they pause, and start again when they can.
Sorry to hear boo had problems with his teeth again. But as you said at least it was a baby tooth.
I hope last night’s dreams were sweet and you have a good day today
So much for a silver lining. I had never seen Postman Pat…too funny!!!
I wonder if W will ever sing with me again like that – he has all of a sudden stopped wanting to sing together – like everything else – I DO IT SELF. Those moments I imagine are what keeps you going. Postman Pat was just wrong.
Haha oh my goodness, I had the sound turned up when I started that video – and it BLARED out at me! ROFL! Luckily I was at home! 😀
Veronica: 🙂 You just steal them and offer the kid cookies. Pavlov’s dogs is something to remember…..
Lightening: Right back atcha babe!
Tiffany: You serious?!?! Oh, I feel like a SUPERSTAR!!!! now (just mildly obsessed with Molly Shannon’s SNL character right now after Girl mentioned it on her blog)
Desert Queen: Your cat bought it? How did it get the money out of it’s purse? Or reach the counter? I have the best conversations with my girls in the car too.
Emma: HE SLEPT THROUGH!!! OMG!!! It has been, oh I dunno, a couple of weeks now. How awesome is it that I cannot tell you how long it has been. Oh the bliss!
Robin: Yeah, probably a sensory thing. Or he just prefers his own singing…. The video would be funny if it wasn’t being repeated by a child!
Kirstie: All the others can see you are commenting you twit. Perhaps change your name to freaky chick, spunky babe or something….
Sunshine: Booking my ticket right now. Hopefully he will have some teeth left by then.
Beth: Better than a mustard and Bunny lettuce sandwich? I lurve you!
Ree: Thanks. So sweet of you to say. Wait till I start spurting venom over a perceived injustice. THEN lets see how amazing you think I am!
Girl: LOL. Probably the shortest comment evah.
Kim: OMG! That was funny! Gotta get me some Depends cause I think I peed a little again!
Lisa: You should hear Boo sing Bohemian Rhapsody and Enter Sandman!
FXSMom: Well it is not supposed to be like that. It is a kids cartoon!
Amy: Do it self. 🙂 So cute!!!!
Katie: Hee hee hee. Glad you were home cause every second word is an expletive!
I have a small, completely unrelated question.
If I have 1.1kg in unopened vacuum sealed esspresso coffee packets, that is a little bit out of date, is it still okay to drink?
And the other thing, do you know anyone who may be interested in said coffee packets as we don’t drink them.
And A related question like to Veronicas unrelated question…cause she is related to me….etc ad infinitum… shit.
Do you want the bloody coffee is what von is trying to ask..sheeesh…
Kelley would have understood my question! Sheesh. LOL
Kelley, do you want my copious amounts of coffee because I don’t drink it. I would be more than willing to send it up to you.
hugs babe
Classic video.
And yay for the bubble moment. 🙂
Brilliant, loved Postman Fucking Pat – if it’s any consolation to you, my eight year old nephew sent it to me a few months ago… hey ho! And the humour just makes that there loving moment all the more poignant.
Cheers
BC
PS, if you’ve heard of Rainbow, you might like this one… it’s along similar lines only more subtle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUzxdulMGN4
I started the clip and the boys came rushing over. They’ve learned that whenever I play a clip on the computer it’s usually funny. They used to watch ‘Postman Pat’ when they were little. They thought it was hilarious.
I guess those little moments with Boo are what keeps you going. Big hugs for all of you. Keep on harmonising!
Veronica and Kim: You girls crack me up. A domestic in the comments section of my blog! How cool!
The coffee should be fine. The use by date is a guide, and if it is only just out of code it will still be fab. To send it to me would cost a small fortune I would think, so how about this. Go to a cheap shop, get a coffee plunger, wrap it up and put it under the Kmart wishing tree for a mum or a Nanna. No one ever buys for the adults! With a note with love from the internet community.
Bettina: Back atcha babe. Hope you are healing well and eating tons of candy canes and chocky!
Cellobella: Gotta love the bubble moments. the video is funny, but I can’t watch it without seeing my baby repeating it…
Babychaos: *gaffaw* and welcome!
Frogdancer: ‘Dear Mr President’ was on the radio in the car today. I pushed my luck and tried to sing. ‘Muuuuum!!!!! That hurts my ears!’
Bastard.
Maybe I will just force Nat to drink it on pain of not having any instant bought until the real stuff was used.
Amy is currently having great fun using the packets as building blocks.
I love that wishing tree idea. I’m so totally going to do that this year. I usually buy for the kids, never occured to me to buy for the adults.
Have to stop reading now, CSI is on.