I'm in training. For the mommy-lympics. I'll admit, I'm not the world's best housekeeper. I'm not even top-ranking. But there is one event for which my 'coach' has me working hard: speed laundry folding. The idea in this competition is to see who is faster: the laundry folding mommy or the emptying-the-basket baby. My one-year-old is a champion, for his part.
He dives, head first, into a basket of freshly washed clothes, tossing them willy-nilly over his shoulder, through his legs, across the room. He can empty the basket at top speed, afterwhich, he'll cruise the newly minted clean-clothes-clutter, putting his favorite pieces into the basket filled with the dirty clothes. Oh, yes, my friends, he is good.
I'm training hard, though. With each load, I'm becoming more flexible, more agile, more adept. One of the days, in one of our matches, I'm bound to conquer this little giant of sport. Or, he'll get big enough that I can force HIM to do the folding!
Oh, gotta go. My little athlete is off to train for "Swift Toilet Paper Roll Emptying" and "Rapid Book Ripping." Aughhh!
8 comments:
ohhh Ade, this sounds all too familiar right now!
so funny! Wish I could come steal that mess-maker and tickle him to pieces! Gotta love that age--think of it as your exercise program! :)
We (mothers) can sympathize all too well :) At least you are a good sport about it!
I can totally picture it. He is way too cute, and you are so patient.
My kids like to run and jump in the pile of clean clothes as I am folding them. I guess clean laundry just has a force that draws kids in.
Ha ha ha! Sooooo funny. I can so completely relate! Just wait until the new little one arrives. I am having a hard time keeping up with the laundry altogether since Tommy's arrival, before the boys start the "unfolding" in order to get out a fave shirt or just to move it off the couch so they can sit.
Our athletes could be on Team USA! Mine is very good at those events as well! Love you!
You've got your work cut out for you. This boy is GOOD! So funny!
So cute! Wyatt is exactly the same. He wants nothing to do with his toys. He'd rather ransack the house!
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