My kids are NOT SHY!

Last night Amy and I went to dinner over at a friends house and we enjoyed a nice time of eating and talking. One of the things I noticed which I always notice but it sort of makes me snicker every time is the fact that my kids are not shy. They walk into any place at any time and I truly think they believe that they own the place. It's an overconfidence that many kids share but CJ and Lily really have a bad case of the OC (Over Confidence). Like I said, I've seen it before with many other children but since I'm talking about my kids then all other kids don't count.

Amy and I've decided that CJ and Lily will grow to be great influencers and leaders. They believe now at such a young age that God created the heavens and earth and they've have been chosen to lead it all. CJ in particular believes that the world was created for his entertainment like some old Roman emperor and Lily believes CJ is only controlling the world until she is old enough to take over power. I hope everyone loves to play Barbies because that will be Planet Lily's new national sport. We will all have to have a Barbie just like a cell phone. The difference then is that Barbie will be changed to a "Lily Doll". It's not that Lily is full of herself, she just believes her cuteness is much more appealing then some tall blond bimbo named Barbie. A short, extremely cute blond is the wave of the future.

While we are all in the Reign of CJ the Magnificent, we will only be able to watch one channel on the TV. You guessed it The CJ Channel...and yes the programming will be "all CJ, all day, everyday, 24 hours a day!!!" We will be required to watch at least 8 hours of CJ performing for us each day. Another 6 hours will require each of us to play with CJ in shifts. 8 more hours will be required of us to constantly run back and forth to huge, honkin specially designed pantries and get CJ snacks. Each of us will get our 2 hour nap and then the day will start again. Even then, with nearly 6 and half billion of us doing all of this there is no way we will be able to keep up with CJ, especially in the snack brigade. CJ can eat trillions of pounds of snacks per hour and as he grows this will only get harder to keep up with. All of this will eventually stop when Lily the Lovely takes over as world emperor. If I was you I would get you and your kids in peak physical condition because the day of the CJ is at hand!

Ok enough of all that nonsense!!!!! I thank God everyday that my kids are confident, happy children. I pray that they grow up to love God and love others. That's all I can really hope for.

If any one asks "I am Sparticus" ......some of you will get that!

Brian

Ooops I did it again!

I must be mad! I must have some sort of screw loose! I must be a few bricks shy of a full load! Why you ask? Well that's because I took my kids again to the grocery store by myself! Here I am writing a whole blog on it and how painful of an experience it was but I just thought I could learn from that experience and make this one a much more pleasant one. WRONG! It was not a pleasant experience BUT it wasn't as bad as last time. Allow me to explain. #1) I found the shopping cart that looks like a race car and in fact this one had two steering wheels....bonus! #2) The store was laid out like I remembered and I made it through in record time. #3) CJ did not run around freely, thanks to the car. HOWEVER! I found a flaw in the system. #1) The car is barely wide enough for the two kids. So imagine a cat and a dog placed in the same cage. Oh Yea, it was that bad! Those two kids made the ultimate fighting championship seem tame! CJ used his elbows like he was a ninja and Lily used her pointer fingers like Moe on the Three Stooges. It was nuts! #2) The store was laid out to plans but they only had two registers going so I had to wait for a good ten minutes before I started checking out. Ten minutes with Moe and Bruce Lee in the front seat of the little Nascar racer was like having someone slowly pull all your hair out! After pulling all mine out I decided to separate them but here's what's funny...they wanted to be back together even though they were clearly beating the snot out of each other. Kids are whack! #3) With CJ not running around was great but the noise level of the two captive birds actually echoed throughout the store. When I finally made it to the checkout the cashier told me that she knew where we were at all times simply by the sound of the two sirens in the front seat. Isn't that crazy? Oh but not as crazy as me trying this again. The kids are just kids, I'm the nutty one! Well I'm gonna go now. I'm going to try to glue on all my hair that I pulled out!

Thank you for shopping with Brian!
Me