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Family Matters:  Interesting things we learn when we have boy  |
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lilpunkin
True Blue Farmgirl
368 Posts
Texas
USA
368 Posts |
 Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 09:57:21 AM
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Interesting things we learn when you have sons...
1.) A king size waterbed holds enough water to fill a 2000 sq. ft. house 4 inches deep.
2.) If you spray hair spray on dust bunnies and run over them with roller blades, they can ignite.
3.) A 3-year old Boy's voice is louder than 200 adults in a
crowded restaurant.
4.) If you hook a dog leash over a ceiling fan, the motor is not
strong enough to rotate a 42 pound Boy wearing Batman underwear and a Superman cape. It is strong enough, however, if tied to a paint can, to spread paint on all four walls of a 20 x 20 ft. room.
5.) You should not throw baseballs up when the ceiling fan is on. When using a ceiling fan as a bat, you have to throw the ball up a few times before you get a hit. A ceiling fan can hit a baseball a long way.
6.) The glass in windows (even double-pane) doesn't stop a
baseball hit by a ceiling fan.
7.) When you hear the toilet flush and the words "uh oh", it's
already too late.
8.) Brake fluid mixed with Clorox makes smoke, and lots of it.
9.) A six-year old Boy can start a fire with a flint rock even
though a 36-year old Man says they can only do it in the movies.
10.) Certain Legos will pass through the digestive tract of a 4-
year old boy.
11.) 'Play Dough' and 'microwave' should not be used in the same sentence.
12.) Super Glue is forever.
13.) No matter how much Jell-O you put in a swimming pool you still can't walk on water.
14.) Pool filters do not like Jell-O.
15.) VCR's do not eject Peanut Butter & Jelly sandwiches even though TV commercials show they do.
16.) Garbage bags do not make good parachutes.
17.) Marbles in gas tanks make lots of noise when driving.
18.) You probably DO NOT want to know what that odor is.
19.) Always look in the oven before you turn it on; plastic toys
do not like ovens.
20.) The fire department in Austin, TX has a 5-minute response time.
21.) The spin cycle on the washing machine does not make
earthworms dizzy.
22.) It will, however, make cats dizzy.
23.) Cats throw up twice their body weight when dizzy.
24.) 80% of Women will pass this on to almost all of their
friends, with or without kids.
25.) 80% of Men who read this will try mixing the Clorox and brake fluid
Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away. |
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Beemoosie
True Blue Farmgirl
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Bonnie
New York
USA
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Nance in France
True Blue Farmgirl
1438 Posts
Nancy
St. Laurent de la Salanque
France
1438 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:25:06 PM
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LOVED THOSE, and got one of my own to add.....26. Mom will NOT be pleased when she finds that her six year old has taken the car keys and attempted to drive himself and his four year old brother and their stuffed bears to Grandma and Grandpas 'cause they got tired of waiting for her to finish the dishes!!!!!!!!
Luckily his steering abilities were not up to par and he merely "drove"/eased the car five feet across the street and into the front bumper of the neighbor's cadillac..... |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 12:47:12 PM
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Those were SO true..and I am not showing the list to my DH after reading #25!!!! Haha
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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Mumof3
True Blue Farmgirl
3890 Posts
Karin
Ellenwood
GA
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 2:34:40 PM
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I think every mother of boys can relate to that list!! I can add one as well- My then 11 year-old son discovered that Vaseline, when held over a stove burner on a large spoon, will not catch fire but will create a huge mess that is nearly impossible to clean up! :(
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lilpunkin
True Blue Farmgirl
368 Posts
Texas
USA
368 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 2:37:16 PM
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I love all your added stories about your boys! There is a huge difference between having boys and girls. I am from a family of all girls, and now I have 2 sons and wow what a difference. They are alot of fun, they think of things me and my sister would have never thought of.
Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away. |
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 4:41:23 PM
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What a great list and the addendums! I've got a house of three "boys"
15 months, 13 and 48 years respectively and if they haven't tried something yet it is definitely on their "To Do" list! Even the little one does stuff like put the car keys inside a bag of flour!
They are just wired differently, it must be genetic. I won't even tell you about the amazingly boneheaded things Papa Bear tries!
Thanks for the laugh!
with a happy heart |
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cmandle
True Blue Farmgirl
846 Posts
Catherine
Minneapolis
MN
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katiedid
True Blue Farmgirl
601 Posts
Kate
West Jordan
Utah
USA
601 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 5:50:00 PM
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Yes...you see those of us that have kids over the age of 5 or 6 think this is funny and true, those of us with kids younger than that are very, very, scared.
Those of us who don't have kids yet, this is birth control!!
Very cute.
Kate
my new blog http/www.theknifemakerswife.wordpress.com |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 7:55:04 PM
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So funny! and so true! Being the mother of 2 boys and 2 girls I can relate to all of those things and add a few too.
Legos do not eject from a VCR at all and ruin the tape inside. If you cut the sewing machine cord with scissors while mom is sewing it will stop and you will land on your behind across the room. Cats get dizzy riding in the dryer also. And my personal fave.....10 crawdads left in a sock in the sun for a day....well you get it.
It doesn't end when they grow up either. My 17 yr. old son just told me he's sure he can do a back flip on his snowmobile.
I don't want to be around to see that. The little trick he tried with his bike ended by having a CT scan of his head. Oh but I forgot, they never grow up, really.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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Past Blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
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Brenda
Orchard Prairie
WA
USA
1083 Posts |
Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 8:45:45 PM
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I have 3 sons ages 11, 13 and 15, not to mention the 41 year old "boy" I am married to! I can sooooo relate! We have personally experienced the peanutbutter sandwich in the VCR . . . along with a few oreos, have seen legos make it to the "other side" and have had countless objects flushed down the toilet. To add to the list, from personal experience, would include spreading sun tan lotion all over my bedspread, cutting my mini blinds with durashears, stabbing my sofa arm a dirty knive pulled out of the kitchen sink, disassembling a toddler bed during nap time and then announcing he ate the missing screw, wasting lots of time and money for X-rays only to find out he didn't eat the screw, kicking feet up in the air only to have the shoe fall off and fly through the backdoor window, batting a baseball down the chimney and throwing ashes all over the living room, a three year old opening the gate and letting his 22 month old brother "go for a walk," frogs in the bathroom sink, frogs in the kitchen sink, frogs loose "somewhere" in the house . . . the list keeps going. In the early years I thought I would go mad . . . now they are just sweet memories, though even at 11, 13 and 15 they still have a talent for trouble. Recently my oldest accidently left the dirt bike "in gear" so when he started it up it flew into hubby's beloved truck making a deep scratch about three feet long. They have also have discovered spray paint! Yipes!
Brenda
Past Blessings . . . Celebrating Life as it used to be . . . when people loved God, loved their families and loved their country. |
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ArmyWifey
True Blue Farmgirl
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Holly
Abilene
KS
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Posted - Feb 06 2007 : 9:20:19 PM
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well you know they never really grow up they join the miltary! or the fire department, etc, etc, etc.....
Some of the stories from Hubbies times in the field (manuvers) or in Iraq are things only guys would think of!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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windypines
True Blue Farmgirl
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Michele
Bruce
Wisconsin
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 04:33:51 AM
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| I loved the list and the added stories. I have 3 boys, and 1 husband!! My boys are 18 16 and 15. We have had lots of fun Oh Brenda, we had a bike scratch the side of the truck, and one of the brothers attemped to cover it up, with paint from a spray bomb. Which might of worked, but you can't spray it on so heavy that the paint runs! Moms notice that! :) Good times!!!! Michele |
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Persephone
True Blue Farmgirl
172 Posts
Katrina
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 06:19:14 AM
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I"m SO glad I have a girl! :D (Course, now I just jinxed myself for the next one, haha! :))
In all seriousness, I've always said it takes a special kind of woman to raise boys, and this list is exactly why. A woman who can take all that in stride, and still raise up good men, that's a special kind of woman! |
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
512 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 08:12:41 AM
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So funny~Great stories! I have 1 son that's 17 & 2 DD's. My son definitely has done some crazy things that my DD's do not even think of. Once when he was about 11 it was the in thing to have the tips of your hair blonde (or the orange color it turned which is what most kids walked around with). Well I was not going to let him color his hair. One day I walked into the laundry room to the smell of bleach. I knew immediately what he had been doing when I saw a big stock pot on the floor. He sure got a talking to about what could have happened & just because they call it "bleaching" your hair doesn't mean bleach. Thank the Lord that he didnt go blind, hurt himself, or ruin any of the clothes in there.
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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FarmGirl~K
True Blue Farmgirl
512 Posts
Kelly
TX
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 08:13:42 AM
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One more to the list... a matchbox car can find its way out of the toilet after a year! 
"Work as if you were to live a hundred years, pray as if you were to die tomorrow." ~Benjamin Franklin~
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lilpunkin
True Blue Farmgirl
368 Posts
Texas
USA
368 Posts |
Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 2:10:35 PM
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A YEAR? Oh my word! I didn't hear about that one! Or about my nephew trying to "bleach" his hair! To funny! I am such a proud aunt! LOL!
Life isn't measured by how many breaths you take, but by how many moments take your breath away. |
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Celticheart
True Blue Farmgirl
811 Posts
Marcia
WA
USA
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Posted - Feb 07 2007 : 7:19:27 PM
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I thought of a couple more....youngest son flushed tupperware down the toilet TWICE and the toilet had to be taken apart(of course) TWICE in the same evening. He wasn't popular around our house for a while. My nephews burned their Little Golden books in the middle of their bed. Then there were the boys who brushed the bulldog's teeth with mom's toothbrush. And sometimes an angel food cake pan(with the removable bottom) works well as a shield(?) or helmet but then you can't get it off over your big head. My son put a pair of play handcuffs on the minister's son and then lost the key. We had to cut them off with a hacksaw.
"I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidence of the determination to live." Vita Sackville-West
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theoanne
True Blue Farmgirl
282 Posts
teddie
CARROLLTON
GA
282 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2007 : 2:59:27 PM
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I Gotta jump into this!!! I have four sons...now 22,25,27 and 29. The stories are endless. All of the previous ones are VERY Familiar. We took so many stuck cars out of the toilet that the bolts on the toilet had to be replaced because they were stripped.I have had a snapping turtle put in the sink while I'm brushing my teeth and baby water moccasins brought in to me by my Eagle Scout. I have experienced, boys rappelling down 200 foot cliffs and inline skater that did the x-game stuff with ramps, jumps and falls and stitches and broken bones. The emergency room staff was on a first name basis with the skater. I could go on and on and on! Who ever said the don't grow up they just join the military is exactly right. 3 of mine are now military. From the Military, one son brought home flares and they(the bros) shot them in the lake. Who knew that if the flare hits a rock that it will come back out of the water and catch the neighbors yard on fire. Happy to says my boys are not only fast runners but are great @ stomping out fires. What teamwork!
Okay now the good part.BOYS DON"T WHINE! Boys can argue one minute and all is forgiven in a minute when they are getting into trouble together. They will pick on each other,but NO ONE can pick on their brother.
I also came from a girl family. I not only have 4 sons I have raised their Dad and now their step -dad. These "grown men dissolve to boys when they are all together. And they all have such a great time together.
I would never trade boys at all.
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beckels
True Blue Farmgirl
237 Posts
becky
warrington
pa
USA
237 Posts |
Posted - Feb 10 2007 : 6:34:21 PM
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Only had one girl - but boys are the only ones willing to pee behind (or front) of a tree (no matter where) or pee on a tractor trailer wheel along a major highway and then tell everyone (at least my nephews did)
beckels |
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Past Blessings
True Blue Farmgirl
1083 Posts
Brenda
Orchard Prairie
WA
USA
1083 Posts |
Posted - Feb 12 2007 : 09:25:35 AM
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I have to admit, that ability to pee anywhere has been a real blessing on road trips with our three boys. I just wish I had the same options! LOL!
Brenda
Past Blessings . . . Celebrating Life as it used to be . . . when people loved God, loved their families and loved their country. |
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
2045 Posts
Brenda
Lucas
Ohio
USA
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Love-in-a-Mist
True Blue Farmgirl
367 Posts
Shannon
Independence
Oregon
USA
367 Posts |
Posted - Feb 16 2007 : 7:40:09 PM
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I do have to say my 5 yr old son is not as sneaky as my 2 yr old daughter. If he's going to do something he knows he probably shouldn't his body language changes and he makes no noise. I always know something is up.
But my daughter, is always surprising me. She will have changed her whole outfit in 1 min with out missing a beat. Or by the time my mom radar goes off she already as the whole roll of toilet paper in the toilet.
Farmgirl and mother of 2 |
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sleepless reader
True Blue Farmgirl
1022 Posts
CA
USA
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Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 09:03:09 AM
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Here's some more...the 911 operator will send the police to your house even if you hang up as soon as they say"911 operator, what is the emergency"....the plastic cauldron may go on to your baby sister's head, but it doesn't mean it can come off without using the big tinsnips...throwing rocks at a mountain lion will get its attention, but isn't really a good idea...if you live in a small town, somebody will see you doing (fill in the blank) and tell your mom...Your teacher really can tell the difference between your signature and your mom's...
Not that the princess is perfect, she's just more covert.:)
Sharon
Life is messy. Wear your apron! |
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Aunt Jenny
True Blue Farmgirl
11381 Posts
Jenny
middle of
Utah
USA
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Posted - Feb 17 2007 : 10:38:19 AM
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I think that is it exactly Sharon..girls are sneakier for sure!! My boys have done alot of the above..oldest son did the forging my signature one time...duh!! with a marker and in 10 year old boy writing. busted!!!!!!!!!! And the small town "mom spies" always got my boys too!! They never did get away with much I didn't find out about.
I do love boys though.
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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theoanne
True Blue Farmgirl
282 Posts
teddie
CARROLLTON
GA
282 Posts |
Posted - Feb 18 2007 : 6:26:24 PM
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Jenny
I'm not sure about the girls being sneakier. My oldest son is the instigator of all the trouble and the sneakiest person you'd ever meet. He could always get the other kids to do the dirty deed and then would tell on them and get them in trouble. It took me until he was 6 to figure out that he was getting the brothers in trouble. The teachers never would believe it. They all thought he was the perfect child. He was really good @ it.
TEDDIE
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Interesting things we learn when we have boy
