"Mommy are you in here getting baked?"

My 4 year old comes into the kitchen tonight and says to me "mommy, daddy said you were in the kitchen getting baked." I laugh because it's so funny, I love when the kids say that kind of stuff. I try to record some of it in journals I have for each one (which i of course neglect). I know I have at least 1/2 the brain cells and brain power than I had before kids so if I don't write it down or now blog it then it's gone forever. I'm trying to capture all these moments that I can with them now that I see time whizzing by so fast. I also should start recording what I'd like to say to the kids when they come out with these funny saying. I always just stay straight faced and say "oh" or "hmmm". Tonight I wanted to say "dude I WISH I was in here getting baked but mommy doesn't do that anymore because she got super paranoid when she did get baked." (This is not to suggest that I ever smoked marijuana and certainly never inhaled if it happened to be in my vicinity)

I also love how my kids repeat me, usually the bad stuff I say or do comes quickly back to haunt me. I realized this when my daughter, now 7, was young. I would often say to her, trying to gain compliance, "how about WE...get dressed, get in the bath, finish our dinner etc". Clearly as stated in another blog this was not a true statement because most likely I was already dressed, never got to bathe and always ate all my food. I was trying to avoid just demanding that she do things..make them sound more appealing. She got wise to this party line eventually. One time while using this "how about we...." statement she just looked at me and in a sassy way said "how about NO!" I thought this was so funny that I just laughed out loud. I couldn't blame her, because we gave her choices she had learned to make a decision. My friends and I laughed about this "how about no" for weeks.

My son is now at an age where he says lots of cute things like "her knows hers my girlfriend" or "mommy you go ahind the couch and hide" or my favorite regarding the back seat of our car "is she going to ride in the back-front?" They are so cute i just want to eat them up and remember each cute thing they say. I was told by my daughter this week that I was bossy and always told her to do stuff. I replied that I was her mom and that was my job. I'm trying to be a good mom and not just be the kids "best buddy" that is too permissive. I swear I need an exact manual on what to do for each situation that comes up regarding parenting each day. Hell I really need a manual on life.