Posted by: brandiandboys | August 19, 2008

I’m a Sucker…

Last Friday I twittered something to the effect of, “Does anyone want a two-year-old?” What kinda mother would write that you ask? One who’d had a VERY long week! Brewer has always been our wildcard, that’s common knowledge.

I had made the boys spaghetti for lunch. A meal they both love and when we have it, they usually clean their plates. I left the kitchen for a few short minutes to check the laundry (not my email, honest!), heard Gage scream, heard Brewer laugh, and came back to a room that looked like this….

They cleaned their plates alright! Spaghetti was on all of the walls, two of the windows, window shutters, baseboards, and floor. It was also located in Gage’s ear, on the side of his face, in his hair, smeared on his t-shirt and stuck to Tucker’s collar. Gage swore Brewer was the sole-conspirator…. yea, right.

I was not happy, but then I saw his lip quiver…

And I got the eyes…

I admit it, I’m a sucker for the lip quiver and those eyes. Put a fork in me and call me done, because they get me every time.

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  1. And the fact he did it on camera is priceless! I saw that twitter and wondered what was up…now I know! What kind of mom ask that? I think any mom with all boys should get that pass at least every couple months! :) Thankfully, we have not had a spaghetti fight…no, we just choose to throw our cereal here.

    By: fullofboys on August 19, 2008
    at 7:09 am

  2. I my gosh! Brew is such a little Pete! Micah can make that same face…it gets me every time.

    By: Laura on August 19, 2008
    at 7:12 am

  3. I saw the lip before I read your sentence and he had me right there too! He is the cutest little button!

    By: Emily Rowe on August 19, 2008
    at 7:30 am

  4. did you steal my son? They look ALOT alike!

    By: duganfourbrasil on August 19, 2008
    at 7:30 am

  5. I’m still laughing! They did a real nice addition to your paint job! This blog will be an awesome journal for your boys to read when they grow up. For some reason, I think this post will be one they brag about.

    By: Lisa Ruggles on August 19, 2008
    at 7:53 am

  6. Oh my… he’s lucky he’s so cute!

    By: Anna on August 19, 2008
    at 7:55 am

  7. With that face I would have just started throwing the spaghetti just to make him feel better. Is this what Pete looks like when he gets in trouble too?

    By: Jennifer on August 19, 2008
    at 8:10 am

  8. Isn’t that the worst?! You want to correct and discipline but you can’t stand cracking up.

    Just yesterday, I told Anna not to crawl up the stairs (she’s only 14 months and such a tiny peanut) and she looked at me held her pointer finger up and said “no!”. She’s too young to be sassy…but I had to cover my face from smiling.

    By: danielle on August 19, 2008
    at 8:32 am

  9. That’s how Pete got you, too, isn’t it?

    By: amyc on August 19, 2008
    at 8:53 am

  10. I’m right there with you, sister.

    I’ve offered my children for sale on occasion.

    But then I’m missing them the moment they go outside.

    Ugh!

    By: Cindy Beall on August 19, 2008
    at 9:03 am

  11. Okay that is to funny. It is crazy what we let slide compared to what our parents would have done had we done the same thing right! I am a sucker also. I always think well if it doesn’t kill them who is going o care in twenty years also it a great story to tell! By the way I checked out your husbands video, Sooooo funny and yes they are a lot a like.

    By: jackiebrewster on August 19, 2008
    at 9:03 am

  12. oh no!!!! I Have to know, did you scream oh so loud? When these disasters happen at my house I scream at the kids with so much frustatration. It makes me feel guilty and like you depending on the face I get from the kids, I then crack UP.

    By: julie bell on August 19, 2008
    at 9:08 am

  13. Food Fight! Yep, been there too!! He’s just too cute!

    By: Annabelle@Christian Momma on August 19, 2008
    at 9:08 am

  14. I am such a sucker too! The eyes get me everytime.

    By: Jessica on August 19, 2008
    at 9:53 am

  15. Your blog is so refreshing. Thank God these kind of things happen to everyone else! If only I had been blogging when Emily was in her Terrible Two (and Three) stage.

    By: bradruggles on August 19, 2008
    at 10:18 am

  16. The first picture got to me, I would have caved right then. He is so adorable that it is probably hard to be mad.

    By: CHERI on August 19, 2008
    at 10:43 am

  17. ohhh sometimes I HAVE gone to check blogs/emails and come back to a disaster — and OHHH the guilt!!!

    I have a 2 year old so I know what you’re going through — but only 1/3rd of what you’re going through because you have 2 others and I only have the one!!!!!!!!

    On Pete’s blog I asked if you had a little doll to pretend with sometimes or something… because of all the testosterone you are surrounded by it would be good to have a dress up doll or something :)

    By: Randi on August 19, 2008
    at 10:55 am

  18. P.S. you’re a SAHM right? I’d love to hear what a ‘normal’ day is like for you with the 3 boys… a summertime day without school vs. a school year day..

    I have so many requests of you I’m sorry — I won’t be offended at all if you never get aruond to all the posts I want you to do hehe

    By: Randi on August 19, 2008
    at 10:56 am

  19. Ahhhh the life with a house full of boys…… I feel your pain Brandi. I too am a mother of 3 boys, but I have a red headed girl right in the middle of them….. FUN FUN. Got to love all the things that the kiddos do to make us crazy.

    By: amy on August 19, 2008
    at 11:06 am

  20. i like randi’s suggestion…”a day in the life of brandi wilson”

    pleeeeeeze?????

    By: tam on August 19, 2008
    at 12:29 pm

  21. I should now add “food fights” to my list of reasons why I don’t have kids that I posted about yesterday. :)

    By: Jenni Catron on August 19, 2008
    at 12:31 pm

  22. Hmm….. boogers (Pete’s blog today) and spaghetti on the walls. I think it is a good thing they are so darn cute!

    By: Lisa Ruggles on August 19, 2008
    at 1:06 pm

  23. That is the cutest lip quiver! And the puppy-dog-eyes are working on me too!

    By: Ladybird on August 19, 2008
    at 1:43 pm

  24. Oh, he’s so cute. I’m pretty sure if you put a bubble over his head in that last picture it would say, “See that… I totally got her. All it took was the lip quiver… Sweet.”

    :)

    sara
    http://www.gitzengirl.blogspot.com

    By: sara on August 19, 2008
    at 1:50 pm

  25. What is it with your boys and your walls???? hahahha… do you an P-Squared get together and plan these blog posts?? Awfully coincidental!! His wall/booger….. your wall/spaghetti…. hahahhaha….

    LOVE THOSE BOYS!!! :) :) ;)

    By: OCD-ism/Obsessive Christian Disorder on August 19, 2008
    at 2:03 pm

  26. boogers and spagetti, bothgross and funny! when my girls did a similar thing, i caved too. its hard not to.

    By: carrie-anne on August 19, 2008
    at 8:01 pm

  27. That is adorable. Tristan is our wild card, and he has those looks too.

    By: ncarnes on August 19, 2008
    at 10:58 pm

  28. So, okay, wait…did you make them lick (eat) the sketty off the walls to clean up the mess? Because that is totally what I would have done.

    By: kristiapplesauce on August 20, 2008
    at 4:23 am

  29. Whew! For a minute there I thought the booger had grown!

    By: Celeste on August 20, 2008
    at 9:45 am

  30. Oh my goodness that first picture is enough to make me want to cry! What a face!!!!!!!

    By: Heather on August 20, 2008
    at 12:52 pm


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