First!

First!  Are your kids competitive?  Holy Jeezus that drives me insane!  "But IIIIII want to be first!"  Seriously, everything in life is NOT a race.  Pee at your own speed, wash your hands at your own speed, and for the love of God, if you really want to race, then see who can clean up first.

My youngest is constantly trying to keep pace with his big brothers.  I am not sure if this is a boy thing, or a kid thing, or a my house only thing, but the level of whining that comes along with somehow *NOT* ending up first is rather astounding.  This morning he is attempting to play a Wii game with them, that is way above his ability, and he's pissed.  Because it's early, the older 2 are being a bit patient, and trying to give him cues of what to do and when, only because he's pissed he doesn't want to do that either.  Whining is SO much easier and apparently SO much fun!

Today I am stuck with them 3 alone, the other half is off at a firefighting class from 8-5, then heads to his EMT class directly from there, 6-10.  And I have to be here at least from noon til 3... sometime after noon our insurance adjuster is going to show up (lovely hail damage to my van) which will run into nap time.

Fingers crossed today isn't the day that I end up in the news.