Mutterings Of A Mindless Mommy

Alexander is very rule governed. If he believes that something is a rule, he will follow it to a T. He follows through so much that earlier this year when he was coming off of Versed after a dental appointment, he managed to kick me in the head while driving without taking off his seatbelt. You see, he was mad at me for having him take the Versed and he wanted to kick me in the head. However, the rule is, you leave your seat belt on if the car is on. So even in an irrational moment like kicking his beloved mother in the head, he still followed the rule.

So today he tells me that he is going to pick up his room. He loves charts so I create a chore list with little check boxes so that he can check off everything he did. Silly me didn’t realize that I would have to list everything in the room. He gets through the chore list and proclaims that he is finished. One quick peek in his room and it only looks marginally better than it did prior to starting his adventure.

I remind him that he needs to clean his entire room. He goes into his bedroom and comes out a few minutes later with a paper that states:

A New Rule

Clean only what is on the chore list.

I take the paper from him and rip it in half with a wry smile. His eyes got huge and his mouth dropped then he started giggling. He took the paper from me and put it in the garbage then returned to his room. Now I must say that Alexander and I have this very odd sense of humor so I knew how he would react to my ripping the paper. I was not being demeaning, etc - it was playful and he knew it as such.

After a few more minutes in his room, he walks back out with a new piece of paper.

A New Rule.

Moms who rip rule papers will get their butt kicked.

I immediately started laughing and he followed suit then quickly gave me a kick on the backside. We laughed and I put the paper away for posterity. Yes, I am a weird mom and I thought this was funny. What is even more funny is the rule is, we don’t say butt. We say bottom, behind, etc. He never says butt. I never said the rule was we don’t write butt.

Gotta love my little rule follower!