My little helper.

If you’re planning to have children, I highly recommend having them two years apart. Or if you’re a SAHM (Stay-At-Home-Mom aka Household Engineer) like me and have three children under the age of five and two years apart…you’d know how helpful your five year old can be.

Like this morning, Sophia (15 months) woke up around 6:45, had her milk and I put her back to sleep but because she’s sick with a cold, her nose is a constant “snotfall”, so she couldn’t go back to sleep and I had to get my morning routine done.

So I enlisted the help of my five year old, going on forty, little man Tyler for help in keeping a close watch on Sophia while I get ready. Since I don’t do any caffeine, not even teas or sodas :shock:, a shower is what gets me going.

I put Sophia back in her crib with toys to keep her busy and asked Tyler to play with her while I do “speed shower”. If you’re a Mom, there’s only one setting in your world and it’s always on “Super Speed”, and your nickname is “Speedy Gonzales!”

As I was putting shampoo in my hair, I hear Tyler running into our bathroom exclaiming “Mommy, Sophia has booger running down.”

I yelled amidst the running water “then, wipe her nose for Mommy!”

Tyler “I know!”

Well, then why did you run in to tell me that?! He’s Mr. “I know” about a lot of things…at the ripe old age of FIVE!!

So I quickly dried myself and checked to see if there’s still shampoo in my hair, put on my uniform (Jeans and t-shirt) and ran into Sophia’s room to find an inch and a half of snot dangling from her nose and it’s about to touch her chin. Not to mention that her hair is all tangled from old snot. *d’oh!*

Luckily for me, Trent (3) is still sleeping since 7PM last night and it’s almost 7:45AM. He’s the reason for this snotsville. If you have children, you’d know that germs do not discriminate and that they love to travel any where and to anyone. Just stay away from me because as my husband puts it “if Mommy’s sick, the whole system breaks down!” You don’t say! *arms folding*

Got to go, more snots coming out. Have fun with your little helpers. Next task to teach: dish washing, house cleaning, and cooking.

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