I know its been way too long for another Blind Baby Daddy Blog , but its not because there hasn’t been enough to write about. To be honest, with chasing around the threee little ones and running the circus show that is my life, I just haven’t had the time to sit down and document some of my most recent daddy stories. As many know , my BlindBaby Daddy Blog focuses on what life is like being a dad while also being blind. Most posts focus on the other senses outside of vision that I must use in order to play the “daddy role,” while also highlighting some of the more humorous moments in living with three kids under the age of five. This post focuses mostly on some of the classic quotes in our house over the last few months. I am sure there are many more than this but here are just a few.

1. The Importance of Mommy:

While driving in the car a few weeks back, Kennan out of nowhere said this, “Mommy, you can’t die because if you do, daddy can’t drive and I’ll have nobody to take me to the store and buy cars.” While this is quite true that daddy can’t drive he is pretty good at walking and finding a way to get the job done however that may be. Needless to say, there is never a shortage of honesty or unfiltered thoughts that come from little ones of this age.

2. The Tummy Bug:

Some weeks back, a tummy bug (virus) was running rampant through our house. It managed to take hold of each one of us at some point but trying to explain to the kids what types of things are good and not good to do when you have stomach viruses was an interesting conversation. How i went about this conversation was to explain to the kids what types of things the virus likes and what he really doesn’t like with the purpose of giving him things he doesn’t like so he will leave their body. Here’s how some of the conversation went.

Daddy: “The tummy virus really likes sugar, He doesn’t like things like bread or crackers.”

Kennan: “Daddy, does the virus like chocolate chip cookies?”

Daddy: “He really likes cookies so you don’t want to eat any of those. The virus also doesn’t like water.”

Tut: “Does the virus have a mommy.”

Daddy: “Well, he duplicates all the time. That’s how he gets stronger. He tries to become as strong as possible. That’s how he makes us sick.””

Kennan: “If the virus cracks his head open, than he can’t become stronger any more. Maybe we could crack his head open with a knife.”

Daddy: “No, that’s violent, we don’t defeat the virus like that. We defeat the virus by things like drinking lots of water and washing our hands.”

3. Wearing Diapers:

Kennan has been out of diapers and using the potty for quite some time now but still of course needs a pull up at night. As he gets older though he has begun wanting to try to not wear a pull up at night. This is probably partly because he sees mommy and daddy not wearing a pull up. In reasoning with him on why he needs to still wear the pull up at night, we have said things like, “Mommy and daddy wore pull ups just like you when we were your age.” as well as , “Mommy needed to wear one when she had baby LouElla.” Recently, while “GiGi” was visiting the grandkids, Kennan out of nowhere said, “GiGi, why don’t you wear a diaper?”

In an additional diaper conversation, we took a long day trip and were preparing for the 3 hour drive home. I expected the kids would fall asleep and didn’t want Kennan to have an accident so here’s how the conversation went:

Daddy: “we should probably put a pull up on because you may fall asleep. If you wet your pants, we don’t have any more changes of clothes.”

Kennan: “Daddy, are you going to fall asleep on the drive home?”

Daddy: “Yes, I probably will.” (I answered this way because on the drive out Kennan asked me if I was going to go to sleep and I said no and he responded with “I’m not going to go to sleep either.” Thought I may trick him by saying I’m going to sleep this time)

Kennan: “Daddy, your going to wet your pants then. You probably need a diaper too!”

4. Everyone Farts:

Obviously we know that we all blow a nice toot every once in a while. We know this happens so we are just trying to teach the kids to make sure to say, “Excuse me after these toots come out. Often times, the responses to their farts have been classic. Here are a few examples.

While in the bath tub Kennan ripped a pretty good one. After doing so he responded with, “That was a spicy one.”

One morning, Tut was sitting on the couch alone and watching some TV. Out of nowhere, he blew a loud one. It was louder than what I could expect from a kids his size. In a classic awkward silence response Tut chuckled, “That was me!”

5. The Turkey Song

With Thanksgiving just taking place, Kennan has randomly been talking about some sort of turkey song or game that he must be playing at school or something. We still don’t know the full details on this Turkey Game but it goes kind of like this and every time we hear him, we crack up.

Kennan: “You Run, Grab a Turkey, throw a biscuit, and Take Over, there’s biscuits flying from everywhere.”

Again, we have searched everywhere to attempt to find this game without success. Wee have found other things such as Turkey Pokey and the Turkey Plucker Game but nothing with grabbing turkeys and throwing biscuits. We do thing that whatever game he is referring to, it probably goes more like this, Run, grab a turkey, throw a biscuit; Oh no, Take Cover there are biscuits flying everywhere. I like his version better though :p

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