LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

Every day, I pick my kids up from elementary school, and almost every day, we spend the next 45 minutes on the playground, killing time before it’s time to pick up my oldest from middle school. So, I do a whole lot of people watching, and I eavesdrop on other parents’ conversations, and occasionally, I have a fabulous conversation of my very own! (And I live for those days. I have to contain myself, so I don’t jump up and down clapping, and saying things like, “You’re paying attention to me! You’re letting me into your mommy clique! You’re considering inviting me to bunco, aren’t you? Yay!”)

Today, I watched a guy having a whole lot of fun with his kids. And actually? I’m not fully convinced they were his kids. I’m guessing they were his nephews. Actual dads are not usually so enthusiastic about playing with their children, and they usually embrace the caregiver role in such a way that they, y’know, lead by example. They don’t wobble and shake the entire play structure by walking across the top of the monkey bars. They don’t climb up the outside tube of the slide, 12 feet up off the ground. And they generally don’t show up saggin’ in sweat pants that only cover the bottom half of their ass.

This guy looked like he was having a lot of fun. I watched as he chased a pair of boys all over the playground, up the slide, through tunnels, across bridges, and around posts – pausing momentarily to hitch his pants back up about every minute. At one point, his pants FELL DOWN TO HIS KNEES! The only thing separating his pale white ass and the rest of the playground was a pair of white boxers. And even when his pants weren’t down around his knees, they were still…um…sort of showing off the goods, y’know? Hell, he could even stand to go up a size in the t-shirt. Cover that shit UP, Li’l Kim – the kids are watching!

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After I saw the custom stick-figure family on Mandajuice, I had to have a set for myself. I didn’t have mine custom drawn like she did, but I didn’t have to! Family Stickers has so many choices, you’re bound to find something that suits your needs. And if they don’t, they’ll draw something for you!

I thought long and hard about whether or not to put Paul on a motorcycle or to put him behind a set of DJ turntables. The turntables won out in the end, because they’re just so darned cute. And how cute is his mustache and beard? Paul says he looks like the Monopoly guy.

I messed up when I placed my order, and clicked the wrong images for the girls – they both wanted to be cheerleaders and Mallory wanted to be a ballerina, and I flip-flopped them. D’oh! But now that it’s here and on the back of my Tahoe, we’re all pretty happy with it. Oh, and Kayley really wanted to be a ninja, but I decided she’d be cuter with an iPod. And there I am with my laptop, NATURALLY.

Head over to Family Stickers and get your own – they also have standard stick figures, flip flops, and other styles of families. Cute stuff!

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