She's an Uptown Girl

Listening to: November Rain - Guns N Roses
Mood: Calm

Just wanted to share with you a cute thing my 4 year old daughter told me the other day. We were havng a girly moment painting our nails. Being the princess wannabe that she is, my daughter chose bubblegum pink with sparkles for her fingernails. After I was done painting them, she informed me that she lookes "fisticated". I asked her what she meant and we figured out that she meant sophisticated. I couldn't help but wonder where she heard that word and it's meaning. She never fails to surprise me.

Becky

Car Seat Trolls

I’m sure that everyone has heard of the sock gnomes. They are the little guys who run around like Robin Hood and steal single socks out of the dryer. What they do with these single socks has remained a mystery, as well as why they insist upon driving mothers around the world mad. I just recently met a close relative of the sock gnomes. Please welcome – the Car seat troll. Like sock gnomes, these little buggers are never actually seen. Everyone with at least 1 child has one that lives under the seats of your car. While you’re driving, he goes in the back seat and tightens your child(ren)’s seatbelt so that it’s almost impossible to buckle him or her into their car seat without squishing them like play dough the next time you want to go out. You may or may not have one living in your home too. Exactly why they do this is unknown. I thought it was my 4 year old just being stubborn. She is in a car seat where she can tighten her own seatbelt, but not loosen it. (Someone smack the designers with a sock full of crack . Seriously, what were you thinking leaving something in the reach of a 4 year old that they can and will monkey with?!) Then, my 6 week old started having this happen also. There is no way that she can reach the straps behind her car seat. Nor can her squirmy older sister. Yet her car seat consistently gets tighter also. Which leads me to suspect the car seat trolls. Watch out - they'll drive you just as batty as the sock gnomes.
Becky

Welcome to Guarding the Couches

Hi,
I'm Becky and you've landed up in Guarding the Couches land. This is my blog for writing about everything absurd that I have happen with my kids. I'm the proud mom of 2 little girls, aged 4 and 1 month. I've named this blog as such because I got new couches last summer and am always trying to guard them from being destroyed by my kids. As anyone with kids knows, this is damn near impossible. We already have some yogurt and pen stains to prove it. In the process, I'm afraid I've turned into my own mom. (Get away from your sister with that marker!)

I've been blogging about all manner of things on Yahoo 360 for 2 years now. If you want to check out my previous writing or more about me, see: http://360.yahoo.com/profile-h6VVLvEjfKeRs37GCw2TsX6YAeY-?cq=1
I also have a political blog at: http://becky-politicalrants.blogspot.com/ and a personal blog at: http://beckyispassingthrough.blogspot.com/.

If you haven't guessed, this is a mommy blog. If you don't like reading about other people's kids, this probably isn't for you. I welcome comments, as long as they're kind. Thanks for stopping by!
Becky