101 Ways to "Get" Your Mom

These are adding themselves on a little too quickly!!!

Tip #96: Attempt to swing from any available hanging towel or towel bar within available reach in the bathroom; break it.  The beauty of this tip is that it is repeatable in various forms and various locations, and is 100% guaranteed (as with the majority of these tips) to elicit some sort of response from your parents.

Variations by age:

4-Year Old (several months ago while still 3-yrs old): Swing from hand-towel ring on wall by sink.  Cause ring to dismantle and crease on one side.  Parents reform the ring to the best of their abilities, however, the towel ring will never be the same again.

5-Year Old (yesterday): Attempt to hang from bath towel hanging on towel bar.  Towel bar dismantles and one of the decorative ends falls off from the wall anchor.  You're left feeling more than a little silly when your standing there with a towel in your hands, still looped around the detached bar, and both parents ask you what on earth you're doing.  Ummmm...

Parental note: Thankfully the anchor is still firm in the wall, the bar is unbent and should reassemble without difficulty!  The kids obviously need a trapeze bar or more time at the playground.  Time out in the snow will have to suffice for now!

101 Ways to Get Your Mom

I'm changing "gross out" to "get" your mom, because there are so many ways that the kids "get" Mommy every day!

Tip #97:
Today's event involved the 20-month old and his love for everything in the bathroom drawers (particularly the toothpaste and chap stick)...

Come to your mom carrying a sibling's lip balm from the bathroom drawer.  It becomes evident that you need help putting the lid on.
Remember to nod your head "yes" when Mommy asks if you've moisturized your lips.  Then she looks in the lip balm dispenser and realizes that you've dug a finger a good eighth inch down into the stick, and she touches your cheek and realizes you've moisturized your face as well (nod "yes" again)!  Thankfully, Mommy laughs because something is apparently funny.  She rubs in the "moisturizer" on your face and lips as much as possible, takes the lip balm to degrease and recap it; she then helps you wash your hands and removes you from the bathroom.

Sneak back in bathroom when Mommy isn't looking... dig in toothbrush/mouth care drawer for more fun (like pulling as much floss out of the container as possible!)... oops!  Caught in the act!  Mommy removes you from the bathroom and closes the door.  Throw a fit.  Get banished to your crib for nap time.  Fuss more... zzzzz.