Just one more reason...

There are so many reasons why it rocks when your kids get older. What? You need examples? Well alrighty then.

Reasons:

~ They are potty trained.

~ They can talk...with real words so you know what they want.

~ They can help clean their rooms and put away their own laundry.

~ They understand when you say, "STOP IT before someone gets hurt!" although, they don't always listen.

~ No more diapers!

~ They can wipe their own butts! Need I say more? Yeah, didn't think so.

So there are just a couple reasons why it rocks when your kids get older.

So onto my original story. We have a dog. (long dramatic pause) And she is a complete pain in the tush! Yeah, ok...I'm not a very good doggy mommy. But really if it didn't live inside me for 9 months and I didn't give birth to it then I'm really not all that into cleaning up it's crap at 3:30am, which by the way was done on my newly mopped floor. And if it wasn't for her being sneaky, whiny, chewing up our new faux wood blinds, peeing and pooping on our floors like nobodies business and jumping our kitchen gate, then I would probably be a little more tolerable of her.

So we got this dog 5 years ago for our daughter after we had to get rid of our Great Dane, Bociphus. He was an AWESOME dog; sweet, beautiful, smart and a great watch dog! Well besides the escaping from the backyard over our fence and running all over the neighborhood until I could catch him at 1am and what else?...Oh yeah, biting my daughter! That was it! Other than those two things he was great! But he was bigger than my almost 3 year old and biting is a major no no! So we got the smallest dog we could find; a Chihuahua that my daughter named Princess Chalupa. 'A small dog? Wonderful!' I thought. 'No more big doggy piles in our yard! No more hopping the fence and scarring the bageebies out of the neighbors.' HA! That's what I thought until I realized that little doggy piles were actually worse. Why you ask? Because you can't see them until you step in them! GROSS!!! I am so sick and tired of cleaning up poo tracks on my kitchen floor. And for some odd reason it only seems to happen right after I mop!

So the new rule is, 'You wanna keep the dog? Then you clean up the piles-o-crap! everyday before you can actually play in the yard'. And so far so good. She has been out there cleaning and for some really odd, weird reason she seems to enjoy it. So here is just one more example of why it rocks when your kids get older. No more cleaning up doggy piles for me! I've handed down that job to my daughter!!! Hip Hip Hooray!!!