tips for moms with 3+ kids

Never thought my youngest boy would get along so well with the cat. Being, not the youngest child in the family but the one who at the moment is the smallest able to run around and talk, he seemed to find the little kitten super interesting. He loves watching him sprint across the floor and following him everywhere. They are best buddies especially because the kitten (Dublin) doesn’t mind or complain about London (my 2 year old son) following him around all the time (which isn’t the case with his older siblings… he especially gets on my oldest daughter’s nerves when he decides to hang out in her room for awhile… but actually thinking more about it …. who doesn’t get on her nerves at the moment? Not an easy situation to solve but working on it….).

I gave the kids some old ribbons and showed them how to tease the kitten with them. If all the children play at once with the kitten, he gets kinda bored, maybe just overwhelmed not knowing which ribbon to attack….but when London manages to sneak downstairs by himself (those rare moments when the 4 other children are all engaged in some important activities in their playroom/bedrooms upstairs, like coloring or playing a game) he devotedly lures his friend Dublin like a fish out from underneath the dinner table with his pink ribbon. The kitten never seems to get bored with it, and London is sooo patient and calm he would just stand there for hours fishing with/for Dublin if he could…. but London’s only 2 so with naptime breathing down his neck…. his super hobby doesn’t take up all of his day…. yet!Oh ya almost forgot about London’s second favorite hobby, which is picking up the things his little sister Lyme throws down onto the floor out of her highchair, naturally she only does it with the expectation that London retrieves and returns everything with a big smile….. which he normally holds up to successfully…. but last time this went on for a half an hour and London was looking a little pale and stressed so I think Dublin the kitten was a sudden but welcome change to his now 2nd hobby.