The Mouse is currently obsessed with Iron Man.
We’re having an Iron Man party this weekend. He has weaseled Iron Man toys out of his grandparents {and great grandparents}. He found an Iron Man book at the library last weekend and he’s been carrying it around like a security blanket ever since.
So of course, last night my husband decided to tell him:
“Hey Mouse, mommy and daddy are going to see an Iron Man movie tomorrow night, but you have to stay with Pop.”
I stared at him like he had 14 heads and a dorsal fin. WTF was he thinking?
The Mouse looked at me expectantly, like at any moment I was going to tell him that his father was full of crap and of COURSE he was coming with us to the Iron Man movie.
Instead, I continued to stare at my husband, dumbstruck. WTF was he thinking?!!
I waited about 3/4s of a second too long to refute his father’s statement, because all of a sudden the Mouse got this horror-struck look on his face. His whole world was crashing in on him. His parent’s had COMPLETELY let him down.
“MOOOOOOOOMMY! I want to go see the Iron Man movie too! I don’t want to go to Pop’s house with baby Froggy!”
“Dude, mommy and daddy need a night out, we’re going to see the Iron Man movie, it’s not a kid’s movie. You don’t get to come.” {husband}
“YES IT IS A KID’S MOVIE!” {the Mouse}
“No, it’s really not.” {husband}
“YES IT IS!!!!1!” {the Mouse}
Finally, I intervened.
“Mouse, we’re not going to see the Iron Man movie tomorrow, daddy is just teasing you. We’re going to see a mommy movie. There’s lot’s of kissing and talking and you wouldn’t like it.”
::pause::
“Oh, okay.” … and he went back to coloring.
Now it was my husband’s turn to stare at me like I had a dorsal fin.
What?! It’s not MY fault he decided to tell the kid we were going to a movie he would kill to see. If he had kept his mouth shut, the Mouse would have believed he was being dropped off at his grandfather’s house so mommy and daddy could go to work for a while. It’s totally his fault, and I was *forced* to lie to to my son, to keep the tantrum from being heard throughout all of the Dallas Ft Worth metroplex.
I can’t be the only mother who has lied to her kid about something like this? Right?
Good save! You’re definitely not alone on that one. In the interest of local peacekeeping, I’ve done the same thing.
Ha! I just lied about the battleship movie! He thought it sounded like a kid’s movie but it is most definitely not. Sometimes we have to redirect.
Oh no! I think I would of done the same thing! Sometimes boys just don’t think
You were right – what WAS your husband thinking???? Crazy man!
Oh good grief, sometimes dads just. don’t. get. it. You can’t dangle that carrot in front of a kid’s face and then snatch it away from him! Bad form, Mr. Tottums. Good save on your part, a little white lie is forgivable if you’re doing it to prevent a tantrum.
Good job turning that around. Hopefully your husband learns. Don’t taunt the kids. They have the ability to make your life hell.
Oh I would have done the exact same thing! It wasn’t a lie 0 it was a great save!!
Umm Hubby totally dropped the ball on that one.. he made you do that.
of course we have l lied to Keanan…everyday he thinks we are on our way to Georgia to pick him up LOL. He is currently having too much fun to realize that we never make it LOL.
LMAO……..you are so good at writing.
Hey it happens!
you gotta do what you gotta do. Husbands don’t get it. Not only that but my husband plays bits and pieces of all the superhero movies to get my three year old even more hyped up right before bedtime. I don’t think joker is the most appropriate person to see on a huge tv screen right before drifting off to sleep. Boys!
My 4 year old is obsessed with Iron Man. So much so that he has me call him Tony and has a huge vinyl sticker in his room.. He watches Super Hero Squad and knows him from that. We have tons of stuff. I feel you.
My (almost) 3 year old LOVES Iron Man too! He also loves Hawkeye, The Avengers, & DC Nation on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I would’ve done the same thing…I know he would’ve freaked out if I had told him I was going and didn’t bring him!
Are men serious sometimes! But we love em… Dorsal Fin and all.