About 6 weeks ago I was trying to wake up my youngest (3 yrs) the same way I do every morning.  She has this little pink dog that she loves, so the dog talks to her every morning trying to get her up.  The dog likes to slide down her back.  Anyway....I, the dog starting to pull her arm to get her up and Catherine was having a great time.  We, I mean the dog pulled on Catherine many, many times.  Well Catherine started screaming (6:30am) and my wife ran up stairs asking what happened.  I played it down because Catherine sometimes gets a little cranky (red hair) but my wife (a physician) was thinking small fracture.  Now I am concerned and not feeling all that good about myself.

Catherined calmed down and we brought her to day care and in the meantime we got a docs appointment (11am).  We found out that I dislocated her left arm (I felt very small).  My doc said this happens all the time and that made me feel a bit better.  I can't believe I did this to my little girl, so now the dog does not pull on her anymore.  They are so fragile but so resilient.

No that I can get them to brush their teeth, get dressed with the racing game, I seemed to be having a problem getting one of my daughters out of bed.  This morning it was hard getting both out but that is rare.  Does anyone have any ideas on getting your children up in the morning?  They usually are in bed between 8-8:30pm and one of my girls has a hard time getting up.

The kids are finally sleeping and the Red Sox are on.  They are currently winning in the 8th inning, but things do change quickly when watching the Sox.  I thouhgt they had last nights game won when Johnny P. came in to close but we lost in 10.  Anyways I am glad they are sleeping and I can see the rest of the game, it looks good at this point.

Oh, yeah....I will have to do the race game tomorrow morning toget them going.  I think I will win tomorrow so I am not called a loser again.

Go Red Sox!!!!!!!!!!   6-3 in the 8th.

How do you get your kids moving in the morning.?

It seems that my wife and myself are always repeating our daughters name over and over in the morning saying "eat your breakfast, get dressed, brush your teeth", etc, etc.  I race with my two daughters (5 & 3) in the morning and that may come back and bite me.  This works, but of course I let them win until that one day both of them started taunting me and calling me a loser.  The next day I made sure to win but of course my two girls both said   " it is not a race daddy".

Daddy's can never win when it comes to their daughters!