Hellobee Boards

Great thread idea!

DH was on a conference call after I was done working. He told me that he didn't have the loudest kids in the background but he did have the loudest wife yelling at the kids. Apparently "If you poke your brother one more time" came across very clear.

@charleysmom: I just snorted

E (2.5) asked me to kiss the booboo on her cup

We had somebody come over to look at our stove, so I social-distanced the kids upstairs, where they took their pants off and bumped their bums together yelling “BUTT PARTY! BUTTY BUTT BUTT PARTY!” The noise carried.

My 3 year old was in my bedroom where DH was watching the show Impractical Jokers... he comes out to me and proceeds to tell me to suck it (hand motions and everything). I was not impressed but DH couldn't stop cracking up. He didn't think LO was paying attention to the show.

I was posting a video on Seesaw for my students and said something about remembering to wash your hands. And DS piped up from off camera, "and don't pick your nose!"
Also, I was in a Zoom meeting with other staff members and a parent while also keeping an eye on my 4 month old and 6 year old. 4 month old DD pooped approximately 5 minutes into an hour long meeting, so I changed her on the floor off camera while participating in the discussion.

DD (4 months) babbles at a VERY high volume most of the time, and she was so loud on her play mat that DH missed his boss asking him a question multiple times so everyone on the call thought he had dropped off. 🤦‍♀️

My baby inevitably has remarkably loud poops and farts when I’m on a conference call. It really sounds like I’m conducting the meeting from the toilet.

And since I’m often feeding her and don’t want to inadvertently flash someone if my toddler grabs the screen and reorients it, I say bandwidth problems prevent me from using video. So yeah, everyone definitely thinks I’m joining in from the toilet...

OMG this thread made me laugh. Thank you.

So far...
DS (5) let out a giant sigh and told me he was EXHAUSTED on day 1.5.
DD (13m) put the entire roll of toilet paper IN the toilet (which I think might be a capital offense right now).
DD ate half the dogs food before I realized where she was.
Luckily I haven’t had to do too much active work this week, but during my one conference call, pretty much the entirety of the duplo bin was shoved one by one under the door.
Oh and I gave in to the power of Elmo last night and set DD up in her highchair in front of the tv so I could do the dishes.

These are great!

My husband gave his coworkers our home number as his primary phone contact. We’d been working with our five year old on how to answer the phone over the last couple weeks before all this started...so one of his coworkers called yesterday and C answered the phone before we could catch it. She promptly forgot everything we’d coached her to say if she picks up the phone and instead said, “Hi! I’m C and you won a prize! You get to hear my songs!” and proceeded to sing something from Tangled, while I wrestled the phone away from her.

@Dahlia: Same! Lol! Rather than redoing it, I'm like "students, meet my cat! He wanted to make an appearance"

I was on a conference call on speaker phone. Someone on the call said, “now why in the hell would they do that” about something. And DS, from the other room, screams, hell is a bad word!! You owe me a quarter!!

So this isn't parenting related, but hair cutting places are closed and DH badly needed a hair cut. I did an awesome job until I noticed a couple of longer hairs along his bangs. So I went to trim them but forgot I had the .5mm on to do his neckline. Needless to say, I had to buzz everything down to a .5 It will grow back in three weeks it will be good

I am on Zoom about half the day so my coworkers get to see my kids a decent amount since my "office" is in an awkwardly large hallway. I caught my 5 year old making faces in the background the other day. Who knows how long she'd been doing it before I noticed.