She gave me "The Bird"!

Ahhhhh Christmas... The Family, the friends, the laughter, the wine... How fun those times are, and what great memories they make.

My husband and I got one little extra memory this year. My daughter let us know that we taught her something brand new, for her 5 year old world.
Tell me this, how many of you have not, thinking how sneaky you are, flipped someone the old "scratch the nose bird"? Especially when you mix in a tad of wine, and some good old fashioned sarcasm with the family love. It was bound to happen a time or two over the holidays...

Recently, Luke and I were in the kitchen talking while Lily was suppose to be cleaning up her mess from doing a craft. She came to the kitchen door and started to inch her way past us, so that she could go down stairs and play instead of finishing. Of course we were "on to her", and out pops the infamous "mom look". "Lily, what are you doing?" " I want to go play." "No, you go finish cleaning up your mess and then you may play."
And then it happened!
My 5 year old looks down with an eye roll and starts scratching her nose with none other than the good old "scratch the nose bird" !!!!!!!
Needless to say, Our jaws both dropped! We started, and tried really hard, to let her know that that was not OK, but dang it, we just couldn't contain it! We both burst out laughing, and not just any laugh, we got to the can't breath laughing state! Of course, she just looked at us like we are morons and turned to her task at hand.

Oh motherhood! How many times can you screw up before you just have to laugh? I know as a mother, it is my job to be stern and let her know that that is not the greatest behavior to display, but I just couldn't get it out at that moment. I did let her know later, but dang, it was hard to keep my composer long enough, even then.

I can truly say, I will never forget that as long as I live, it was just too dang funny!