Bom bom BOMMMMMMM!

I have to tell you a story. I've been holding it in for a couple of weeks, but I don't think the story is going to get any better. It has reached it's climax, so I must now share.

We have new neighbours! Since we moved here in January only 3 units out of 8 have been unoccupied in our building. In April our next door neighbours moved leaving us the only occupants on the ground level! This gave X access to the entire "backyard," but very lonely. 2 weeks ago we noticed a couple of young girls hanging around. They would ride their bikes passed our windows in the back while casually glancing in, or hang around in the front yard for a while. We hadn't noticed any moving truck anywhere in the complex, so we were a little confused. Turns out this family moved in right next door, but as is common up here, they have to wait a couple of weeks for their moving truck to arrive.

This is very exciting news. 2 little girls living right next door! One 8 and one 4, we'll call them K and S. After two weeks of neighbourly action this is how I see them:

Only, replace the fence with my back deck sliding doors. And they are much younger than the couple seen here. I'm really not exaggerating here. I will look up and there will be noses pressed up against my screen door! No sound...just watching. Sometimes when we go out to our car, or for a walk I will see those same noses pressed up against their window watching. When A's mom comes to pick her up they will stand at the end of my walk just staring. It is getting a little creepy.

This is how they see me:

Muahahahaha! Yep. I'm the evil witch! No I have not tried to lure them into my oven, nor have I offered them any poisoned apples.

If you are my "friend" on facebook, you may recall my post about grounding X for the first time. And the next day I grounded him for the second time. And the next day I grounded him for the third time. The day after that his grandparents were here, so you can't ground him, but boy did I yell.

The first three incidents involved X getting completely soaked, sneakers included, after we told him no more water. I know, water is a hard thing for kids to resist in the summer, but I'm still the boss. The third was general dangerous behaviour; jumping off of the deep freeze on our back deck. Again, after a warning.

The "yelling incident" takes a little background information to get the full effect. One day before all the grounding the girls came over to watch some cartoons. X, at one point, decided that he needed to give them a tour of our apartment...even though they live in the same set-up next door, only in reverse. He opened closets, and the laundry room, and was on his way to my room when I stopped him. I told him that since he wasn't allowed to hang out in my room, neither were his friends, so they didn't need to see it.

On "yelling day," as I mentioned, my in-laws were here. A's parents came for her early, and I wanted out of the house! So I told X he could play outside while I was gone because M and his step-dad were working on the car. I went shopping. With my mother, and my mother-in-law. With my big belly. A)I did not take enough breaks for my big belly. B)The topic of choice was menopause. I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not experiencing menopause at this moment. It's not even on my radar screen really. I did buy some cool stuff though. :)

When we got home I was in desperate need of feet-up action. As I walked into my house I heard this strange noise...coming from my bedroom! I opened the door, and low and behold there is the air mattress that we had set up for my in-laws on my bed, on the air mattress are the 2 girls from next door bouncing away! X is wedged between the air mattress and the wall playing his guitar serenading these vixens from next door! Where is my husband? Outside working on the car still!! Also, there is ceiling spackle crap all over the mattress and the blinds are messed up, and my books have been tossed on the floor.

So I yelled. "Out. Out. OUT!!!" Boy did those girls run. X, who is old hat at my yelling, was all "but mom, we just..." "No. Not until I talk to your father to see if the rules changed while I was gone! Out!" Haven't had the girls in since really. They still play outside, and press their noses to my windows, and play with X outside...I'm just not ready for the in-house visits yet!

Oh, and the rule had changed slightly. They were supposed to be watching a cartoon in the living room. Lesson: Don't think a 4, 5, and 8 year old will be responsible enough to be left in the house! Even if the 5 year old would be responsible enough if he was not showing off for girls! Good times.