I'm becoming my mother

...and my son is becoming me.

Its not really my worst fear to become my mother. She's pretty cool actually.

However.

Thing1 is at the Why? stage. He wants to know why everything and it gets old quick. I've taken to telling him (you know what I'm going to say, don't you?) "Because I said so." Its not my answer for everything but sometimes after the 5th or 6th Why? you just don't have a good answer anymore.

Here is the downside: the kid is just like me. So now when I ask him why he did or said something, you know what his answer is? That's right, "because I said so."

Case in point: Saturday morning, Dad had a late night playing video games and fell asleep on the couch (I wish I could say this wasnt a usual occurrence). 6am rolls around and the kid is shaking his father saying, "Dad, wake up. Wake up Dad!" and you know what his answer is when I ask him why it's so imperative that his dad wake up. In fact, it's the same for pretty much everything these days.

BECAUSE I SAID SO.