Surprising request

September 30, 2014 at 07:36PM

I swear my 2 1/3 year old uttered these words at our dinner table tonight: "Mommy, there's no salad on my plate. I want salad." #wellexcuseme #saidnotoddlerever #doingsomethingright

YGG live

God save us all. I just purchased 3 tickets to see Yo Gabba Gabba Live! Music is Awesome! at the end of October. I'm pretty sure Hope's head will explode when she sees her heroes live and in person. #chaosintoddlerland #thethingswedoforourkids #bettheresnobeer

September 24, 2014 at 07:53PM

Chores with a 2 year old

Sure, it might take 5 times longer to do household chores with a 'helpful' two-year old, but when you've got the time to spare, it's at least 5 times as fun. We just transferred clean diapers from the washer to the dryer, one at a time, fire-brigade-style. Hi-fives all around when we finished. #trainingthemearly #whatdidiusedtodoforfun

Knock Knock jokes

Hope started telling knock knock jokes at dinner tonight. Our favorite: Knock knock. Who's there? Daddy. Daddy who? It's Mommy. #twoyearoldhumor #laughedtillwecried #cantmakethisstuffup

Aug 5, 2014

Read-a-loud with Hope

Last night, Hope sat on the couch, turned her book so we could see it, and proceeded to "read" to us, story-time style. She even asked us questions about the pictures. #ourlittleteacher #takingaftermama #whatcomesnext

July 23, 2014

Joys of Parenthood

Listening to my partner read a story to my child has been one of the unexpected joys of parenthood for me. #letshearitfordads #simplepleasures

July 12, 2014

Things I Don't Want to Forget Hope Used to Do/Say

"Lippy-loop" for spiral

"Kazoo-bo" for gazebo

"Herman crab"

"Sprink-a-ler"

"the tallest as" for "as tall as"

"Chick-munk"

"The Hummer's Parade"

"Philly-delphia"

"Lellow"

"Sunscream"

"Peanut" for penis

"P p and j sandwich"

"Un-raser" for eraser 

"Because it's a say-so."

"I'm gonna decoration it."

"I'm gonna make you a mail."

"Caboost" for caboose and "cousint"

"Right be-next to you" for "right next to you."

"Twick or tweet"

"Tonty" for 20

"Baginst" and "don" as in: "I'm going to stan baginst this door or "Hol don tight"

"Baby bruva"

"Quick-a-ly", "frust-a-rated", "Swippery", "part-i-ner"

"Scumpy"--this is a way food can taste, it's not good. We're pretty sure she made it up.

Animal sounds: a duck says "cock", a mouse says "skeek"

"Stum" for thumb

"Make-ed" for naked

"Oh, mant" for oh, man

"Muse-ee--eum" for museum

"No gank you" for No thank you

Also, related: "every-ging" 

"That's a good idea! ... What 'bout 'dat?"

"Snickle neat" for Despicable Me

"Happy good day" for Have a good day

"Mick-mix" for Olympics

"Basboff" for washcloth, "Bapkin" for napkin

"Um-gel-la" for umbrella

"Other one ____" for another or the other as in "I want other one cookie" or "where is other one flower?"

"Come play at me" for "with me"

"Whoops-da-daisy"

"Hap-a-day" for birthday, later "Boo-day" for birthday

"Amimals" for animals

"Boon" for spoon

"I like it breakfast," "I like it sky" (She would say "I like it" and then add in whatever she liked)

"Up sky" as in, "Balloon is up sky"

Pup-pup, then ba-ba, then foo-foo for dogs

"Robok" for robot

"Mack-and-more cheese" for macaroni and cheese

Her inexplicable Boston accent: "cah"

The game she invented when she carried small wooden or plastic shapes back and forth between the truck and the house down the hall while banging them together and getting her Dada to follow.

When we walk into the dark garage in the morning, she points and says, "Eyes, eyes!"

Pointing to her nipple in the bath: "My armkiss" 

Also, her "belly butt"

Requesting 4 hugs and 4 kisses and 4 high fives before bed (and then inventing "nee-nees.") if she gets one more kiss, then she needs one more of the other three to even it out.

"I have a present for you. It's a surprise!" [Hands you some miscellaneous toy] "Do you like it?" [Takes it back]

Age 6.5 it is revealed that she thought "lacrosse" was "the cross" the whole time she was taking lessons from age 3-5 at the Kroc.