i know it's a repeat, but so thankful for e when it comes to bathtime. it's funny trying to squeeze 4 people into the bathroom but bathtime is one of my favorite things to do as a family. weird? yeah. but it's totally us.
wednesday, april 28
i stumbled upon this blog, and it both validated my feelings and scared the living daylights out of me. e and i joke that belly is 2 going on 12, but seriously, she acts old for her age. and many of the, shall we say, qualities, of a three year old talked about in this blog post sound eerily similar to how belly behaves. a lot of the time. she will be three in about 2 months, so maybe this is par for the course? and maybe since she's starting hers so early, the craziness of the three year old will go away before her fourth birthday? one can only hope.
anyway, here are some of my favorite excerpts, in case you haven't clicked over to the blog.
Tina Fey was on David Letterman recently. When he asked about her four-and-a-half-year-old
daughter, Tina talked about how much fun it was to have a child that age: they say funny things, they ask good questions... but also, "they stop being little three-year-old jerks."
Our firstborn, she is smart and funny and sweet and kind and all the wonderful things we'd hoped to have in a child. But, holy hell, she is also three.
I try hard not to rely on the Disney Channel and Nick Jr., but after pounds of Cheerios and Goldfish crackers are flung on the floors, and the cats are wearing sparkly headbands, and the baby is covered in My Little Pony stickers, and every pot and pan in the kitchen has been moved to the bathroom "so the cats have somewhere to sleep" (sometimes, it's just easier not to ask questions), it's either I cower under the dining room table and try to be invisible, or I flip on the television, albeit to the wrong show on the wrong channel. Because when you're the mother of
a three-year-old, there's very little you can do right, and there's endless commentary on just how wrong you got it.
maybe only other parents will get this, but so thankful i'm not the only one out there feeling completely at a loss when it comes to my (almost) three year old.
tuesday, april 27why can i never leave target without dropping serious cash? i should be banned, for the health of my wallet. this trip netted 3 packs of diapers (because if you bought 2, you got a $5 gift card. and who can resist something free?); baby detergent; adult detergent; toilet paper; cereal; lotion; and beach pail set. let's forget about the trip i made to target just last week, which came up to about the same amount for a bunch of stuff that i can't even remember now. oops.
earlier in the evening, i took belly and bulilit out to play while we waited for their daddy to get home from work. while the kids played happily in the mulch, i sat on the swing and remembered how fun it really is.
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