Kid is back in a Toy Story kick and singing “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” on repeat. Adorable.
However, instead of the line “You’re gonna see it’s our destiny” she’s using “You’re gonna sleep in some gasoline” and I gotta say it really hits different.
To think this week started off with the high of FINALLY getting our 4yo daughter COVID vaccinated on Monday -- only to get to Friday and lose the right to fundamental women's healthcare.
How do you even begin to process this all?
IMO,
No hospital should play nursery rhymes or other happy music throughout the hospital to announce a baby birth. Because, that is the last thing that needs to be going on when someone is miscarrying in the ED or experiencing the death of a loved one, etc
4yo: Mom. Can I tell you something?
Me: Of course. You can tell me anything.
4yo: I’m thinking about little treats right now.
(pause)
…like all sorts of little treats.
Just want to give a public shoutout to
@Chris_Cwik for holding down the fort during my busiest work weekend of the year. Came home today to flowers, cupcakes, and a fully bathed child which is pretty much the working mom’s ultimate trifecta.
Let me paint a picture:
4yo picks a Wonder Woman dress (backwards, of course) with a pink ballet skirt underneath. Underneath THAT some tie-dye denim shorts. Cute pigtails. Clutching a Teddy Roosevelt stuffie who lost his jacket & looks like he’s wearing a backless halter shirt.
My kid has dedicated herself to memorizing the Mulan soundtrack and also declared today that she doesn’t like drinks with bubbles. So, uh…yeah. My human cloning experiment is going quite well, thanks for asking.
I should mention she requires all stories to fit this criteria:
1) Spider-Man must go to the Encanto. Mirabel & friends cannot go to the spiderverse.
2) Every story must have sad part.
3) Other super heroes are also allowed appearances as long as they’re Spider-Man’s friends
A year later this nightly tradition is still very much alive. However for the last 4 weeks or so we’ve been stuck in “Spider-Man Visits the Encanto House” every single night. I’m running out of material, so please send your best pitches. Thnx.
Each night our 3yo requests a made up bedtime story. She picks the characters and then @Chris_Cwik and I have to make it up from there.
Tonight she wanted a story about Mario & Goouigi visiting Nemo & Dori —- and I gotta say that is a fictional crossover I was not prepared for.
@Ben_Wooley@kungfusquirrel So happy to see this addressed. I cannot tell you how many times we had out of town guests in SEA who asked why we bought half sticks of butter.
The kid somehow learned the phrase “I do declare” and was really workshopping it tonight during bedtime.
“I DO DECLARE I will not brush my teeth!”
“I DO DECLARE those are NOT the pajamas I’m wearing.”
…I guess I’m now the mother to a 1920s vaudeville villain?
Kept our kid at home the past few weeks as the virus numbers surge again and it's very reminiscent of 2020 and extremely triggering and basically I put bubble bath mix in the bathroom soap dispenser last night and we're all just going to deal with that for now.
Kept our kid at home the past few weeks as the virus numbers surge again and it's very reminiscent of 2020 and extremely triggering and basically I put bubble bath mix in the bathroom soap dispenser last night and we're all just going to deal with that for now.