Month: August 2015
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“Monkey Bars” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old
Isabel is a little daredevil sometimes. She sees something to climb on and thinks that she can start climbing and nothing will happen because we will magically save her, or carry her up the ladder/slide/steps/dangerous apparatus.
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Before & After Kids: Car Shopping
Every part of the car buying process is now impacted by a needy, whiny, tired, hungry, child, capable of transforming into the devil at a moment’s notice.
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“Public Bathroom” – Convos With My 4-Year-Old
We started exploring potty training several weeks ago. Mama bought the kid-sized potty, toilet seat adapter, hand-washing stool, and several books to encourage and hype-up “the potty”. We even got lucky a couple times and Isabel went potty while sitting on her own potty. (She also crapped on the floor next to the potty because…
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Mama Speaks #20
“It’s kind of like herding cattle…No! Those are dog toys!” The pairing of these two phrases, uttered in succession, is parenting a toddler in a nutshell.