As Claire grows older, it's becoming apparent that our elder daughter is quite the character. If she's not awing those around her with her keen sense of observation and imagination, she is cracking us up with her anecdotes and attitude. I've decided to share with you some of my favorite stories from the past few weeks...
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There will be no PicDump today because…well, have you ever had one of those days when you feel like your kids will be the death of you?
I’ve been having one of those WEEKS.
The physical evidence includes a bruised left knee which is so swollen it hurts to bend (from lunging to prevent an injury which led to injuring myself from slipping on a toy left on the floor) and a fat, bleeding lip (Aerin threw the remote control at my face this morning).
But the emotional trauma of dealing with seemingly-endless tantrums, quelling fight after fight, and painstakingly preparing meals which will be rejected with, “Umma, I want cereal!” can be much more exhausting, no?
Yesterday, I shared the following Someecards on my personal Facebook account and received a bunch of sympathetic — and “Omg YES!” — comments in response.
So I’ve decided to gather a bunch of motherhood/parenthood memes from the web and share them with y’all.
Because although it may be a Friday, weekends no longer equal breaks once you become a parent.
Because we can’t get through this without support from one another.
And, because we can all use a laugh. 🙂
I haven’t been able to take too much pictures this week because I have a nagging cold. Not the fever-aching-gawd-kill-me-now kind, but the annoying type that makes me cough like I have a 2-pack-a-day habit and go through half a box of tissues a day from all the snot that comes oozing down my nose.
So aside from the first two pictures, these were all dug up from my camera’s memory banks. I think the oldest is about a couple of months old.
Claire has been obsessed with our growth chart lately. Every day, several times a day, she will stand up against it and ask me to measure her. She will then call for Aerin and measure her too.
A couple of days ago, she started to measure her giraffe too. (I’m pretty sure she got the idea from the opening scenes of Toy Story 3.) And since he’s not tall enough to reach the growth chart, she let him cheat a bit. 😛
J and I have a Philips Sonicare we love (a dentist friend gifted us our first rechargeable electric toothbrush with a UV brushhead sanitizer as a wedding gift and we’ve been hooked ever since!), but for the past week I have been using a regular toothbrush instead to teach the girls better brushing habits.
One thing I have noticed lately is that if I am having trouble teaching Aerin certain things (like to use her toothbrush to actually brush her teeth instead of just chewing on it), I ask Claire to come demonstrate and she will pick it up faster. And since Claire learns best when I demonstrate, our life together becomes a mishmash of the games “follow the leader” and “telephone” at times. 🙂
They say that the average age difference between siblings is 2-3 years. And wouldn't you know it — now that Claire is 28 months old, many of my mommy friends whose first children are around her age have steadily been giving birth to their seconds in these past few months. I'm happy for my friends and their families — I truly am! (I can also say that I'm sooo glad to be out of those extremely trying newborn-with-a-toddler months!) But there is one thing that makes me a bit sad, and even a tad bit jealous whenever I hear/read about their new babies...
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We both knew it would happen one day. We just didn't think it would be so soon. Yesterday, at 28 months old, our Claire Emmanuelle outsmarted us. Okay, not exactly "outsmart" in the veritable definition of the word. ( out·smart : to get the better of; especially : outwit ) More accurately, she performed a mental feat which surpassed that of us, her parents. Please allow me to explain. Last week I received an Amazon credit from Ebates and decided to spend it on some new toys for the girls. (Why isn't everyone on Ebates? You get cash back for shopping online. No, seriously. How the heck do they even make money?) One of the toys was the Melissa & Doug Magnetic Farm Hide and Seek Puzzle. As you can see...
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