Day 1619

How does an unscripted two year old even get a catchphrase? How does that even happen?!

Boink!

Day 1618

Well, she's starting to use 'me' instead of just referring to herself in the third person or as 'it'.

"Mommy, pick it up - me!" is not quite what i had in mind, but...

Day 1617

Daddy Vs Daughter: she got three or four "one last story"s. I don't think he really minded.

Day 1616

I was a little concerned about how much money we might spend at IKEA given nesting... but then Lizard wouldn't actually let us stop to look at anything (get up! Keep walking! Keep walking!")

... until of course we got to the kid's beds. I think she would have been willing to stay there forever.

So that's where we spent all our money.

Day 1615

Turns out Lizard will happily spend as much time as her parents in a bookstore. We're all DOOMED.

Day 1614

This morning Lizard iced her doll's bonk (with a plastic leaf). This afternoon she clipped her polar bear's nails (with a wooden block). Imagination crossed with caretaking is adorable.

Day 1613

It is absolutely incredible when you can see an improvement in sentence-building from one day to the next.

Day 1612

Sometimes you're really happy that your kid picked up something you said, like "uh oh spaghetti O's" (uh oh bettios). Other times it's probably really good that they didn't; we don't really need our daughter telling people that Pumpernickel means fart-goblin.









Yet.

Day 1611

Lizard got to try some Icelandic doughnuts last night (kleinur) and loved them. Oddly, she decided they're called broccolini (also featured last night), and she's been asking to eat broccolini all day...

Day 1610

Lizard has started doing a muppet waggle. I am 100% on board with this.

Day 1609

So are you just entitled to receive a marketing degree after a given period of time parenting? I feel like I'm getting pretty adept at re-branding things to be palatable for my daughter.

Day 1608

Two kicktastic babies; two contrary babies. Luckily I like how Lizard has turned out so far, or I might be getting very concerned...

Day 1607

Very proud of my little girl for eating spaghetti, and being fairly tidy about it. Secretly a little bit sad to have missed the spaghetti face photo op.

Day 1606

Why don't people tell you that having a toddler can be really frustrating?

Day 1605

When Lizard first started learning to walk, she wanted to walk everywhere - even if it meant falling on her face. Now that she's mastered walking, she's really excited about being carried places. Just in time for me to have to try to balance her on/around prego belly.

Day 1604

1. That thing where you kid walks into the room with a box of shoes and announces she made pancakes and you're a little concerned you're gonna have to pretend to eat a shoe.

2. Eating together is magic. Lizard asked for salad and then actually ATE some of it. (To be fair, she mostly ate raisins)

Day 1603

Lizard discovers kicking her bed instead of sleeping; my subconscious worries about Barry Manilow.

Day 1602

Apparently the most exciting thing we've ever bought for Lizard is a couch.

Day 1601

Some days you just want the baby out. Other days you're so very glad that it can incubate a little longer.

Day 1600

Never go up against the Lizard when jammies are on the line.

Day 1599

Realized Teeny No-Naps had fallen asleep in the car on the way home when she started snoring.

We get home, and she wants to play.

But actually wants Mommy's help with stuff.

(Hint: that's how I know you're still exhausted)

Day 1598

Parenting: hard lessons in changing the things you can, accepting the things you can't... and hopefully being able to tell the difference before a total meltdown.

Day 1597

If you had a bad day, sit on the floor and play with your kid. It makes life better.

Day 1596

Three things about Lizard:

1. Cries when you don't let her dunk her sleeves in her soup.

2. Slowly expanding the repertoire of songs she wants to listen to over and over forever.

3. Lies in bed quietly contemplating the universe after she wakes up. And then... starts clapping?

Day 1595

It feels kinda awkward when people give me compliments, but boy do I ever love hearing compliments about my kid. 

Although I'm still not really sure what the best response is when people say she's cute...

Day 1594

Sometimes you just have to be the middle of a family snuggle sandwich before you can go to sleep.

Or so I am led to believe.

Day 1593

It turns out having the family eat with the picky eater and giving everyone the same food is magical advice. I feel like we should have done this ages ago...

Day 1592

I might be more entertained that Lizard thinks "get poopies out" means peering than I am proud of her for asking to go on the potty and then immediately peeing.

And I'm pretty frigging proud of her.