Day 2045

Sometimes yoga is nap yoga, and sometimes yoga is murder yoga.

Day 2044

We pointed out the golden boy to her, and Lizard asked if that little boy was pretending to be part of the roof.

Day 2043

Chinchilla has pretty much abandoned crawling. He’s discovered the joys of carrying things while moving around. He picks something up (the bigger the better) and then walks around with it exuding joy from every pore.

Day 2042

I was doing nap yoga and was suddenly struck by the movement of the muscles under my skin. What marvellous machines we are.

Day 2041

Apparently our daughter likes to do her own thing rather than follow others.

I’m SHOCKED.

Day 2040

Our son has officially given up on crawling and just walks/sidles now. Even when he’s sad. Crying Chinchilla sidle is a sight to behold.

Day 2039

Lizard mostly seems to have moved past being a picky eater, and the memories of some of that frustration and anxiety are starting to fade. Which makes it that much stranger when you hear about kids who are way pickier than Lizard ever was...

Day 2038

Our dog should volunteer as an amateur therapy dog for people that like bouncing and snuggling.

Day 2037

She’s three, and I’m already starting to wonder if I’ll have trouble keeping up with this kid when she’s grown up. I already feel like I need to learn more to be able to answer the questions that are likely coming.

Day 2036

L: “Oh no! I can’t find my pretend towel!”

Luckily, she remembered where her pretend cupboard was when I suggested she check there for a pretend towel.

Day 2035

Dear Baby,

I thought we had an agreement: I put you to sleep, and you stay asleep until morning. Please adjust your behaviour to accord with these terms.

Best Wishes,

Your Mother

Day 2034

I don’t know if it’s because having kids has broken my brain or if it’s lingering fondness for teddies, but if my daughter leaves out on of her stuffies by accident, I feel compelled to tuck it in somewhere cozy.

Day 2033

Chinchilla is really excited about having hands available while he walks around. So far he likes banging (stirring?) a spoon around in a pot or taking his two favourite books for strolls.

Day 2032

The whys are getting more ridiculous. Why is the federal government based in Ottawa? Why did that man sing ‘bum bum bum?’

Vocabulary and speech mannerisms are also getting more ridiculous. I asked if she was okay with me running downstairs quickly to grab something and she said “you may”. Alrighty then.

Day 2031

The baby, once again displaying the uncanny ability that all babies seem to have of knowing when their parents most need to get a decent night’s sleep, elected to scream instead of sleep.

Somebody should study these uncanny little imps.

Day 2030

The baby is already discovering that if he doesn’t use his hands to hold onto furniture when he’s walking around, he can use them to hold STUFF. And he can bring stuff to his parents assign them tasks: read me a story; put these blocks together for me. He’s very excited about being able to boss the big people around in more specific ways.

Day 2029

  It is remarkably hard to adjust to the idea that a teddy bear I had as a little kid is now suddenly a girl.

And a girl who’s nickname (Wilhelmina) is longer than her name (Willy).

Kids are weird.

And insistent.

Day 2028

One of my favourite things is teaching Lizard weird expressions. Today I got her to yell “we don’t truck with that nonsense!” at an imaginary monster.

Day 2027

Chinchilla discovered the world of unassisted walking today and he’s absolutely delighted with the possibilities. Unfortunately, he’s so excited he seems to want to rush around everywhere and dive head first into things....

Time to get all the ice packs ready to go...

Day 2026

Dinner conversations get much more entertaining and much weirder when you have a curious and imaginative three year old with an outrageous vocabulary. If we were eating by ourselves, Husband and I would likely be telling each other about things we read on the Internet. The toddler alternative is much more amusing.

Although we’re doomed once she gets interested in American politics.

Day 2025

We were making dinner (“shrimp dinner”, as someone has been demanding for a week... and then it turned out we made the wrong shrimp dinner) when Lizard suddenly announced that she was dead. Apparently she had a fatal encounter with a squirrel.

And then during dinner, she told me a beast tried to eat my hand, but she scared it away (“say thank you, mommy”), and now the beast is sick because he ate too many people and so he’s going to eat leaves instead. And then a tiger stole our cookies, so she gave it a good talking to. And then a ghost tried to steal our cookies even though ghosts don’t eat cookies. And then a nightmare are our cookies, which wasn’t very nice. And then the tiger came back and she did a “ferocious roar” and scared it away.

So her imagination is coming along nicely...

Day 2024

Wearing an ambulatory blood pressure monitor and trying to wrangle small children is not a happy combination.

Day 2023

Sometimes having two kids is exhausting. Sometimes it’s frustrating. Sometimes it’s stressful and aggravating.

And then my two babies snuggle each other, or start giggling like maniacs while playing with each other... and I think. We’re GENIUSES.

Day 2022

Words to strike fear into a parent’s heart when their kid is sitting on the toilet: “something has gone wrong!”

Day 2021

How to tell if your toddler is ready for bed:

-They rub their eyes
-Their playing is more subdued than usual and/or they are running around like a maniac
-They have several extra helpings of feelings
-They tell you repeatedly how tired their dolls/stuffies are
-They totally pass out sitting on a parent’s lap during movie night when their parent was not attempting to put them to sleep.

Day 2020

Every once in a while, you are reminded of the things that you say in front of your kids without meaning to, and probably shouldn’t.

Usually because they say them loudly. In public.

Day 2019

That feeling when the dog bed you ordered arrived in the mail, and your small child is chasing the dog trying to convince him to lie down by yelling excitedly about the dog bed...

Day 2018

I’m excited for Chinchilla to be better at walking so that when Lizard tries to drag him around behind her, he won’t fall on his head quite so often.

And we won’t have to yell at her not to pull her brother by the head/arm, because he’ll probably be chasing after her on his own.

Day 2017

Conversations with the three year old continue to get more hilarious. I got a serious lecture yesterday for dancing in the bathroom.

“Yes, you *should* know better. *I* know better. It’s too dangerous! You should never dance in the bathroom again! You’re just not listening...”

Day 2016

It’s so fun watching our little babies playing together more and more, and seeing how much they amuse each other. I’m excited for when Chinchilla is a little sturdier on his feet, and doesn’t get accidentally bowled over quite so often. And when he starts to talk more, and the two of them can chatter like little magpies.

It’s crazy to think that people who only have one kid never get to witness this.