Hi everyone! It’s Thursday and while I’m riding roller coasters or maybe a duck, you have a guest poster! I
It’s Big Mama Cass from her fantastic and funny blog The World Through My Eyes!
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Hi there!! Today I will be your GUEST POSTER!!
My name is Cass. I go by Big Mama Cass because I am a BIG Mama. 🙂 I
usually blog over at my place …
Excited yet?
Today I am going to share with you a blog I originally wrote on my page
called, Things I have learned from my toddler.
Now before you go thinking I am all lazy and can’t manage to write a new
blog to showcase my kick ass guest blogging skills, I will have you know
that because of a death in the family that just occurred mere hours ago, I
now have to pack up my family and head out to Pittsburgh in 7.5 hours. Now
don’t you feel like a schmo for judging me?
(Well technically, I am already there since you won’t be reading this until
Thursday and I am writing it to you LAST Thursday)
Right about now is a good time to point out that even in a time of sorrow, I
am still the queen of sarcasm. It suits me. So without further annoying
you with my intro please read my blog originally posted last
September:
Things I have Learned from my Toddler #2
It is that time again. Time for another installment of Things I have
Learned from my Toddler!!
It is interesting to me that as Monkey grows I begin to notice a lot of his
quirks. Unlucky for him, he seems to take after his Mama in that regard. I
am also amazed at how easily is it to communicate with him considering that
really the only words he uses are “car” and “hey”.
For example, right now, while trying to type this blog on my laptop, he has
apparently decided that he does not want me working on the laptop but yet
paying attention to him while he watches Baby Crack Einstein. The way he communicates this to me is to run up to me screaming and slam the lid of the laptop as hard as he can
while my fingers narrowly escape sudden doom. The he struts away proud of
himself with a loud “UH!” as if to say “There!” *shrug*
When he wants to tell me that he wants another Baby Crack Einstein movie, instead
of saying simply, “Mama, another movie please.” he runs up to the TV and
with full force slamming into it and then starts beating on it while
pointing up to the DVD player. He does this all while grunting like a
caveman. “UHH UHH UHH UHH!!!!” And then god forbid you would put the movie
in that he didn’t request, because then the screaming and grunting graduates
to new levels and the TV begs you to get it right and stop the abuse.
Now don’t go thinking that I haven’t read all the baby and parenting books
and consulted my pediatrician. Because I have. Several times. Seriously!
And I know that I am supposed to say “use your words please” and try and get
him to use those words before giving into him, but I tell you my TV was
CRYING. “Please, don’t let him beat on me anymore!! Pleeeeaaaaase!!”
What would you do? Uh huh.
Actually this DVD thing is new because I typically don’t let him watch a lot
of TV usually. Just in the mornings and at night. However, since he is
feeling so under the weather lately and prefers to watch his DVD’s, I have
been giving in a lot more. And if that isn’t enough, the beating on the TV
and grunting usually convinces me that he would rather be watching TV.
My poor TV.
Another thing I have learned recently is that somewhere around 19 months of
age, my toddler will begin to refuse all food that is not chicken nuggets or
fruit. ALL food. It doesn’t matter if yesterday it was his favorite food.
He won’t even TOUCH it. Let alone put the evil not to be tasted food into
his mouth. I don’t know where he gets that from. His father and I both eat
pretty much everything. Duh. LOL
When your toddler comes running into the living room proud to present the
prize he has found and places into your hand a bottle of flavored massage
oil. it is time to get locks on the nightstand drawers in your bedroom.
*nod* God forbid he would find anything else interesting in those drawers.
We just won’t go there. Buy new locks? Check!
Well there ya have it! Was it all you hoped and dreamed for? Hope you stop
by to check me out!!!
~Cassi
So sorry for your loss. You know we would be judging for not writing your own post…LOL! Going to visit you over at ur place too!
Cassie – you are an awesome writer! I can definately relate to a toddler eating nothing but chicken nuggets and fruit! My grandson went thru a similiar phase! I will now be an avid follower of your blog! Thanks for the guest post!
Yay! Good to see you here! My kid eats nothing but nuggets or hot dogs. Drives me crazy…and as for baby crack? Ours is Nick Jr.
Cute post. 🙂
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