And somewhere in there is the part where you get your kid to take a nap in their own room, and leave the baby monitor in there to make sure you know when she wakes up and manage to take an actual shower all by yourself. But when you get out you find your crazed 3 year old standing on the rolling desk chair giving herself a haircut with your pinking shears, in spite of the fact that absolutely no sound came from the monitor indicating that she was awake and your pinking shears were hidden in the back of a desk drawer. Said child will have managed to give herself a buzzcut with the scissors, and will remain bald on half her head indefinitely. Naturally this will happen the morning of her 3rd birthday party, so all her pictures will scream of your parental ineptitude.
I can empathize with these parents... but only to a degree. My daughter spoiled me with the way she behaved.
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Once, I decided to sleep in a little more than usual. I could hear her get up, put on cartoons and then I dozed off again. Later when I did get up, I found pizza crusts on a napkin on the coffee table. Turns out she fed herself cold pizza for breakfast. I felt so bad and apologized to her profusely. She told me, and I quote:
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"It's OK daddy, cold pizza for breakfast is awesome."
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"You, little kiddo, are awesome," I told her as I gave her a high five. "But seriously, come wake me up if I sleep in and you are hungry. "
My daughter was (and still is at 10) mostly a very cool kid. She's never given me much trouble, but damn did she give me a run for my money with the hair cutting! She did it 3 times total. Other than that I could never understand why people always complained about their toddlers.
Me too, I know kids like in the post. So I'm super grateful my kids are more mellow and generally pretty good. My youngest usually sleeps in till 9, and both will stay asleep even if I vacuum during their naps. They listen pretty well too.
They are both avid nudists unfortunately. Once, my now 4 year old jumped out of the tub when the doorbell rang, and answered it to a very surprised fed-ex delivery guy.
And I feel like a hair-cutting incident is in our future.
My daughter is a big time early bird, sleeping in is 7 am to her. Thankfully she's now old enough for me to let her do her own thing in the morning for a bit so I can sleep in a little later.
Other than the impromptu haircuts, I can't think of any major incidents we've ever had, although I'm sure they've happened. For the most part she's been an angel. The only major meltdown I can even recall was at the beginning of our great Segawa adventure, we got sent to an adult lab instead of pediatric and the phlebotomist had no idea how to draw a large volume of blood from a toddler. Even then, a sucker and handful of stickers cleared things up in seconds.
Some kids just have a way more mellow temperament than others I suppose.
Bitch more like 2pm. And just because of food.
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Once, I decided to sleep in a little more than usual. I could hear her get up, put on cartoons and then I dozed off again. Later when I did get up, I found pizza crusts on a napkin on the coffee table. Turns out she fed herself cold pizza for breakfast. I felt so bad and apologized to her profusely. She told me, and I quote:
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"It's OK daddy, cold pizza for breakfast is awesome."
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"You, little kiddo, are awesome," I told her as I gave her a high five. "But seriously, come wake me up if I sleep in and you are hungry. "
They are both avid nudists unfortunately. Once, my now 4 year old jumped out of the tub when the doorbell rang, and answered it to a very surprised fed-ex delivery guy.
And I feel like a hair-cutting incident is in our future.
Other than the impromptu haircuts, I can't think of any major incidents we've ever had, although I'm sure they've happened. For the most part she's been an angel. The only major meltdown I can even recall was at the beginning of our great Segawa adventure, we got sent to an adult lab instead of pediatric and the phlebotomist had no idea how to draw a large volume of blood from a toddler. Even then, a sucker and handful of stickers cleared things up in seconds.
Some kids just have a way more mellow temperament than others I suppose.