Toddlerhood
98% of the time I love being a stay at home mom. Love it. Then there are those days when I would rather be at work...
So this is day 2 of the reign of "Lily the terrible", and I'm not sure that I will live to see it through. It all started yesterday with an epic meltdown at the grocery store (which will remain unnamed to protect our identities). The trip started off without a hitch. Until the shampoo aisle. At the end of the shampoo aisle lies an assortment of toys...great. Lily locks on to this target immediately and runs (ditching the shoes) down towards the balls, dolls, stuffed toys, etc. I leave the cart to retrieve the child, telling her that we can look at those when I have my shampoo, knowing that all she hears is something similar to the voice of the school teacher from Charlie Brown. So she does it again. So now I carry her back to the cart where she executes something reminiscent of what she saw during the 2008 Beijing Olympics as she digs her feet into my stomach, arches her back, and, using my stomach as a spring board, pushes off. It's OK, she landed in the cart. Now she starts to scream. Perfect. As this is happening, an elderly woman walks by and glares at me. I used all that is left of my sanity to resist the string of profanities I would like to say to her, as well as "do you think I'm enjoying this?". The next thing I know, an angel appears.
This angel looks just like you or me, she is an older woman with a baby riding in her shopping cart. She stops right next to Lily, looks at her and says "What is the matter? Why are you crying Nina?" Lily stops immediately and just stares. She must have known she was special too. Lily is introduced to the baby, Gabriella, and she tells the angel why she was crying. The woman talks to Lily for a few minutes as my red face returns to a more normal color, and Lily the Terrible's tears dry. And then we were on our way. I thanked the woman profusely, and Lily was fine for the rest of the trip. It's a miracle.
Today was more of the same: Poor Lily. I call this photo montage "Jekyll and Hyde"
I think she might have a future as an actress :-)
So this is day 2 of the reign of "Lily the terrible", and I'm not sure that I will live to see it through. It all started yesterday with an epic meltdown at the grocery store (which will remain unnamed to protect our identities). The trip started off without a hitch. Until the shampoo aisle. At the end of the shampoo aisle lies an assortment of toys...great. Lily locks on to this target immediately and runs (ditching the shoes) down towards the balls, dolls, stuffed toys, etc. I leave the cart to retrieve the child, telling her that we can look at those when I have my shampoo, knowing that all she hears is something similar to the voice of the school teacher from Charlie Brown. So she does it again. So now I carry her back to the cart where she executes something reminiscent of what she saw during the 2008 Beijing Olympics as she digs her feet into my stomach, arches her back, and, using my stomach as a spring board, pushes off. It's OK, she landed in the cart. Now she starts to scream. Perfect. As this is happening, an elderly woman walks by and glares at me. I used all that is left of my sanity to resist the string of profanities I would like to say to her, as well as "do you think I'm enjoying this?". The next thing I know, an angel appears.
This angel looks just like you or me, she is an older woman with a baby riding in her shopping cart. She stops right next to Lily, looks at her and says "What is the matter? Why are you crying Nina?" Lily stops immediately and just stares. She must have known she was special too. Lily is introduced to the baby, Gabriella, and she tells the angel why she was crying. The woman talks to Lily for a few minutes as my red face returns to a more normal color, and Lily the Terrible's tears dry. And then we were on our way. I thanked the woman profusely, and Lily was fine for the rest of the trip. It's a miracle.
Today was more of the same: Poor Lily. I call this photo montage "Jekyll and Hyde"
I think she might have a future as an actress :-)
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