In Mother Words

Toddlers are sometimes hard to understand, but it threw me off more than usual when my two year old started demanding “camel eggs” for breakfast one morning. It was hard to imagine what she wanted, yet the words seemed so clear. After a few demands, I finally figured out what she was after, and prepared [...]

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My son’s favorite toy is an 8 foot long flexible pencil he calls his ‘hooker.’ He uses it to hook things, and at 3 years old, such a term just makes sense to him. But I just about lost it the other day when he was dressed in his dragon costume and started looking for [...]

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We’re waiting for the plumber right now. It seems that the house we live in, built in the ’60s has iron pipes. The one going to the sewer has rusted shut and must be replaced. Fortunately, this only seems to be impacting the kitchen, so we can live pretty normally. But my 3 year old [...]

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My son woke up at about 2 the other morning, just crying for Mommy, so I went in to check on him. He couldn’t be consoled by anything other than my presence, so I lay down to snooze with him for a while. He kept tossing and turning, and finally asked if we could go [...]

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My son doesn’t talk too clearly yet, and like a lot of toddlers uses some interesting word choices. Such as this morning’s conversation: Him: “Me need hoo ker.” Me: “You need what?” Him: “Me need hookER!” It took me a minute to realize that last night he had been playing with one of those punching [...]

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contributed by Sam  It amazes me sometimes how much poop a toddler can produce. I thought I was off the hook the other morning after changing a particularly nasty diaper. No way that kid had more. But of course he did. And it wasn’t just a regular poop. No, this was the Super Duper Destruct-O [...]

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