In Mother Words

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 son [...]

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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 bag balloons and using [...]

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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 Poop. You [...]

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My son came up to me the other day really, really wanting to change his shirt. He was quite certain that it was his Daddy’s shirt he had on.
“No me shirt, Dada shirt!” he kept insisting.
I could see the confusion. The shirt was a collared one much more in the style my husband wears, rather [...]

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contributed by a tired mom
My son is going through one of those phases. You know, the sort where it’s hard to get him to eat anything.
Last night was one of the really tough night. He wanted to play ‘kitty’ all through dinner. So we finally gave in and let him eat from a bowl on [...]

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