Leila somehow managed to pick up a few dying germs of the fading flu season. The first 24 hours of full house arrest were easy, the other 48… KICKED.MY.BADONKADONK. There is a limit to how many peekaboos I can do and how many bubbles I can blow before my brain slips into self-induced comma to protect itself from further degradation.
I know I was being punished for something, because as soon as she recovered the weather decided to hit the fan… there goes my caffeinated afternoon at the park. I have no idea how mothers survived before Borders and Barns&Nobels because it pretty much became our default rainy day playground. There is no better place to practice my cage-free parenting – I just let her go wherever her little wobbly legs take her and try to keep up with the mess she is leaving behind. Eventually she will get to that toy bin in the kids area where she will happily chew on a few labels while I browse baby name books. Once in awhile a concerned mother will interrupt my bliss with comments like, ”excuse me, but she is chewing on something” or “oh! she is crawling on the dirty carpet!” to which I will respond with my best fake-shocked- and-grateful face, remove Leila from the concerned mother’s field of view, put her back on the “dirty carpet”, give another toy from the bin and slip right back into the oblivion… for those four precious minutes of my day, because that’s as long as Leila will go on without personal one-on-one entertainment or at least before she decides to kamikaze herself over the book shelves.
Seriously, all the sick and bad weather days pushed my creativity to the limit… I was all over the babycenter.com and twitter with SOS messages until somebody said just give the girl a mirror… so I did and I have no idea what that conversation was about, but I don’t think it ended well:
Seriously, you let your child loose in public? Where she might encounter dirt and non-lethal germs that some believe give one’s immune system the equivalent of a daily workout? She might figure out she like to explore and be more independent, who wants that?
Also, you might try asking those moms to be your BFF, you clearly need them in your life.
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Sorry Leila got some sickies. At least spring is almost here. Love her pictures in the mirror. The little things that entertain.
I love that last picture! Awesome!
The mirror is one of our first stops when Gunnar gets cranky. I lift him up slowly, turn him upside down, lay him sideways in front of it. Entertains him for a FULL 10 minutes! Woot!
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Seriously, you are hilarious….and you’re totally my kind of Mommy! I think your blog is the only one I read that actually gets me laughing out loud. I love it! Thanks for keeping the big, bad task of parenting so light and fun.
M
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*blushing* Thanks M!
*blushing* Thanks, M!
That last pic of her looks like the Joker face!
Love it.
Haha! Now that you’ve said it – IT IS a Joker face!
Haha! Now that you’ve said it – IT IS a Joker face!
And where was her child while she was assisting you in “parenting” yours? At home with the nanny I suppose.
Hugs and Mocha,
Stesha
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oh my gosh!! i think you should frame and hang that series of photos. adorable.
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Sorry your household is under the weather, but oh my goodness those are some cute pics. I wish this sort of distraction worked with the cats.
You should print those off, put them in a 3-in-1 frame and hang it in her room. Or in your entrance hall. That’s a priceless sequence.
Just noticed the new header! Love it. She’s baaaacccckkkkk.
-Robyn (womanoutnumbered)
This is a fantastic blog. So happy I stumbled across you, by way of ‘Seekingclarav’. Between the two of you, I’ll never have a boring day again. Oh, that & mothering my 2 year old. LOL! The pics above of your babe in the mirror are LOL great, especially the “Jim Carrey” faced last one. Thanks.