In addition to being incredibly difficult, two-year-olds can also be aborably hilarious.
It's a good thing because otherwise, you might pawn them off on unsuspecting relatives and skip town. (I hear Helsinki is beautiful this time of year.)
Two-year-old humor is a lot different than one-year-old humor (remember when Mazzy told me I looked like Kerry Washington?) because it actually makes some degree of sense.
For instance, this morning Mazzy woke up and asked "Where's Daddy?"
I reminded her that he is in Hong Kong for the week.
Mazzy's used to drinking her morning milk alongside her father and his cup of coffee, so understandably, her next question was, "Do they have coffee in Hong Konk?"
"Yes, babe. He can drink coffee in Hong Kong too."
Then, for the rest of the day, whenever someone asked where Mike was, Mazzy quickly chimed in, "He's drinking coffee in Hong Konk."
Here are seven more episodes of adorableness that made me momentarily forget about the terrible twos:
1. At a friend's house, Mazzy was trying to get the attention of their cat. She repeatedly screamed "COME HERE! COME HERE!" but the cat continued to ignore her. So she paused for a second and then screamed "¡Vámonos!" As if the cat wasn't listening to her because he spoke Spanish.
2. Mazzy has started imitating the noises adults make when they yawn. But her yawn impression is totally off. She'll say something like "I'm so tired", and then raise her arms above her head and roar like a lion.
3. The other day, I took Mazzy for ice cream. I thought we would get it to go but Mazzy insisted on getting a table. Once seated, she spotted her reflection in a mirror on the other side of the shop. Immediately, Mazzy stood up in her chair, brandishing a spoonful of ice cream and loudly shouted at the mirror, "HI! HOW ARE YOU? WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I'M EATING ICE CREAM!!!" As if she couldn't believe that she got to eat ice cream AND throw it in her closest friend's face.
4. One of Mazzy's favorite shows is Curious George. The other day, she asked to watch it so I turned it on using Netflix. Then our conversation went something like this:
"No! I want George!"
"This is George."
"No! I want the other George!"
"You don't want to watch Curious George?"
"I want to watch George with George!"
Oh, I get it:
5. Mazzy discovered a porcelain bird over at Grammy's house whose leg had fallen off. Grammy told her not to touch it because it was broken. "It needs batteries?" Mazzy asked.
6. We were in the car and my sister gave Mazzy a stuffed bear to play with. "I don't want a bear!" yelled Mazzy.
"What do you want?" asked my sister.
"I want a cat!"
"Well, we don't have a cat in the car, we have a bear."
"Turn the bear into a cat!"
"You can't turn a bear into a cat," my sister explained.
To which Mazzy triumphantly answered, "ABBY CAN DO IT!"
Took us all a second to realize she meant Abby Cadabby and what was undoubtedly an important lesson taught at "Flying Fairy School".
7. A few weekends ago we were at zoo where we saw a family of bears sitting together. Mazzy yelled, "Look! It's a Mommy Bear, a Daddy Bear and a Mazzy Bear!"
Now. These all probably happened before a tantrum or after one of Mazzy's new pinching episodes but who can remember anything terrible in the face of SO MUCH CUTE?
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What's the funniest/cutest thing your kid has done recently?
I think 95% of the reason this age totally rocks is the things they say. With all the funny things they’re saying, I’m noticing more and more I can’t get stuff past my son like I used to. Especially swearing. Haha. *Gasp* “No mommy! Watch your mouth!”
Mazzy Bear is totally to-die-for-cute.
My toddler has been pretty terrible lately because of the appearance of his baby brother. BUT, mornings, I bring the baby to his bed and they lie together for a couple of minutes. Most adorable time of the day.
5 minutes later, he’s yelling “Baby!!” and trying to thump said baby on the head.
(1) She tried to feed me cereal, I made a funny face ‘pretending’ to not like it, and she broke into the hugest belly laughs! I just love that infectious belly laugh. (2) I was reading Robert Munsch book where the point of the story is the kid is asked by his parents if he needs to pee, he says no, they start to do an activity, he yells after 5 seconds he has to pee. As I was reading the book, the second time the kid said he had to pee, E immediately piped up ” What?? He has to go pee AGAIN?” in a tone of both disbelief and a bit of disgust. Hilarious! (3) I was sweeping, she burst into the room, stopped dead in her tracks and exclaimed ” What? Mommy, you CLEANING?” then in a deep voice with a laugh in it said ‘that’s soooo funny!” Well maybe you had to be there as was more the timing/tone but we cracked up for five minutes! Total hambones.
This past weekend we were driving and Aubrey decided to hold her nose closed and then begin chattering. She was so shocked by the difference. It sounded so funny I laughed and then she continued to do it because she knew she had made me laugh. She’s not even two yet but the fact that she remembers what makes me laugh gets me every time!
Two was a great age – I loved two (even with twins). Now, the 3s… that is a new kind of “special”. I think they tell you the 2s are terrible so you can be totally blindsided by the 3s. Then there are the 4s.
I’m big on giving Caitlyn lots of praise when she isn’t acting like a huge asshole. I frequently tell her what a good girl she is. Now though, anytime I do something she approves of (you know, give her an ice pop or brush my teeth or pee on the toilet) she responds with a very encouraging “good girl, Momma”. She also likes to tell our boy dog what a good girl he is when he eats the food she doesn’t want to bother with.
She is adorable! I was talking to a friend recently about why we dress our daughters in lots of pink and cute outfits and I said it’s because mean and aggressiveness is much easier to take when it’s in a cute package.
Oh Mazzy Bear, thanks for giving your mama something to work with. I have just come into this stage this past week (the I have cute instead of just screams) and not a moment too soon.
I was shaving my legs, and my 2 1/2-year old said, “Mommy, you’re mowing your legs!” So cute.
Our other favorite is when he runs and yells, “I’m a fuel truck… but I’m running out of fuel!”
We write down all these great quotes in “My Quotable Kid,” an amazing quote journal.
http://www.amazon.com/My-Quotable-Kid-Parents-Unforgettable/dp/0811868842/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1338818171&sr=8-1
I just wrote about one of our hilarious conversations this morning, but my favorite moment from the past week was when Mayhem busted through the bathroom door just as my husband was exiting the shower and yelled “What’s dat Dad?!?!? Is dat your tail?!?!” I swear I thought I was going to split a side.
My son is the same age as Mazzy, and he says some of the best things right now.
1. We sing a bedtime song with his everynight as we put him to bed. THe other night I took a song meant for moms and dads and changed it to suit him. I sang “Matthew so silly and cute and true, I love you, I love you! Matthew so silly and cute and true, I love you…” and as I was walking out of the room, he sang, “Momma so (mumble, mumble, mumble) PINK and true, I yuv You! I yuv Momma!”
2. He is an especially sad kiddo in the mornings when he first wakes up. Which is totally opposite his older sisters. When his 5 year old sister came into his room while he was crying first thing the other morning, she said to me, “Morning Mom! Why is Matthew crying?” Before I could say anything Matthew stopped crying and said, “Lacey! Enough! Leave my momma alone!”
3. And though I can’t do this one justice I will just put out there that my son calls me Ma. When he runs at me with one of his ultra super special high speed hugs, I always grunt from the shock of being hit by his weight, and he always looks up and says, “You alright Ma? Are you hurt Ma?” I also get a lot of “Hi Ma!” “Thanks, Ma!” and “Yuv you Ma!” I LOVE being a called Ma.
Kinsley: (playing with her kitchen toys) This is hard to cut!
Me: It’s hard to cut?
Kinsley: Your mama’s hard to cut!
Me: what? did you just do a yo momma joke on me?
Kinsley: Your baby’s hard to cut.
Me: ok, you’re done.
You know, that is the only reason my little one made it through our vacation last week. She would be awful one minute and then do something or say something so adorable that we couldn’t help but want to hug her to pieces.
We were riding a ride at Epcot last week and Natalie said “Oooh, it’s mad Mazzy!” There was a picture of a child at the end of the ride that had dark brown hair and might have had a slight similarity to Mazzy in the eyes of a 3-year-old. There was no way to get her to believe it was anything but “Mad Mazzy”. lol
I love the spanish speaking cat story and george with george. It’s fun and sometimes difficult to decipher what they’re trying to say, but it’s oh so enlightening when you finally do. I love it best when relatives are trying to figure out what my son is saying. And when I finally translate they’re like amazed I know what he’s saying. They think I have magical powers, when in fact, I just spend hours with him — easy enough! I love it when my son says “I love you” but says it like “ILUVOU” with the emphasis on every word. Or “yellow” like “lellow” with the tongue sticking all the way out on the first “l”
LOL, my kid does the same, and it is so funny! I was sweeping (again – different time than one I listed above lol) and she was all like “umm, you missed a spot” then “good job Mommy! Good job cleaning the floor!” Cracks me up.
Or my daughter, when she saw me in the shower, calling it a “poopie.” Which had to be nipped right in the bud, so we had a little talk about how boys and girls are different a little sooner than I’d intended.
I wrote about it here:
http://raisedbymydaughter.blogspot.com/2012/05/on-nakedness-and-how-girls-and-boys-are.html
Our Addison (2) currently likes to announce that she wants to tell us a secret, and then she she’ll hold our head in both hands as she leans in to whisper, “We at home,” or “I got your head,” after which she beams and waits to be congratulated on her excellent secret joke.
Mazzy copied an “Oh Shit” pretty early on and set me straight for life.
I almost feel bad for whoever I pop out next. Mazzy is going to be a total bully.
But lying in bed together sounds very sweet. While it lasts.
Mazzy claims the weirdest things are funny. I think she equates with laughing rather than actual humor. So if someone laughs, they are soooo funny!
Love the disdain for the frequent pisser. I mean really. Can’t he hold it in??
Mazzy has not discovered that yet. I can see how that would be trip- for all parties involved. I may have to teach her.
This seems to be reoccurring theme. Someone on my fanpage said that people who claim the twos are terrible have never had older children. I prefer to live in blissful ignorance, thank you.
Mazzy always tells me “Good job, Mommy!” when i catch a ball or draw a picture. So condescending, those toddlers.
Yes, I got very lucky in that department. Or, I should say, Mazzy got lucky. Her little pout makes it very hard to stay mad at her.
Tell me about it. I really earned the cute.
I’ve heard about the quote journal. I’ll have to check it out. You know, in case, Mazzy doesn’t feel like reading years and years worth of blog posts to sort out her childhood.
HA! I don’t think Mazzy has seen Mike fully in the nude as of yet. I still have a very vivid memory of the first time I saw my dad!
But every morning, Mazzy comes in and demands Mike puts a shirt on. She’ll even go to his dresser, pull out a tee-shirt, throw it at him and scream, “PUT A SHIRT ON, DADDY!!!”
Awww… those are all really precious. The first time Mazzy chimed in with her bedtime lullaby, I nearly died of cuteness. She was holding the notes exactly as long as i do and getting the tune exactly right.
That’s hilarious. Maybe you’re raising a really unoriginal comedian! Next month, she’s gonna be ripping off Louis CK.
Your daughter spotted a Mazzy doppelganger?? One with a dark side? Remind me to keep an eye out next time we are at Epcot. Which ride?
I am convinced that the reason Mazzy was an early talker is because we always understood her gibberish. So from very early on, she knew that words were very effective.
That is one smart cookie! Seriously, that’s pretty advanced joke telling for a two-year-old, no? Like the toddler version of sarcasm.
My youngest is only 2 for a few more days so lets see if I can comment without shedding a tear. They are so cute at this age.
Not long ago we were at a play place that had a heart in the middle that made the sound of a heartbeat when the kids stepped on it. Of course, when I was WAY far from him helping his sister, he yelled across the whole play area “Mommy, this is the sound your boobie makes!”
I recorded this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cS_q_odqy0o
Then he watched it and proceeded to laugh and ask for the “Not Funny Game”. Shoulda recorded that. Oh weirdo.
Okay that is just absurdly adorable. I can’t even pick which my favorite is. My almost two year old did something quite similar today when I told her we were going to the doctor and she replied with ” no no no” and started making monkey noises. Apparently her recollection of her experience with a doctor is only in reference to no more monkeys jumping on the bed.
My 3 year old was watching her 24 year old uncle and his friends play in the lake. She was cracking up laughing at them and said, “Oh, those silly adults are acting like kids.”
My two are 7, almost 8 and I love this age!
My Mazzy-aged son was running around his room when he suddenly turned to me and said, “Mama! Igotchoo me!”
Me: “What, buddy?”
Jack: “Igotchoo me!”
Me: “sorry, buddy. I don’t understand.”
Looking somewhat pained, Jack grabbed my hand, put it on his back, and said slowly, “I GOT CHOO.” Then I remembered we had been playing the night before and I grabbed him, picked him up and yelled, “I GOT YOU!” He wanted me to do that to him again.
You know, this story is way better when told aloud. 🙂
The cutest thing Lil’ Bit has done lately is either the time she was watering my flowers (naked) and informed me that she would not water Boo (the cat) because he’d be a “sad, sad, sad little man,” or the way she says her prayers: “Now I Lambie down to night-night…” I honestly can’t decide which – it’s a toss-up.
And I totally agree – this age can bring me to my knees but she can also be so damn cute (and cuddly) I can’t even stand it. 🙂
but it is alllll worth it for the moments however few and far between when they get along; by far my favourite moments are when my two are laughing and playing together and my littlest hugs my eldest and says “I love my sister, I just love my sister soooo much!”. Makes every squabble forgiveable!!
My 3-year old son frequently thinks he’s Mr. Comedy, but this most recent one was funny to everyone else, mortifying to me.
We were in Walmart in the crafts section buying wooden letters to put up in his new sister’s room. My son, incapable of standing still for more than 30 seconds, picks up a package containing 2 softball-sized styrofoam balls.
L: What’s this, Mommy?
Me: Styrofoam balls.
L: They’re like boobies (he giggles)
I was just relieved that the elderly couple standing 5 feet away didn’t hear him and think him a pervert!
(Thankfully they don’t see him doing the “heiny heiny” dance while jumping on his bed in the nude!)
Last week, when I said no to something (like writing on the wall in Sharpie) my 3 year old looked at me,broken-hearted and said “You WUWINED my life!”
Love love love this age. And you know what? It gets even better.
I just posted today on the delicious nuggets of wisdom that sprout forth from my kiddos 🙂
http://theycallmemummy.com/2012/06/13/kiddyquips/