Yesterday marked the last day of the Evil Baby Glare-off, and in keeping with a tradition started last year, today will be a day of cleansing. Let us wash away all those evil thoughts of demonic children trying to eat us in our sleep by taking a gander at my adorable child watching television.
Don't you feel better now?
Not yet? If you're still feeling the residual effects of demon spawn, allow me to recount a few of Mazzy's more adorable moments…
First, there was the time I asked Mazzy if she would like to go into the big pool or the little pool. She said, "The big pool. The little pool is for cats." It took me a moment before I realized— Mazzy was confusing "kiddie" with "kitty".
Then there was the time I told Mazzy I was going to the doctor.
MAZZY: I go to the doctor too.
ME: Yes, but this doctor is for mommies.
MAZZY: My doctor is for Mazzies.
Or the day, Mike taught Mazzy the "thumbs up" sign…
Later that evening, Mazzy started complaining about going out to eat. So I said, "If you are good at the restaurant, then you can have ice cream after." Mazzy turned to me, both thumbs extended, and said, "Thumbs up, Mommy! Thumbs up!"
Here's another memorable moment involving eating out…
We had just finished dinner at a nearby restaurant, when we found out they didn't take credit cards. Mike and Mazzy went back to the apartment to get cash, while I stayed put. When they finally got back, Mazzy ran toward me, screaming at the top of her lungs so that every other patron could hear, "MOM! I'VE GOT THE MONEY!!!!"
Or how about the morning Mike walked out of our bedroom wearing a striped rugby shirt?
Mazzy took one look at him, said he looked like Steve from Blue's Clues and then, without a word, Mike turned around, went back in the bedroom and CHANGED.
And then there was the time, I asked Mazzy if she had ants in her pants. She lifted her dress, picked a tiny black ball of fuzz off her tights and asked incredulously, "Is this an ANT?"
But this last one is my favorite.
A relative gave Mazzy a huge stack of old children's books. One of the books is titled Owen with a picture of a mouse on the cover. It looks totally harmless but every time I pick it up to read to her, Mazzy says "NO. THAT'S A TERRIBLE BOOK," before grabbing it from my hands and throwing it across the room.
This happened three or four times and I had no idea why she was so against it, until I told my mom the story.
My mom smiled. "Oh," she said, "I read it to her once. You should read it."
So I picked up the rejected book and gave it a perusal. You know what it's about?
It's about a little mouse who carries his blankie everywhere and his busybody neighbor makes suggestions to his parents about how they can effectively get rid of it— like soaking the blankie in vinegar so it will start to smell. Finally, Owen starts school and the school doesn't allow him to bring his blankie, so his mother decides to cut the blankie into tiny pieces so Owen can hide the bits in his backpack.
Mazzy's blankie, affectionately called "BOO", has been her most prized posession since birth, so I guess I can understand why she didn't want me getting any ideas.
Is the cleanse working? Are you over the evil babies yet?
Okay. Here's my last and final cuteness offering…
Mazzy putting her head all the way back in the bath for the first time:
If that didn't work, I've lost you forever.
What's the cutest thing your kid has done lately?
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The Evil Baby Glare-Off was featured on MSN last night but they credited mommypants.com instead of mommyshorts.com. That's a whole different clothing item! I have no idea how to contact them so if you are on twitter, please help a girl out by tweeting:
Please RT @msnNOW Evil babies should be credited to Mommyshorts.com, not mommypants. http://on-msn.com/Tv0vl0 @mommyshorts
Update: The Glare-Off was also on the Today Show this morning, but also credited to Mommy Pants. Blerg.
Update to the Update: Thanks to all your tweets, MSN is now corrected! And the Today Show obviously can't change what came out of Al Roker's mouth, but they did put the correct credit underneath the online video. Click here to see the clip.
You had me at the first picture.
Ok, I’ll share. When I put my 2.5 year old to bed at night, I tuck her in and ask her, “Are you snug as a bug in a rug?” She says, “Yes!” and that’s that. So the other day we were baking a cake and she, lover of the Kitchen-Aid mixer, asked to see each ingredient as it got swirled into the batter. When it came time for the eggs, I forgot to lift her up to show her. A couple of minutes later, she asked where the eggs went and I had to tell her they were all already mixed in there. So she peered into the bowl as it mixed and said, “There they are! Eggs are snug as a bug in a rug.” Heart melts. And, scene.
“i love you all the way to MARS and back!”
Lately my daughters cutest thing…ok well TWO cutest things. When we are driving home from our daily trip to the gym she always says “ticka ticka daddy, hide daddy” which means she wants to go home and tickle daddy and then run away and hide from him! The other is she pushes us to the ground and tells us to go “nigh nigh” and then she jumps on us and yells “hug” before giving us a monster hug!
Regarding the Evil Baby glare-off… The second half of the Today Show had Al taking about it, with photos. He unfortunately said mommypants.com – how he got your name right, but your web page wrong, I don’t know. On bit of bonus, the segment did have the winner’s photo, where the mommy shorts name was displayed.
PS – for some reason lately, I can’t post comments from my phone. I can write, but not post or review.
Latest funny thing that my Milo did was when his dad was eating licorice twizzlers. He asked to taste it, took a bite, thought about it and then said “mommy I did not like the Sambucca date” (Milo loves eating dates, and has tasted Sambucca before (the Italian anise flavored drink))
Something cute from all 3 kids:
My 8 year old was peppering me with questions the other day. One question after another after another. It didn’t bother me in the slightest, I just answered one question and moved on to the next. After about 20 minutes and 30 questions, she said, “Mom, do you know why I keep asking you lots of questions?” I said, “Nope. Why?” and she said, “Because I am a questionable child.”
My 5 year old got new shoes a few weeks ago. She kept walking up to people and saying, “My new shoes!” My husband, realizing she wasn’t forming a complete thought whispered a word for her to add to the sentence. For the rest of the day she walked around saying, “BEHOLD! My new shoes!”
My 2 year old son is at such a cute stage I could tell you a dozen things, but I will stick with this one. When I put him to bed, and randomly throughout the day, I tell him, “I love you, Matthew!” and he always used to say, I love you, Momma!” but this week he started saying in response, “I love you too much, Momma!”
Oh how I love my kids!
My son told me he liked the shirt I was wearing today and said he’d like me to wear it again. I thought that was pretty nice considering he spent the whole car ride to preschool crying and begging me not to be the one who picks him up today.
My 1-year-old keeps trying to get into the dishwasher while I’m emptying/loading it. I told her, “Baby! No hands!” which works with most stuff. But she is determined – she smiled at me sweetly, grabbed the nearby chair for support, raised her leg and planted her FOOT on the dishwasher. And giggled.
Kiddie pool is for cats. Brilliant Mazzy! And Mike changed his clothes because of Mazzy? Awesome! And dude, what’s up with MommyPants?!?!?! I RT’d for ya. Hope it gets resolved!! Oh, and I am cleansed. Mazzy is one adorable beautiful lil girl!
This cleanse is totally working, My son is 6 so cute is not exactly our daily dose, but a few months ago he asked me something and when I started to respond he said, ah no need to answer, because it was a rhetorical question? And then laugh.
I am still amazed that he learned the word rhetorical and then used it correctly.
Upon spying a mourning dove on the deck, my 8 year old son said “What is he doing out at this time of day” (it was the afternoon)
Thanks for the post today, I really needed cuteness, laughs, and a reminder of the cuteness and beauty in life. Our community is dealing with a senseless tragedy (I live very close to Clayton, NJ, if you’ve seen the news) so this was the perfect thing for me to read. Thank you.
I am so bad at keeping track of this kind of thing lately. You know, writing these things down… I was so good with my first but now it’s harder. I did put one of G’s quotes on FB yesterday. That boy cracks me up.
Keep keeping track with your 2nd, k? 😉
My almost 2 year old daughter (21 months) is quite the little talker lately. My all-time favorite, though, is her using her manners. It doesn’t matter what I hand her or do for her, she always very dramatically tells me, “Day-doo, mama!” (Maybe she just got tired of me reminding her, “What do you say?” or telling her, “Say Thank you!”)…
My little girl (2.5 yrs) always likes it when i smoke because she likes the fire from the lighter. She’ll sit on my lap till i finish every cigarette just watching me flick the lighter on and off, on and off. One day, I come downstairs from a nap and she’s on the couch all by herself and she has a cigarette in her mouth (unlit) and says, “Beer me! I’m YOU daddy”. Adorbs.
2 kids two cute things, my boy at around 3 started telling me ” mom I love your guts!”
My daughter is 20 months old and yesterday we had this conversation
Me- delaney what would you like for lunch?
Delaney- bokki, nana an yobert
Me- you’d like broccoli a banana and yogurt?
Delaney-( jumping up and down screams) YESYES BOKKI BOKKI PUULLLEEESSEE
Why are you messing with my cuteness cleanse?! I’ve suffered a setback!
Awww… Mazzy used to love broccoli. Then she tasted chocolate.
My 8 yr old was looking for my husband at church this week and asked if I knew where he was, I told her I didn’t. She responded “We have got to put a bell on that man!”
Barnyard Dance used to be a favorite book in our house, but we hadn’t read it in awhile for whatever reason. Then the other night my husband read it to our 17-month-old daughter, who immediately jumped up and started dancing along with the narration, doing the bowing and spinning and clapping as instructed. It blew me away with awesomeness and cute.
My kids put my driver’s license in the little potty. Then peed on it.
How hard is it to double check the site? Goodness.
So happy that it was featured though!
I am at the grandkid stage. One of my fav’s. My grandson was active, a talker, and at times, a bit annoying to his parents. Of course, as grandma, I love it! When his sis was born, he was 5. When the baby was a year, give or take a few months, she hated the car and would scream so mom would give her paper and it would shut her up as she tore it into itty bitty pieces. One time my grandson was talking our ears off in the car as my granddaughter was busy shredding paper, and mom and I remarked how different the kids were. He is a techie like his dad, and she likes paper and books like her mom.
My grandson pipes up with a big grin, “Yeah I’m a button pusher and Kaia is a paper girl!”
Holy cow, my daughter and I about peed our pants laughing!! You don’t know how much of a “button pusher” you are, kid!!
I caught Jack clapping in his crib today, for the first time (he’ll be 7 months tomorrow). Thank goodness, because he’s been a stinker since yesterday morning & was overdue for dome cute.
My nearly 3 year old wrote her first song to the tune of that one that says “are you sleeping brother John” I forget the name. Her rewrite goes as so…
Thomas, Percy, logging locos,
They’re friends too! They’re friends too!
A-B-D-C-E-C, L-M-N-O havie
Hello Kitty! Hello Kitty!
This was invented at bedtime 2 weeks ago when she informed me that she would be singing me to sleep that night.
The real cuteness is her “havies” though, she asked me “mommy can I have you?” Then gave me a super long monster hug while saying “havie, havie, havie, have!!”
After watching me go to the bathroom, my girl says, “Good job, Mommy! Now don’t forget to flush the potty and wash your hands!”
Or, last night during story time,
Her: “You’re doing a great job reading this book, Mommy.”
Me: “Oh yeah? Thanks, baby!”
Her: “You know what, Sweetheart? You’re all right, Little Bit.” (my pet name for her.)
Aww…shucks
Oh, and she’s two.
From my 6yo: Hubs was telling Annie about measurements. He asked her “How many inches in a foot?” She guessed 8. Then he asked, “How many feet in a yard?” And she thought for a moment, said, “Hmmmm. I guess it depends how big the yard is.” LOL!
From my (then) 3yo: “Mommy! I want a hippo-ma-pot-a-mus for Christmas, too!”
Mazzy’s cute, there can be no denying that!
My daughter goes to a Christian preschool and she’s always coming home with churchy nuggets to share with her heathen parents. To maintain balance we generally give her the scientific explanations of things to go along with the biblical versions she hears at school. Not in a “church is bad” way but more of a ” here’s another explanation” way lest you go all judgey-judgerton on me. Anyway, yesterday she tells us that God is responsible for making it snow and that he can “pretty much make it snow whenever he wants.” Hubbers pulled out the science explanation and she stops him almost immediately with a “Whoa Dad, God just does what he does” and returns to her green beans with a look of smug satisfaction. I love her mucho grande!
My 2 year old has started walking up to our pets and talking to them calling them buddy. For example:
“Hi Fizz (our cat). Whatcha doing Buddy? Taking a nap?”
or
“Hi Maggie Mae (our dog). Hi Buddy”
my two year old farted and looked at me and very proudly said “I burped from my bum”….lol! I still laugh at that!
My son is going through a stage right now where he’ll randomly say “Mommy, I a real boy!”, which is funny all in itself, but they yesterday, we had this conversation:
DS: “Mommy, I a girl!”
Me: “No, honey, you’re a boy.”
DS: “Pleeaassseee?”
Me: “There’s nothing I can do about it, Buddy.”
DS: “NOOOOOOO!!!!”
Hahaha. I do need to start keeping a journal on me to record all of his funny stuff so when he’s a teenager and never funny anymore I can reminisce about the good ‘ole days.
Well, my palate is certainly cleansed. That Mazzy is seriously, no kidding around, way, way too cute.
Glad to hear they got their MommyPants unbunched and credited the correct article of Mommy clothes!
Anytime my 6 yo girl says something impressive, I ask “how do you know that?” and she always answers, “because I’m smart, mom.” Yes, she is. 2 yo isn’t talking much but is quite the cutie. My favorite is when he puts his hands on my cheeks, as if to pinch them, opens his eyes wide, and jabbers on and on in a high pitch voice and gives me kisses. I think he’s doing the same thing I do to him. Love those kids.
My baby girl Lexie will be 5 months old next week. This morning she actually wrapped her arms around my neck and leaned her face into my neck. Her first real hug! I’m not sure if she did it on purpose or not, but I gotta say, I melted!
I was changing my one-year-old son’s diaper. I said to him, “Wow, you are happy today!” He said solemnly, “Happy BABY!” and grabbed his heels like a little yogi. So cute! No idea he knew those words in isolation, let alone together (and posing too!)
i really think kevin blah should have a blog.
My son (who turns 6 today) woke up at the crack of dawn to make sure he got to watch me bake ice cream cone cupcakes for his class. For whatever reason, instead of the cupcake rising, it pooled down the side of the cone and baked. I was distraught (obviously) because I would have to run to the store, buy more cones and batter and start all over, the kids would be late to school, I would be late to work, he won’t hear his name on the morning announcements, etc, and just when I had worked myself up to the point of crying, he exclaims with wonder, “Mommy, they melted just like ice cream! Its butterful (sic) You make the bess (sic) cupcakes ever.” Way to put a positive spin on a negative and make mommy stop freaking out! I lurve that kid!
yeah ilana. see? meg gets me. we’re going to live together and not invite you over to our trailer. ever.
2 words: “Humpty Dumpling”
Cutest moment lately (so many to choose from): When I bit it and skinned my knee during a family walk, Lil’ Bit first told me she wanted to hug me, then that I needed to be more careful, and finally that she thought it would be better by the time I got married. 🙂
Just catching up after moving. If I nod my head or gesture with out speaking to answer her question, my 3 yo little girl says to me in the sweetest little old lady tone, “What’s the matter? Don’t you talk, sweeeetheaaart?”