I debated writing this post, because this is a new development that I suspect will only get better. But just in case this new phase of sisterhood ends abruptly tomorrow, I don't want to forget it.
Mazzy has started narrating Harlow's inner thoughts.
The premise is this:
Harlow is a baby, therefore she has no idea what is going on.
It works like this:
Harlow, Mazzy and I all get into an elevator. There are three other people inside. Mazzy says, "Harlow's like… who are all these people? I've never seen them before!"
Then everyone laughs. Even the other people in the elevator who can't know what the hell Mazzy is talking about. They don't know Harlow's name. They might think Mazzy is speaking in the third person. Regardless, they laugh. Which makes Mazzy do it again and again and again.
So far, it has not gotten old.
It started like this:
I was talking to Harlow as I was getting ready in the morning. Just narrating what I was putting on and why, like you are supposed to do with babies so they are exposed to speech and language. It's something I did a lot with Mazzy when she was a baby and I feel like I haven't done enough with Harlow. Hence, the whole not-talking-yet thing.
Anyway, as Harlow stood in my closet (she loves it in there), I was blabbering on and on about my choice of shoes and whether I should wear pants or a dress when suddenly Mazzy interrupted.
"Harlow's like… WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, MOM??? I don't understand what you are saying!"
She had a point.
"Harlow's helping me decide whether I should wear pants or a dress."
Mazzy wasn't buying it.
"Harlow's like… WHAT ARE PANTS, MOM???"
I wish I could make you hear Mazzy's intonation correctly. It's like sarcasm X 5.
It snowed the other day and Mazzy and Harlow were watching in front of the window.
"Harlow's like… what is all this white stuff? Where did it come from???"
We went to the grocery store.
"Harlow's like… where are we? Why is there food everywhere???"
We got into the car.
"Harlow's like… why am I buckled into this seat? Where are we going???"
I'm not sure how this is going to play out, but I suspect, as with most things, Mazzy will find a way to work it to her advantage. For instance, let's imagine, sometime in the future, I give them both a cookie.
Then Mazzy could say:
"Harlow's like… I don't need a cookie. You should give both cookies to Mazzy!"
Or maybe I will find a way to work it to my advantage. For instance, let's say Mazzy is throwing a fit about something ridiculous.
Then I could say:
"Harlow's like… what is Mazzy so worked up about? It's just a television. She can watch it tomorrow!"
It will be like our own little passive aggressive dance.
MAZZY: "Harlow's like… why can't Mazzy just go to bed later? What's the big deal?"
ME: "Harlow's like… why can't Mazzy just listen to Mommy? I'm sure she has really good reasons for everything she does!"
Or perhaps the best scenario of all is if Mazzy and I get into a huge battle of "Harlow's like…" and then Harlow suddently chimes in with her first sentence ever.
"Harlow's like… stop putting words in my mouth!"
That will be the dawn of a whole new era of sisterhood.
Should get interesting.
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I simply want a peaceful atmosphere in our home. My kids constantly antagonize each other!
Sleep!
I would love a full night’s sleep for Mother’s Day… My 16 month old has yet to sleep through the night!
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First this article is adorable! Harlow is so little!!
Second I am not a mother so I can’t get anything on Mother’s Day but what I think my mom wants is
– no stupid questions
– a plate of food to herself
– to be able to take a full shower without one of her kids knocking on the door for something!
And I am sure there is a lot more that she wants but those are the first three I could think of!
This is my very first Mother’s Day! What I really want is sleeeeeeep!!!!!! And a spa day! My daughter is 11 weeks old and I have yet to be more than a room away from her which is amazing and exhausting!!!! ?
To be able to give my Mom what SHE wants for Mother’s Day.
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What I want for Mother’s Day is to go on a nice walk with my family, snd for my almost 2 year old to not scream the entire walk. Oh, and also a large slice of pizza. Just kidding, I want that every day.
What I really want for mother’s day is a vacation with my kid!!!
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If I get two wishes, it would be great if they could all get along for one day too. Lol
What I would really like is for my husband to not be in Singapore over Mother’s Day. Since that can’t happen, I’m asking for a pedicure π It’s been tooooooo long since my last one and it’s hard to justify the expense on the regular.
Honestly, what I REALLY want for Mother’s Day is for my son in heaven to be here with me. I miss him more than I can say, and having only one of my babies with me on this holiday makes it really really hard.
What I really want for my first Mother’s Day as a mom is to spend it with my mom who lives in Belgium.
And my daughter of course…
All I want for Mother’s Day is a clean house. Like spring-cleaned: fans, base boards, walls, all of it. A girl can dream…
For Mother’s Day I would love a day without housework, and a fun outing with my family!
For mothers day, I would love a screen door for the front entry. We live in Florida now, and it’s so gorgeous outside. I love Having the windows open, but there isn’t enough of a breeze. I think adding a screen door will solve this problem!
I would love to have a cup of coffee (with refills) made and brought to me while I just sit outside, read a magazine, and enjoy the quite! Then, maaaybe take a nice nap!
I would love to spend a day with my kids that there dad planned and organized and packed for after i slept in. I want a relaxing day of just having fun and playing with them. I guess basically for mothers day i would like to be a father for a day.
For Mother’s Day I think it would be perfect to celebrate with my four kids and husband (a picnic, perhaps). But, a gift for the future would be a day at home alone to sit in the quiet and work on some small organizing projects in the kids spaces.
I would just love a few hours to go out and run errands without feeling rushed!
I would love a full night of sleep
It took so long for us to conceive that I had given up on being a mommy at all. I have everything I need for Mother’s Day. Although a nap wouldn’t hurt ?
My husband is away for workwork, so this won’t happen. But for mothers day, I would like an afternoon nap in a quiet house.
What I would really like for Mother’s Day is to be able to sleep in and have an hour or two all to myself to do whatever I want. Love my girls, but my husband works a lot and so they’re always with me. I just need a mom break for an hour or two ?
A good nights sleep followed by a massage would be heavenly.
SLEEP! To wake up to a clean house. A long HOT shower, a nice brunch.
A peaceful afternoon, an easy bedtime, a nice full body massage.
For Mother’s Day I have asked for a cord that I can use to play music from my phone in my car. I have an older car and can’t Bluetooth it and the kids always seem to want to hear something off of it instead of what is on the radio. My youngest doesn’t quite understand that I am not picking the songs that play on the radio.
Being 37 weeks pregnant with baby number 3…all I really want for Mothers Day is to sleep in a bit and maybe take a nap!
What I really want for Mother’s Day is a fortune my living room so I can catch up on Netflix shows, eat pizza and then finish with baby snuggles and a Disney movie.
All I want for Mother’s Day is relaxation! Pure joy just sitting and watching movies with my loves.
The last few years, Mother’s day has either involved moving or my husband traveling (which he has to do again this year), so all I really want is to sleep in and relax and not feel guilty about it.
What I want for Mother’s Day: I actually don’t expect anything for Mother’s Day. Last year was my first and I had sssssooooooooooo many expectations that never showed up. I was devastated. Then I quickly realized my gift was “being a mom.” I am so lucky. So that is all I want. Just to be mom. It’s been the best blessing I could have ever asked for. I don’t need cards or gifts or flowers to recognize me as a mom. I just need to be mom. And that fulfills my heart every day.
For this Mother’s Day, I’d love (like many others, probably) a day free of mom-responsibility!
I really really really want to sleep in, roll out of bed for a spa day, and then eat delicious food and drink mimosas. Oops, was I supposed to choose just one thing? I won’t be getting any of these, because my husband has surgery scheduled this week. Mom karma!
What I really want for Mother’s Day, is to read an entire book outside on a beautiful day. It would also be great if my boys could play nicely for at least an hour so my delusional sibling fantasies can come true.
For Mother’s Day, I would love nothing more than a full nights sleep, uninterrupted by a crying baby or 3 year old needing God knows what. And to maybe get to sleep past 6am on the weekend. Oh to dream… ?
For Mother’s Day, I want a whole day to just relax with my family and not feel guilty for not doing some sort of house work!
I would love 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep!
My husband has been deployed for 8 mos and just got home yesterday. So this year for Mother’s Day I want a break(!), a co-parent, to poop in peace, someone else to cook, someone else to reassure the toddler drama queen that her scratch from one week ago isn’t still an active booboo. I want someone else to be the customer at the hair salon, the taste tester in the food restaurant, and I want to sleep in. Please dear god you wake with the baby, you feed the animals first thing so I can sleep, you do the groceries with two kids in one cart. Sex as a bonus.
But dear lord I need a break! (And dear husband, we are never getting a divorce bc I cannot possibly master single parenting long term. Sanity is shot)
I really want a massage.
And just enough dang time to get a new phone since mine has been broken for months.
What I would LOVE for Mother’s Day is for my husband to do the week’s laundry…correctly, and without asking me how to put soap in the washing machine. π just a little help will do!
For Mothers’ Day, I would like my husband to put down his phone.
For Mother’s Day, I just want to be able to sleep an extra 30 minutes in the morning. Breakfast in bed wouldn’t hurt ?
What I really want for mother’s day is my house cleaned without me asking or directing and My bathroom renovation done.
Love how we read old posts over again it’s crazy how time flies.
If I’m being materialistic, I want a Fitbit haha. But I’d love an afternoon/evening at the beach with husband and daughter
For my husband to not ask if I need help with anything, but to open his own eyes and see what needs doing. Basically, for my husband to “adult” without prompting–I already have a toddler, I don’t need another kid (that’s 30 anyways)
For mother’s day I would love to be able to read my book with a big bowl of ice cream uninterrupted! π
For Mother’s Day…..SLEEP!!!
For Mother’s Day, I would love to go out to a Mother’s Day brunch and then home to veg out for the rest of the day
We had our second daughter four weeks ago and what I would really like is a second initial pendant to add to my mother’s necklace.
For Mother’s Day, I’d like to sleep “in,” and then get a massage and a pedicure.
I told my kids that I’d like a lilac bush! I was running the other day and smelled one in a neighbor’s yard- a hundred childhood memories came back, associated with playing outside all day, with the scent of my mom’s lilacs in the background, and having so much fun. We need one at our house!
I have just a few wants for Mother’s Day – For my son to be potty trained, in one day. Mother’s Day would be great to wake up to that. Actually, that’s it. That’s all I need.
All I want for Mother’s Day is a massage. My neck is so kinked up my chiropractor can’t even fix it.
For Mother ‘s Day I want to sleep. A lot.
What I really want for Mother’s Day is to pee alone, not have to referee my 2.5 and 5 year old for a day and a few alone hours to get a massage or pedicure and feel like a normal human again π
12 hours of uninterrupted sleep!
Of course I’d love some extra sleep or some peace and quiet to drink my hot coffee in on Mother’s Day, but honestly, I’d just be thrilled if my husband remembered (despite all my hints, and not to mention the fact that our kitchen table is currently taken over by a handprint art project for HIS mother) and if he could even put 1/3 of the effort into celebrating me that we do in celebrating him on Father’s Day that would be amazing. He has thousands of amazing features, but remembering dates and planning are not two of them! π I guess I’d also take for a day where no one whines. At all. But seeing as that won’t happen either I’ll probably go and buy myself a BoyMom shirt that I’ve been eyeing. Because let’s be honest- if Mama doesn’t do it herself, it probably my won’t happen. π
Ahhh for Mother’s Day I want a massage! Not the Hot Wheels kind either!
My only wish for Mother’s Day is that I can sleep past 6.
I’d love a new pair of running shoes for Mother’s Day. Trying to be a healthy role model for my daughter and new kicks would be really helpful!
For mothers day I really want the earrings I sent my husband in a link last night. And time to get my nails done kid free….
For Mother’s Day 2016, I’d like to be able to sleep in. My husband stays home with our three-year-old during the workweek, so on the weekends I usually cover the morning routine to give him a break. Unfortunately, that never gives me a break. So, this weekend (at 15 weeks pregnant with our second) I’d like to beable to stay in bed as long as I like. Wish me luck & Happy Mother’s day to all!
We are in the process of moving across the country. For Mother’s Day I want all the stress of the move to melt away. I want our house to sell. I want my son to magically potty train himself. I want my daughter to walk. Most of all I want to never feel guilty about the alone time I wish I could have. This Mom gig gets tougher by the day.
I have a 5yo and a newborn so what I would really like is 8 hrs of uninterrupted sleep and maybe a massage.
I wouldn’t mind packing up the car and taking a ride. We used to do that more often and don’t find the time anymore. But I don’t want to make any decisions, that would be a treat! An easy day planned for me.
To be left alone in peace with a book!
To sleep until 8am!!!!!!!
For Mother’s Day, I’ve requested a Fitbit! What I really want (and won’t ask for) is the day to myself, without that nagging feeling of guilt for not being there to help my husband wrangle/handle the toddlers.
To sleep in!
What I really want for Mother’s day is to be able to spend it with my husband and kids but Nursing school finals will make that impossible. So just a simple breakfast in bed will be wonderful!!
I would love for a live in cook to arrive at my doorstep and announce that my Mother’s Day gift is for them to cook all our meals and clean up afterwards. More realistically though there is a cute pair of shoes I’ve been eyeing π
For Mother’s Day I would like a night of sleep without my husband’s snoring waking me up, breakfast in bed and no meltdowns from my 20 month old!
To sleep in, snuggles in bed -with coffee!- and a day planned by my husband. … Oh and to not have to do the grocery shopping!
I just want some quiet. I know I won’t be able to sleep but just an hour of quiet to do nothing would be awesome.
All I want for Mother’s Day is a massage and to watch bad TV.
Well, I have to work on Mother’s Day, so I’m hoping for a good day at work. Then, some quality time with family.
What I really want for Mother’s Day is an Apple Watch. And to PR my 1/2 marathon that morning π oh yeah, and a pedicure
I really want the actual day for Mother’s Day.
I never fully understood when moms would say, “I just want time to myself” for Mother’s Day. But as a busy SAHM, I would really love some time to myself and not have to feel guilty about it!!
For Mother’s Day I want a peaceful day at home with my family. I would love for my toddler to be in a great mood.
I would love to sleep in but a six pack and a trip to the beach would be awesome. The whole family but especially me would love a break from reality for awhile and nothing does that like the beach for me.
For Mother’s Day, I’d like some time to myself. Always feel bad saying that but it’s true. Oh….and the swag bag – the stuff inside might distract my girls long enough for me to get a few minutes at least π
I would love for my three kids (ages 16,14,7)to get along for the day, and a housekeeper for the day so I can relax.
I’d really like to spend time with my step daughter but as I am only step I’ll never have the chance to spend “mom” and daughter time on mothers day. It’s hard to be on the outside sometimes, but hopefully soon my husband and I will have our own bundle to spend special days like this with! Until then I take advantage of the time I do get with my step daughter!! π
For Mother’s Day I want little hugs, kisses and sunshine. It’s been rainy and cold (46 degrees May 1st!) for a week and this week looks the same. I want dry sunny skies so we can go to the Botanic Garden and see the tulips in bloom and watch my kids run around outside
For Mother’s Day- I would really like one family meal where there every stays in their seats, doesn’t whine or yell (including the adults!) and gets along.
All I really want for Mother’s Day is a day off! Meaning not being at the beck and call of my two boys from the moment they wake up til the moment they fall asleep at night. Being a stay at home mom can be so draining when you find yourself responsible for every meal, every diaper change, every nap and every tantrum every day!
Ok and maybe a little pampering like a mani/pedi would be nice too.
On a side note I’m so happy I got a chance to read this older blog posts. My oldest is 2 and not quite talking yet but watching him already look out for his little brother and seeing their relationship develop is probably my favorite part of parenting at the moment.
For Mother’s Day, I would just like to sleep all day. Whether it’s a drug or alcohol induced coma, I don’t care… I just need about 15-20 hours of sleep to hopefully finally recharge myself!
For Mother’s Day, I would love for both of my children to sleep past 6, for them to wake up in good moods where no one is winning or crying, and for me to not be woken up by my four year old to “come wipe her poppy butt.” Everyday that is how my morning goes… I love my children and am so thankful I have poop burts to wipe, but sometimes 6am is just way to dang early. I hope you have a wonderful Mother’s Day!!!!
For Mother’s Day? I want a day that I don’t have to share with my Mother and his Mother. They are great ladies, and deserve to be made special, but that leaves no room for me. (And yes, I know this makes me sound incredibly whiny.) π
What I really want for Mother’s Day is some sleep (mommy to an almost four day old…)
I would love to sleep in past 7am, have a hot cup of coffee, and take a shower by myself. I would also love a massage and a mani/pedi.
A nap, a sweet ass nap. That’s all I want. It will not happen but I can dream.
For Mom’s Day, I would love an hour of uninterrupted bathroom time. I will settle for half an hour. 15 minutes? Please?
I asked for a gift certificate for a massage for Mother’s day…but let me tell you, what I’d REALLY like is 24 full hours ALONE. Wake up alone, shower alone, eat breakfast alone, read alone, watch whatever crap I want on TV alone, take a walk alone…just be by myself. I love love LOVE my family but man..I do miss my alone time.
I want a full day off. 7:30am-6:30pm. During a weekday. And that means my husband does the SAHM gig for a day. I dream of this and all the places I could go, the things I could get done and and the freedom I would feel!!