I wish you were there.
It was as profound as it sounded.
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Or, for that matter, a toddler with food stains.
Happy Halloween.
Where I’ve been, coffee doesn’t even make a dent. Staying home with Ruby has taught me that:
(1) A toddler’s yell is indeed many times greater than a baby’s yell. Ever more so when it is within the confines of a car with all the windows up.
(2) You can never get enough of veggie booty, pickles, or hamburgers.
(3) Once you go Cupcake Frosting, you never go back.
(4) There are many ways to say “umbrella” and “raining” but none are as cute as “um-burger” and “aining”.
(5) I must have thrown a lot of food on the ground as a toddler because Karma’s a bitch.
(6) You know you’ve got your priorities right as a parent when your 20-month-old can identify, and say, beer and coffee.
(7) Ruby may not know chicken from pork, but gosh darn it, she can tell when you’ve watered down her apple juice.
(8) Don’t use baby words because they are paying attention. All the time. Until she figures it out, Ruby is going to think she has toesies, and those are doggies and horsies over there.
(9) There are ways to say “No” that don’t involve the word at all.
(10) I can drink a lot of coffee.
…and we still have no idea what Ruby will be this Halloween.
However, I believe Ruby has left me clues.
(1) One day recently, Ruby would only put on clothes that had monkeys on them.
(2) Ruby loves to watch owls on YouTube. Hooting.
(3) One of Ruby’s favorite songs is the Itsy Bitsy Spider. She doesn’t actually say “spider” when she sees one. She calls it an “itsy bitsy”.
Since I am feeling rather unmotivated this Halloween, there is a high chance she will be dressed as a toddler with food stains.
That’s so meta, it’s genius.
She gets distracted by the wheelbarrow — and sings “wheelbarrow” or “whoo whoo” — in the middle of the song.
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