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C is for Crazy

September 11, 2010 by Deanna Tousignant 5 Comments

After making sure two little bums are clean and that the big kid’s juice cup is full, I was doing what I imagine every self-respecting internet addicted mommy does first thing in the morning — checking my email.

Apparently Rainbow woke up crazy today, because she comes running into the computer room stark naked and starts yelling out:  “I need a bath, a real bath, right now!  Scrub, scrub scrubby!  I have ‘tend stuff on me, and I’m naked and I need to crawl right into the shower!”  (As I happened to be in front of the computer at the time, the above and what follows is  a direct word for word quote).

I asked her why she was covered in pretend dirt and she answered all in one giant run on sentence: “My mousies tried to turn me into a flower. They tried to put me all in the ground, with mud, and put me in a hole and grow me in with one foot. Cause that’s what flowers do, they have one feet, and stand in the ground. Trying to do the sunflower dance.”

Oh Wow…. and was she ever worked up. I think maybe I didn’t water down the juice enough this morning.

I tried to convince her that pretend dirt didn’t warrant a real bath, but I lost that battle. So that’s how I was coerced into bath time before 8am, with a short lesson in botany to follow.

Toddler in the bath.
What sort of ‘tend emergencies have been happening at your place?

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Filed Under: Mom Life, Parenting, Silly Kids Tagged With: living in chaos, Rainbow

Comments

  1. rochelle says

    September 12, 2010 at 1:02 am

    What an amazing imagination! I think G-Girl needs her own section on this blog, a place where she can give us her own take on life as she sees it 🙂

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  2. Mom vs. the boys says

    September 13, 2010 at 2:39 pm

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  3. Mom vs. the boys says

    September 13, 2010 at 2:41 pm

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  4. Maple Leaf Mommy says

    September 14, 2010 at 3:03 am

    @Mom vs. the boysYou're the first person to grab my button. I was so excited to see it on your blogroll. Thanks!

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  5. Maple Leaf Mommy says

    September 14, 2010 at 3:06 am

    @RochelleSometimes I worry that she has too little of a grasp on reality, but she does indeed have a beautiful imagination. It would be a full time job to follow her around jotting down all the truly wacky thing she says.

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