Yes. She. Did.
My two-year-old who fancies herself “Mom” to hordes (droves? flocks? herds?) of baby dolls, just threw the Mom Card in. My Face.
It all started after she gave her doll a “bath” then wanted to put lotion on her. I spent twenty minutes trying to explain to her why she couldn’t put baby lotion on a doll.
Sadie: Huh NEEDS it.
Me: No HUH doesn’t. Her skin can’t absorb it. She doesn’t EVEN HAVE skin, Sadie.
Sadie: YES HUH DOES.
Me: Here put some lotion on SADIE. (Refrains from saying, “She puts the lotion on her skin.” That would be weird.)
Sadie: Okay, Momma. Inna put it up.
Me: (Yay.) Good girl.
She took the lotion back to her bedroom and came back with diaper rash ointment.
No. No. Noooo.
Sadie: Momma, my baby meeds dis for huh booty.
Me: No she doesn’t.
Sadie: HUH DOES. Huh booty is all yucky Momma!
Me: No. She. Doesn’t. Sadie, it’s going to make a huge mess on your doll and she will be so dirty. (It’s a cloth doll so this is no wipe off the grease and go sitch. Her doll was going to be stained and goopy and probably never the same IF it survived the washing machine.)
Sadie: I’m gone do it cuz I’M DA MOMMA!!
Touché.
I simply cannot argue with that kind of logic.
What have your kids said lately that left you speechless?
I just LOL’d – literally. Great post!
This I will admit. My daughter and I both have seriously large foreheads. So much so that I had a boy in the 7th grade tell me that an airplane could land on mine…in front of the entire class. Many years, almost 24 hours of labor, an episiotomy and two forceps later- My VK’s forehead finally made it’s way into the world.
ALL of that to say- when throwing the bouncy ball back and forth, it’s hard for me not to try to hit her in the head with it. It’s just fun. What I didn’t expect the other night was to get wacked back. I glanced at the TV and BAM- right in the forehead. I looked at her slightly stunned and stinging, she popped her hip, pointed at me and said,
“You need to be thanking the Lord it wasn’t a hard ball.”
Revenge is sweet.