JellyBean Pastime
I have been cleaning out our storage spaces in preparation for listing the house. In one closet I found a styrofoam cooler that had broken, as they always do, and I set it on the floor to remind myself to take it out with the garbage.
JellyBean found it, and invented a new game. She threw the cooler up in the air and tried to catch it on her head, as if it were a styrofoam helmet. She did this over and over, and if she successfully got it on her head, she celebrated by running through the kitchen, which is how I became aware of her new game.
Yes, I am a good enough mother to stop my child from running blind with a makeshift styrofoam helmet over her head. And yes, I am a bad enough mother to take a picture of this new game first.
JellyBean’s taste in clothes may be seen from the facts that a) she is wearing no pants and b) her shoes do not match and c) her unmatching shoes are on the wrong feet.
I think my creative little girl invented her game based on the library book we were reading. Of course, I may be wrong.
Nope. I’m right.
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meredith
Your deconstructing toddler post and this picture definitely leave me under the impression that you have very bright and creative little girls.
Mary-LUE
What a great picture! I live for those unique moments of hilarity my children bring to me. How fun!
Grafted Branch
It is good to be 2! And, I’ve often wondered aloud, “You would think they would get the shoes on the corrent feet at least 50% of the time, right?” Doesn’t happen though.
BooMama
When I was younger, I had an unspoken rule that I could only be friends with someone who knew what I meant when I said “Len Tutwila.” It went back to an old SNL sketch that I thought was just hilarious, and I decided that if someone didn’t know about it - or if they knew about it but didn’t think it was funny - then clearly we could never be friends.
Now that I’m older, my unspoken rule has changed. Now the unspoken rule - which I guess I’m “speaking” so now I’ll have to change the rule - is that I know I can be friends with someone who sees his or her child doing something that they really shouldn’t be doing but doesn’t correct the behavior until said behavior can be captured on film. Or a memory card, as it were.
All that to say: hello, friend. Nice to meet you.
Pieces
This kind of post is what blogs are perfect for. I love seeing the picture of JellyBean right above the picture of the book.
I suspect that you posted my link at BooMama’s site. If you did, thank you.