New parenting low: I made Molly wipe her nose with Benny’s bib. And I lied to her about it not being dirty.
Foodie baby
Benny’s favourite food at 10 months: hummus, bread, tomatoes, potatoes, cheese, eggs, fish, yogurt, bananas and every other fruit or vegetable he tried except clementines.
His least favourite food: clementines. But he’ll reach for them and stuff his mouth full every time I eat them nevertheless.
Spa day
Spa day: coming home early from work to take a long shower and remove nail polish from two weeks ago.
Everything’s OK if you brush your teeth
-What did you do in the kindergarten today?
-I put sand in my mouth.
-What?
-I eat sand.
-You ate sand?!
-Just a little bit. And I brushed my teeth later.
She brushed her teeth. I guess sand eating is OK then.
Let’s take these clothes off!
When I picked her up from the kindergarten, Molly was wearing ridiculous clothes and NONE of the clothes were hers.
It turned out she got wet and changed completely into random clothes she found lying around.
We went for a piece of cake, and while I was feeding Benny, she ran to the middle of the café and, to my horror, started taking the trousers off. Luckily and surprisingly, it turned out she had another pair of trousers underneath.
Also not hers.
Our baby’s teething!
Benny’s teething and he’s salivating A LOT. I literally changed him four times today but he managed to soak through three layers each time.
I’m contemplating either attaching a plastic cup to his chin to contain the saliva or having him live in a bathtub for a few days.
Avoiding nappy rash
Confession time: when Benny took a massive poo at 5 a.m., I couldn’t care less about his potentially sore bum. The only reason I changed him was that he smelled so bad that I couldn’t be in the same room as him.
What to do with my kids’ art?
An amazing life hack: always have a plastic bag ready in the Kindergarten – that way you can immediately stuff all the kids’ “art” in it and have it never even reach your car, let alone your apartment!
Take any chance you have to sleep!
Playing hide-and-seek is a great opportunity for a short nap.
The best hiding place? Under the bed, with a pillow under my head.
There’s a pretzel in my nose!
Molly sometimes does such amazing things that I forget she only turned three and I treat her almost like an adult.
But she only needs to stuff some pretzel deep up her nose and I’m instantly reminded that she’s still a baby.