And now, the first installment of “You know you are in over your head when….”
You know when you are in over your head in parenting when a conversation with your three year old goes like this:
Daddy: OK, Sweetness, because mom is out with some friends and daddy can’t cook, we are going to the hot dog place!
Sweetness: Yea!!! I want a cherrwy dwink (Cherry Limeade from Sonic)
Daddy: Well, do you want to go to the hot dog place with the cherry drink or do you want to go to Wild About Harry’s (our favorite haunt) and get a hot dog with ice cream? Either one or the other.
Sweetness: Hey, I’ve got a gweat idea! We can go to the hot dog place with the cherrwy dwink AND THEN we can go to the hot dog place with the ice-cweam. That’s called a CAWPROMISE!!!
Daddy: (pulling the car over and turning around to look at her) What was that you just said?
Sweetness: When we go to both hot dog places, it’s called a CAWPROMISE.
Daddy: Hmm, I don’t think I’ve ever heard that discussed in the Little Einsteins. Time to regroup.
Sweetness: What, Daddy?
Daddy: Nothing, babe. Nothing.
December 7th, 2007 at 8:57 pm
You’ve got a smart cookie on your hands!
Hoping to get together sometime since we’re all close again.