Today we went to the mall early to chat with the lovely new Lush manager. Dash, knowing we were near Chapters, had been asking since we got there to play with the trains. That was all well and dandy until we left Lush and started heading to Chapters. The melt down started when he wanted the buttons undone on his blazer. Then he wanted them turned (?). The he...

On Mondays my mommy group has “outfit of the day” posts where we all post a picture of our kids looking adorable. My phone, which is my usual ‘camera,’ was out of batteries so I pulled out the good camera. After he posed for several minutes like a giant ham, I decided I got a good shot and told Dash we were done. “Okay all done. I...

I got a new shirt. I put my new shirt on. “Mommy wearing her new shirt!” “Yeah! Do you like it?” “It’s okay.” Doesn’t he know the only acceptable response is “Yes! You look pretty!”

I hate that his automatic reaction to everything is “I don’t like you mommy.” it’s really hard not to be 12 and yell back “Well I don’t like you either!”

Dead fish seems like an opportunity to teach Dash about the circle of life. “Look Dash, a fish died and now the pleco is eating it.” “Norbert eat fish!” “Yes, the fish died.” “The fish died.” “Yes, so now Norbert it eating it.” “Can I have some Cheerios...

Dash is going to be Gordon Ramsay for Halloween. Today Ian had him practicing “You donkey!” and it is the cutest. Thing. Ever.

How to tell when your toddler is doing something he shouldn’t be: curious about the noises you’re hearing, you say “Dashiell, what are you doing?” The question is answered by more sounds, hurried and desperate, and the response “I’m putting it back now!”

Sometimes Dash tells us “Don’t like the big bed!” Today, he didn’t say anything. But when we came upstairs an hour after he’d been put to bed, we discovered that the feeling remains; he’d gotten out of his bed and climbed into our bed, and was dead asleep on Ian’s pillow.

Going up the stairs, Dash really like to hold the railing and to announce it. Today he said “I holding railing!” and paused and looked around at me. “Mommy, hold railing too please.”

Daddy, don’t sleep on the slide.