toddler sayings

1/31/24

Hunter was pushing on my belly and said, “bouncy. Like a trampoline.”

then he put his foot on it and said, “i’ll jump on your mashed potato”

2/1/24

I think that I need to get down to his level more. And also, he doesn’t have words yet to describe exactly how he feels, the self-awareness to describe or place it or anything, and it’s my job as his mother to read all the signs he gives for what he needs (like needing to play) and try to give him what he needs as best I can, and not use my physical strength and maturity over him to further my own agenda at the moment. If that makes sense. I’m only learning.

(by way of explanation: he kept climbing over me and trying to touch my laptop while I was trying to work, and I kept telling him not to. I told him at least three times that if he did it again, I would put him outside the room and lock the door, and I know he understood, but he did it again, and again, and so I just kept my word and lifted him up and placed him outside the room, shut the door and locked it. He immediately scream-cried, like I had abandoned him. I felt really bad, but I needed to regroup myself and calm down. He scream-cried for a minute, but as soon as I heard him cry-ask, “Mama, open the door”, I opened it for him.But like the better thing I could’ve done, looking back, is recognized he needed to let out some energy and directed his energy elsewhere somehow, instead of shutting him out.)

I think it would be funny to do like the opposite of a prenup: an agreement like if you divorce the person, you get a million dollars and a vacation home on an island and everything material you want- just as a test of how willing you are to stay with them and how much you want them.

I think that everything they tell you to fear, it’s just the opposite. Especially with aging. 

I have so many questions for God. One being spam. Like what do spammers get out of it? Just fun?

2/2/24

drew this card when I asked “what can I do about my PMS?” (had it particularly bad this cycle)