The Angel and the Hellion
As the title suggests, there is a bit of a conundrum occurring in our household. The one child is an absolute joy. The child listens and smiles lots; is generally just very pleasant to be around. The other child screams, hits, throws, and has tantrums to rival any minor league baseball manager. The main problem we're having is it's the same child.
I imagine around this time, every parent realizes their dear little angel is actually a slight schizophrenic. This weekend could not be a more perfect example. On Saturday, Lauren woke up and had to think to herself: "Today, I think I'm a hellion". Fortunately, we had no real plans, but she just refused to cooperate on anything. She lost watching Dora in the morning because she kept running off when I was trying to dress her. She lost going to the big park because she ran away from me at our favorite breakfast restaurant when I let her come with me to pay the bill. We had at least 3 separate time outs, but I'm pretty sure we could have just sat her in the chair and told her to stay there all day. We tried church too, but she was barely tolerable even there. What really got our ire up though was when I realized I could not find her pajama top anywhere. Debbie and I both realized that if it wasn't visible and it wasn't in any of the drawers, there was one logical place left: The Diaper Champ! Opening the Chamber of Doo-Doo revealed she was having more fun with it than we thought. Not only was the pajama top in there, but so was a dragon, queen, 3 fences, bed, table, king, and other items associated with her castle.
Then, Sunday arrived. She woke up happy, congenial, willing to help, and generally cooperative all around. She was good enough to go to the big park (there's a little one around the corner, but the big one has more slides and more kids which we thought she would enjoy). She was happy during quiet time (as far as I know, no other items other than the cotton stink bombs have gone down the gullet of the Ca-Ca Chomper). What a great day!
I'd like to order more of Angel Lauren, but I have a feeling Hellion Lauren has a lot more of appearances to make. And ... yes ... I did enjoy coming up with the Diaper Champ monikers.
I imagine around this time, every parent realizes their dear little angel is actually a slight schizophrenic. This weekend could not be a more perfect example. On Saturday, Lauren woke up and had to think to herself: "Today, I think I'm a hellion". Fortunately, we had no real plans, but she just refused to cooperate on anything. She lost watching Dora in the morning because she kept running off when I was trying to dress her. She lost going to the big park because she ran away from me at our favorite breakfast restaurant when I let her come with me to pay the bill. We had at least 3 separate time outs, but I'm pretty sure we could have just sat her in the chair and told her to stay there all day. We tried church too, but she was barely tolerable even there. What really got our ire up though was when I realized I could not find her pajama top anywhere. Debbie and I both realized that if it wasn't visible and it wasn't in any of the drawers, there was one logical place left: The Diaper Champ! Opening the Chamber of Doo-Doo revealed she was having more fun with it than we thought. Not only was the pajama top in there, but so was a dragon, queen, 3 fences, bed, table, king, and other items associated with her castle.
Then, Sunday arrived. She woke up happy, congenial, willing to help, and generally cooperative all around. She was good enough to go to the big park (there's a little one around the corner, but the big one has more slides and more kids which we thought she would enjoy). She was happy during quiet time (as far as I know, no other items other than the cotton stink bombs have gone down the gullet of the Ca-Ca Chomper). What a great day!
I'd like to order more of Angel Lauren, but I have a feeling Hellion Lauren has a lot more of appearances to make. And ... yes ... I did enjoy coming up with the Diaper Champ monikers.
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