I personally believe speaking toddler should be considered a bilingual worthy title. I mean, who else but Mommy can decipher the National Anthem and quotes from Charles Dickens out of their two year old's mouth? I can, thank you. But that's besides the point. I had a classic mommy moment today that deserves to be remembered forever, in which I will lovingly share with the cyber community.
My two year old is being very very quiet, a red flag immediately that he is up to no good. I have already found him digging in my purse once today, where he so wonderfully decorated his face with Mommy's new Sephora mascara (see this is why we can't have nice things) and brings me a tampon when I asked him what he had. Thanks baby, how did you ever know that was JUST what Mommy needed?!?!?!
On the second silence occurrence I could not imagine what I would discover. I have found him eating my cupcake chap stick in the corner to eating Reese cups, wrapper and all behind the television stand before (yes, his Pull-Ups were brightly colored Christmas red and green, thank you for asking) so I could not imagine what I'd find now.
I find my sweet little boy with the bag of rainbow colored goldfish he extracted from the pantry (HOW do his arms reach that high?) and, to my shock, he dumped the whole bag on the floor in front of my very eyes.
And the conversation was as follows:
Me: Oh..honey. Why'd you do that? That wasn't nice.
Toddler: Fishie fishie fishie.
Me: But why'd you spill them on the floor? We don't do that.
Toddler: Whoops, I sorry.
Me: It's okay baby. Let's pick them up.
Toddler: Fishie, fishie, swim in the sea.
Me: (Laughs) Yes baby fish swim in the sea. But not on the carpet.
Toddler: (Puts both hands over his face) Ohhhhhhh gosh baby.
Me: Laughing..yes. Oh gosh is right.
Toddler: (Hands still on his face) Ohhhhhhh dear.
Apparently my baby genius is an animal rights activist. He wanted the goldfish to swim in the sea, even if they were only crackers. See, toddler speak comes in handy. My son is now officially a philanthropist, saving one baked snack at a time.
