"if you take off your pants you can have your watermelon juice back"

things i never thought i would hear myself say.  (stella had just peed in her pants and did not want to change out of them, so i had to use trickery and bribery in order to get her to do so...thank god for lollipops and juice)

shari and i think we should make up a game of quotes like this and call it "bedroom talk or children talk?"

i cleaned up pee no less than 3 times yesterday, but thats just part of the deal right.

stella at marshalls with me the other day, refusing to leave her new giraffe BFFs.  when it was time to go she ran away from me and wouldnt come near me until she had counted to twenty.  sometimes i feel like i'm failing as a parent, but at least she can count to twenty.