I just finished crafting a Thomas the Tank Engine cake for my son's 2nd birthday. He won't care or know that the cake is for him or for his birthday. GTC spent hours building a kick ass sand and water table and the little boy will have no concept what went into it or that it is for him. We do these things for our children yet somehow it isn't really for our children at the age of two. It's for the grown ups and older children. I wonder what a two year would actually say they wanted for their birthday if they grasped the concept that it was "their day." I have a few ideas:
-Get this stupid party hat off of my head -- NOW.
- Why are all these people singing? Please make them stop.
- Mom, could you just leave me in my crappy diaper today? I don't really mind and it's a hassle stopping my play time to get changed.
- I would like 50 DO-NUTS -- NOW.
- Please stop talking and asking me to say things. It is tiring. I know what you're saying, you know what I'm trying to say so can't we just agree to point and run and laugh?
- I'd like that big box thingy up on that shelf to play Thomas the Tank Engine nonstop, all day, every day.
-I want you to just wait over there and come every time I call immediately so you can get for me whatever it is that I want at that moment. That way I won't have to scream and lay boneless on the ground in a heap of meltdown when you decide to answer your phone or read something.
-Another great entertainment idea would be for you to fall down making a loud noise many, many times over and over and over. That one just never gets old.
-If you're gonna make me unwrap a bunch of store bought presents and gush over it then at least extend to me the courtesy of letting me play with the box it came in.
-Thanks for a great birthday. You go ahead. I'll shut off the lights and lock up when I'm done playing...
Happy day.
2 comments:
You, my friend, are effing hysterical.
Thanks! Between kids and family the humor presents itself almost nonstop. I am laughing right this minute in fact. Though I was crying two minutes ago and I will likely be yelling two minutes from now.
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