Are you ready to rummmmmmmmmmmmbuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuul!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*cue house music*
Round One (yesterday)
Mommy Librarian: Athena, if you take your nap, we can go see some dancing penguins, okay?
Athena: Dancing penguins?
ML: Yep. At the movies. But you have to go to sleep now. You have to really take a nap or we won't go.
Athena: A nap?
ML: Yep
Athena: Then we see penguins?
ML: Yep
Athena: Okay
*one hour later*
Athena: *sleepily opening her bedroom door* Mommy?
ML: You wake up?
Athena: *barely audible* I wanna see penguins.
Round One goes to... TIE! (Mommy and Daddy should have specified a longer nap)
Round Two (Yesterday)
ML: Athena, if you don't stop throwing your popcorn, we're leaving the dancing penguins.
Athena: *throwing popcorn* I wanna go see Daddy (who is currently in the breezeway letting Marcus crawl around)
ML: Okay
Athena: *running around the theater, after giving Daddy a cursory hello*
ML: We're leaving
Round Two goes to... TIE (Athena didn't seem to care and we didn't get to see how the movie ended)
Round Three (This morning)
ML: Athena, do you want orange or banana for breakfast?
Athena: mmmmmmmm.... Dora Snacks!*
ML: That wasn't a choice. Orange or banana.
Athena: *whining* Dooooooooooora Snaaaaaaaaaaaacks!
ML: Fine, you get an orange.
Athena: Noooooooooooooooooooooooo... no orange! Dora Snacks!
ML: *peeling a Clementine* How about an orange AND Dora Snacks?
Athena: Noooooooooooooooooooo... no ORANGE!
ML: Okay. This orange is for Marcus then.**
Athena: Nooooooooooooooooooooooo! My orange!
ML: No, it's for Marcus
Athena: I WANNA ORANGE!
ML: Okay, here you go. Marcus will be so disappointed.
Athena: *taking the orange slices to Marcus and sticking them in his face* MINE! MY oranges!
Round Three goes to MOMMY! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
*For the offspringless, Dora Snacks are gummy snacks in the shape of characters from Dora the Explorer. If you have a dark sense of humor, as we do, you will find these very entertaining as your daughter says, "This is Benny the Bull! I like him! I eat him!" and then gobbles him up. Classic chuckles all around.
**For the record, I would not feed my eight-month old whole chunks of Clementine, in case you were worried.
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At least you can still trick her into naps. I have to use the old "ride in the car" fiasco to get my toddler to bed.
I should have forewarned about the penguin movie...it was hard for my 6yo to sit through, I can imagine how tough it was for Athena!!
I knew it was kind of long, but I figured that between the penguins and the music, it would keep her interest. I think actually it just made her antsy. She wanted to shake her tailfeathers.
Wow! I can't wait for the battle of wills to begin. I guess I can threaten to feed the orange to the dog. Hopefully, Ian won't shake his fruit in front of Kelsey. She'll definitely eat them.
Funny. I guess it is a battle of wits. Lots of strategy involved.
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