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Life with a toddler is never dull. I often repeat to myself the mantra, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." This saying is indeed true when it comes to life with a toddler. Living with a creature who makes a daily habit out of creating chaos tests the very best of us; sometimes we pass and other times we fail miserably.My latest failure is my cell phone. This afternoon, while performing the multi-task of opening a UPS package and watching Devon toddle about the back patio, I noticed him prancing about his plastic turtle. The turtle is intended to be a sandbox, but we fill it with a couple of inches of water during the noon hours to cool off and have some splashing fun. He played, I opened and then it was off to nap time. When I returned down from tucking him in to tidy up the patio, I saw it. Glistening at the green bottom of the turtle. My cell phone. Also in the pool was a book of children's poetry and an assortment of pens and pencils.
This isn't the phone's first brush with danger. Earlier this year I located it by calling it from our other cell phone. I found it at the end of the block, nestled at the bottom of the dumpster with the morning trash. But this just might be the end of this phone and, hopefully, the beginning of a safe, high place for my future phone.
How about you? How is life with your toddler?
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6-12-2006 @ 8:01PM
mamaloo said...My debit card (don't have credit cards, use the debit instead)went missing for two months. Around the same time, the slot-loading dvd/cd player in the iMac stopped working properly and started popping disks back out at us with scratches on them. One day, it popped my bank card back out. Darned kid!
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6-12-2006 @ 9:55PM
Paige said...Ah, life with a toddler!! How fun. I've got 2. A one year old and a 2 year old. Never a dull moment that's for sure. I can't tell you the number of things we have lost in our house. The one major thing that comes to mind is a really nice watch that my husband got for Christmas one year. LOL
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6-12-2006 @ 10:52PM
Amanda said...I dropped my cell in the toilet the other day (bad habit of sticking it in my back pocket, which means it falls out when you yank your pants up to prevent toddler from destroying something else.) Take it apart and lay it somewhere warm to dry. Mine worked after about 12 hours. But it was only submerged for a couple of seconds.
I cannot describe the number of things missing or destroyed in our house by toddlers. Maddening!
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6-13-2006 @ 7:38AM
Sarah said...How's life? Always interesting, that's for sure. My 2 1/2-year-old is infuriatingly cute. She's also a little monkey. She is quite adept at climbing up the furniture to snap off the light as I read. Her latest exploit involved pushing a chair from the kitchen table over to the sink where she proceeded to "wash" the dishes. The list goes on...
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6-15-2006 @ 7:36PM
TRESLA said...I'VE BEEN THERE DONE THAT!!!!
I HAVE A 3 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO REALLY BELIEVES SHE IS DADDY'S " BABY" GIRL! A 4 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO IS A TRUE DIVA!!! AND, A 5 YEAR OLD BOY. BOY BEING THE KEY WORD!!!!
I CAN NEVER FIND ANY THING, I'M NEVER ON TIME, AND MY HOUSE IS ALWAYS, HOW SHOULD I WORD THIS,LIKE TOYS R US ON CRACK !!!! I LIKE TO STAY UP LATE AT NIGHT AFTER THE KIDS ARE ASLEEP AND LISTEN TO NOTHING WHAT SO EVER!
I TRULY DO LOVE BEING A MOM.
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6-19-2006 @ 2:35PM
Deb said...Honestly, people...why do you leave things like that around where a toddler can get to them? I have a 2 year old son who has NEVER touched or destroyed anything that wasn't his to begin with. He doesn't touch our cell phones, car keys, watches, day-planners or anything else that doesn't belong to him. We taught him right from the start that you don't take (or touch) what isn't your's.
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