Friday, August 26, 2011

When Dad is the Primary Caretaker

Maura says "I want to nap in my big girl bed." I say okay. She lays down for a while. She's humming a nursery tune. Then silence. Then my communication is cut off.

I run in there. She's face down on the bed. Doing her best impression of "asleep." The stand-by puke bucket is crumpled, the baby monitor is on the ground, jerked from its usual perch on the windowsill. Our little super-spy cut the comm system like an expert.

What a dastardly villain!

We are now eating cupcakes.

With purple frosting.

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Home of the Muddy Kids said...

Man, she knows how to work it! (o: