Summer Lessons Final Chapter

58. While cottage cheese is supposed to be eaten with your fingers, popcorn must be eaten with a spoon. Who knew?


59. The creators of Noggin should be given their own holiday.

60. Letting Reagan play with the baby stuff with her dolls is certainly giving her practice. She is now able to snap and unsnap the straps on the swing. That could be a potential problem.

61. Your husband won't think its as cute as you do when your 2 year old requests to listen to Taylor Swift in the car.

62. Move your hair out of the way when taking your vision test at the DMV, it can block the peripheral vision part of the test and make you look like quite the moron.

63. Its very, very hard to not burst out laughing at the nurse when she brings you a cup and asks your 2 year old to sit on the potty and give a urine sample. Seriously? Come on lady!

64. It is worth it to have to clean little fingerprints off of your T.V. when your child watches Dora because that only takes a couple seconds and you just had 25 minutes of uninterrupted bliss. Besides, the fingerprints mean she was engaged and learning...right?

65. Your ice cream order is apparently ridiculous to strangers standing behind you in line. Never mind that I would order a chocolate ice cream, milky way avalanche with chocolate syrup even if I wasn't pregnant.

66. If you do not have your toddler with you, you are obviously pregnant for the very first time and need to hear all of the unsolicited advice all over again.

67. Pregnancy Brain really does exist. Examples may include but are not limited to: putting the finger paints away in the pantry, dinner leftovers in the mudroom closet and the eggs in the freezer. Sadly these were all on different days.

68. The following sounds like a sarcastic remark. After hours of listening to a very whiney voice, me "Where is your big girl voice?!?" Response: "Right there in my mouth!" Complete with pointing. Stay calm, your child is 2 and doesn't know what sarcasm is. At least I don't think she knows how to be sarcastic.

69. The raw food diet is incredibly appealing to toddlers. When your child decides that none of her food needs to be cooked, choose your battles. Hot dogs and grilled cheese can be humored. Pancakes and noodles are deal breakers.

70. Your husband will never understand the agony of whether or not its time for your little girl's first haircut or the magnitude of why it's another milestone.

71. Teaching is the best job for me, I get to spend months at home being a full time mommy and then get to go back to the real world at least until the next holiday or snow day. :) August is always a bittersweet time in our lives.

72. You have the right daycare when your child begs to go back to school each time you pass the building while driving.

73. Young Guns is still a dumb movie.