Before I post about how a pumpkin ends up in my toddler's bed - what is a pumpkin anyway?
O.k., we know it is a winter squash. It is from the gourd family, which includes things like cucumber and honeydew melon. It has seeds.
The best answer I could find is that from an economic and culinary perspective, it is treated as a vegetable, while from the botanical perspective, it is a fruit.
I told Greg that I didn't really want to rehash yesterday's experience, so I am not going to provide a detailed narrative. Instead, I will provide a free-form randomly-rhyming poem that encompasses the challenges I encountered.
But first - three nice things about Wednesday with Rebecca and Lucy:
1 - Rebecca and I had fun at music class
2 - Rebecca and I had fun playing at the park
3 - Lucy and I had fun singing songs and playing with toys
Ode to a stressful Wednesday
Lizzie has a pumpkin
Becca wants the pumpkin
My pumpkin, my pumpkin
Watch it go away
Pitch a fit in the car
Throw your crown on the floor
Cry big gulpy sobs
Stuck in traffic
Go to the grocery store
One more time
Load up the Lucy
Becca is asleep
Wake her up to get the
bloody pumpkin
Hard to see the pumpkin when
you're shielding your face
Get a frickin pumpkin
Stroke it, hug it
Make it watch an episode
of prehistoric beasts
Barf on the floor
Barf on the clothes
Barf on the carpet
Barf on the blanket
Take all the kleenex out of the box
While Mom feeds the sick baby
cutting her teeth
Fall asleep with the pumpkin
Wake up at bedtime
Eat a supper consisting of
Mostly red peppers
Run through the house naked
Screaming so loud
Giving Mom a break
9:30pm finally time to myself
play the piano
hear overhead
thumping little feet
Go investigate it
What do I find
Pumpkin in the bed
And inflatable T Rex
Too tired to fix it
Go eat frozen yogurt
2 comments:
Tu devrais ajouter un peu de musique, je suis certaine que ça deviendrait un hit à la radio :-) J'espère qu'aujourd'hui sera une meilleure journée pour vous.
Mad, This was sort of my fault - not ony did I let her pick out uncle Reu's pumpkin with me (my attempt at making her love Halloween again) but it was my idea to put the pumpkin to bed... on the dresser, with a balnket. Becca gave him a monchichi but didn't want to leave hom all alone on the other side of the room. I'm glad to hear both toddler and squash made it through the night in one piece.
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