When you're two, stuck upstairs in a crib, and you don't want to commit to sleeping at bedtime, try shouting bizarre things from your room. After all, everyone else is awake and having fun downstairs. That's not fair. Here are a few options to add to your list of SHOUTABLE stall tactics, as tested and recommended by Emma. Try:
*Pretending that your foot is "STUUUUCK!" in the bars of the crib. Call for help. (This may come out sounding like "HUUUUCK!" if you're not too good at your "s" onset yet. That's ok. Your mom will still come.)
*Feigning dehydration with pleas for "WA-WA!"
*Filing a missing person report regarding any one of your usual bedmates who may have been accidentally left downstairs. (The critical sleeping roster includes: WOODY! MONKEY! ELMO! MICKEY and MINNIE MOUSE! and BABY! Take roll.)
*Falsely reporting "POOP!"
*Falsely reporting "PEE!"
*Yelling out important up-to-the-minute fashion alerts. "MOMMMM! ROSE ON HOCK! ROSE ON HOCK!" (Hock = sock. Again, she's not good at s.)
*Insisting that your "BLAAAANKIE!" needs adjusting.
*And employing seasonal distractions as applicable. "HAAAANTA CLAUS... HANTA CLAUS COMIN'.... TOWWWWN!"
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I have only one Christmas wish..... Please teach Emma to say, from her crib at night, "Not once, not nevah." Or even, "Not my chair, not my problem."
ReplyDeleteThen I will come over and sit by the fire, waiting excitedly for her to holler one of the above phrases from her crib.
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