Thursday, November 15, 2007

A Mother's Dictionary

Bottle feeding: An opportunity for Daddy to get up at 2 am too.

Defense:
What you'd better have around de yard if you're going to let the children play outside.

Drooling:
How teething babies wash their chins.

Dumbwaiter:
One who asks if the kids would care to order dessert.

Family planning:
The art of spacing your children the proper distance apart to keep you on the edge of financial disaster

Feedback:
The inevitable result when the baby doesn't appreciate the strained carrots.

Full name:
What you call your child when you're mad at him.

Grandparents:
The people who think your children are wonderful even though they're sure you're not raising them right.

Hearsay:
What toddlers do when anyone mutters a dirty word.

Impregnable:
A woman whose memory of labor is still vivid.

Independent:
How we want our children to be as long as they do everything we say.

Look out:
What it's too late for your child to do by the time you scream it.

Prenatal:
When your life was still somewhat your own.

Preprared childbirth:
A contradiction in terms.

Puddle:
A small body of water that draws other small bodies wearing dry shoes into it.

Show off:
A child who is more talented than yours.

Sterilize:
What you do to your first baby's pacifier by boiling it and to your last baby's pacifier by blowing on it.

Storeroom:
The distance required between the supermarket aisles so that children in shopping carts can't quite reach anything.

Temper tantrums:
What you should keep to a minimum so as to not upset the children.

Top bunk:
Where you should never put a child wearing Superman jammies.

Two-minute warning:
When the baby's face turns red and she begins to make those familiar grunting noises.

Verbal:
Able to whine in words

Whodunit:
None of the kids that live in your house.

Whoops:
An exclamation that translates roughly into "get a sponge."

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