Have you ever seen The Stepford Wives—the awesome original or the campy/crappy remake?
I got to thinking about the robot that would replace me if I lived in Stepford, and how easy it would be to program it. There are only about 30 things that I do all day – I just do each of them a lot.
- Pick baby up
- Put her down
- Wipe milk from couch cushions
- Wipe sticky fingers and face
- Just keep wiping
- Say “food stays on the tray”
- Remove Cheerios, one at a time, from the floor
- Wrestle an alligator (diaper change)
- Wrestle an alligator (car seat edition)
- Try to get sun screen on the alligator
- Push a swing and say “Wheeee”
Wheeee
- Eat cheddar bunnies and drink from the sippy (share some with baby)
- Employ the 5-second rule
- Snap a photo a half second after baby does something new/amazing/adorable
- Spend 20 minutes trying to recapture missed photo op glory
- Make friends with dogs
- Buy milk and bananas
- Check Facebook and sigh at all the people on vacation
- Perform my one-woman show “I’m peeing on the potty” for a captive audience
- Take out toys
- Put away toys
- Try unsuccessfully to prevent the reemergence of the toys
- Rudely interrupt play time to prepare a meal (over objections of alligator, who may bite)
- Observe baby drinking bath water (look the other way)
- Observe baby not making contact between teeth and toothbrush (look the other way)
- Wrestle sleepy alligator (pajamas)
- Read Goodnight Moon from memory in reverse order just to keep things interesting
- Fall asleep with eyes open while singing Twinkle Twinkle
- Feel lucky, get worried, knock wood (the robot will not bother with this)
- Kiss the baby
writer currently at home with my little girl, Viv. The twist is that while I am raising my daughter, I am also planning my wedding to her father.
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Ha! I love your blog so much, Amy! Hilarious. I especially love #14 & 15. This is what I do too- and it -like so much of parenting!- drives me NUTS. Sometimes I wonder if it’s even worth “risking the moment” to go grab the camera… Sigh.
Thank you! I know, I’d feel worse about it if it was a new, technology-created interruption, but I’m pretty sure our parents did this with their film cameras too.
HAHAHA – seriously one of the best posts on the day in the life of a mommy I’ve ever read. Love it. 14, 15 & 24 really hit home with me
Thanks Donna! How bad can the bath water be, right?
omg THIS is my life!! And after each time my walls and floor get graffitied, there’s a rousing chorus of “WHERE does the crayon go? on the PAPER!”
Oh that’s a good one.
Omg Amy! this is hilarious! Lee and i laughed out loud through this whole thing. defintely describes a day in the life! especially love 6, 18, 24!
Thanks Gina!
I live 14 and 15 constantly!
I wish there were cameras in my eyes. I’m pretty sure Apple will come out with that soon.
Did you write this list about ME? Haha. I especially liked #19, as I too am a one-woman “peeing on the potty” show. And also #25. Glad to hear someone else looks the other way when a sub-par toddler toothbrushing job is happening. E sucks the flavor (i.e. the toothpaste) off the toothbrush, then sets it on a pillow and walks away.
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Yes I’ve totally been spying on you. And we have the same life, except I’m not as useful in the kitchen.