Daddy's Day Hijacked

Since today was Father's Day, I took little bug downstairs when she woke up so he could sleep in. She made him a card on which she drew a bunch of squiggles. I asked her what her drawing was and she looked at me like it was very obvious. "Horse, mommy". Clearly, it was a horse - how could that jumble of lines and dots be anything else. Well we made daddy coffee and decided he had slept long enough so we crept upstairs and little bug crawled into bed with daddy and handed him her horse card. She then force fed him hot coffee.

When we were hanging out on the deck, little bug pulled all of the seat cushions off of our chairs and laid them on the floor. She then pulled daddy and I over and pointed to the cushions. "Sleep" she instructed, pointing to the cushions. So here were the three of us, laying on the floor of our deck pretending to sleep. I think I actually dozed off, but I felt something looking at me. I opened my eyes and little bug was staring into my face. "Shhh...sleep mommy" she said, and she took her hand and slammed my head back into the cushion. Then she grabbed her Dora blanket and covered me up.

One of daddy's requests for the day was a red velvet cake, so I pulled out the hand mixer and started making him one. I handed little bug her little battery powered mixer and a bowl so she could be just like mommy. She seemed to be doing fine, so I turned my back on her and then I heard her shriek. Little bug put the mixer in her hair and it twisted and pulled out a little chunk of hair. She got over it pretty quickly, and it's pretty funny considering that I took her to get her hair cut yesterday.

When we went to the kids hair cut place yesterday, I asked the stylist to only cut little bug's bangs to be just above her eyebrows. I'm not sure where it got lost in translation, but after the first clip I knew we were in trouble. She now has bangs that aren't exactly even and are halfway up her forehead. I took some hairspray to them to try to salvage it, but we definitely aren't going to get any professional photos taken until those bangs grow out.

Anyway, after the hair crisis daddy decided that he wanted to go to the bouncy place. How she managed to turn Father's Day into a day all about her, I'll never know - but I guess having those big brown eyes not covered by her bangs any more might have magnified her manipulation. As we walked into the bouncy place she started screaming "Monkey Joe" over, and over. She loves this place. It wasn't crowded at all so she bounced her heart out and even went on the biggest slide.

In one of the areas we have to help her climb up a steep area so she can get to the slide. After I helped push her up to the top, she turned to me and said, "thank you mommy". Yes, little bug, after that - I'll let you do whatever you want to do on any of my special days, too.