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You know you live with a toddler when…

March 26, 2012 By Ellen

For two mornings in a run, you wake up with “There’s a worm at the bottom of the garden, and his name is Wiggly Woo.” going through your head.


You find yourself sitting cross-legged on the floor in the Glasgow Science Centre singing Old Macdonald and you don’t fear arrest. 


It’s not uncommon to prepare a breakfast of lollypops on bagel. 


You find yourself offered a stone smoothie and are warned “it’s a bit lumpy and tastes of stone”.


Three-in-a-bed is a bad thing. 


You are familiar with the ways of Team Umizoomi and Bubble Guppies. 


Knowing your outfit is likely to be accessorised by dried bogies, you dress accordingly.


A soothing session of yoga is anything but. And what do you call a downward dog with a toddler hiding underneath, or a pigeon with added small boy on the back?


There isn’t really any point in trying to find out why your glasses case is being filled with salt. 


“Me too,” strikes a cold note of fear.


And so does: “Do it again.”


Quiet, ordered and unsticky, however briefly, is a cause for celebration… only under your breath in case he hears.


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Comments

  1. Older Single Mum says

    March 26, 2012 at 9:54 am

    I'd never seen or heard that song – just hope I don't wake up with it in my head in the morning! Hate the dried bogey thing – but know it only too well!

  2. Ellen Arnison says

    March 26, 2012 at 10:08 am

    This is the stickiest song I have ever come across, so you are doomed now!

  3. Iota says

    March 27, 2012 at 3:30 am

    You know what? I don't live with a toddler, but after reading this post, I am going to bed with Wiggly Woo on my brain, and fearing that it might still be there in the morning.

  4. Ellen Arnison says

    March 27, 2012 at 8:10 am

    Sorry – it's a bit of a keeper.

  5. The mum of all trades says

    March 29, 2012 at 9:14 pm

    I found myself nodding along to everything in this post! so, so true!

  6. Ellen Arnison says

    March 30, 2012 at 9:08 am

    Thanks.

  7. Hollie Smith says

    October 9, 2012 at 8:31 am

    Gah!!! I haven't had the wiggly woo song running through my head for some years now….suspect I will not be able to get rid of it today though! 😉

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