Yes. She said wipe.

We went out of town last weekend, just the kids and I (along with my mom) to visit my relatives in West Virginia and to see my cousin get married. Amazingly, traveling with Asher and Lucy is pretty much a non-issue – even when we're talking five, six, seven... as many as eight straight hours in a car. They love staying with my grandparents, they love the excitement of packing their stuff and riding in the car with their stuffed animals and pillows, and they particularly love the fact that I just DO NOT CARE HOW MANY MOVIES THEY WATCH IN THE TIME IT TAKES US TO GET THERE.

I do not. I do not care! Oh, so I OCCASIONALLY care, like when they want to start a new movie and we're .05 miles from stopping for lunch or our destination and would then have to switch the movie OFF in the MIDDLE, OH HEAVENS NO, but otherwise, I JUST DO NOT. Listen, when they're older, I'm happy to encourage a rousing rendition of the License Plate Game or Car Bingo, but first they have to develop the ability to read, and then to actually find whatever it is I'm pointing out to them outside the vehicle. I swear, we could be driving next to a two-mile long FREIGHT TRAIN, and Lucy would continue to insist that she was unable to see it. THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED.

We drove past a field – A WHOLE ENORMOUS FIELD – absolutely PACKED with VERY VISIBLE cows, and she insists, “But I don't SEEEEE THEM!” And then she cries, because she didn't see the cows, and it's not like we can just back the car up on the interstate to give her a second look, and WHY DID WE MENTION THE COWS ANYWAY. It took me a long time to catch on that I just couldn't point anything out to my children while we're driving. Like, at all. Nothing. No matter HOW EXCITING something is, I have to make an honest guess whether or not they'll be able to locate it before we pass it, and most of the time I have to hold my tongue. This is a hard, HARD lesson to learn, but I've mostly mastered it. My mother... not so much. By the end of the trip she was starting to catch on, but first the kids had to cry over missing the chance to see waterfalls, horses running, rain clouds, and two airplanes sitting by the side of the road. 

AIRPLANES. SITTING BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD. They totally missed them, you guys. (AIRPLANES.)

Anyway, so the trip was uneventful (last time we traveled to WV involved this), and seeing my cousin get married was wonderful. The wedding was small and casual, and the reception was held in the basement of the church. But even though it was casual and laid-back and simple, even though my kids were running freely inside and out and joining in whiffle ball games and eating chocolate cupcakes and candy and smearing it all over their nice clothes, it was NOT AT ALL CASUAL ENOUGH for my daughter to bang on the door of the one-person bathroom REPEATEDLY while I was inside it, yelling, “MOM! MOM! DON'T FORGET TO WIPE! DON'T FORGET, OKAY? DON'T! FORGET! TO! WIPE!”

OMG, you guys. She only LOOKS innocent.

Also, HELP ME, but I want another one JUST LIKE HER.

 

Comments

[Jessica]

I think there is something wrong with how a child actually sees things. My son can be looking at an object and still not see it. Like there is a visual block on that object and it is invisible to him. We had an actual meltdown when he was trying to find the remote, which was right next to the cup he was touching on the coffee table. You are not alone!

[Chiara]

I never post but Lucy is SO cute in this video. I want one of her too!

[HereWeGoAJen]

Eluzabeth only sees things out of the car window if I do not. If I see it and point it out, she spends a long of time yelling "where?!?" But if I don't see it, she just says "but what WAS that?" Until we get there. However long that takes.

[PinkieBling]

Kids: hilariously mortifying, since the dawn of time. Too funny! She's darling.

[jadine]

Adorable! I have two boys, after imagining I'd have girls (not a preference, just no boys in the family). If I did have a girl, she'd be just like yours!

[Rachel @ Common to Moms]

This is too funny. I am a nanny (in addition to being a mom of a 2yr old) and the 4 year old I baby sit for is starting not to find things when I ask her to go get the "fill-in-the-blank-with-any-object-here". It drives me totally batty. It really feels like they are saying "I don't see it!" on purpose. Then you say something like "if I come over there and see the Blank________ myself and I know you aren't really looking for it, then you will have time out..."

Then suddenly light bulbs go off for her "Oh I see it! I see it! Here it is!" ... too funny. And frustrating... and funny :-D

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[Life of a Doctor's Wife]

Oh man, this is hilarious but it must be SO FRUSTRATING! Airplanes! A TRAIN! (Can I admit something? Once in a while, my husband has this same visual block. And he is 31 years old!)

I know for a fact that my brother and I ALSO had this visual... issue as kids. Because my dad would get frustrated and say over and over, "Look where I'm pointing!" Which is kind of funny when you think about it, because he is pointing from his perspective, not from mine. So it could very well be that he is pointing straight at something (airplane! field of cows!) and from my perspective, he's pointing at something else.

Anyway. Long anecdote that likely only my family members find funny.

[A'Dell]

Claire and I sing to that song in the car EVERY DAY. She knows all the words and it's her favorite. Love.

[Trilby]

Lucy singing at the end is the cutest thing I've seen EVER! She is too precious!

I have the same problem pointing out things as we are driving... both boys can see out of the windows and still, they do not see what I've pointed out.

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[Laura Diniwilk]

Hah! Adriana tells me she's so proud of me for peeing every. single. time. Lucy is freaking ADORABLE in that video! Your kids always make me wish mine were a smidge older, you make it look easy and awesome.

[elz]

How incredibly...um...helpful of her to remind you?! HA.

My kids are the same. Where is the cow? The giant ball of yarn, etc. Dude, OPEN your eyes!

[Branwen]

She is so big and so beautiful!

[Slim]

Would you like people to tweet you regularly to remind you to wipe? It's no trouble.