this photoshoot will always be my favorite

my indentured servant helping me make pancakes this morning

my 3 year old’s self portrait

flipphones:

there are mean parents

and then there are parents who switch off the wifi at night 

wow I never thought about that. I’m so doing that.

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adela: can I have the ice cream with the sticks? on the sticks? the ones you bought for me? for me. the sticks.
me: you mean popsicles? you want a popsicle?
adela: yes

when adela’s leap pad tells her “you’re doing great!” she says thank you.

Best. Ever.

thatsnotcanon:

i don’t want to alarm anyone, but right now there’s a skeleton inside you and it’s covered in blood.

I tried to explain this to adela. she didn’t really get it. kind of like when I told her there’s such a thing as an ugly princess. she lives in denial.

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packed the first box today. accidentally wrote adela’s boom on it instead of adela’s room. then I took a break and never started again.

marcelawho:

adela wants to stay on time out because she doesn’t want to show me what she broke. I already know what she broke, but I want her to show me instead of running and hiding when she does something bad. stop hiding from your mistakes, adela. FESS UP.

RIP salt n pepper shaker snowman

she broke his butt

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adela wants to stay on time out because she doesn’t want to show me what she broke. I already know what she broke, but I want her to show me instead of running and hiding when she does something bad. stop hiding from your mistakes, adela. FESS UP.

RIP salt n pepper shaker snowman

as a brunette mexican girl with a big nose who grew up watching the disney princess movies and loving herself more than is commonly accepted, I’ll just say this… if you’re a good parent, like my parents were, a blonde character in a cartoon isn’t going to damage your little girl, or her sense of self importance in “society.” I won’t deprive my three year old of a cartoon, that she loves to sing along with and say the lines to, because of my own insecurities or the ones other people tell me I’m supposed to have.

Adela called something stupid. I said, hey thats not nice. shes said, but papa calls you stupid, and you call papa stupid. and I realized that yes for every little thing we laugh and call each other stupid, endearingly. these are the little tricky parts of parenting. I want her to know that the word is just a silly word, and she can use it how she likes. but I also don’t want her calling anyone, including me, stupid (most especially when she starts school). also it just sounds so shocking coming out of her squeaky little voice. lol

madrewho:

Ive started following a lot of young mom bloggers. mommy blogs seem pretty huge these days. but as it turns out, I can’t relate to any of them. their supermom capabilities seem to accentuate my inadequacies. finding my identity, when just a few years a ago I was a dork in high school whose own awesome mom did everything for her, isn’t easy. not that I ever assumed it was easy. I just never thought about it in general. don’t get me wrong, being Adela’s mom is actually, surprisingly, turning out to be a piece of cake thus far. I think Im pretty awesome at it, with an insane amount of help from antonio. the hard part is being me at the same time. 

back when I was madrewho

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