Three year
olds are from another planet.
It must be a nudest planet because our three year old absolutely, positively does not want to keep her clothes on. It's a planet where you eat pancakes in your birthday suit.
And you pour sand in your underwear to see what will happen.
And pick every.single.dandilion on the way to the park, thereby ensuring it takes an hour to walk 2 blocks.
Anyway.....
Skylar was gifted
chapstick for her last birthday. She applied it 100 times in as many minutes, and then took a nibble off the top. By the end of the day there was a little stub of
chapstick and teeth full of petroleum. At some point she stopped applying it and just started eating it.
She thinks
chapstick is delicious.
Last week I was putting her in the
carseat when I saw this:

Just for reference, it's supposed to look like this:
She had pulled it out of the diaper bag and eaten my
chapstick. Again. She knows it's wrong. So we had The
Chapstick Conversation....again.
"Skylar, why did you eat my
chapstick?"
"But Mom, I
liiiiike it".
"It's for your lips, not for eating".
"But
Mommmm, it's okay"
"NO, it's NOT okay"
"But it's okay mom. I still love you even when you do bad things".
"I didn't do a bad thing. You did".
"But I still love you mom"
"DO NOT EAT
CHAPSTICK".
"I still love you when you yell at me mom"
"I'm not yelling at you. I just don't want you to eat my
chapstick".
"I love you mom"
"I love you too. Stop eating
chapstick".
"
Soooorry mom.......Can I have some gum?"