Plagiarizing

All I can say is an honest OMG.  And that's between laughs.

My coworker recommended a Tumblr called "Reasons My Son Is Crying." (http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/)
If anyone actually reads this blog, please, please visit that site.  Future me, go back to the site and have some hearty laughs.

Basically, this guy or lady (I am bad and didn't read the profile) created this collection of ridiculous reasons why his own baby would cry-- with accompanying pictures.  Other people now submit theirs.

The tone of the reason-- coupled with this picture of a kid wailing his little arse off-- is often very direct and dry.  Ex: (with pic of kid on plane) "We are not free to move about the cabin."

It's a relief of a reminder that parents are, as the cliche dictates, all in this together, and these little monsters cry at the weirdest times.  Mabel has just recently started these little temper tantrums-- tears when shiz gets taken away from her, or when she can't, say, climb up the fireplace.  The wailing is sometimes grating, but now that I have seen her do it, I am onto her! There's a stark difference between the "I am honestly hurt" cry and that for which she has decided to be a brat.

To completely plagiarize the idea of this Tumblr, I thought I would share a few reasons Mabel has cried as of late:
~ She was not allowed to color the carpeted stairs with a green and a brown crayon.
~ I was upstairs and she was downstairs (being watched by J, of course).
~ She was not allowed to carry a raw, uncleaned potato around the house. 
~ She was not allowed to go to the basement.
~ We would not let her keep her hands in the freezer.
~ She was not allowed to eat a flower from the yard.
~ I did not let her dump a carton of puffs on the carpet. 

More to come!