I’m not exactly sure at what age I stopped being a kid, and started to act like a girl. Was I eight? Maybe twelve?
I do remember all of the important “firsts” from my past, like the first time I shaved my legs.
Honestly, I should have been warned. By a friend. Whose name starts with K and rhymes with Lacey.
I remember being in the bathroom, deathly afraid, and holding the electric razor my mom gave me. It looked something like this:
It also made a horrible buzzing sound while ripping the hair off of my dry legs; bare legs that did not even have soap and water on them.
I fear that my daughter is following in my same footsteps.
No, she’s not shaving, but I’m worried that the day when she stops being a kid and starts acting like a girl may be closing in. My little girl is growing up fast.
I first clued into what was happening when Lucia fell in love with my Lip Smackers.
I love the Lip Smackers. I mean, who doesn’t want to smell like a Strawberry Skittle?
My daughter frequently steals from my Lip Smacker collection when I am not looking. Rather than daintily dabbing a bit on her mouth, she coats the side of her face with it.
She’s like a red Skittle with legs, who looks up at me and says, “Mama. Pretty.”
“Yes, baby. You are pretty,” I reply and then try to wipe off some of the red glow.
I thought it would be cute to feed into Lucia’s girlie aspirations. I even bought her a glitterly, pink purse with rhinestones. Lucia now fills her bag before we go anywhere. Sometimes with her toys, sometimes with her papers, most often with something she has stole from her brother.
At the grocery store last week, I also discovered that she was filling her purse with something else.
My tampons.
There really is nothing quite like having your two year old dump your tampons all over the check-out counter and then turn around to the gasp of the elderly women behind you. I wasn’t sure what to do first, pick up the tampons or administer CPR.
I fear that I killed the old woman in the grocery store last week.
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This reminds me that I need to buy more tampons.
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I still haven’t turned from kid to girl. Maybe I should start wearing make-up on a regular basis now that I’m 25?
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Well, at least its your daughter that want to wear lip gloss and have shinny pretty post. My kid wants that too only its a little more difficult to explain why a boys is running around in lip gloss and rhinestones.
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Oh my face would have been ten shades of red! That is pretty dang funny.
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My son has tried to play with ours. And he’s taken our condoms out and gone around our house with a few. LOL
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Wish I had a little girl around here to share these types of things with me. As it is now, people think it’s weird when #3 puts on my lip gloss, my knee high boots, grabs his “purse” (which is actually a bucket) and says, “See you water, I goin’ ta work!”. Makes people think my son has gender issues and that I work as a street walking whore.
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Hahaha! Oh to have a child just to watch old women keel over in grocery stores, I’m sure the pain of labor would be worth it.
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I think it just comes with the territory with little girls….
I wouldn’t worry too much..
Although I shaved my legs for the first time when I was seven with a bic, and cut the shiz out of my legs!
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Nice! I wish you’d caught that moment on camera. I’m sure it was quite the site. I would have liked to be behind that old woman to watch the whole thing go down!
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Oh my goodness gracious sakes alive! How funny. I hope noone died! I want a little girl with a sparkly purse! They seem so fun! : )
I am going to try to find your tuesday tribute button somewhere so I can participate in it : )
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I remember getting the whole variety pack of lip smackers for Christmas in my stocking when I was a kid. I loved those things. I think they are a right of passage.
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ok…first, i love the new site!! but the tampons…hilarious! u could use the tampon to clear her airway before administering CPR?? i dunno…just a thought.
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Oh my gosh! That is too funny!
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How funny! I loved the tampon story!! You also brought back memories of my tween years with lip smackers!
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Is three too young to start shaving? My daughter is sooo hairy. She was born with a lovely shag rug on her back which I thought would eventually fall out or something. It’s still there.
I’m hairy, but my back? No. She must take after her father.
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I totally agree, they do grow up too fast. If you find anything that works to stop if from happening, please share the secret.
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Stealing tampons is better than stealing condoms, right? THAT’S when you should be worried.
Congrats on your new space! Love the names — you guys should audition for the new American Gladiators!
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Oh sweetie, this is just the beginning.
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Oh, Francesca, so glad to be reading you again. Don’t you love little girls? Emma carries her Dora Backpack EVERYWHERE. But she hasn’t gotten into the tampons.
Yet.
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True. I was in a big hurry to grow up fast. Cute story about the check out counter. I’m still so weird about tampons. My son found some the other day and wanted to know what they were for. “Um… Er… Um… They are mine. Just put them back please.”
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I remember buying the epiladay, now that really hurt, ouch I don’t even want to think about it:)I was young and experimenting with shaving. That’s a funny story!BTW!
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HA! I don’t have a girl! But I have to laugh! What a blast it must me! My twins are horrified of growing old and getting as hairy as their Daddy! It seems little girls are all too eager to become women, while boys (and men) do their best to avoid such an awful state as maturity!
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I didn’t use soap for my first shave too! Someone needs to tell us these things!
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I am seriously dying of laughter over here! Oh my tampons!
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Hi ladies, Just stopping by to wish you and your families a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Your new blog is fabulous and so is the design.
Happy holidays!
xo
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I was obsessed with carrying a purse at that age.
Oh wait – i still am. Hmmm bad example. :p The first time i shaved my legs i tried to do with lotion. Bad idea! LOL
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Bahhhhhhhhhhh! Tampons on the checkout belt! That is just too precious! WTG Lucia!!!!
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Hey, so great to connect with you again!!
Love your post…you can only imagine what happened to my first baby last week. She is 11. It is a bit of a shock for a mom!
Absolutely these kids do tend to grow up fast.
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Oh My Goodness! I’m laughing so hard over here! Tampons in the grocery store! How FUNNY!! I love my kids. They keep me on my toes and I SWEAR they keep me young
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I remember once hearing a strange crunching noise following my (then four year old) daughter around the house. I inquired but she looked at me strangely and shook her head. Later, when in the washroom, I noticed the peel off tab from the back of a sanitary napkin.
I didn’t say a word, she crunched around the house for an afternoon and that was the first day it occurred to me that from kid to girl was on it’s way.
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oh my goodness!!!!
i just laughed so hard.. your tampons huh!!!!
LOVE IT!!!!
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I’m sorry, but that’s the funniest image ever!
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totally love lip smackers!! and lol’d at the old lady at the store behind you! hilarious!
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I think it might be more a case of her wanting to be like mommy.
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I have missed you, my friend! My Princess (4 in a week!) is an expert makeup apply-er. We got the E.L.F mega super wad-o-color and she spends hours smearing stuff on. Then stands in front of the TV, shaking her hips, chanting, “Booty-butt, booty-butt, booty-butt,” and she’s my little baby again…
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This post made me laugh so hard! Kara is OBSESSED with my tampons! LOL I have to keep our bathroom door shut or she will get into them and before I know it…the entire second floor is covered with tampons. (sigh) I love her.
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Why do kids find tampons so entertaining? I listed this post in my Sunday Funnies
http://tinyurl.com/yb5vqku
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