I think one of the things parents dread most is the first time their teenage son or daughter gives them the big sigh with eyeroll. You know the one....often accompanied by the "Mo-ther!" sound effect.
Little did I know that this scene gets played out a lot sooner than I ever expected.
Picure it... my 2 year old son standing in the middle of the kitchen looking up at me with his big, innocent, heather gray eyes. He is pounding his fists together rapidly in his version of the sign for "more" as he pleads, "Mo min! Mo min! Mo min! Mo min!"
It took me a second to figure out what he was talking about, but then it dawned on me: More vitamin!
I shook my head and said, "No, honey. You already had your vitamin today."
And then, as if in slow motion, to my utter shock and dismay my teenage nightmare materialized: he rolled his eyes and gave me the biggest sigh I've ever heard come out of a little kid.
I didn't know whether to laugh or cry - but of course, I laughed. And so it begins....
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