>If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
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If you give a mouse a cookie…
…he will be so overcome with glee that you will feel a deep need to break all your rules about sugar and give him another one.
If you give a mouse a second cookie…
…the mouse’s reaction will convince you that he is the happiest mouse in the whole world, ever.
If you give a mouse another cookie…
…he will finish it, then serenade you with screams that break the sonic barrier until you give in to his wishes.
If you give a mouse a few more cookies…
…he will finish them all in under ten seconds, fart three times, and laugh uproariously.
If you give a mouse a couple more cookies after that…
…he will fill his diaper the next evening with a bright blue surprise that horrifies his babysitting older sister.
And that’s what happens if you give a mouse a (whole bag full of) cookie(s).
>He is just too adorably cute. I totally understand giving in to giving out the cookies… I too am guilty of it.
>BBBHHHHAAAAAAAA!
>OMG! Love it! He’s so adorable, the curles, the cheeks, the whole package!By the way, the cute Cars and Lego fruit snacks that grandma feeds my boys makes them have neon green diapers, so that’s another situation in itself!
>Awwww….
>I really don’t like the look of little boys with longer hair. I don’t want to feel this way but I do. How silly is that? I look at your pictures of bruiser and think of how freakin’ adorable that face would be without the girly curls in the way. You should write about little boys who look like girls and see what your other readers have to say. BTW~I LOVE your blog and I think you are a role model to all moms out there!! Even if I don’t love your sons haircut. Truly.
>Dear Anonymous,These are the kinds of thoughts that it’s better to keep to yourself.Love,Me
>Cute post Lindsay! He is so sweet and those EYES!! I think his curls are adorable. To the anonymous poster – was that really necessary? What do you hope to accomplish? Honestly it is so cowardly to hide behind an anonymous comment.
>If you give a mouse a bag of Cheese Puffs, you get a similar result… only more orange than blue. 🙂
>Too freakin’ cute!I ate pistachio icecream for the first and last time when I was about 5 because it turned my poop green and I totally freaked out in the bathroom. Never ate it again.
>Too stinkin’ cute.Monkey had a green diaper today because of yesterday’s snack and it sent his 4 year old sister into hysterics. She wanted to know if it was because he’d had green eggs and ham ;-)Cleverly done my deah.
>hahahaha!!! love it! Bruiser is such a cutie pie!
>Those curls are gorgeous!! I wouldn’t cut them either! Also love those eyes, he is a cutie!
>he looks like his DADDY. And i would have given him the ENTIRE bag of cookies, too 🙂
>At 44, I still vividly remember being around 8, and my mom FINALLY taking my then 4 year old brother to get his first real haircut, because he had beautiful, curly hair. All the “what a beautiful girl” comments finally won out.My mom sobbed when they cut the curls, then picked them up and put them in an envelope. I wonder if she still has it?
>Colored poop = artificial food colorings, not so good.
>You’re right. Call Child Protective Services IMMEDIATELY. Father forgive me, for I hath given artificial food coloring to my child and now I probably will have to redshirt him.
>He is so cute. I’d feed him whatever he wanted just to see that awesome little grin!
>He is such a doll. I just want to scoop him up and kiss those cheeks! I bet it is hard to resist the cookie requests from your kids when they look at you like that!!
>Ya gotta love the blogosphere– a cute, funny post about an adorable child enjoying cookies turns into an opportunity to call you out for being an irresponsible, toxic-chemical-pushing, girly-man producing MOTHER FROM HELL!( I also heard that this blog is possibly underwritten by the White Sugar Cartel and obviously caters to The Gay Agenda…)I think there’s just something about your gypsy princess persona that invites unsolicited advice and criticism. Lucky.
>I loooooove those cookies! I haven’t had those since I lived in California over 5 years ago! Where on earth did you find them???Oh, and yeah, your kid(s) are kinda sorta really super cute 🙂
>Dollar Tree, baby. It’s where it’s at!
>Too cute!!!! Keep the curls for now, heck, my mother didn’t want to deal with my hair once I started school and I got the Dorthy Hammill wedge. The unfortunate part was I was such a tomboy people thought I was a boy! No permanent damage done though.A coworker’s three month old had red poop a couple a weeks ago and the daycare called panicking that it was blood. Turns out she was having to mix her antibotic with red kool aid to get it down. Oops!
>Thanks – I know where I’m heading straight after work!
>they are at the doller tree?gotta run…
>We love animal crackers! And my crew are tweens and older. But we have never seen them iced. Now I am hungry and need to go find those at the store!
>I just read the note about your son’s hair. You are right, those thoughts should be kept to one’s self. My son is 14 and his hair hits his shoulders. While I do not like it very much, it is his indivualism. And beside your sone is ADORABLE with the curls.And really if having long hair is the worst thing he has……take it and run. There could be worse.
>Cookie Monster II: The Wrath of DiaperI think William Shatner could play Bruiser in this ‘un, y’think? As for who plays blue poo…uh…I start to think this h’yar’s a bad ideer…
>I can’t believe I have missed his whole babyhood! What a big boy. Don’t cut the curls, they’re gorgeous.
>Honestly, my only personal rules for Bruiser’s hair are that it has to be out of his face and it has to be above his collar. I don’t understand why anyone would have a problem with letting the curls go wild while he’s a baby. He’s had two haircuts so far and I actually had to ask the hairdresser to go shorter because she was so hesitant to cut off his curls.
>That is one happy mouse!!! I’m glad I don’t have to clean up his droppings.
>IF you cut that baby’s curls off, I will stop reading your blog.
>I myself have a bruiser with curls and after finally getting him a “big boy” haircut was heartbroken. Luckily, despite everyone’s dire predictions, they grew back. Love your blog.
>Love Bruiser’s curls…some people are idiots. And have to tell you “If you give a mouse a cookie” is still my all time favorite childrens book ~ and how can you not give that face all the cookies?
>Oh I would have totally given that sweet little smooshie the whole bag too!There’s no hair quite like the silky curls of a baby boy. Cut them off and they may- or may not grow back- and I guarantee you will cry because he will look like a big boy, which he will be plenty soon enough! Hang on to the babiness as long as you can, I say!My baby boy(9yo now)used to eat the play doh at church nursery every week… talk about some technicolor poo!Anonymous- “Every party has a pooper that’s why we invited you”- Seriously Debbie Downer- filter… backspace… delete…
>He totally rocks the curls. And NO mistaking that one for a girl! I also love The Dollar Tree and those cookies….have been known to buy two bags as I can personally eat one. But lord what a cutie…you just wanna kiss him till he screams!!!! Well you might not. But I do.
>A favorite for the curls (OMG!) and for the cookies — my all-time favorites! Also, a big shout-out this morning from us on the blog..!
>That is one HAPPY mouse. Love it!
>This is hysterical! And boys with curls are too freakin’ cute “anonymous” is on crack and just plain rude! And as for “anonymous” #2, so what if there’s artificial coloring, everything in moderation! Oi! Some people
>How could you not giv that adorable face anything he wants!
>I’m just jealous because my daughter will be 2 next month and doesn’t have 1/2 as much hair yet, let alone curls.
>This is a great post! I love your creativity.
>Love it! He is so freakin adorable I don’t know how you get anything done. I LOVE his curls. Leave them as long as humanly possible because once they are gone they are gone. Nobody would ever mistake him for a girl.I could never say no to that face and I would probably let him do whatever he wants. Including living on circus cookies.
>I agree that he’d be even MORE adorable with his curls cut off. Bruiser’s not a baby anymore.
>I’m laughing at how his eyes seem to dilate as the photos progress!
>That is sooo funny. You are such a creative story teller.
>hi anonymous posters,how wonderful that you could post something so idiotic & stupid. can't wait for you to die- i'll see you in Hell! love,The devil
>Why do you keep deleting my posts?
>Because you’ve had your say. Your opinion about my kid’s hair was duly recorded. I let it stand. I generally give people who want to complain about me one or two comments to have their say, and after that, it’s over. At the end of the day, this is my personal blog, not your public platform to complain about why you dislike me and/or my kids.If you don’t enjoy reading this blog I seriously encourage you to find blogs you do enjoy and stick with them. Life is too short to spend it reading things you hate and coming up with comments about why you hate it.
>But I do like reading this blog. I wasn’t writing about your son’s hair, I was writing about how most of the comments posted are the ones that go on and on and on about how cute your children are and how wonderfully witty you are. The ones that don’t worship you or your family get deleted. I wonder how many you delete in a day? Just curious.
>Honestly, it is very, VERY rare. I delete maybe one out of every 500-1,000, I think. I have a pretty thick skin. As I said, I almost always let the commenter have his/her say, and if the person is bringing up valid points, I don’t delete any of it. If we’re having a debate about Obama vs. McCain, you can disagree all you want as long as you do it respectfully. If you’re just mad at me, you can state why, refute, and then you’re done. Because I’m just not that interested in arguing with you about why I do or don’t suck.I also delete comments that are INCREDIBLY rude or obscene, particularly if they’re directed toward other readers. Because that’s a little psycho.If you’re skeptical, read through my comments. You’ll find negative ones throughout this blog (and on this particular post, which, you have to admit, is a strange one to take issue with). I honestly don’t get a tremendous amount of negative comments or e-mail, though, I suppose because most people who don’t like this blog simply stop reading. Everyone now knows you hate my son’s hair. Most people think it’s rude that you felt a need to tell me this, just as they would if you told me in real life. I don’t know what you were expecting to happen.
>But you had deleted three of mine in a row, which were not incredibly rude or obscene. I did not comment about your son’s hair. It doesn’t matter. I just commented that you rarely post comments that are not “oh, you are so funny and your kids are sooooo cute!!! omg!!” Your “following” is kind of scary sometimes…..that is all.
>I think that’s true of most blogs’ “followings.” Sometimes I read blogs written by women I think are totally insane and I can’t believe how many people are agreeing with them in their comments. 🙂 It’s the nature of the blog, I think.Also, I think there’s absolutely nothing wrong with someone opting to delete comments on her personal blog. It’s HER BLOG. I feel like I can take negative comments and I only delete them if the person goes on and on and on, but I don’t think others can. If it bothers the blog’s author, who’s to say she can’t delete it? Where are the rules saying she can’t do that? It’s totally up to the individual.I’ve been thinking about writing a post about all this, so thank you for helping me get my thoughts together coherently. 🙂
>Thank you for taking the time to answer my post. I’m trying to figure out what it is about all this that bugs me, too. I guess I didn’t think the first “anonymous” comment was all that bad and she got slammed by you telling her to “keep her thoughts to herself”. Seemed kind of harsh to me. This is your blog, yes, but it is a public blog with a public message board and an “anonymous” comment option. If only 1 out of every 500-1000 comments is negative, this shouldn’t be a problem. I totally agree with deleting posts which are vulgar or obscene. It just seems that anyone who, God forbid, disagrees with anything you have to say is subjected to some rude comeback from you and then the rest of your herd follows suit.
>Your boy is beautiful. And, for further fun with colored poop…try pink bubblegum ice cream or bright blue buttercream frosting. The results are A.M.A.Z.I.N.G.
>As part of my de-lurking campaign for today I thought I would tell you that it is way fun to do the colored poop trick on your spouse who rarely changes diapers anyway because he will really and truly freak the F*ck out!
>Soo cute!!Go check out my blog. I’m giving you an award! 😉
>Lindsey- don’t even waste your breath, your thoughts, your TIME. You are awesome, i love your blog, i look forward to it EVERY DAY after work. Still can’t believe an adult would stoop so low, but then again there is no telling how truly miserable this individual is. Just be glad you are not HER.
>Seriously, anonymous. We had an interesting discussion, but I let you have your say. You’re done. Why not argue about something important, like the presidential election?