Silly Mommy!!!

Noa hates mittens. This is just a fact. When I - or Ben or Melissa or Jess - try to put mittens on Noa she pushes us away, throws the mittens angrily on the ground, screams, bites or slaps herself on the head (yes, I've explained to her that hitting herself doesn't actually hurt Mommy... at least not physically).

Noa hates mittens. That is the conventional wisdom.

Yesterday I had this brilliant idea: why don't I let her just play with the mittens without actually trying to put them on her. Maybe then they'd be less threatening. So, I was on the phone with my folks when I thought, I'll give her the mittens to play with while I'm on the phone and... well see for yourself.

If you listen to the audio, you can hear that I'm still on the phone with my folks, so this is literally within moments of giving her the mittens for the very first time.

Oh, silly Mommy! I like mittens. I even know how they work! Mittens are fun... but only when I do them!