Mother's Day and the Fingernail Fairy (May 1999)

For those of you who tuned in to the Today Show on Mother's Day to see
us, you may have noticed the weather conditions were not conducive to
the releasing of a toddler onto the streets of New York. In other words,
it's hard to motivate oneself when it's raining buckets at 6:00 AM on a
Sunday morning.

Jolee celebrated Mother's Day by insisting on the use of a glass at the
Bay Ridge Diner. Fortunately, the waiter brought a paper cup before
Jolee broke the glass, though she let everyone (and I do mean everyone)
in the restauarnt know that she was unhappy with parental attempts to
deprive her of her right to pour water and ice all over her mother on
mother's day.

Jolee does not like nail clippers, so Melanie, since Jolee has been an
infant, trims Jolee's nails by nibbling her little fingertips and thus
removing the number of potentially dangerous weapons in the house by
ten. Jolee however, last night, mimicked Melanie by sticking her own
fingers in her mouth, then mock-spitting the imaginary nail she had just
pretended to bite. As precious as this sounds, we are now considering
reintroducing Jolee to the nail clippers.