Got a Toddler in the House? These GIFS Totally Feel Your Life Right Now

10 Gifs That Perfectly Demonstrate Life with a Toddler

Babies are cute and cuddly for a reason - and it's biological. Nature makes them adorable so we want to care for them; it's an aspect of our species survival and it's what makes it impossible to ignore chubby baby cheeks on a human, yet be able to walk straight past a newborn rat or brand-new puddle of wasp larvae.

However, once said babies are toddlers, those stinging wasps may make better company. If you have, had, or know toddlers, some of these experiences are going to look familiar.

1. Bedtime

YOU: "Oh look! It's almost Teagan/Sloan/Butterfly's bedtime," you think, making secret plans for a Family Size bag of Cool Ranch Doritos and some light Netflix-porn to salve the day's battle wounds.

TODDLER: FUCK THAT, Y'ALL.

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2. Eating at a Restaurant

Why no one has made a plastic suit for dining with toddlers I will never understand. I still look at the stains on my ceiling from "Blueberry Implosion '08" and marvel at the wonder of physics.

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3. The first swear word (usually proclaimed loudly, in a public setting.)

Ours was "For the love of CHRIST!" in a park sandbox when no one would share a shovel. Points for proper context, however.

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4. Returning to a room after a 5 second absence

Get a soft cord and tie that child to your leg; it'll save you thousands of dollars and millions of brain cells.

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5. The Wrong Cup/ Foods Touching on Plate / Socks Feel Funny

The red cup, parents? Seriously? ARE YOU NEW?

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6. When You Try to do ANYTHING by Yourself

The CIA, CSIS, FBI, and Dawg the Bounty Hunter should enlist a 20 month-old child to employ in their capture efforts. While a toddler may not be able to wipe themselves or tie their own shoes, they can pick up your scent through concrete at 50 paces.

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7. Arts and Crafts

There is a reason nursery school was invented and that reason is arts and crafts time. Fun fact: "Montessori" loosely translated means "There is no goddamn way finger paints will ever be a thing in my home."

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8. Leaving them with a babysitter

It's hard to believe, but one day the child who worshipped the literal ground you walk on will tell you they're "going to Matt's house for a Call of Duty marathon on Playstation," but then drive directly #2 Sideroad and party all night in a fallow soybean field with drunken teenagers who think they invented lying.