I had a class for work today, so Bryan’s mom came over to watch the kids for the afternoon and take them to Maggie’s dance class. Since we haven’t been home, the house was a mess, so we cleaned up today. I gave Maggie two chores to do: pick up the scraps of paper she’s been cutting all around the house for the past couple of days, and throw away the batch of play-dough we’ve had a little too long. It took her about as long to do those two chores as it took for me to pick up all the toys, vacuum, and wet rag the floor. Carter mostly read books while we worked, but I realized at some point that I had already picked up this toy or that at least twice!
I didn’t have time to dust, but really, how could I mess up Maggie’s diligent name-writing practice? She’s also covered the bathtub and shower in letters and flowers with our bathtub crayons. Between practicing her letters and cutting, Maggie’s been quite the busy fine-motor bee! Luckily she has paper-only scissors because she’s already tried to cut her own and her doll’s hair. I had to threaten to take them away when she suggested she might cut up a book, but I did thank her for asking me first on that one!
Bryan told me over dinner that Grandma had taught Carter a new word, please. It was so funny, because a few minutes earlier I had asked him how his day went with Grandma, and he told me that word. I just didn’t know what it was at the time! Then, tonight he wouldn’t go to sleep, even after nursing (which he calls no-no) for almost an hour. I finally cut him off, but he got upset and said, “Mama, no-no. Maaaaamaaaa, noooo-no! Peeeez?” Oh, boy. How could I say no?
