Wednesday, March 25, 2009

What Do You Say When...

1) "I can do it by myself," means not only using the potty by herself, but also dumping the little potty into the big one and the proceeding to "wash" it out in the sink. What do you say as she comes proudly downstairs, shirt soaked with what you can only hope (or dream) is water and announces that she is a big girl?

2) Samuel seems unimpressed by getting his hair curled by his big sister. She gets exasperated because he doesn't seem to want to look pretty. She was just trying to help him with his image.

3) She shows you the empty DIRTY laundry basket and happily shows you how she put the clothes away. She even put the dirty socks nicely in with all the clean ones, because that is where socks go...we just won't talk about where the underwear ended up.


I guess just smile, bask in her pride and glory, and hold her close. Then...grab the Lysol when she is sleeping and get to work. :)
"Helping" bathe baby Sam:

4 comments:

Heather said...

We are getting to that point here too......it's so frustrating, but at the same time so rewarding to watch them growing up. And trying to keep up with all the new "accomplishments," and still maintain sanity! ;)

Wife of a Soldier said...

Lol! Luckily, Jax has only wanted to "do it myself" for easy things like cleaning up toys, or vacuuming, lol. Maybe that's just a boy thing though. Will let you know in another year or so ;)

By the way, you must post picts of your new place! :)

Elizabeth said...

Another of those days, eh? You are a good Mommy to a lovely independent little girl. :)

M. T. said...

Fun, fun mommy moments. :)