Most days Hadley helps me with a portion of cleaning. Today, however, she lost interest…and it was pretty fast I might add. We started sweeping the floors, and she was loving holding the dust pan, and then all of a sudden, she bolted in her room and started playing. When I asked her if she was done helping, she walked over to me, tilted her head, rubbed my arm, and with a very encouraging tone said, “You can do it mommy.”
When Eric got home for lunch, he asked Hadley if she wanted to have a dance party. She replied, “not right now, I am busy.” That one kills me because we don’t ever tell her we are busy. It really makes me wrack my brain as to where she would have come up with this one.
Hadley also put two of her Mcdonald’s toys in time out for “fighting and being scary.” In all fairness, they are from the movie, “Kung Fu Panda” so I think they were meant to fight. It must have been some fight because they stayed in time out until we returned home from church late in the evening.
Hadley also cried when Eric dropped her off for bible class. She demanded to go to church. Eric eventually got out of there and Hadley did fine, but then ran upstairs and picked out a pew to sit in for church. I told her it wasn’t time for church because it was only Wednesday and she cried. We may need to start to differentiate between “worship” and “bible class” so there is no more confusion in the future.
Zoey is also trying to sit up more. She is getting the hang of it, but can’t do it by herself yet. She also has taken an interest in reading. We have learned to stick to the sturdy board books because she is very grabby. This frustrates Hadley, but she is learning to be more patient.