Chores

Yes, everyone, my 23 month old has chores. She does them when I ask, very diligently I might add. She takes her job very seriously. Right now, her chore, is to help me with the dish washer. She absolutely loves it. We're working on putting the toys away, but right now the big one is the dishes. So, it takes me twice as long to get my job done because she has to pull each dish out one by one, then when she's done with the bottom, since she can't reach the top, I have to take all of the bowls and such and put them on the bottom, so she can keep helping because she will ask "more please" in sign language when she's done with the bottom shelf. But it's so awesome when we're done, to see that sense of accomplishment that comes over her face, is worth the couple of extra minutes that it takes.

Side note, sign language, she's picking up on it really well, and her Speech Therapist is beginning to wonder if she's not talking because she just doesn't have the want to do it. She hasn't found that one thing that's worth it to her, to start talking. And she said to watch out because when she starts, it's most likely going to be in complete sentences. LoL! And we've found in her appointments that she is extremely mechanically inclined and curious. She's going to fit into this bunch perfectly! She's got an uncle that is a mechanic, an uncle that races and fixes cars with her mama and she's got a daddy that works on tractors with her pee-pa and other uncle. Yep, she's gonna be a one of a kind alright. And I couldn't be prouder.

Thundestorms

As a kid growing up, and my parents can vouch for this, storms scared the crap out of me. As I got older, and especially now, they fascinate me. So I was worried about my daughter when it came to storms, because we don't exactly reside in the quietest part of the nation, lemme tell ya. So, I started on her early, taking her to the windows to look out when a thunderstorm came through, or laying down when they were bad. I can proudly say now, my daughter is as fascinated by storms as I am. She stands at the window and watches them roll in with me. Or if she's asleep or napping she's out. They rarely if ever wake her up. Boy if my grandma could see us now. LoL! She was always one to watch them roll through too. Now Chance's grandma could care less about a storm unless it's severe. Growing up it used to drive me nuts that mom would be out there grilling steaks during a tornado or watching the funnel develop over the house. Then, what do ya know? I'm the one standing outside watching the funnel, not caring one way or another about the storm unless it's strong and on top of us, or severe. LoL! Like mother like daughter, right ma? LoL!

But I'm so glad she's not scared of them. Her daddy is a worry wart when it comes to storms, and I remember being like that until my dad broke it down like this, plain and simple. If it's your time to go, it's your time to go. If you're in a house and a tornado gets ya, it was meant to be. If you're in a tornado shelter when that tornado hits the house, then you're gonna have a heart attack in that tornado shelter and ya still gonna go. That actually made a bigger impact on me than I thought about actually at the time, but the point was the same. So then, it was just like ah well. LoL! But that's all for now. Watching a storm rumble through here while the baby gazes intently out the window. This is the life. : )

Look Ma! I'm a Picaso!

Okay so we've all given our children a Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head to play with. Well my daughter today gets hers, brings it to me to open it up, then when all the pieces are out (6 plus the potato), she starts unceremoniously stuffing the parts of the Mrs. Potato Head under her armpit, trying to grab the potato part as well and just kept working at it, putting the other parts down, to bend down and grab the parts that fell, so that she could stuff them up under her armpit again. I absolutely rolled! I couldn't help it. And the more she did it, the harder I laughed. She finally got it all and took it to the carpet to play with it. But man I had to share.

Those Annoying Toys

Okay so everyone that has kids knows that there is one toy that your child loves that just annoys the crap out of you right? Yes well Chance's is an Elephant made by Fisher Price that teaches the parts of the face and has this little thing on it's stomach that you spin and it plays music accordingly. Well a few weeks ago, it died. The batteries needed to be replaced. I wasn't upset that it took as long as it did to replace them. She loved her elephant regardless of whether it played or not. Well a couple of nights ago, daddy replaced the batteries in it. And it worked again. Well today, they died again. So I'm thinking it's more the toy itself than it is the batteries. But time will tell. I'm sure daddy will replace them again, but until that time, she's got a great play toy that she can love on.

Is it bad that I can't say that her toy is dead without smiling?