Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Normal day with The Girl

The cheerful picture is from today; the bottom picture, in which I think The Girl looks like an angry hippo, is from a few days ago. 

Elizabeth helped me clean up this morning by climbing up into each chair, inspecting the dishes, and feeding herself the remaining baked oatmeal from each bowl. I decided to be pleased about it and told myself that she's developing independence and responding to her own needs.

We wandered upstairs and spent a good ten minutes laughing while she gave me high fives and I cheered, "Woo!" She looked at books, climbed on me, played with blocks...

When we came back down, it was snack time, and I learned that Elizabeth's love for bananas surpasses any interest she might have in leftover brownies. Wish I could say the same for me!

On the docket for the rest of the day - read a chapter in Elder Maxwell's book on discipleship that I started last night, attach Ethan's newly received Bobcat to his Cubscout shirt, tidy up the kitchen, do a load of laundry, make manicotti and a salad for our dinner with the missionaries tonight, and finish reading my new book that arrived yesterday.

3 comments:

Tanya said...

Awww, she's a cutie! But I can totally see the angry hippo in the photo of unhappiness :-). LOL!

Ben said...

I prefer the first picture :)

candice said...

how was your book? i'm liking the photos, though I'm with ben, i prefer the happy ones :)