Miss M is so alert and eager to learn and do everything! She can be a handful. This morning she wanted to try to get into her sippy cup--which she did. Orange juice was all over the floor, and her favorite bear is recuperating in the bathroom as a result. So now she's carrying around a stuffed yellow chick, cooing to it, asking, "aww, hurt?" and trying to nurse it. Then she wanted to "tuh-low" (color), so I got down her pencils and we drew a kitty and a teapot (she can say 'teapot' perfectly clear!) The phone rang, Daddy wanted to know if I needed anything from the store. In the couple of minutes while I was on the phone, she had gotten into something. She came out wiping her hands on her onesie, saying, "diddy" (dirty). Her chin was dark berry-stained. My mind raced. Had she eaten something poisonous? Did she find a marker and suck out the ink? Her tongue was stained. too, and her fingers. Then I saw the purple pencil with the lead broken off, and I knew what had happened. Luckily, they're non-toxic pencils!
She's quietly going through her toy dishes now. Daddy just came home with stuff to make pasta for dinner. That excited her. She's shouting, "PAH-duh! PAH-duh!" and hurrying to put her dishes away so she can eat. I guess she doesn't realize that it takes time to boil the pasta and heat the sauce.
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