My oldest daughter, Gracie, has given me more than enough material for my blogging this week. It seems as though each day is a new opportunity for her to do something that is just too funny to keep to myself. The other day, for example, she was off playing with her niece Isis (who is five years old) and I assumed she was having a grand time and staying out of trouble. Oh what a silly assumption; I am obviously a young and "new" mom still. Isis came out holding a "ball" of some strange substance. While on her way to the trash can, my husband asked her what she was carrying. She simply replied, "Hair." He then asked her what she was doing and she said, "Cutting hair." He then questioned her about who's hair, and of course she said, "Mine and Gracie's." I think my heart actually stopped beating for a minute. It seemed like several LONG minutes before I reached Gracie's bedroom door. Visions of G.I. Jane and Demi Moore's buzzed head were popping up in my mind. Gracie greeted us with a smile and a seriously uneven and almost completely "chopped" hair do. See photo for a visual! All we could do was laugh. Apparently Isis is ready to use her kindergarten-child-proof scissors! We soon discovered that Isis also cut of about four inches off of her own hair as well. Several laughs (okay, and maybe a few tears) later, we had the girls evened out and showing off their new "summer" do's. Haha...
As if that was not enough excitement, Gracie struck again only hours later. As I have said before, I have a newborn as well who just turned one month the other day. So naturally my nights are filled with sleepy-eyed midnight feedings and in the morning I am usually pretty tired. The morning following the hair incident, Gracie awoke rather early. I tried to put her in bed with me since my husband was already at work and there was room. I gave her some milk, talked to her in a sweet voice and basically begged her to go back to sleep for "just a few more minutes". Apparently I then dozed off for a minute or two and when I awoke I discovered that she had completely emptied a bottle of nose spray and a bottle of gas drops that were for her sister. Oh, and she dumped them all over my bible and other books I had resting on my nightstand. Thank goodness she did not drink them, but this was about the only other thing she could do with them that was still not fun to deal with. This left me feeling rather upset because I just WANTED TO SLEEP, and a little mad at myself for leaving the medicine in plain view of my little one. And yes, I had just purchased both so there went some money down the drain (or poured all over my books) as well. Don't you just LOVE kids:)? Actually, all joking aside, what I have discovered this week is that even with all of the crazy things Gracie is doing lately and the seriously small amounts of sleep I am getting, I have truly learned to enjoy my little girl for all that she is. How boring our lives would be without our little girls....
Plus, just this week I have become a little bit wiser in my mothering....:)
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There's just something about two year olds that require constant attention and a good sense of humor!
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