I made it to twenty-seven, but I ran out of steam. I’ve the list of forty things I was going to write about during Lent, but I made the mistake of writing the easily-completed posts first, and time and exhaustion conspired against me last week. Maybe next year…
Day: April 10, 2011
Independent Hands
It’s only expected that a four-year-old grows more independent daily. Lately, that independence has moved out of the normal realms of the everyday, personal actions — bathing, brushing hair, cleaning teeth — and into more wide-ranging spheres: cooking and buying.
She wanted a quesadilla the other day, so I asked if she’d like to help make it.
When it was done, she ate it with more relish than I’d seen her eat anything in recent memory.
During our first spring zoo outing today, we stopped for an ice cream. L needed to pay by herself — it was imperative.
The “I can do it!” phase is thankfully far from over.