"Sit there."

While I am making dinner, Molly often likes to sit on a stook at the kitchen island while I work. When she wants to be at the island she asks "Sit there?" and points at the stool. I will place her on the stook, where she will stay for quite a while. She will ask for some apple juice and perhaps some banana, Pirates Booty, cheese, or the occasional cracker. She will play with playdough, color with crayons, or paint with water colors.

There are usually requests for "more apple juice", "cheese please", "I want 'booty'", and most recently M&Ms (thanks to her grandfather).

We spend many evenings like this, enjoying each other's company at the kitchen island.

Going Potty on the Potty

Molly has started potty training herself, much to our delight. She frequently tell us she wants to go potty, so we take her to the bathroom, help her undress, and she does the rest, including flushing the toilet (which by no means are we allowed to do for her) and washing her hands.

To my surprise she grabbed an issue of Men's Health magazine before having a seat on her miniature throne ; a chip off the ol' block...

Although this has reduced the number of wet diapers, she it will be a while before she is running around diaper free. We will let her take her time with it.

After going potty it was bath time. She played in the water, colored on the walls of the tub, squirted water around, and delightfully splashed me. I scrubbed her down and washed her hair just before it was time to end the bath. I said "clean up", and she helped put away the toys. I pulled the plug once all the toys were put away and stepped away to get her pajamas while the tub drained, and on my return Molly was saying "Icky! Icky!" and pointing toward the drain at a surprisingly large tootsie roll that she made in her bath.

"Icky!" was the understatement of the day. I can't help but wonder if she had more work to do on the throne and I should have let her peruse through Men's Health for a while longer.