Saturday, May 29, 2010

My Little Helper

Addy & I made some rolls today.
(Yes that washing machine is in my kitchen and has some awesome wood-looking adhesive tile behind it. If we owned this house...it would be ripped out today.)

Addisyn (my 2-year old) has been changing a lot lately. She is VERY independent...which is pretty annoying when I'm trying to help her. Hmmm...unfortunately stubborness runs through both sides of her family so she was doomed!

She has started being very helpful. This morning she snuck into the bathroom while her daddy was in the shower, and she laid a washcloth on the floor for him to step onto (I threw out our old bathmat and haven't bought a new one yet!)...then as soon as he turned off the water, she grabbed a towel and stood there to hand it to him! She does things that seem so random to us...but she's really just copying what she sees us do. She LOVES to help me cook (all my kids do though) and when it's my "turn" to put a scoop of something into the bosch mixer, she says "Good job!". She loves to ask "What doing?" anytime we are going to the store, or if I go outside for just minute to take the trash out. She loves to get baby wipes and "clean" the coffee table, as well as help me move laundry from the washer to the dryer, and fold washcloths.

On the other hand, she has started to hit her terrible two's!! I don't know if she hasn't been feeling well (she just got over the croop a week ago!) but she has been crying over EVERYTHING. I can see that Addy is going to be a pretty emotional girl, just like her big sister! When I have to count to 3 so that she'll do something...as I say "1" she'll says "k", I'll say "2", she'll say "K" a little louder, then by "3" she'll says "K!" like "hello mom I'm already DOING it, stop counting!" That's how my oldest child acts when I start counting. They REALLY dislike when I count. Reminds me of on Transformers when the dad starts counting for his teenage son to open the door and the mom says something like "oh boy, now he's counting". Haha! She also gets into EVERYTHING now. As soon as I turn my back from her to clean something up, she's into something else. HOLY COW!!! Atleast she was potty trained by the time she turned 2...and rarely has night-time accidents...easy potty-training is a HUGE blessing.

Addy is also very funny with her baby brother. She sees how we all talk baby-talk with Zach, so she talks that way to him, too...it is SOOOO cute! She drives me a little insane lately but she's so stinkin' cute that it's hard to be mad at her.

Anyway, I should be doing some dishes, but I figured I better write down these memories before they fly by and I forget! The kids are out of school for the summer so hopefully I'll have lots of fun things to blog about.

5 comments:

Cassidy said...

Little girls are so funny. She is such a cutie!

SANDERSON / MCCONKIE FAMILY said...

What a wonderful blog!!! I loved the stories...I have the BEST Grandkids...I do!!! Love Ya, MOM :)

tamikay said...

Cute stories! McCall is doing so many of the same things. She especially loves to clean things with baby wipes. There have been times I've had to hide them to keep her from using them all up!!!

Mike and Lisa said...

Haha, she sounds like such a cutie! I love the whole counting thing and how she says "K!!" louder each time. Hilarious!

WalkConkies said...

Sounds like all our girls love to clean with baby wipes! It is nice when you're on a trip and she makes a HUGE mess all over her body with some kind of sticky food and then it takes her 10 minutes to clean up with a baby wipe! (I remember the days when I said I'd never let my kids eat food in the car - those days are far gone :) She is a cutie - I need to do the same and write down things about my kids - you forget all the funny stories to quick and then they are grown up!!! Glad you're having fun raising those cute kids and that they are having fun "helping" you do it!