Gimme a quarter
The girls were being pretty cute tonight. Elise has gotten really good at copying everything Joelle does, step by step, line by line. The only time Elise stops copying her is when Joelle reads and Elise, if she’s not tired, will stop and listen for a while.
After their “fashion show”, there were clothes strewn about the hallway and I asked Joelle to put one of the items away. She said she “found it there”. While I was explaining that she could still put it back, Elise swooped in and ran down the hall with it. Puzzled, Petie said, “Elise are you putting it away?” Elise said “yeah” and came back. She went up to Petie and said “gimme a quarter”. She had seen us give Joelle a quarter for doing things like helping us clean up, put her clothes away, etc.
So now Elise has a little piggy bank of her own, with a quarter in it. And she loves to go up and down the hall shaking it so we can hear how proud she is of her new treasure.