Sleeping in
Usually on the weekends the girls both wake up around 7:00 or so. Joelle goes into the playroom and plays quietly. Elise, on the other hand, usually stumbles into our bedroom and whines (as if we woke her up) “I wanna watch tv, wanna sausage patty, want my choca milk”. If you don’t have everything done within about 30 seconds she barks out orders because surely you didn’t hear her the first time. Progress on one front just means you aren’t doing one of the other tasks.
A couple of weekends ago she came out of her room at 7 and quietly padded down the hall. I played possum. I heard her pad down the hallway with the light jingle of her bear accompanying her. She came to the place in the hall where she was standing between the door of the playroom and the door of our bedroom.
She studied her options and opened up the playroom door. I heard Joelle say something and Elise replied “Yeah.” I was given a reprieve to snooze by the girls for the first time I could remember. Sure Elise proceeded to open the playroom, do a lap around the house and slam the door shut every five minutes after that, but it’s progress…