Kaitlin comes into the kitchen yesterday and asks for a piece of paper. She comes back a few minutes later and asks me to help her draw a baby - she's having a "hard time doing it by herself." We go through the body parts - drawing the head, neck, body, arms, and legs together. I'm thinking, wow, this is fun drawing with her. She takes the picture, and comes back a few seconds later. She asks me to draw a circle around the baby, and she's very specific about where the circle should go. We draw a circle, then she takes the picture and leaves. She comes back 5 minutes later, and she's drawn a read slash through the circle. I say "Kaitlin, it looks like your picture is trying to say 'no babies'...did you mean to do that?"

"Exactly", she says, and runs to put the picture on her bedroom door.

Wow, I totally just got conned by my four-year-old. You go girl!

Kaitlin: "Mommy, I have to apologize to you."

Mommy: "Okay, Kaitlin, let's hear it."

Kaitlin: "Mommy, what does apologize mean anyway?"

Mommy: "It means you want to tell me that you're sorry."

Kaitlin: "Nevermind, I don't want to do that."

Wake Up!

Kaitlin's been doing a great job with her letters and numbers - finally! Thank you Kylie for introducing us to the leapfrog DVDs. She's in that cool phase where she suddenly is trying to read signs everywhere and asks the significance of numbers she sees. This week we've started discussing telling time, and we explained to her that she's not allowed to wake us up until the clock ways "7". It worked great, until this week when we wake up to a startling "WAKE UP GUYS!" shriek. I sit up an look at the clock...it's 5:27. Project for this week - discuss the order of numbers.