Why Not

While I am vacuuming

In her defense, she is getting much better about the loud noise issue. For the most part, she only asks for the earmuffs if she either a) has a past experience of wearing them for any given reason, or b) if we tell her something is going to be loud.

Sometimes she actually even “helps” me vacuum. Which is great and all, if I have a ton of time. The Dyson + 34 lbs of little girl is not easy to maneuver around.

I am ‘working from home’ (ahem) today. Bean was just spinning herself around in the office. She starts singing:

“You’re making me dizzy – my head is spinning. Like a whirlpool it never ends. And it’s you girl making spin”

Over and over until she fell down.

Apparently her sitter taught her that one. Much more age appropriate than the app1e bottom je@ns song I managed to teach her. I have been listening to more kid friendly songs in the car. She also knows most of the words to Yellow Submarine and various They Might Be Giants songs.

We took her to Applebee’s for dinner (the chain restaurant that gets bonus points for having veggie burgers and great salads).  where she chose pasta with red sauce and applesauce.  A very saucy meal.  H ordered a burger that came with bacon, which he does not eat, but he had them put it on the side for Bean.  When the waiter put it down, she practically screamed “OOOOOOHHHHHHHHHH BACON!”  It was too Funny I am thinking she might not be following in her vegetarian Mommy and Daddy’s footsteps.  The kid loves bacon.  

Then it was off to Toys for Us, and she immediately started asking about the play make up kit.  She saw it in a flyer around Christmas time, and had been talking about it all through the process of her learning to stay dry overnight.  I figured she would beeline to it and that would be it.  We found it, but asked her if she wanted to look around some more which she did.  She was so cute, slowly strolling up and down the aisles, pausing periodically if something caught her eye.  In the end though, she chose a FP van that her doll house figures fit in.  She already has one, a hand me down that is missing one door, but also has little velcro seatbelts for the passengers.  The new van came with a dog, has all of its doors, but no working seatbelts.  I know why, they are too difficult for 3 year olds to work, so every five seconds the parents of said three year olds are being asked to get the family back in their seatbelts.  I bet that many parents called FP and asked them to change the design.  I thought the lack of working seatbelts would bother her, but it does not.  She is so cute with her little doll house play.  Family comes to visit and they have to take two cars to town to eat dinner out, she parks them next to each other before she goes to bed.

And, she is still managing to get up and go when necessary overnight.  A couple of times she has even gone by herself and gotten back into bed.  Go Bean!