Evening Mayhem

Last night turned out to be quite entertaining, here’s how it went down…For dinner I made German Pancakes (for those of you who don’t know these are egg pancakes). As usual we sat down to bless the food and Brianna said it was her turn to pray. So, she clasped her little hands together, bowed her head and said “Bless the pancakes.” Travis and I managed not to laugh but we smirked at each other across the table since it was the first time that she’s actually blessed the dinner herself and by name too! We all dug in and when she was finished eating Bree announced “all done,” as usual. Well, wiping her hands and face and getting her out of her booster chair has traditionally been her daddy’s job since he eats so fast that he’s usually done even before Brianna’s done, (which is really fast). He reached over to help her and she said "No, not Daddy’s turn, Mommy’s turn." (She’s really been into dictating who’s “turn” it is to help her do things, which usually means Mommy right now.) According to her royal decree I helped her down.

After dinner she was looking for the cat. We told her we thought he was hiding under the bed. “Go get him?” she asked. “Sure,” we said. So off she went in search of the kitty. Once she found him she became obsessed with the idea that he needed a “neck-ahce” (necklace). She could not be convinced otherwise no matter what we said. Sure enough when I looked over towards her next she had managed to get one of her necklaces around his neck. He actually wore it for a few minutes, (I think he felt pretty). When the fun of making a cat wear a necklace wore off she next grabbed the phone and made Bogart have a whole pretend conversation with Grammy, holding the phone up to his ear. Finally, the cat slinked off and instead she put “Socket,” her sock puppet, on her hand and made him press buttons on the phone. She looked over at me and said “Mommy, Socket pushed buttons!”

To wrap the evening up she took a bath. When she felt she was done she got out, raced into her room, opened her dress-up drawer and put on her grass skirt, some black glasses, a russion hat and was saying “Look at me, look at me!”

Thankfully, it was bedtime after that, whew! She’s a funny one but it sure makes me tired to keep up with her.