It was another typical Saturday at our house, full of cleaning and chores which didn't get done during the week. Natalie wanted to participate a little more this time. There is a little song that she loves to sing, which she learned from some of her second cousins in Iowa. The song goes "Clean up, clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up, clean up, everybody do your share." She is so fond of this song that she will even make a mess just so she can sing it! You might think I am kidding, but I am serious! She will take her snack bowl, dump it on the floor, and then will start singing the song while eating the rest of her snack off the floor and putting "most" of it back into her bowl. We may find little pieces of her snack under the coffee table a few days later though.
It is amazing to us how much this song motivates Natalie. We could ask her to pick up her mess, and she won't do it. However, once we start singing the song, she is totally into the clean-up game.
We might just have to write a few songs for "potty-time" or "don't talk back" or "no is not a word we say to our parents" or my favorite in 14 years from now "boys have cooties". Hey, whatever it takes...
While cleaning the house, Natalie found a packet of smiley face stickers. As you can see, she enjoyed them very much. She managed to get several on her face, hands, clothes, and hair before we noticed she was playing with them.
As we were getting her ready for bed, she decided to sport her new doo-rag as an accessory to her glow-in-the-dark skeleton pajamas.
I apologize for not updating the blog in a few weeks. I have been traveling extensively the past few weeks for my job, and it looks like the trend will continue. I will try to update the blog more often in the coming weeks though.
We miss everyone.
Landon
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