Cooking and Cleaning

Em has become quite the little helper around the house. She always wants to stir when we're cooking anything, and she now knows which button on the oven to push to turn the light on, so she'll get down and anxiously announce whatever we have in the oven--"biscuits!" or "pizza!" or (this morning) "cimanon rolls!"

Notice the lovely artwork on her feet.

This afternoon, I asked her if she wanted to clean the windows with me so we could draw pictures with her window crayons--of course, she did. So when Mick walked in the door, she jumped up and excitedly told him "I'm cleaning!" It was so funny--she actually did a great job on the window, and had so much fun that we never got around to drawing pictures. We've realized that now she likes to make messes in order to clean them up. She thinks it's particularly fun to pour milk on the floor from her cup, and then clean it up. We are not amused.