Maggnificent Monday

Maggie’s been creative this week. She built that face out of beads and pom poms all by herself (well, I might have straightened the smile, but that’s it). No input or suggestions from me. And then during painting, she smeared a strip of paint, turned her brush over, and wrote her name with the back of the brush. She’s painted over half of the M in the picture, but you can see the G G I E. Or maybe E E. Again, without any prompts from Mom or Dad. We just looked over and saw what she’d done. Anyway, pretty cool for a not yet 3-year-old I think.

She continues to kind of push the boundaries a little bit. It’s very cute when she screams “no thank you!” but there are some times that’s just not a choice. And I’ve been trying to emphasize choices. Letting her choose her shoes, her pajamas, the order things happen in, what chair she wants at the table. Much of the time she says, “I want anyone to choose” which to her means, “I don’t want this to happen at all.” But which really turns out to be Mom or Dad chooses and she gets upset about not having any imput, but I guess she’ll figure that one out eventually.