Wordless Wednesday: Growing Too Fast
Wordless Wednesday: Growing Too Fast
Helper Tiger
This is our official shout out to our fellow Daniel Tiger fans out there! Sofia is a huge fan and we love to invoke a “Daniel-ism” as the big guns for a teaching moment. That’s what inspired out “helper Tiger” strategy.
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it but three years old is quite a challenging age. Tons of “why?” and “you can’t make me”. I needed to find a work around to avoid the inevitable fight when I asked her to clean up toys or put somethig away.
Now, when she’s in a particularly stubborn mood, I ask “is there a helper Tiger around” or “have you seen a helper Tiger for a special project”? This normally encourages her to volunteer enthusiastically, almost immediately.
Some “helper Tiger” tasks are helping to empty out the dishwasher (plastic and silverware only!) or putting away pantry items from the groceries. I’ve even been able to use this technique for toy clean up.
Helper Tiger
This is our official shout out to our fellow Daniel Tiger fans out there! Sofia is a huge fan and we love to invoke a “Daniel-ism” as the big guns for a teaching moment. That’s what inspired out “helper Tiger” strategy.
I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned it but three years old is quite a challenging age. Tons of “why?” and “you can’t make me”. I needed to find a work around to avoid the inevitable fight when I asked her to clean up toys or put somethig away.
Now, when she’s in a particularly stubborn mood, I ask “is there a helper Tiger around” or “have you seen a helper Tiger for a special project”? This normally encourages her to volunteer enthusiastically, almost immediately.
Some “helper Tiger” tasks are helping to empty out the dishwasher (plastic and silverware only!) or putting away pantry items from the groceries. I’ve even been able to use this technique for toy clean up.
Day 11: Family Fun
I’ll go ahead and call myself out! I missed yesterday’s post. But I’ll be making it up with a double whammy today!
Yesterday, we spent the day cleaning the house and gardening. I’ll definitely say that the yard gets neglected more than we’d like because it’s pretty tough for both Jonathan and I to be outside, with both kids and actually accomplishing anything…productive. We also live on a busy street so, safety is paramount with the kids.
We finally pulled off the unthinkable yesterday and were able to garden with both kids outside at the same time. (It only took us 11 months of being parents of two to figure it out…don’t judge!)
This was the conversation starter:
Me: do you want to go pick out flowers to plant with Daddy?
S: Yea, ok! I want red poppies, they’re my favorite color. Maybe some blue poppies for baby brother.
Me: I don’t think Lowe’s will have poppies, love.
S: oh, ok…roses then, red roses.
Unfortunately, roses were part of the plan either…she wasn’t too happy about that but we made sure to find the most “red” pansies possible.
Sofia went with J to Lowes and helped pick out new flowers. JT and I stayed behind and did “demo” on the old flower bed and cleared out the Pentas that never took. I plopped the little man in his walker in the garage and we sang songs while he played bumper cars with everything in sight.
When the troops got home with the new flowers, we set Sofia up with her new gardening gloves. Jonathan, dug out holes, I transferred the pansies and Sofia filled in the holes with her bucket of dirt and shovel.
It was messy but fun. Sofia loved having a project and followed directions very well. JT loved being outside, he was a happy little man. Of course, me and the kids had to duck out earlier than anticipated for snacks and nap. So, the true heavy lifting was left on Daddy’s shoulder. Sorry, babe.
But all in all, it was a great family day and we didn’t stay cooped up in the house on what ended up being a warm, sunny day!
Day 11: Family Fun
I’ll go ahead and call myself out! I missed yesterday’s post. But I’ll be making it up with a double whammy today!
Yesterday, we spent the day cleaning the house and gardening. I’ll definitely say that the yard gets neglected more than we’d like because it’s pretty tough for both Jonathan and I to be outside, with both kids and actually accomplishing anything…productive. We also live on a busy street so, safety is paramount with the kids.
We finally pulled off the unthinkable yesterday and were able to garden with both kids outside at the same time. (It only took us 11 months of being parents of two to figure it out…don’t judge!)
This was the conversation starter:
Me: do you want to go pick out flowers to plant with Daddy?
S: Yea, ok! I want red poppies, they’re my favorite color. Maybe some blue poppies for baby brother.
Me: I don’t think Lowe’s will have poppies, love.
S: oh, ok…roses then, red roses.
Unfortunately, roses were part of the plan either…she wasn’t too happy about that but we made sure to find the most “red” pansies possible.
Sofia went with J to Lowes and helped pick out new flowers. JT and I stayed behind and did “demo” on the old flower bed and cleared out the Pentas that never took. I plopped the little man in his walker in the garage and we sang songs while he played bumper cars with everything in sight.
When the troops got home with the new flowers, we set Sofia up with her new gardening gloves. Jonathan, dug out holes, I transferred the pansies and Sofia filled in the holes with her bucket of dirt and shovel.
It was messy but fun. Sofia loved having a project and followed directions very well. JT loved being outside, he was a happy little man. Of course, me and the kids had to duck out earlier than anticipated for snacks and nap. So, the true heavy lifting was left on Daddy’s shoulder. Sorry, babe.
But all in all, it was a great family day and we didn’t stay cooped up in the house on what ended up being a warm, sunny day!
21 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 10
Had a great family day today. Finally after a few weeks of everyone being sick, we are back to normal and getting into the swing of things.
Starting to add some resolutions to the list for 2015, including taking some time to focus on myself. Got my 1st run of
2015 on the books and it was undeniably painful! Here’s to becoming more acquainted with my running shoes. 🙂
21 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 10
Had a great family day today. Finally after a few weeks of everyone being sick, we are back to normal and getting into the swing of things.
Starting to add some resolutions to the list for 2015, including taking some time to focus on myself. Got my 1st run of
2015 on the books and it was undeniably painful! Here’s to becoming more acquainted with my running shoes. 🙂
21 Day Blogging Challenge: Day 10
Had a great family day today. Finally after a few weeks of everyone being sick, we are back to normal and getting into the swing of things.
Starting to add some resolutions to the list for 2015, including taking some time to focus on myself. Got my 1st run of
2015 on the books and it was undeniably painful! Here’s to becoming more acquainted with my running shoes. 🙂
Challenge day 9!
Nine days in to the 21 day straight blogging challenge. Only 10 days till my baby turns 1! Where has the time gone?!
Getting ready to enjoy a fantastic weekend with family. TGIF to all.
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