When I was a little girl (I can't remember how little) my parents had the basement set up as the kids play room which means it was ALWAYS a DISASTER. It drove my parents crazy but it was too big of a mess to keep cleaning up on a daily basis just to have it destroyed again by 8 little children. One day I decided I was going to clean it but when I started I became extremely overwhelmed at the mess and decided to just gather everything up and put it in a huge pile in a corner of the room. That way it would look clean and it wouldn't take as much time. I remember feeling bad that I wasn't able to put everything away but I decided to show my parents anyway. When they came down they very convincingly acted like I had done the greatest thing in the world. The part I remember the most is when my dad said "Now there is so much clean space down here that it makes me want to dance and twirl." Then he began to do just that. I don't know why but watching him dance and twirl around the room made me feel so good about myself and I have never forgotten that.
About a year ago, Lily and I were cleaning her room and she (being only 2.5 years old) was so overwhelmed by the mess that it took a long time to convince her to keep working. Finally it was clean and as I looked around the room I remembered the story of my dad so I said to Lily "YAY now we have all this clean space so we can dance and twirl." She thought that was the greatest thing ever and now every time we clean her room we dance and twirl in celebration of our victory. She is now to the point where she cleans it by herself with out even being asked and she always comes and gets me when it's done so that we can once again dance and twirl.
Now that she and Jake share a room she has included him in the cleaning process and the other day I overheard them celebrating their accomplishment and I was able to catch it on video.
She is singing a song from Sleeping Beauty if you can't tell.
This has nothing to do with the above story I just wanted to remember something. Lily has developed quite the imagination and I love to hear her play. She spent this particular afternoon playing with her doll house. She is extremely dramatic so unfortunately the family that lives in the doll house go through many trials and tribulations on a daily basis. Sometimes I don't know how they survive.
Oh, and Jake spent his afternoon trying to figure out how to enclose himself in a plastic bin.
8 comments:
Very cute.
What the? Is she like the perfect child or what? I will have to try that one on my boys, although I am not sure it will have the same effect. Cute stuff!
What a sweet, sweet story. And I love that you and Lily twirl together in her clean room. Thanks for sharing! Moments like these make all the difficult times more bearable.
I'm totally trying that with my girls. This story is cute, cute cute! Cute of Rawl, cute of you, and Cute of your kiddos.
I'm trying to picture your dad twirling! Cute story. Looks like you guys have the same dollhouse we do. Kira loves that thing. Jake cracks me up!
Oh my goodness, what a sweet sweet story!
Made me cry. Sweet story.
I love the part about Jake trying to enclose himself in a plastic bin! Ha, ha that is so funny!
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