i've started asking
li to occupy himself quietly while i nurse
fi down for her nap. a couple of weeks ago, i left him to play with trucks and
playdough. he comes in the room, asking for leftover chocolate cake. i say yes, he can have it when i get up, thinking we'll split it. we go over this several times and then he leaves the room. then, i hear him opening the plastic container from the restaurant, helping himself to a fork while i continue to lull
fi to sleep.
a few minutes later, he reappears with crumbs and frosting smears all around his mouth and he gingerly climbs on the futon next to me, keeping his sticky sweet hands in fists to prevent dirtying the sheets. "mama, i don't know where that cake is, i didn't see it." i suppress a laugh and ask what is all that chocolate on his face? he thinks a second and says, "well, that was there from all day". ha!
above is what i found after fi dozed off. i love the incompleteness of their attempts at deception at age 3.5; he has no thought of hiding the evidence, for example. perhaps this will be less amusing when he is older...
we had a really lovely mother's day--breakfast from my favorite bakery, a card from liam, a visit from gigi, a nice picnic lunch on the front yard with just li and bill while fi napped. later we hiked bull creek and then went out for dinner at a favorite mexican restaurant. it was simply so nice to spend a whole day together in such pleasant company--couldn't ask for anything better!
just last night, i was feeling thankful that fi could not climb the chairs that li uses around the kitchen to wash hands and help with baking. she must have picked up on those thoughts floating around the house because this morning (around the painfully early, not-had-coffee-yet hour of 7:30) she climbed the chair at the sink, took a break to run around on top of the train table and fall off once, and then was up on the other chair in the kitchen next to the stove and mixer. can i go back to bed?
