Back to the Backyard
Sienna told me after dinner yesterday that she was tired. You know why? I asked. You are a big girl now that you don't feel like having a nap. You don't fall asleep when you take your nap at school. right? But you are not big enough like Rachel. So the sleep you get at night is not enough for you to last the day. Do you know what you should do now? Let's go out to our backyard and stay a little while. We will come back, you will have your bath and we read books and you go to bed early...
She listened, responded the whole time and yelled, "yahoo" to my backyard suggestion. I can discuss issues with my daughter now. Wow, isn't it something?
The sun was still up around 6:30pm and it was quite chilly too. We bundled up and went back to the backyard, for the first time since the last fall. Sienna was singing the "Backyardigan" theme song, something like, "we got the whole wide world to explore in our yard..." I have a good feeling that she is going to like it better than before. Just last year, I took her to the backyard for 10 munites, she asked, "mommy, can we go home now?"
This time, we stayed over an hour! We tested out the swing, it needs to be adjusted. She went into her playhouse by lowering her head a little bit -- she is so much taller. She tried her airplane seesaw. We played mini golf. We checked out if there was any sign of sprouting on those trees. And she suddenly asked, "where are my cheery tomatos?" I told her those couldn't have survived the snow in the winter. So we started planning our spring planting, flowers and veggies included.
Swinging Away Last May
She listened, responded the whole time and yelled, "yahoo" to my backyard suggestion. I can discuss issues with my daughter now. Wow, isn't it something?
The sun was still up around 6:30pm and it was quite chilly too. We bundled up and went back to the backyard, for the first time since the last fall. Sienna was singing the "Backyardigan" theme song, something like, "we got the whole wide world to explore in our yard..." I have a good feeling that she is going to like it better than before. Just last year, I took her to the backyard for 10 munites, she asked, "mommy, can we go home now?"
This time, we stayed over an hour! We tested out the swing, it needs to be adjusted. She went into her playhouse by lowering her head a little bit -- she is so much taller. She tried her airplane seesaw. We played mini golf. We checked out if there was any sign of sprouting on those trees. And she suddenly asked, "where are my cheery tomatos?" I told her those couldn't have survived the snow in the winter. So we started planning our spring planting, flowers and veggies included.
Swinging Away Last May
posted by minimum at
1:39 AM
2 Comments:
That's so cool.. to be having a discussion with your daughter.. i wonder when i can have mine..??? and a nice picture of Sienna too.. :)
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Ms One Boobie , at 3:40 AM
thank you. yes, bit by bit, some discussions to go along with my dictatorship.
By
minimum, at 10:24 PM
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