"You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance."
-Franklin P. Jones
Ashlyn is now getting to that age where she knows when she’s not supposed to do something. She’s also learning how to get away with it, or so she thinks. She has a ways yet before she’ll actually be able to hide things from us. For instance, this week she took a bowl of tomatoes when mom wasn’t looking. She was caught red handed, or whatever color a tomato is.
The weather this weekend was very, very cold. Too cold to be outside jumping on a trampoline, playing with a plastic mower, or kicking a pink ball around. It wasn’t too cold though to go out with PePa for breakfast at a nearby eatery. This is something that we do almost every other weekend, and Ashlyn enjoys it. I’m not sure if it’s the food or the company, but for the sake of my self esteem I’m going to assume it’s the company. Later in the day she wanted to go outside, but when there’s ice in the backyard we tend to keep her inside. Not to be denied some fun while wearing her fluffy jacket, she jumped on Clippity Clop.
We keep hearing about the terrible two’s, but so far we’ve experienced very little of it. Maybe Ashlyn is just pre-disposed to being a happy child. Or maybe, in the spirit of increasing my self esteem, it’s the parenting. Yeah, I know, it’s probably just her nature. Either way, Ashlyn continues to be a chipper toddler that finds fun in almost everything we do, even if it’s a simple game of running off with her bath towel.
Only 5 days to go until we learn whether Ashlyn is having a baby brother or sister. She goes back and forth still on what her preference is, but in a few days she won’t have a choice. Soon to be mom2 is doing well and is looking forward to moving away from the “it” reference when talking about Pokey.
