I love this picture that my brother Pete took of Taylor a few months ago. (She was in hair and make-up for 2 hours…what a diva!):
C.R. came to visit last week and Taylor was SO excited to see her. She loved having another person around to play with her and read stories. We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner at my parent’s house. T.J. was running around like crazy for two days straight and after C.R. left, she crashed. Hamming it up is exhausting!
Taylor has been waking up earlier and earlier these days and wanting to play in the pre-dawn hours. It’s normal for her to wake up around 6:00 a.m., but when she started getting up in the 5:00 hour and coming into our bed, we decided we had to teach her a lesson about appropriate wake-up times so that we could rest a little longer. First, we showed her the digital clock in our room and explained that when the first digit read “7” it was time to wake up. It took a couple of times for her to understand, so at first she would peek over my shoulder at the clock and call out, “Look…a seven!” and we would have to explain that it was actually 6:27 and the seven had to be the FIRST number on the clock. Then Zach went out and bought Taylor the biggest wall clock he could find and put it up on her wall. She really likes her clock and she got the concept of telling time pretty quickly. Now she comes into our bed in the morning and looks over my shoulder at the clock to see if it’s 7:00 yet. When she sees that it’s not, she’ll say, “I’m going to my room to see if the little hand is pointing to 7 yet, mommy”. Then she’ll go into her room and yell out, “Mom! It not seven yet! It not time to wake up!” This goes on for the entire hour before the clock FINALLY strikes 7 a.m. Once it does, T.J. comes running into our room to announce, “Mom! Mom! The hand is pointing to seven! It’s Sesame Street time!” As if we didn’t already know.