By Myself

Ella can do a lot of things by herself...when she wants to. She can get dressed, go to the bathroom, go swinging, all by herself, but chooses not to. When she's in front of her friends at school, she will do all of these without assistance, but with us she wants us to always help her. I'm not sure if this is an early manifestation of peer pressure or not.

She'll show us something that she can do by herself if we encourage her:



There's some who say that preschoolers' personalities, when they relate to what they want, are like cavemen in their impulsiveness. I hope not. If you weren't a self-sufficient caveman you would get eaten, so that analogy really doesn't work.

Maybe she doesn't want to everything by herself right now, I'm proud that she's becoming a little girl right before my eyes.

Felix's words: He can say the word "three", but it comes out like "tee". No, he's not a math genius who's already counting at 17 months. We hold him over the bed by his arms and legs and swing him onto his back. "One, two...".