That's Just Too Cute

MelodyJoy is really into imitating her mom and brothers, as evidenced by last week's video of her shoveling snow. At meals, she now reaches for our hands and says, "Pray! Pray!" then squints her eyes and bows her head. Whenever we wash our hands, she must wash hers. If we put on hand lotion, she holds out her hands for a dab to rub on them. Brushing our teeth? She insists on having her toothbrush, too.

Jeannette often fusses over the boys' hair (not that you can tell most of the time) but since Jordan and Phillip are taller than she is, she makes them kneel down so she can reach their heads. Last night, after Jeannette finished Jordan's and Phillip's tresses, Melody came to her with a brush and, to be helpful, knelt down in front of her, too.


When Jeannette has finished changing a dirty diaper, she puts it inside a plastic grocery bag, ties it closed and tosses it in the trash. Yesterday, MelodyJoy picked up a tiny scrap of paper, smaller than a Trident gum wrapper. I told her to go throw it in the garbage so she dutifully went to the kitchen cabinet, pulled out a plastic grocery sack, put the paper in it and then dropped it in the trash can.