Anytime Oaklee spills her drink (or her sippy cup leaks) - even if it's just a tiny drop, she runs to the kitchen drawer, grabs a clean towel, and returns to the scene to clean it up. Once it's all wiped up does she leave the towel there and continue on her merry little way? Heavens no! She puts it right back in the drawer wehere she found it. (I very frequently hafta go through the drawer and separate the recently-dirties from the still-cleans)
If she's going about her daily business and suddenly comes across a door thats been left open (front door, bathroom door, bedroom door, etc) she immediatly stops whatever she is doing and makes it her top priority to get that door closed. This is a very good trait to have. She saves our air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter when random kids forget to shut the door. Its also very useful for her to close the bathroom door, this accomplishes one of two things: 1 - it keeps her from going in there to play and 2 - it gives Kyndi her privacy when she's in there and forgets to shut the door. There are also many flaws to Oaklee's plan of 'make sure every door is shut' There are many times she accidentally locks the door before shutting it and locks herself in various bedrooms. There's been a time or two she's shut Kyndi in the pantry in the dark. She locked me in the laundry room once. And she'll even slam the door shut if someone is standing in it. Many of us at this house have been shut in the door once or twice.
Anytime Oaklee is done watching tv she jumps up and turns it off. This is awesome right? Except usually nobody else is done watching yet and she turns it off at a crucial moment.
She's so stinkin cute, and so OCD! When she used to have a binkie at night she always had to put the handle up on it before she'd go to sleep.... Anytime she finds garbage laying around she snatches is right up and throws it away (many times this results in the kids' homework and such being thrown away)
Perhaps she can pass some of these skills of responsibility onto the older kids. Wow how great would it be to never have to clean up somebody else's spill or somebody else's garbage, or close anymore doors that are left open?? Wow. She may be very useful to me. As long as she doesn't grow out of it.
If she's going about her daily business and suddenly comes across a door thats been left open (front door, bathroom door, bedroom door, etc) she immediatly stops whatever she is doing and makes it her top priority to get that door closed. This is a very good trait to have. She saves our air conditioning in the summer and heat in the winter when random kids forget to shut the door. Its also very useful for her to close the bathroom door, this accomplishes one of two things: 1 - it keeps her from going in there to play and 2 - it gives Kyndi her privacy when she's in there and forgets to shut the door. There are also many flaws to Oaklee's plan of 'make sure every door is shut' There are many times she accidentally locks the door before shutting it and locks herself in various bedrooms. There's been a time or two she's shut Kyndi in the pantry in the dark. She locked me in the laundry room once. And she'll even slam the door shut if someone is standing in it. Many of us at this house have been shut in the door once or twice.
Anytime Oaklee is done watching tv she jumps up and turns it off. This is awesome right? Except usually nobody else is done watching yet and she turns it off at a crucial moment.
She's so stinkin cute, and so OCD! When she used to have a binkie at night she always had to put the handle up on it before she'd go to sleep.... Anytime she finds garbage laying around she snatches is right up and throws it away (many times this results in the kids' homework and such being thrown away)
Perhaps she can pass some of these skills of responsibility onto the older kids. Wow how great would it be to never have to clean up somebody else's spill or somebody else's garbage, or close anymore doors that are left open?? Wow. She may be very useful to me. As long as she doesn't grow out of it.
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