In the Spirit of Yes

So, in the spirit of "yes," I couldn't resist complying when my little indian asked if he could nap in his teepee today. Why not. He's only good for sleep about 1/7 naps anyway, so I'm probably not missing out on a good sleep from him today. In fact, he'll probably "nap" longer because it's interesting to be in there. It's also good & dark in there once you close it up. In case you are wondering, yes, I know this from personal experience. This mommy has been known to catnap while playing cowboys and indians. Shhhhhh..........don't tell my secrets!

And I'm wondering about playdough. Does anyone have kids that keep blue, blue and pink, pink? My artists prefer mass amounts of the same brown blob. I tried stopping D for the first few years, telling him smashing green and blue together (however creatively making the planet Earth) will ruin the playdough, and I won't be able to separate it again. He could care less. On with the smashing, mooshing, and rolling it all together, "look mom! I made purple!" "Now it's brown! Cool, look at my brown rocks!" And the next time he plays with it? "Look mom! It stayed brown!" (like thank goodness, I thought it might magically jump back to blue, yellow, and green while I slept). He's so happy with it. I have no idea why, but he is.

At any rate, M looked longingly at him all morning, and though I'd never have put playdough into his 14 mo old hands, the second child is raised so much differently, so into the high chair and 2 blobs of playdough (which of course eventually became one blob), and honestly about 40 minutes of entertainment for her!! And I only had to take it out of her mouth and tell her "yucky!" twice. I was amazed.