Me Turn Do It!!!!

That's the mantra around our house, "Me turn do it. Me turn do it. ME TURN DO IT!!!" John would like to record Maren saying (or screaming) it and use it for the ring tone for his phone. Ha!


This morning, I had her half dressed when she told me that "No like it shirt," about the shirt I picked out for her.

J - "Okay, Mama is going to get dressed and when I am dressed, we will find another shirt for you to wear."

M - "Okay, Mama."


I am half-dressed and she announces to me "Big girl potty right now!" We run to the bathroom, strip off the pants and diaper, and I sit her on the big toilet. Nothing happens.


M - "Me on little potty and Mama on Big Girl Potty." Okay, I sit her on the training potty and I sit on the big potty. I pee to encourage her (I know, too much information). She sits and sits and - she does it! Yeah! (We are inching toward potty training. Another story for another day.) Runs away from me down the hall before I can wipe her, then climbs onto our bed and starts jumping. I hold a diaper in my hand...

J - "It's time for a new diaper."

M- "Me do it new diaper."

J - "Mama needs to do it."

M - "ME DO IT NEW DIAPER." She takes it from me, lays it carefully on the bed, and proceeds to sit down in it the right way, with the front at her stomach and the tapes in the back. I tell her we need to do the tapes together and she relents to that.

Next came "ME TURN DO IT PANTS" followed by "ME TURN DO IT SHIRT." Frankly, her independence is exhausting me! On the other hand...I don't want to be dressing her when she's six.

Every day is an adventure.