That’s not what I wanted
On October 22, 2012
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While we were having supper tonight Grace reached over for her water and knocked her cup of juice over. I had to do some dodging, but no problem.She wanted to have some more Energade (her juice of choice) so I got some for her. I was thinking that she has been looking a bit dangerous with that cup, but it's unlikely that she'll knock it over again. Cleaned up and got her some more juice, back to supper. A few moments later she reaches for her cup, doesn't quite grip it correctly and splash, there goes the juice all over the table. Grace bursts into tears and cries, "I didn't want to do that!" Poor baby girl, all she wanted was a drink of juice and her greasy chicken fingers weren't helping.
When I came inside after work today the scene I was greeted with was a kitchen with the fridge standing wide open, and yoghurt blobs from the fridge all the way to the lounge. Donné was busy feeding Eli, and one of the yogurt containers had broken due to a freak manufacturing fault when Grace was getting one….general chaos ensued. Once I had closed the fridge and gotten the details it was time to get Grace back inside to clean, which she did very well. After wiping up the bulk of it, Grace was mopping the floor and I was helping her to squeeze the mop and get fresh water. I then got busy wiping up a part of it and Grace asked Donné to help her with the mop. Donné said to her, "I don't know how to do this," to which Grace replies, "It's easy mama. First you pull this up, then you push it down, then you pull it up again." Mop instructions from a three year old.
There were tears when arriving at school today. They were supposed to have the individual and class photos, but the photographer has been stranded on the far side of a big hole in the N2 in the Eastern Cape. And Grace was really looking forward to the photos today. Fortunately Janine diffused the situation by taking a photo herself. Grace had, after all, been practicing her smile.
