Day 21

Just a short funny story for today.

Lucy had a very exciting morning of shopping in downtown Kaiserslautern. She is always so excited and crashes in the car on the way home. Today was no exception.

So once we got home, I tried to give her a little lunch, which she turned down. All she wanted was peanuts. So I gave her a little bowl and 10 minutes to eat them. She wasn't quite done with them and wanted to eat a few while reading books before nap time. We read a few books and I placed the bowl of peanuts on her bookshelf. I put her to bed and left the room-completely forgetting to grab the bowl of remaining peanuts.

Twenty minutes later, I hear a crash. I wait for crying and hear nothing, but decide to check it out anyways. I peek my head in her room and here was my little girl-who had NEVER climbed out of bed in her life-reading a book and eating peanuts off the floor (she knocked the plastic bowl off the shelf).

I giggle and say, "You would've been fine if you hadn't dropped the book. Now you're busted. Time to get back in bed." Since she thought she was in trouble, she promptly stops chewing the mouthful of peanuts and climbs in to bed with tears in her eyes. I kept smiling at her as we laid down and told her she wasn't in trouble, now could she please finish chewing what in her mouth? After five minutes of coaxing, she finally finished what she was eating, gave me a grin and rolled over to fall asleep. I couldn't help but laugh thinking that I would've likely done the same thing when I was her age. It was the cutest moment of my day.