Maren

Sometimes in the evening Maren will pull a chair up to the window and look out in anticipation of Scott coming home from work. I love this. I love that my little girl can't wait to see her Papa.

Last night Maren came into the Living Room, after we had already put her to bed, saying that she had to go potty. We were torn as to if we should scold her for getting out of bed or praise her for telling us she had to go potty. We chose the latter. But as she sat there on the little potty watching TV with us for some time we realized that she didn't really need to go potty, but was using it as a tactic to stay up and watch TV. We told her that if she didn't really need to go potty then she needed to go back to bed. She then said "Well, I guess I'm hungry". It reminded me of bedtime stalling tactics I would use as a child. "My finger hurts" was a popular one. Not sure why I kept trying that since it never really worked. Maren's was quite smart really. She actually duped us!