Hailey Helping Around The House
One really nice change that's been happening lately is that Hailey has been really into helping out around the house. She will help pick up the table after dinner, help me load the dishwasher, help me take out trash, etc. She told me one day that I always do so much work around the house and it isn't fair if no one helps me. I thought that was really sweet of her. I've been giving her an allowance since she was five, and she also realized that she is now earning her allowance by helping out.
Tonight I was really in for a treat. After dinner I was looking up some stuff on the computer. She cleaned off the table as she had been doing. Then she started to take dishes out of the dishwasher that had been cleaned the night before. She knew where many of the dishes went, but she had to ask me on a few. I was excited that she just decided to do this on her own. I was a little distracted with what I was looking at, and then she came over and asked me if it was okay to put the soap in the dishwasher. I told her "Oh, no, don't do that yet. I need to fill it up with the dirty dishes first." She then says, "Dad, I already did that". I look over, and all the dishes from the counter were gone and she did indeed fill up the dishwasher. She even put everything in there correctly.
I've been very proud of her with the initiative she has been taking. It's great to see her wanting to do good things for the sole purpose of being a good person. Maybe I'm weird, but as a parent, while first steps and first words were neat, I think this is the stuff that truly excites me.
Also, while I'm on the topic of Hailey, she wanted to do her own blog like the one I have, so I setup a website for her. I thought it would be a good way for her to share her feelings and get more comfortably with writing. She decided to call it "Hailey's Thoughts", much like the name of this blog :)
Tonight I was really in for a treat. After dinner I was looking up some stuff on the computer. She cleaned off the table as she had been doing. Then she started to take dishes out of the dishwasher that had been cleaned the night before. She knew where many of the dishes went, but she had to ask me on a few. I was excited that she just decided to do this on her own. I was a little distracted with what I was looking at, and then she came over and asked me if it was okay to put the soap in the dishwasher. I told her "Oh, no, don't do that yet. I need to fill it up with the dirty dishes first." She then says, "Dad, I already did that". I look over, and all the dishes from the counter were gone and she did indeed fill up the dishwasher. She even put everything in there correctly.
I've been very proud of her with the initiative she has been taking. It's great to see her wanting to do good things for the sole purpose of being a good person. Maybe I'm weird, but as a parent, while first steps and first words were neat, I think this is the stuff that truly excites me.
Also, while I'm on the topic of Hailey, she wanted to do her own blog like the one I have, so I setup a website for her. I thought it would be a good way for her to share her feelings and get more comfortably with writing. She decided to call it "Hailey's Thoughts", much like the name of this blog :)