when your four year old is outsmarting you...

Let me begin by saying that I did manage to complete MM's dress. It took me a bit longer because I made too many mistakes, had to rip out whole sections and finally just hand stitched sections! I learned a lot about my abilities and feel better about the next one I am going to attempt. I watched some videos on how to make a pillowcase dress and will attempt it but not using a pillowcase but some fabric that I already had. I will only need to buy some ribbon and some thread because I have everything else. I have a pattern for pockets and will use it because my daughter thinks that pockets are necessary in all of her clothes.

I have listed comments that MM has made in the past, but as she gets a little older and more education, she is getter better and better; here a few:

1. I was working on cleaning out my office (still not there yet) this weekend and MM came into the room, looked around, put her hands on her hips, nodded her head and tells me, "Mommy, you are doing a good job, it looks much better in here, keep up the good work!" and then walked out.

2. After trying on the dress that I made, she noticed a thread that I missed trimming and informed me that it was coming "unsewn" and that I needed to concentrate better when I make her the next dress.

3. MM said that I would need to hurry up and start working on a dinosaur costume for BJ since I only had a few weeks before they "hit the street." She then went upstairs to my closet and practiced knocking on doors and saying "Trick or Treat!" (She has only gone trick or treating once)

4. After playing with her brother for about two hours, she sat down, and said,"Wow, I have been helping brother all day! I deserve a break, it is your turn now mommy."

5. My parents go to Florida in the winter, coming back home for the winter holidays, and then going back at the beginning of January. I told MM that they would be coming home for the holidays. MM asked if they would be back in a few weeks and when I told her that it was too soon, that she had to wait until the holidays, she responded, "Well, Halloween is a holiday!"

*** Please note, MM is very sweet and helpful, but she comes up with some real zingers sometimes. When they are terrible (like her new rhyming game, duck, truck, stuck, f&#%, thank you truck driver daddy!), I have a conversation with her, but sometimes I giggle privately. ***