Playing Pretend

Lately, Trenton has decided that nap time is optional.  His attitude is suffering, and so is my patience.  Yesterday, he threw such a big fit that I put him in his soon-to-be-taken-down crib.

“I don’ wanna gake a map!” He cried (translation: I don’t want to take a nap.)

I had just gotten out of the tub and was tired.  I knew I needed to fold laundry and do dishes, but it was COLD.  Instead of going to the sink or to the clean laundry on the loveseat, I curled up on the couch.  My daughter made her way toward me and started asking for things.  I didn’t want to get up, so I turned my laying down into a game.

“I want to take a nap,” I told her, “Can you help me?  I need a blanket.  Will you get me a blanket?”

I didn’t really want to take a nap, but I knew she likes to pretend.

“Sure!” She said, running out of the room.  Second later, she appeared with her fleece princess throw in tote.  She tried throwing it over me once.  It didn’t work.  Twice!  It didn’t work.  The third time was a charm.  Once the blanket was thrown over me, she went to her toy box and brought out a stuffed puppy for me to snuggle with.

“Now will you read a story to me?” I asked her, snuggling my puppy.

“Oh, sure!” she said.  She pulled up a little Lightning McQueen chair and her favorite book.

She sat down, spread “Little Bitty Mousie” across her lap and flipped through the pages.

“I just don’t know about these words,” she said, “I can’t read them.”

“Just try,” I encouraged, grateful for every moment of rest time I could muster.

She turned the the first page, and she READ that book!  Apparently, she has most of it memorized.  The parts that she didn’t know, she made up.   I watched in fascination as she flipped through each page and softly “read” to me.  Her little voice was so sweet and soothing…

Pretty soon, I fell FAST ASLEEP.  I love having a girl.

Comments

  1. I love it when Aimslee does that! When I don’t know where she is, I find her in her reading corner ‘reading’ books to Rusty! It’s so cute and most of the time funny! I love our little girls too! They are getting so big!

  2. That is sweet. Sometimes I wish I had someone to tuck me in at night.

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