Babypie (who, at 14 months, is becoming less and less of a baby) has a busy work day.
Babypie’s babywork–our word for her daily self-assigned tasks–takes up a significant portion of the day that she doesn’t spend sleeping, nursing (which she now calls “thises,” as in, “I want this one”), playing with her brothers, or eating. Babypie has quite the work ethic and doesn’t believe in taking summers off.
Babypie’s babywork includes, but is not limited to:
Climbing onto the time out chair, standing there, and shouting, “MAMA!” (it’s important that someone checks up on me, obviously)
Rearranging Daddyman’s clear bins to use them as steps to reach Daddyman’s box of change, ID cards, and knickknacks
Climbing onto any boxes left in the living room (and possibly getting stuck)
Pushing any baskets around the room
Carrying shoes from one side of the room to the other
Putting items into baskets and dumping them out
Moving the rocking chair
While we were in Chicago, Babypie’s babywork included:
Stacking and unstacking the laundry baskets
Pushing the stool across the kitchen and back
Pushing the rolling office chair around the entire living room
You can see that she works very hard. If we had a cat, I’m sure she’d have to move it. It’s funny that the baby works harder and with less complaint than the older children, especially Captain Science. Maybe I should start letting him self-assign chores.
Or start moving furniture.
