The one thing I have learned since becoming a mother is that children imitate absolutely everything that they see you do. If my little girl sees me writing she has to get a piece of paper and write too. If she sees me washing dishes she just has to help, and if her daddy is in his shop working on a car she has to get a screwdriver and work on something as well. I was planting some plants in my flower bed yesterday and she just had to help. What she could not understand was that you don't step in the plants after you plant them in the ground, and you certainly do not pull all the roots off. I understand she is only trying to help, also it is the way that she learns. Children can also be very smart, sometimes too smart. I baked some cookies yesterday and I turn my back for a few seconds and there are tiny finger size holes in several of the cookies that were fresh out of the oven. I look at my little girl and ask her "What happened here?" She did admit to what she had done, but from her point of view she had a very good reason. "These are the cookies I want to eat," she informed me.
