I want to do that...

Pictures will follow, but I just thought I'd share about my baby Elizabeth (if you can call a 3 1/2 year old a baby). It has been such an interesting thing to see how different Elizabeth (also known as Frizzie Lizzie or just simply Frizz as JP calls her) is than big brother Trace. Trace was and can definitely still be a momma's boy, but Elizabeth takes it to another level which I am enjoying. She always wants to do what I am doing including all the following:

• cooking or preparing anything in the kitchen 
• loading the dishes
• washing the dishes or veggies from JP's garden (this provides hours of fun and lots of water on the floor)
• doing laundry, including lugging the laundry basket with me back and forth and loading the washer and dryer
• running errands, including grocery shopping, Target runs, etc. - she calls these "girl dates" because we leave JP and Trace behind to have a "boy date"
• washing my car (this is ONLY if we go to the "out car wash" as she calls it - which is like a Genie or something where you actually get out and they clean it while you wait inside because she is terrified of the other drive through car washes and screams and cries the whole time - which just makes Trace laugh the entire time)
• and finally her latest chore was mopping, she wasn't very good at it, but it was the effort that counted.

 I loving having her around to help out and normally I end up loving all over her because she is just precious. I am human though and am having to work on limiting the times I get frustrated that she's slowing me down and just enjoy the moments because I bet this too shall pass and the time will come when I don't get quite so much help.