Eve resting after lifting my new twenty pound kettlebell about fifteen times!
What a girl my Eve is. Incredibly complex, yet easy to delight. Eve, like most kids, thrives on routine; she loves doing the same thing over and over again, day after day. Eve asks me every morning: "So, what are we doing today, Mama?" She likes to be "in the know" - just like me. I must know ahead of time what my focus needs to be for the day. I like to be very informed; to plan, and be prepared. I have an intimate relationship with my lists. And I have discovered that Eve loves a good list, just like me. Now, when it comes to food... we are on completely different planets. She is her Daddy's girl straight through.There is another thing we are very different in. Repetition. I hate it. She loves it. I don't read books more than once, and movies... I HATE re-watching a movie I've already seen. I refuse to do it. Music - eh, I'm okay with listening to the same song a couple times in a row, but then we need to move on. ( Frosty the Snowman - Mom?!)
But my girl... oh, my dear, dear girl. Eve has listened to the same Winnie the Pooh tape everyday for the last two years.
I kid you not.
Side A for rest time and Side B for bedtime. Without fail. There have been maybe three times that we have traveled without bringing the tape deck and tape with us. Other than that I've heard the narrator and his little bell that tinkles every single day. Twice.
May I remind you... for two years.
This has not been good for my mental health. But, Eve loves it so I've never said a word. Seriously though.... help a girl out! I really need to know that I am not the only one. Tell me about you or your kids... is there anything that must be done every day without fail? Let me know I am not alone....
Or am I? Perhaps Winnie has gotten to me after all.
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I took Oceana to her first birthday party *(that she remembers)* last week. We "practiced" Happy Birthday on the way over. Now we have to sing it almost every day - about 5x in a row. There's a bedtime song my Dad wrote when we were little - and its getting sung every night too. It's the HB song that's getting on my nerves, because the end is always followed by "ah-den?" Ugh.
When I was around age 4 I was obsessed with the Disney movie Robin Hood and I insisted on watching it every single day. My mother would allow me that, BUT I started requesting watching it more than once a day and was immediately told no. :)
Well, the kids MUST have a book read to them every night before bed. But that's not too difficult, and I really don't mind it since they usually choose different books.
But Gwen has attached herself to *wibbly pig* and we are reading him about every night. I'm sure I'll tire of him eventually!!
Eggs & Rice Krispies...We can have a GIANT breakfast but if Crumb Snatcher #1 doesn't have eggs or #2 doesn't have Rice Krispies...well, we might as well not have had breakfast at all. We've slowly traded the Krispies for a more healthy version from Wild Oats and have found a yokal who has 54 chickens and has been wondering what to do with all his eggs!? I love, love, LOVE when God does that! Praise you Jesus, bless the meat, let's eat!
Noah has routines that started to concern me because of how rigid they were becomming, but luckily, the older he gets, the less he cares about them.
At night, we've read Goodnight Moon since he was a baby. The book is almost in pieces now because of its use and I'm pretty sure I could even say it backwards at this point. I don't mind it.
A new book that has made its way to the top, unfortunately, is called The Story of the Little Mole (Who Knew it was None of His Business). It's all about poop. It's disgusting. I hate it. Noah and my husband love this book. I'll never understand what it is in men that love to talk about poop.
Oh, and breakfast is always the same. Bran flakes and drinkable yogurt with Daddy.
I love how you describe things!!! That is soo incredibly cute!!! :)
Madison likes to know what we are doing everyday. She also sleeps with her light dimmed every night....every night! Miller had a sound machine where we used to live...to block out the noise in the house....I was scared though he would be used to this and live with it forever so when we moved the sound machine got tossed....maybe with your big move..Winnie may get put up....you could try it....we like Winnie too though.
LOL I am the same way, I never read a book more than once and I HATE watching movies more than once too, no matter how much I liked it the first time :)
I'm totally feeling your pain. Samuel loves repetition too! Right now, he loves a particular worhsip song and he likes to drum to it. I probably hear it 10-15x a day. Along with the drum banging, sometimes I think I'm going to lose it. Silence had become my my long lost friend!!!
I too thrive on change and variety. Sometimes that's the hardest thing about staying at home. Making the same food (mac n cheese when all else fails), playing the same games, singing the same songs, disciplining over the same issues.
But it is so worth it, isn't it?
Let's not talk about "Fwahsty". I'm counting on another 10 months to recover!
Mom
Yup, my kids are slaves to routine too! Every night it has to be the same thing- or there are tears and confusion! They both have these little "fish tanks" in their beds that they were given as babies and fall asleep listening to the music.
I'll be hearing that music in my dreams when I'm 60 I think, haha.
BTW- your little Eve is such a pretty girl. What beautiful hair!
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