There's never any shortage of surprises when it comes to kids.  Just when you think you've got them figured out, they get all grown up on you.  We recently started with a new routine around here: grown-ups get up and ready for the day, all the animals get food & medicine, then we eat breakfast.  Not much of a change there... the new routine calls for Aba's "toilet, teeth and hair" right after breakfast.  If she fights with me about it she goes to her room until she's ready to do it.  The magic words being, "WHEN you are ready to do toilet, teeth, and hair, THEN you may come out of your room."  If she's screaming or yelling, I close the door behind her.

After the fiasco subsides and she's finally ready for the day, we sit down at her craft table to do schoolwork.  This has been working well for about a week now, but today she just didn't seem interested in any of it.  The new hidden pictures were too complex, and she's usually very good at finding them; the preschool workbook is way too simple for her now so she fought about doing the simple stuff and flipped through half the book until she finally found something remotely interesting, then gave up before she was finished with the exercise.  She did a few mazes, then threw her hands up in exasperation and went to jump on the bed for a minuite. 

We looked up "parthenon" because one of the mazes was titled Partheon Path, but there were no pictures.  I looked up "Athens" and we were able to see the rubble in in the photo from a distance.  She decided her Build-A-Bear dog is an Affenpinscher, and we discussed the flow chart on how aluminum is made -- which she promptly related to the aluminum in the recycling bins!

After schoolwork I let her watch movies on the computer while I finish my chores for the day.

The main project for the day was going to Target for groceries, pink socks to complete her dance class uniform, and gifts for Sharon's baby shower.  It was the first time she didn't ride in the buggy (at 44 lbs, she's just too big to lift in and out without someone getting hurt) & she actually stayed with me the whole time.  Ok, most of the time.  Minus the bite out of the apple incident, she was pretty good.

On the way out she decided she was hungry when we passed the snack bar & she picked out a yogurt.  I gave her  a dollar and she took it to the cash register & paid for it all by herself.  :)