Emotional Growth Spurts

I don't know, maybe spending a day at home with your kid makes you more aware of how grown up they are. Or maybe, they really did take a recent jump in EI. I'll never know.
In any case. A list of the adorable and interesting things Eden's done recently, particularly today, since I spent the day with her. This is what being a mom is about, being able to blab (related to blog?) about it.

• Yesterday I had told her about how we were going to clean the fridge and the cabinets today, and then go grocery shopping for Pesach. Eden was really excited about it, and couldn't wait to dig in. This morning, when I started to clean the fridge, I said - Ok, Eden, let's go! And Eden said, No, Mommy, you gonna clean the fridge. I'm making the list. A manager after my own heart.
• On Friday, Eden made a Waldorf salad with Ben's mom, and had a bunch of apples and nuts. Friday afternoon, she came down with a throat infection and threw up in the car - all those apples and nuts. Today, as we were driving in the car, I suppose Eden felt a little sick again, and she said, Mommy, my apples are coming up. It took a minute for us to understand what she meant - she hadn't had any apples today - her first euphemism! We are all going to use it from now on. A few months ago, I had apples coming constantly...lots of apples coming up.
• We went out to dinner tonight at the new sushi place in Modiin Center. There are some kiddy rides there for 2 shekels. Eden wanted to go on one of the rides, but saw that we were busy. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt, and say that she didn't want to bother us. Because all of a sudden, I find her rooting around in my purse! When I asked her what she was looking for, she said, I'm looking for kesef (money). Do you have any kesef for the rides? She would have just taken it! I'm sure it was innocent, but I think a talk about money and stealing is coming up soon....
  

I was REALLY impressed with her in the grocery store. True, we didn't get much of our list because she lost the stamina. But listen to this.

• Grocery story #1 We went to get toothbrushes and they were all out of kids toothbrushes except for a bratz toothbrush. And this is the first time I had to say no because I felt something that she wanted was inappropriate. But I'm not brushing my kids teeth with an effigy of a slut that my kid thinks is pretty. Sorry. So we went back and forth a few times, and then Eden said, Ok Mommy so what I'm gonna get that you like instead. And we picked up a fun looking toothpaste. And then later on in checkout, I noticed that the toothpaste wasn't kosher for pesach and I told Eden and she was pretty worried about what we were going to get instead of her toothbrush. And I said, we will have to go to another store to get something else. And she said, OK, and that was it. (!!).
  
• Grocery story #2: Eden picked up a package of crunchy MSG and said that she wanted to snack on it in the store - OK, no problem. Then she saw the chocolate puddings and said, But Mommy why we never get those yogurts? Those yogurts are so very very yummy! So I said she could get a puddding, but she couldn't eat it until she got home, whereas the snack bag she could have now. Still she chose the yogurt, and watched over it in the cart for the rest of the day. She watched it at the checkout counter. Often reminded me, saying, Mommy right you said as soon as we get home I can have my yogurt? Right you said? Right I said, and she was so patient, and so good, that I decided to sit down at the snack area and let her eat it there.

And the tip top this-is-my-great-kid-story....

• We wrote up the grocery list all day, as we went along. I kept thinking of some more things to get, specifically for Eden - a new toothbrush (oh well...) and toothpaste, a new cup for her bed, popsicles or ice cream, a snack for the trip. And as I added more things to the list, she said, Mommy! We gonna buy so many things for me today! You're such a good mommy, you buy me so many things! I'll ignore the materialism in that sentence and just take what I can get.