Day #1440 (Fri., Dec. 13, 2013) – Up Late With Daddy
We had handymen in our house for a lot of the day. As a result my wife could not take a nap, so by the time I got home from work she was beat. I took over tending to Katie while she rested.
They say that you can expect a child to have an attention span of 1 minute per age…so Katie has an attention span of about 4 minutes. That means there is a lot going on in the course of an evening. For example:
1) Katie would leaf through books and see something that she wanted me to draw…which I would then draw (see photo to the right).
2) She wanted to play hockey so we batted a ball back and forth in the living room.
3) She wanted to watch “Cow & Chicken” (which she says is her new favorite show…aren’t they all?)
4) She wanted a dish of “Flat Cheese” as she calls it…basically block cheese sliced into a rectangle.
5) She wanted milk to dunk her cookie in, which subsequently went all over the floor. I could see that coming. Luckily the cats helped me with cleanup by licking it up.
6) She wanted to play with the “always fashionable” jungle animals.
I managed to put her to bed around 12:38am but she was still talking. My wife woke up and took over at that point.
WHAT I LEARNED TODAY
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1) This evening we played the game where Katie would say what she wanted me to draw and I would…