My Smart Little Cookie

The gremlin used a blank disk yesterday to trace circles on paper. Then she was making pictures out of the circles. One of the pictures had two circles right next to each other and some other stuff around it. When I asked her what it was, she told me it was gears and she actually showed me the direction each gear would turn when the top one turned... and she had them all right!

I was going to scan it to put on here, but for some reason our scanner isn't scanning and it's too light for the camera to pick it up. So I'll probably post a pick of it once we figure out what's up with the scanner.

She wanted to help me catch my breath!

I just got out of the shower and I sat on the sofa to relax a bit. The gremlin wanted me to fold some paper for her to cut out snowflakes, though. It seems to be her new obsession... I just hope the paper holds out. I told her to give me a minute, but that wasn't good enough. The moaning and groaning started, so the dad told her to let me catch my breath.

Next thing I new she was coming at me with puffed cheeks and trying to blow air into my mouth. Of course, I didn't catch on to what she was doing at first and I kept telling her to stop. When she wouldn't stop I started getting irritated, so she got upset because she was just trying to help me get my breath back.

Sometimes I forget how literally she tends to take things... it's cute how she reasons things out and tries to be helpful in her own way, though. It took a while to explain that I couldn't get my breath back that way (not that I was really out of breath... just needed a moment to relax after the shower), but she didn't really understand. So instead I distracted her with a folded piece of paper to make her snowflake.

The Little Monster

Last night the gremlin asked me to turn on the lights on the other end of the house. She was convinced there were monsters down there. So we checked out the other side of the house, killing monsters as we went. Of course, when we were done she found a baby monster and decided she had to take care of it. Later that night she made this to show us what the monsters looked like.