Like a mama kitty

I am typing this on my iPod on the living room floor, crouched on my hands and knees. I am in a kitty house, with a couch cushion making one wall and the loveseat cushion the other. I have a toy muffin tin for kitty food and a little dish for water, and my last attempt to move met with emphatic disapproval from the builder of the kitty house. She is 3, and flexibility is not her strong suit. This is a game we play a lot lately, where I am the mama horsie or the mama bunny and I am supposed to be still in the living room floor. "Lie down," she sometimes insists. "Close you eyes. Like a mama [insert animal here]." My ankles are falling asleep.

Comments

[electriclady]

Crouched on hands and knees sounds painful. But I remember when my daughter was 2 or 3, and I was still super sleep deprived, she used to order me to lie down on the floor and close my eyes. That was one of my favorite games.

[mary d]

This sounds like a good game to me -- lie still! Almost as good as The Nap Game!

[Kira]

You are such the good mother. I am never the baby kitten. Although I did let my nearly-three-year-old help me make dinner last night, despite the fact that I was in a hurry to get it on the table so I could get the 16-year-old to youth group. Points? I think so.