A Day in the Life of Desireé - Part 1

I spent the entirety of my day yesterday in the mentality of a four year old. I have a beautiful niece with an inquisitive personality who loves the color pink. As a fun mix up, I’ve decided that today’s post will be about exactly what its like to entertain her for a whole day. Now, I will say this ahead of time. My husband and I don’t currently have any children, so I’m not really used to the chaos they throw into day-to-day activities.

I will also say that I try to be a fun aunt. I dedicate as much time during the day to doing fun activities and other things that she likes to do.

7:00 AM

I gathered a slightly sleepy child from her mother’s car seat with “silky” and “bun-bun” (her security blanket and blanket-bunny) in tow. By the time we reach my front door, we’ve already discussed her dream about unicorns and what she could possibly want for breakfast.

She really wanted fruit loops, but I managed to talk her into making whole wheat blueberry muffins. While we wait on them to cook, she decides that she needs a chocolate poptart to tide her over, but she does finally manage to eat a muffin during a series of He-Man cartoons - my husband’s dvds.

9:00 AM

With breakfast settled, we decided to do some chores. It’s amazing what can entertain a four year old. We washed dishes (me doing the washing and her playing with soap and water). We vacuumed (I vacuumed and she used my mini-vac to go over the rugs in the kitchen. We even folded and ironed the clothes (she managed to fold one towel, I think).

10:00 AM

Finally, the wet cleared out of the air, and we were able to go outside to play for a little while. First, I took her to the big stretch of pavement in the front yard to play with sidewalk chalk. She drew two baby unicorns while I drew the mommy. Then, she asked me to the name of basically everyone we knew, and when one of our future drawings overlapped my husband’s name I was commanded to rewrite it.

She’s very interested in the alphabet, and it amazes me how long you can spend just reciting letters and teaching her what letters are in different words.

We also managed to play with the leaf blower. I was surprised how entertaining it was to chase her around blowing leaves in her general direction while watching her laughing and  running.

After we were done in the front yard, we moved to the back to talk to all the animals. D’s aunt and uncle are here visiting from Florida, so we spent some time talking to their dog, Buster. He’s a large beagle with a habit of howling. We also talked to the rabbit, Tucks. We fed him celery through the holes in his pen and talked to him while he nibbled on leftover carrot shavings.

11:15 AM

Lunch with a four year old is always a grand affair. First, I made her a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Then the crust needed to be cut off.

Then it needed to be cut into bite-sized pieces. She then proceeded to count the number of said pieces every time she ate one.

After her sandwich, she decided that she was still hungry and wanted macaroni and cheese.

After macaroni and cheese, she wanted gummy bears.

When I told her that she couldn’t have gummy bears, she wanted a cupcake.

When I told her she couldn’t have a cupcake, she poked out her bottom lip and crossed her arms over her chest and pouted. “But Aunt Sarah…”

I gave her the glare I inherited from my mother and returned with, “But Desireé…”

I decided it was time for a nap.

I bet you can all guess how well that went, but I’ll tell you the rest of the story tomorrow.