Fetch and Carry...

Last night Julia did the neatest thing! I was upstairs in my bathroom cleaning and I said to Julia: "Julia, please go down to the laundry room and get mommy the broom." I didn't expect her to do this, but I try to talk to her like I do all the children and involve her in what we're doing. I kept cleaning and she headed out onto the landing. The lower floor was dark and so she came back to me and said "dahk." I said "It's ok, Julia." A few minutes later I heard banging and a triumphant Julia came into my room carrying the broom! As small as this seems these are the steps it took for her to do this:

• Hear and process my request
• Go out and see that it is dark downstairs
• Come back and tell me that it is dark
• Go back out and climb down the stairs
• Go through the living room, dining room and down the hall in the dark
• Open the laundry room door
• Turn on the light (I found evidence of this)
• Select the broom from our tools that include a mop, a broom and a push broom and several other cleaning implements
• Carry the broom back through the house and up the stairs
• Present it to me

Pretty awesome for any 5 year old...especially our special one! Go, Julia!