Packing

On Wednesday evenings Ally stays with Tara (the babysitter) and Becky and I have some time together. When we got home last night we found Ally packing "to go to Suzie's house" remember yesterday I said I wished I had a picture of the last time she did this? So I grabbed the camera and took these pictures. I think Tara was slightly embarrassed to have us come home to such a mess, but at the same time seemed quite conflicted about stopping the creative play just because it created such a mess. We feel the same way sometimes. And I have to admit Ally had a small fit about cleaning up but after one timeout she agreed to help and we had it all put away in minutes.

This is what we saw when we got home - the pile above - please note the potty was packed to go.

Almost all of the toys were emptied out of her toy bin. She proceeded to empty these and then move the basket to the other side of the pile.

Here Ally is pointing at the different things she has packed.

So proud of her packing and taking a much needed drink break. Phew all that packing is hard work!

On another fun note - Ally is really into the book Pinkalicious and it turns out there was a book fair at Tara's school (she is a grad student) and Tara bought Purplicious (the sequel) to read with Ally. She even held off reading it by herself so she could experience it for the first time with Ally! They have been having fun reading together.