Here is yet another tale of the Cooper kids. The other day I was on the phone enrolling in my classes for school. I take online classes because I devoted the most possible waking second of every day with my kids. Hence the joy in the breaks that I do get. :)

Anyway, the three kids were playing in Ileyah's bedroom. She is good at keeping them busy while I am busy. As I am talking to my student advisor, I hear the teeter of little feet in the stairs. I recognized these footsteps to belong to Brandina, my three-year-old. (of course) Anyway, I hear her open the bathroom door, and was semi-timing her in there. I think that the whole world knows about now that Brandina is my mischief child. I hear the toilet flush and the water running. I smiled slightly cause I know that she is behaving. I turn my "alert ears" off, and continue on with my conversation.

A few minutes later, I hear the water running still. Then right as I am walking towards the bathroom, I hear Ileyah scream, "Brandina NO!!!" At this point I just hung up with the advisor. I run into the bathroom, you will never guess what I see....

I look at my son (age one), completely covered in water and soap. It was all over his pajamas, and the handsoap was in his hair. I looked at Brandina, and she was smiling at me. I said as calm as I could, "Brandina, what are you doing?" Dontae looks at me and grabs his hair and says, "Wet."

Brandina then explains to me what she was doing. "Mom, Dontae had some food in his hair. We are supposed to be clean, so I washed his hair. It was sticky, but see mom I washed it. I am a good girl ain't I mommy?" I laughed. How could I be mad? My daughter is very skillful, she can wash his hair with him standing on a toilet, willingly, in less than a minute and a half. It takes me sitting with him in a bathtub, fighting with him to be still, in about 15 minutes, and it still isn't done right. :) I don't know why he listens to her as well as he does. I wish he would listen to me that way.

Regardless, I love my kids. They tend to give me a great laugh. It is fun to try to understand them intellectually. They are smart little people if given the opportunity to explain themselves. :0)