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This is how the universe works right?? Your kids get older and you allow them to do more things on their own or maybe it's more like I am just paying less attention to the small details. Either way we are trying to find that fine line between independence and a mother who hovers.

One of my favorite independent things that they are able to do ..most of the time is go up stairs and get the bath started. So I send Calvin up the other night to go get it started and then I go up a bit after to make sure he hasn't flooded the bathroom. While I am downstairs, he yells down and asks: can I put toys in the bathtub? Uh, duh, of course, there is huge bucket of them next to the tub, have at it. So I go upstairs a few minutes later to find.....beanie babies in the bathtub. Cloth/fabric beanie babies. See the photo over to the left, those are beanie babies floating in the tub. When I asked him why they are in there, he reminded me that I told him he could put toys in the tub. Yes, he's got me there. I certianly didn't think to ask him if the 'toys' he wanted to put in the tub were stuffed animals. My bad.

Calvin 1, Mom 0 and so the battle continues.