I spend a lot of time being grateful for Alexis' independence. For example, the kid handles mornings very well all by herself, doing things like packing her own lunch most days. The whole thing makes me all of the happy.
But now Mila is doing what she can to one-up her sister.
I shouldn't be surprised. One of the side effects of the "we have to be opposites" thing they have going on is that on the rare occasions when Mila decides to copy Alexis, she does it in an extreme way. I don't know if she's just crazy competitive or if she's just a quick learner, but if Mila decides to be like Alexis, she does it ALL the way.
Mila packs her lunch now.
Let me just remind you that she's two years old. TWO. And she packs her own lunch.
She's done it every day for the past few weeks. As soon as we get home, she takes off for the pantry and starts grabbing food. There have been a few days when she has managed to grab some things out of the fridge as well, so she ended up with a lunch bag filled with peaches, yogurt, and granola bars. Which, that's pretty much what any adult would pack for her, so VICTORY!
The past couple of days, though, she has skipped the fridge.
You guys, I bought Fruit Roll-Ups as a special treat and Mila is packing the entire box of them in her lunch every day.
We have managed to supplement the Fruit Roll-Up diet every day, except today Mila caught me trying to give her other food and HOOBOY. She was not happy. Not happy at all. I thought I would cut her back to one Fruit Roll-Up and then toss in some sort of healthy stuff but nope. Mila wanted Fruit Roll-Ups. All of the Fruit Roll-Ups. Nothing but Fruit Roll-Ups.
So if you happened to see Mila and I walking through the daycare parking lot with her screaming the words "NOT NICE! MOMMY BAD! MOMMY GO TO TIME OUT!" this morning, now you know why. It was because I'm mean.