why?

Why is it that we have to wake our kids during the week (sometimes with lots of resistance) after 7 during the week, but they can get up on their own, cheerfully, before 6 a.m. during the weekend? Yawn.

Why is it that she can walk all over the place at daycare, but teases us all weekend by standing, squatting, and plopping? Today she took about four steps to each of us, lurching all over the place :-) Actually, I'm not all that impatient for her to walk, except that she's so frustrated by not walking these days!

Why is it that each of our children seem to get progressively messier? G couldn't stand being messy (but also hated getting cleaned), L got messy and didn't mind, M relishes in mess. Today she managed to squirt most of her milk out of her cup and onto her tray, and then she stuck her face in it and tried to slurp it up like a dog. Gross. She'd sit up and let all the milk run out of her mouth. There's always something stuck in her eyebrows or her hair. And, she loves to stick her finger up her nose while she's at the tray. Impeccable table manners. She must be her father's daughter ;-)