29 July 2009

Another attack of the scissors

Jamie is making a habit of this. Grandma let her use children's scissors to cut up paper. Supervised the whole time, until that brief moment that she walked out of the room. She came back to see Angela with locks of hair missing from above both ears and Jamie clutching something tightly in her hand. Jamie dodged around Grandma and dumped the hair into the box that held all the cut up paper.

Angela wasn't in need of a haircut yet. She hadn't had even a trim up to this point. Maybe we need to give Jamie some lessons.

"No" "Way"

"No", said Jamie.
"Way", added Angela.
"No", said Jamie a little more forcefully.
"Way", added Angela.
Jamie almost starts crying. She's yelling "No" now.
Angela continues to add "Way".

This went on for a little while until I stopped Jamie and told her that Angela was just helping her say "No" because Angela thinks "No" should be said "No way".