Little Miss Independent

Since we have settled into a new routine we have been having dinner at about 5:30 and then after dinner I give the girls baths. Bathing and getting two GIRLS ready for bed tends to take a big chunk out of my evening. Well yesterday I was starting dinner when I hear my two year old yelling from another part of the house "Mommy, mommy I need your help".....there is something about this statement coming from a two year old that makes me want to run the other way...or at the very least pretend I didn't hear her at all...but I instead I went looking for her and I found her standing in my shower with no clothes on pointing up to the water faucets. So of course I say.... "What are you doing Paige"..... to which she so matter of fact replies "I taking shower". So thinking it would scare her out of the shower I turned on the water....shut the glass door and waited for her to bolt out of there suddenly having a change of heart....but that did not happen at all....instead she stood there and she ACTUALLY took a shower. I stood back where she could not see me and watched her in the mirror as she took a wash rag and washed her little body and half way washed her hair. It was quite amusing for me to watch this short little bitty thing act in such a grown up independent way. About 10 minutes later she called me in there to tell me she was done and I had one clean happy kid and one less bath for the night. Now I can't help but think how grand it would be and how much of my nights I could get back if I could only get my five year old on board with this whole bathe yourself idea!!