This past week has been intolerably hot. Over 100 degrees hot. It was so hot that I, who am someone who thinks it's a sin to waste a minute of summer weekend hours indoors, spent nearly every second of this past weekend inside our house. It was actually quite nice, taking it easy, instead of trying to fill up every second with some kind of memorable outdoor activity.
Our girls seemed almost overjoyed to have an opportunity to stay in and do nothing special (perhaps because Mommy normally overplans our summer weekends). For once, they kept themselves very entertained, without our help, by coloring, drawing, playing dolls.
My husband and I quickly took note that we had some free "us" time, so we decided to watch a movie. One movie turned into two and before we knew it, we were engaged in a movie marathon on TNT: Wyatt Earp (not my choice), The Patriot, and The Gladiator (although seeing Russell Crowe all buffed and beautiful in The Gladiator did nothing to cool me down). It was extremely rare for my husband and I to be allowed that amount of time to sit calmly and watch movie after movie together without protest from our girls, so we felt we really had to take advantage of such an opportunity.
My five-year-old, who has become quite skilled in Internet Gaming in a nickjr.com-kind-of-way, spent a bit of this time playing Dora's Magical Castle Adventure online. She kept asking my husband every few minutes to come in to the study and tell her if she won (since she can't read yet). Of course these interruptions would come at the most pivotal moments of our movies, so he was not very responsive to her requests.
After several minutes of unanswered "come-see's," she asked us where our digital camera was. Digital photography is yet another hobby my technically-inclined soon-to-be-kindergartner has recently taken up, so we figured she had just decided to stop playing her game and start snapping pictures instead. Within minutes, she returned to the family room, handed my husband the digital camera, and asked, "Did I win?!"
That's right. My little-smarty pants had taken a picture of the screen of the computer monitor that showed the results of her game so that she could bring it in to show us since we wouldn't get off of our lazy butts! Is that simply ingenious or what?? We were astounded, but also rather embarrassed, that my daughter had gone to such creative measures to get not only our attention but also the answer she needed. What a resourceful little girl we have.
In our defense, couch-potato-ness really is a rarity in our home (at least in the summer)! But my daughter's display did motivate us to turn off the TV and get off the couch.
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