Roof, Poop, and Super Vi

It's ROOFING WEEKEND!!! My namesake's husband, Frank, knows all about roofing, and is our special hired hand for the weekend. He and Dan are up on the roof making all sorts of noise. They raised the pitch on our little kitchen addition, from what Frank called the Arizona-style roof...meaning, it was a flat ice-dam magnet. It looks great. Today they are re-doing all the sheathing (an unexpected necessity, I guess) on the back-side of the house. Tomorrow will be shingles. The front half of the house, the less-damaged side, will have to wait for another weekend, unfortunately. Thank GOD we are having such nice weather this weekend!

Vi's latest make-believe activity is playing with a doll (baby doll or Ernie). She sits the baby in a high-chair, puts on a bib, and pretends to feed her carrots from a baby food jar. She says things like "Want some more? Yummy!" Later, the baby will be "poopy," according to Vi. She verifies this fact by sniffing the baby's bum. She gets toilet paper and pretends to clean up the baby, then takes the toilet paper to the bathroom. She shouts, "BYE, POOP!" and flushes. She will then gladly inform whoever is listening that Poop goes in the Potty. (Good girl.) THEN, she takes the baby to the bathroom, makes peeing noises, and cheers for baby in a screeching, loud, squealing, high-pitched, Very Excited Tone, "Good Job, BABY!!! YOU GO POTTY!!! HIGH FIVE!!"

This gets us in stitches every time.

Oh, and Vi did a good job sleeping last night. Earned a Tatoo. We were snuggling in bed this morning, watching Super Why (a PBS Kids show which I don't particularly enjoy), and Vi wanted to do Super Vi - you know, the standard adult leg-lift? I started adapting the Super Why theme song for Super Vi, singing all about Super Jammies and Super Power to Sleep...maybe THIS will be the magic encouragement to keep her asleep at night! UGH...it's been a rough week of up-all-nights.

This morning, amid the pounding and scraping and pnuematic tools, Vi snuggled on my lap for a story. She curled up and put her head on my shoulder, and fell asleep. She's been napping for an hour and half now, even with all the noise. Maybe it's not Super Power to Sleep...maybe she's just really pooped.