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Mimi Says

today, i was having the worst time getting mimi to go clean up her play room. after several attempts, none of which were met with any action, i finally hauled out the kitchen timer, set it for 25 minutes and told mimi she needed to get in there and get everything off the floor before the timer went off. anything left on the floor was getting trashed. she took the timer (she likes to keep an eye on it...if she added minutes to it, i didnt mind, so long as everything was picked up and i didnt have to go in there and pick up anything myself!) and starting running around her room picking up and chanting, it's getting so clean, mom! look at me clean!

after a while, mimi announces she is done. unbelievably, there's still 17 minutes left on the timer (so either it was broken or she messed with it and added more time to it). the room looked tidy so i praised her good work. she beams up at me and asks if she earned a dollar for cleaning her room. i smiled and let her have a dollar, which she carefully put away in her hello kitty wallet that our friend Lauren gave her years ago.

when rob got home i bragged on how mimi had cleaned up her room all by herself. rob praised her good work and mimi announced that she earned a dollar for it and that she planned to eventually buy herself an iPhone with the money.

i told her iPhones were really pricey but maybe she could save up for a handheld gaming device. i warned her that even those were a lot of money though...probably could get one for little kids for $60 (like the Leapfrog ones). she seemed to be thinking about how many times she had to clean her room for $1 to earn $60 and she suddenly looked crestfallen. i started to feel bad for her thinking she must feel so defeated by how long that would take. but then she said to me, mom, i'm sad because i wish my room was messy. do you know why? so i could earn another dollar today.

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