Mommy's helper

To the normal person, changing a baby's diapers is a necessary evil but certainly not something that you jump at the chance of doing. In fact, I know several adults who work actively to avoid it unless they absolutely have to. 

     Well, apparently my toddler does not share this feeling. Instead, she is eager to help me change her sister's diapers, and gets rather frustrated if she's not invited to participate. Just recently I started to change the baby's diaper when my toddler came screaming into the room. I had not announced to her that I was going to change a diaper, and she felt rather frustrated that I was trying to keep this event from her. 

     When I had already taken off and disposed of the old diaper, a huge tantrum ensued. She demanded that I take the dirty diaper out of the diaper pail and reattach it to her sister. As I wasn't about to do this, we had to endure the wrath of the 2-year old for several minutes. 

     Eventually she calmed down, so I let her do the velcro points on the fresh clean diaper, and also allowed her to help snap the snaps on the baby's onesie. All was well with the world. 

     Now if only we could somehow bottle this enthusiasm and energy and give it to adults...