Tai and Quynh are different in so many ways, one of which being their willingness to do things for themselves. I don't know whether it's due to their age, birth order, sex, or just personality, but they differ dramatically on the self-motivation scale.
Quynh is full-on in the "I do it myself!" phase, which can be both adorable and frustrating (like her insistence that she apply her own sunscreen this morning at a painfully slow pace). Tai, on the other hand, follows the "Why do it myself when someone else will do it for me?" philosophy. Don't get me wrong, he actually does do lots of things on his own (get dressed, brush his teeth, etc). But he does seem to be much less excited by the idea of self-sufficiency than his sister. Actually, looking back I think he had this attitude even as a toddler. Anyway, last night Quynh reached a new level in self sufficiency that I didn't even know about until this morning.
Having recently mastered the overnight potty training thing, she was pleased as punch to go to bed buck naked last night (as her brother does every night -- I guess they are not that different). Yet this morning she emerged from her room and had to take off underpants before using the potty. Huh?
Apparently at some point between tuck-in and wake-up (which she calls, "the middle of the night" but for all I know it was 6am) she woke up and decided she needed bum cream. But she didn't need any help.
As far as I can tell she acquired the cream (from the top of her dresser, by balancing on tip-toe on the foot-board of her bed), un-capped the tube of cream, applied it liberally to the relevant area of her body, re-capped the tube, replaced it on her dresser, and then (wisely) took a pair of underpants from her drawer and put them on before climbing back under the covers.
Sometimes it's like she doesn't even need parents.
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