I should have checked.

I thought I heard the water running, and I thought, "I should go check on that."

But, I was sitting at the computer in the extra room - by myself.

Lydia was sleeping in her chair.

Eden was being quiet during quiet time, supposedly in her room.

And, if I went to check on her and she was doing something bad, then I'd have to deal with it, and my quiet time would be over.

So, I sat there for just a few more minutes.

Then, she showed up in the extra room with her mischevious/proud/are-you-gonna-be-happy-with-me smile saying, "Come see, come see"

[Side Note: E often asks us, "Are you happy?" after she's done something she shouldn't and we're dealing with it. It's like she's asking "Are things ok now? You're not mad at me any more, right?"]

[Side Note 2: Everyone here says "come see," although it sounds French when they say it, like "comme ci." They use it instead of saying "come here" or as I would say "com'ere." It can mean come see what I did, come over here to me, let me show you something, aw honey I'm sorry you're hurting/come to me, etc. Eden uses it all the time. Is it something in French? I should look it up.]

She said she had something to show me in the hall and in her room ...

Where did she get this idea?

She had taken pieces of paper, gotten them wet in the sink, and then "pasted" them to the hallway door, her windows, and tile in the bathroom. At least it was just water. We talked about not taking anything wet into her room and that wet things could only go on tile like in the bathtub.

Probably shouldn't have taken pictures of it, and, yes, I probably should have checked.

[ajb]