Sweeping {The Ordinary Moments}
I’ve spoke a lot about how LP loves copying us in the things we do over the course of the average day – Cooking and washing up are things she really enjoys to do – Any kind of role playing game really where she has a chance to copy Mummy and Daddy.
We bought LP a toy broom, mop and dustpan & brush for her Birthday and she has loved it ever since. She copies Daddy – he’s the ‘cleaner’ in our house! – and loves to sweep up and clean all around the house – sweeping the lounge, the kitchen and grabbing her mop if she accidentally spills a drink!
Every so often LP will decide she wants to do a little dance and have a twirl with her broom, or even with both her mop and her broom! She’ll spin around in a circle going ‘weeeeeeee’ with not a care in the world, just one Little Pickle twirling and twirling.
I love it when LP does something so carefree, so funny to watch and so sweet at the same time. Stopping her serious job of sweeping to have a dance until she gets tired or dizzy. Then the seriousness will come back and she’ll get on with the job in hand – Sweeping again!
I don’t normally show black and white photos of LP. I usually love to show her red hair and the colour in our home but with these pictures I didn’t want to detract from our ordinary moment. The sweeping, the natural spinning of a toddler and her love of copying Mummy and Daddy – although I can’t remember when, if ever, we last stopped mid sweep to have a little boogie!
The sooner she learns to clean the bathroom the better!!
Aww this is so lovely! I think as adults we want to get the job over and done with, therefore miss the chance of a boogie 🙂 x
I LOVE her red hair! Still the black and white photos look great too, it’s so sweet how they want to be like Mummy and Daddy x
such a beautiful girl helps you clean the house!
These are such beautiful pictures. It’s great that your daughter has both Mum AND Dad as cleaning role models – it makes buying toys like this less of a dilemma, when they’re not tied to gender roles. Let’s face it, every little person I’ve met has enjoyed twizzling round with a broom in their hand! Gorgeous post.
I love these photos! They have done exactly what you wanted, captured the ordinary moment! LP is seriously just so cute!
Daddy mops the floor in our house too 🙂 x
Such lovely photos again this week. LP is so cute how she copies everything. I wonder if she’ll still enjoy helping round the house when she’s big enough to do it for real?