Tonight I headed home early from work so I could work on my English 102 course in WebCT. Of course since I was headed home early today to work, WebCT was down. It’s never bothered me before because I don’t usually use this CMS but this school year I do. This sucked for me. I had 4 out of 20 students emailing me before 3:00PM. So here I was sitting at home, ready to work. Claire was balling because Daddy wanted to watch adult TV instead of her watching some cartoon. I got to a point where I didn’t want to deal anymore, so I told her to get her butt into my bedroom where our small second tv sits. I put in her DVD and hit play. Fifteen minutes later she came out and said she had paused it to go potty and couldn’t turn it back on. She was carrying the remote.

The remote was up on top of the file cabinet where the tv is when I left the room. I asked Claire how she got the remote, and she simply told me “I used my tippy toes”. To her, this was the obvious answer. She couldn’t've been more clear if she just replied with “Doh!” I sat down in the bedroom with her and showed her the play button and the pause button. We put the show back on and I headed back out to the living room. A few minutes later she came back and said she was done watching.

She hung out for a few minutes, and then disappeared. I went in after hearing the tv on. She was in my bed with our blanket pulled up to her chest, chewing on chocolate cookies, and watching a new DVD. I asked what she was doing, and she simply told me that she was watching a new DVD as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.