Meredith's Brain and Hair

At school Meredith has been learning about how the body works. They've talked about the brain, the heart, blood, lungs, etc. Meredith will tell you that the brain does your thinking for you and "it's always working and never stops, even when you're sleeping."

Meredith talks about her brain as a separate entity. Such as, "Let me ask my brain that question." Tonight she told Grandma Gail, "I will wake up in the morning and my brain will tell me to come downstairs and get you."

Meredith truly loves all things scientific. She's also been discussing how vaccines work and what germs are.

Besides science, Meredith does art projects. Earlier this week while I was tending to Elaine, Meredith used her scissors to cut up paper into tiny confetti pieces all over the first floor. She and I spent about 40 minutes cleaning it up. At least she was a pretty decent helper on the clean up. Today, it was discovered that she used the scissors on her own hair. She cut a couple bunches, several inches long and placed it with her art supplies and toy lunch box. Upon Grandma Gail discovering some hair in her lunch box she was asked why. "That's hair, we should clean it out," Meredith responded matter-of-factly. Where did this hair come from? "Junior?" she suggested. Way to pass the buck!

The scissors were given a time out, one of the most traumatic events in a while. Our challenge now is to impress upon her how unacceptable it is to be her own hair stylist. The damage looks minimal. She appeared to cut from both sides of her head. Fortunately she didn't take a chunk of her bangs, which would have looked wonderful. Meredith also had the good judgment to cut the hair the weekend after the school pictures, versus before.