... choosing to wear your rain boots to the fireworks display
... insisting upon taking off and putting on your own clothes (mostly taking off)
... avoiding a diaper change at all costs
... wearing little more than a diaper, when you finally do consent to a diaper change.
It also means...
... insisting upon opening and closing your own doors
(and turning on and off your own lights, and getting your own eating utensils, and picking out your own clothes, etc.)
... feeding yourself, especially the really messy stuff
... "helping" Mom and Dad clean the house
... filling up your swimming pool
(this includes turning on and occasionally off the hose)
... driving your own farm equipment
AND
... pretending you do not hear Mom when she tells you not to climb on the monkey bars
... doing it anyway
... then laughing about it.
HOWEVER...
there are those days when Dad and Mom are allowed to help.
(speaking of independence... check out Mom's "let it dry on its own and do nothing to it", puffy hair.)
And they cherish the moments!
