The Fabulous Thing About 4 Year Olds

is that when they are present as you assign early morning chores to their older sibling they beg to be given a job too. And when you scramble internally for something to give her so that it sounds like you were thinking of her all along, (What? You never do that?) and tell her she can wipe off the bathroom counter in the mornings she says, “Can I clean the toilet too?”

And when she wakes up the next morning, and you have already forgotten about it, that’s exactly what she does. And she does it well.