now that's what I'm talking about...

Tonight after dinner I let the girls have one cookie each for dessert, and told them they could eat in on the back patio. They sat in the couch out there and ate while I watched them from the window. No fighting, and when Saoirse moved to their little picnic table she said, "Rowan, join me!" And Rowan did. Super cute. Then they finished, I let them in, and they took off running for the stairs yelling "Bath time!"

Chris said, "Yeah, now this is the kind of parenting that I've been looking forward to. Maybe if we just stay here they'll give themselves a bath."