Julia now thinks it is her job to feed the fishes and kittys each night. We are not going to discourage this.
So each night, Julia will get the fish food from the bottom of the fish tank, walk over to me and say "Fishes, mommy, fishes". And we go feed the fishes. At first I was just holding her as I put the fish food in and she just watched the fish eat, but in the last couple of weeks, I have been actually letting her help me feed them. I have to constantly tell her "little bits, little bits" and watch her like a hawk or the fish will end up with way too much food and I will have to scoop it out before the fish die from eating too much.
Julia also love to help Jerrod feed the cats. She knows he feeds the cats around supper time. Jerrod will scoop some food into about 2 bowls and it is Julia's job to distribute it to the rest of the bowls. (we have 6-8 bowls out for the cats) She is so funny how she does it. She will take handfuls to each bowl, then pick a bowl and dump it into another so she can start all over again.
Our cats are wonderful about this. Julia is constantly sticking her hand right in front of their faces while they are trying to eat and grab the food right out of their bowl. We let her play for about 5 to 10 minutes before we call it done and let the cats eat in piece!
Those are two more chores that maybe one day soon, she will take over!!
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