Thesis

This thesis won't write itself.
This thesis won't write itself.
This thesis won't write itself.

Time to focus, Cheyanne!
Easy to say, hard to do
;)

Comet, the fish

About a week before Petey went to my dad's, I bought Grace a fish as a new pet. I wanted her to have a pet of some kind and figured a fish would be the least allergic choice. I am finding that my allergies are getting worse over time.

One Saturday morning while Grace was with Gordie, I went out in search of a fish for her. I had quite a scary experience at the pet store when the guy working there came around the corner with a torantula on his shoulder. I do not have a phobia of spiders, but one that large bought out quite a fearful reaction. It was right at my eye level only about a foot away. The guy reassured me that it would not "jump" onto me and I was safe, but I still made him put it away while he helped me choose a hardy fish for Grace. I ended up choosing a beta fish with a small tank to match.

Grace was very excited to see the fish when she got home and quickly named him "Comet". My nephew Jasper has a hamster named Comet, so she may have remembered that name or maybe it comes from all the Christmas stories/songs as Comet is a reindeer. It is hard to tell where a 2 year old gets these things.

She hugs the fish tank and gives it kisses as well. Too cute!

Petey the Bird has left the building.

Petey the bird (see pictures on previous posts) has gone to live at my dad's house. He was quite a noisy pet that made me sneeze anytime I went near him. This made it quite hard to properly care for the little guy. My dad and his girlfriend offered to take Petey and give him a good home. Grace is excited that she will still get to see him when we visit them. They also have a skinny pig (that deserves a whole other post) so Grace that it was great that they could play together. I am not sure how much playing they will do....but whatever you have to tell your child to make the transition goes smoothly works for me.

She thinks she is a princess

Grace is convinced that she is a princess.

We have to watch the princess movies over and over again. This really goes against my views of television watching...but she gets so much pleasure out of watching these movies. It is really the only TV that she gets...but it is a little too often for my liking. The only other thing she likes to watch is "the kids" aka. Jon and Kate Plus Eight. She loves watching all of the kids playing.

Okay...back to the princess bit.

Anything that has a princess on it is automatically a hit with her. If we want her to do something then we tell her that princesses do it as well. I had to start telling her that princess (meaning the princess on her movie) was going to bed to help with bedtime. She wears her princess party shoes all the time, even to bed. This morning she had to take her princess tiara to school with her.

Here is a picture of her with one of her crowns on. Too cute!

Transition to the toddler bed

Okay...so I have been really neglectful of this blog. I didn't think anyone was really reading it until I got some emails saying "Why are you not writing on your blog?". So, I will make an effort to keep this more up to date.

Grace has started sleeping her toddler bed this week. I wanted to wait until the last possible moment to put her in the toddler bed, as I really like having her in the crib. She still fights bedtime and naptime almost every day, so she often cried for a few minutes after I put her in the crib. It was so easy to put her in and walk away.
Well....on Tuesday night I put her in her crib, said goodnight and walked out of the room. Something made me look back to check on her and there she was...sitting on top of her crib rail. One leg swung over the edge and one leg still in the crib. What a little monkey...so quiet and so sneaky. So, that was the end of the crib era. Her crib does convert to a toddler bed, but it still seemed so high off the ground...and I did not have a bedrail to put up. I had a toddler bed in the basement that I was planning to use instead. So, I dragged this heavy toddler bed up the stairs and set it up for the little princess.
Then, the real challenge begins. How do you get a 2 year old to sleep in a bed? She does this at daycare, but like most children, Grace does miraculous things at daycare that she does not do at home. I put a baby gate up in the doorway (another trip to the basement) and tried leaving her alone. That did not go well. In the end, I ended up sleeping on the floor beside her toddler bed until she fell asleep (about an hour later).
Last night, I was all prepared to bundle up on the floor again to get her to sleep. Gordie had offered to inflate an air mattress for me, but I did not want to make sleeping on the floor attractive to her. She tried sleeping beside me once on the floor and decided that the hardwood was too hard and cold for her. This time it was 2 hours later and she was not asleep....little rascal. And, I was sore from laying on the floor. So, I ended up leaving her in the room alone and within 15 minutes she was asleep.
I can only wonder what tonight will bring....I wish that Nanny 911 show had a 1-800 number you could call 24/7 with these questions. I

Happy Birthday to Me

Thanks for the cake mom, it was delicious! I found Grace with her hands in it about a hour later. She was eating cake for all she was worth! It was so cute that I did not scold her.