Grace: Version 3.5
Funny Gracie stuff from this weekend:
After playing together almost all day Friday I got up to go to St. Paddy’s Day Bloodbath on Saturday. While I am in the bathroom Grace comes in and says she wants me to stay home with her instead. (Heartbreaking!) I tell her I can’t because I have company coming over. As I am pouring myself coffee she comes up to me and says “Um, Dad…(this is her normal preamble) tonight can we watch one of our DVD’s, a movie together when you get home from the Event?” I tell her yes and that as a special treat I will make popcorn for us. “Oh yeah (claps her little hands!) You make GREAT popcorn!”
So of course I made sure I was home in time to watch something with her. She chose “The Avengers” On Demand rather than an actual movie and helped me make the popcorn. Which she mostly ate by herself.
Later on Sunday she asks to wear a dress over her jeans and Mommie picks out some little cotton number with flowers and butterflies on it. While playing with Mommie while I am napping she declares she is the new Superhero “Flower Girl” (! Protecting Brides from crappy wedding planners everywhere I guess) and that Mommie is her Sidekick, Grey Girl (Kim was wearing a grey tee shirt).
Later Flower Girl and I go out into the yard so I can lounge in a hammock and drink coffee and she can run around and play. Flowergirl decides I need a Super hero name so I can fight crime too. She suggests “Blue Guy” since I am wearing a blue shirt and I tell her I prefer to be named after my awesome travel mug of Joe. So my name became the ever awesome “The Red Cup” (fighting evil with a steaming cup of justice!).
I asked her what her super powers were btw. She replied that she saved a little girl or two (her dolls). How did you do that I ask. Grace: “….With my HANDS, Daddy! I reached out and saved them WITH MY HANDS!” (duh!) Ok then!
Soon after we became pirates out for plunder on the high seas of the backyard. Being Captain had its advantages since I was able to lay in the hammock while the First Mate hunted for treasure. There was a long interlude with a Dolphin named Blue and the search for it’s Mommie that I won’t get in to, but near the end of our adventures the First Mate tells me we need to go stop Medusa ( who is NOT a monster btw, thank you very much. She has red hair!)
I ask if we can do that as Pirates. She says “Of course. We _are_ Superheroes after all!”
Daddy: “Superhero Pirates?”
Grace: “YEAH!” (and then she proceeds to do the Wonder Woman spin in the back yard.)
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Grace’s latest stalling tactic for bedtime is to come out from her room after she has been put down complaining of Monsters in the Closet. This involves several exorcisms a night. She has two posters in her room, one of Superman and one of Batman. It is, according to Mommie, the World’s Finest job to handle the Monsters and Ghosts (her favorite show right now is Scooby Doo). Superman apparently gets to deal with the monsters and Batman has to take care of the Ghosts.
Apparently though even the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel need a little help from Mommie on occasion.
These are magical times. Lots of tantrums as well right now (why is it that the ‘half’s’ are the worst?) but none the less extremely precious moments.
After playing together almost all day Friday I got up to go to St. Paddy’s Day Bloodbath on Saturday. While I am in the bathroom Grace comes in and says she wants me to stay home with her instead. (Heartbreaking!) I tell her I can’t because I have company coming over. As I am pouring myself coffee she comes up to me and says “Um, Dad…(this is her normal preamble) tonight can we watch one of our DVD’s, a movie together when you get home from the Event?” I tell her yes and that as a special treat I will make popcorn for us. “Oh yeah (claps her little hands!) You make GREAT popcorn!”
So of course I made sure I was home in time to watch something with her. She chose “The Avengers” On Demand rather than an actual movie and helped me make the popcorn. Which she mostly ate by herself.
Later on Sunday she asks to wear a dress over her jeans and Mommie picks out some little cotton number with flowers and butterflies on it. While playing with Mommie while I am napping she declares she is the new Superhero “Flower Girl” (! Protecting Brides from crappy wedding planners everywhere I guess) and that Mommie is her Sidekick, Grey Girl (Kim was wearing a grey tee shirt).
Later Flower Girl and I go out into the yard so I can lounge in a hammock and drink coffee and she can run around and play. Flowergirl decides I need a Super hero name so I can fight crime too. She suggests “Blue Guy” since I am wearing a blue shirt and I tell her I prefer to be named after my awesome travel mug of Joe. So my name became the ever awesome “The Red Cup” (fighting evil with a steaming cup of justice!).
I asked her what her super powers were btw. She replied that she saved a little girl or two (her dolls). How did you do that I ask. Grace: “….With my HANDS, Daddy! I reached out and saved them WITH MY HANDS!” (duh!) Ok then!
Soon after we became pirates out for plunder on the high seas of the backyard. Being Captain had its advantages since I was able to lay in the hammock while the First Mate hunted for treasure. There was a long interlude with a Dolphin named Blue and the search for it’s Mommie that I won’t get in to, but near the end of our adventures the First Mate tells me we need to go stop Medusa ( who is NOT a monster btw, thank you very much. She has red hair!)
I ask if we can do that as Pirates. She says “Of course. We _are_ Superheroes after all!”
Daddy: “Superhero Pirates?”
Grace: “YEAH!” (and then she proceeds to do the Wonder Woman spin in the back yard.)
***
Grace’s latest stalling tactic for bedtime is to come out from her room after she has been put down complaining of Monsters in the Closet. This involves several exorcisms a night. She has two posters in her room, one of Superman and one of Batman. It is, according to Mommie, the World’s Finest job to handle the Monsters and Ghosts (her favorite show right now is Scooby Doo). Superman apparently gets to deal with the monsters and Batman has to take care of the Ghosts.
Apparently though even the Caped Crusader and the Man of Steel need a little help from Mommie on occasion.
These are magical times. Lots of tantrums as well right now (why is it that the ‘half’s’ are the worst?) but none the less extremely precious moments.