Kate's Granmomma sewed her a Snow White costume for Christmas - and to put it mildly, she loves it! For the past few months she's been in a daily dress up mode, but so far we haven't felt the extreme need to wear a costume all day long... until today. This morning she had Snow White on before breakfast and when I asked her to take it off so we could eat she informed me she was wearing it FOREVER. I relented for breakfast, thinking the desire would fade when it was time to get dressed and run errands, but she continued to be calmly steadfast as she told me again she would wear this dress FOREVER. We fight enough two year old battles for independence these days - so in the spirit of trying to carefully choose my battles, I decided to wait her out and see how long she'd last in the dress. And while we were at it I thought we should have a little fun... so here's a 2 minute video summary of our Snow White adventures today:
Strep throat hasn't slowed Kate down too much - she still loves to sing.
Hope you enjoy these carols straight from the mouth of a sweet two year old...
Merry Christmas to all!
Rise Up Shepherd And Follow
Joy To The World
Hope you enjoy these carols straight from the mouth of a sweet two year old...
Merry Christmas to all!
Rise Up Shepherd And Follow
Joy To The World
After a weekend of full of fever, coughing, runny nose, very little sleep or eating, and crying, we decided I should take Kate to the doctor today. After sitting as patiently as possible in the big waiting room for 45 minutes we finally made it to a little waiting room in the back and all my girl wanted to do was lay on the table. That's when you know your typically curious and often precocious two year old is definitely sick. About 45 more minutes, an exam, a throat culture, a popsicle, a prescription, and a few stickers later, we left the office with the diagnosis of strep throat and a possible ear infection. There are definitely many things that are much worse than strep throat and we are so thankful to be able to go to the doctor to get help for our girl - yet this is still a tough time in Kate's little girl world. Please pray for us as we try to keep her hydrated, happy, and healed!
We took Kate on a little family adventure last Friday. While on our said outing, we saw a polar bear and a dinosaur among other things. The dinosaur was probably 4 times as tall as Kate, had many tall teeth, she'd never seen anything like it, and it would stand to reason that a tiny two year old should be intimidated by him since he stood outside the building thus making her think he was free to "get" her (her words). By contrast, the polar bear she saw after that didn't stand nearly as tall, didn't have nearly as many teeth, she's seen at least one of these stuffed life sized ones before and has a large stuffed animal one at home, and he was inside the building within a fence and clearly not living. You would think the dramatic opposition of the two situations would clearly leave her inclined to prefer the polar bear, but that thought would be 100% incorrect. She didn't want to get near the polar bear or talk about him in the slightest - all she could talk about was the dinosaur and getting to go back outside to see him again. She wouldn't smile, acted fearful, and started to cry when I tried to get her picture by the bear, but couldn't take her eyes off the dinosaur long enough to stay turned towards the camera while I was taking her picture outside because she was so excited to look at him. Even when we left the building in the dark as the floodlights shown up at the T-Rex (in my opinion making him seem even more scary and dangerous), she asked to go right up and touch it. What's wrong with this girl?!?
So where Coca-cola go wrong in their polar bear campaign? Didn't their focus groups tell the advertisers that dinosaurs are much more attractive and approachable to children than polar bears? Can't you just see the ad: a cute baby T Rex trying to figure out how to get a coke bottle to reach its mouth with its too short front arms while its momma stands behind it?!? Coke's decision to go with the polar bear as a mascot instead of the dinosaur to me confirms that my opinion sides with the majority of the WORLD... but right now Kate would undoubtedly be thrilled and want to start drinking coke if dinosaurs were on the ads instead.
Just like dipping her watermelon in mustard or choosing stale Halloween candy over fresh Christmas cookies for dessert, choosing the dinosaur over the polar bear is probably only the beginning of Kate's choices seeming irrational and/or illogical to me. But even though her preferences sometimes confuse me, it's fun to watch her become her own person - and at this stage in her life it's even more interesting to see her preferences because they are totally independent of societal pressures or norms.
For instance, I LOVE that right now she's in love with the color orange without the slightest concern over the fact girls "should" like pink or purple. I don't know if it's possible to accomplish this, but I'm going to try to find a way to show her how to keep loving orange even when she's old enough to know girls are supposed to like pink and most people in general don't enjoy that good ole orange hue. I've spent too much of my life worried about what I'm supposed to do and what I'm supposed to think - I don't want that sort of life for my girl. I want to strive to lay a solid enough overall foundation within her that she has the confidence, desire, and freedom to make her own successful choices even when those choices don't make sense to others... or even her mother. Thankfully I don't need to understand her to be proud of her, and I'm already so proud of Kate just for being who she is - she's compassionate, giving, funny, energetic, and so much more. I'm a lucky momma!
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