Kaylee's bed is all lumpy and broken down because she likes to jump on it. It was an old mattress to start with and we knew it wouldn't be there forever, so we let her, but we told her that she couldn't get a new bed until she was done with the jumping thing. Just recently she got so uncomfortable in her lumpy bed that she says she's ready to get that new mattress and not jump on it. And then she said that if at all possible, she'd like to have a Tempur-Pedic bed, because it fits to your form, is very comfortable and long-lasting and even comes with a warranty. Her grandma has a Tempur-Pedic pillow and she would love a whole bed made out of that stuff. These are all words out of her mouth, some of which had to come from a commercial I suppose, but it made us laugh. So for grins, I looked them up-anywhere from $2000-$5000 for a mattress! I informed her tonight that she was seriously out of luck. :)
Last night when Steve was putting up the lights, he talked to Kaylee about putting some cool lights up in her room, and she loved the idea. So he said "I'll tell you what-I'll put the lights in your room, but you need to clean it. Not tonight, but in the next couple of days. Okay?" She came right back with "No thanks." She was being so stubborn that she was willing to give up the pretty lights in her room just to not have to clean it. After some time, Steve says "You realize that you're going to have to clean your room anyway, right? So do you want the lights in your room, or do you really not want them?" She said she wanted the lights, just didn't want to have to clean her room. She gets the lights-and she gets to clean her room anyway too. For some reason Steve insists that this particular brand of "cut off your nose to spite your face" stubborn came from me...
Kaylee was trying to do a back-handspring at gymnastics (I don't know the name of this stuff) and said she hurt her wrists once and that her arms collapsed once because she wasn't strong enough and she scraped her back too. Then she said in a disgusted voice "It looks so easy, but it's a lot harder than it looks." I told her that the more she did it the stronger she'd get and the easier it would get, and she just sighed and said "I sure hope so."
Today was "Show and Share" at school, and Kaylee wanted to bring Deenie the Elf. I hesitated because I was a little concerned about kids making fun of her because of Deenie "moving around at night" and such, and I asked her if she was going to tell them that. She said she was, and then when I hesitantly mentioned that some kids might make fun of that or not understand, she said she didn't care what they thought about it and we went out the door. I pick her up from school today, and I ask how Show and Share went, and she got all excited and said that another girl in her class has an elf too, named Snowflake, which is a blond elf wearing blue and white, and that this elf always ends up in the tree downstairs each night and then disappears to be found somewhere else on Christmas morning. She wants to set up a playdate with this schoolmate and their two elves so that they can play together. The other kids were receptive and friendly about her elf too. I can see how parents become kill-joys. You don't want your child to be disappointed or hurt by somebody else, so you try to let them down easily yourself...the only problem being that now you're the one who is quashing the fun, out of fear of what might happen, who wants to protect them from things but in the process isn't letting them learn or just be...kids. I almost didn't let her take Deenie today, but I'm glad I did. She had her fun, she had a point of similarity with a classmate, and she had a fun day bringing a special thing to school. :) Kids are a lot stronger than people give them credit for being. Stronger, and many times, wiser...
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