Monster Ice Cream

Here is Yucky Melanie rescuing her good friend, Elmo. It's a good thing when a monster has a friend.










Tonight at bedtime, Melanie wanted to say prayers. Here's as close as I can get to quoting:

"Dear Jesus, please help us do lots of coloring. Especially with blue, green....(Mommy, I can't member the other colors...) oh yeah - red, and yellow, and on lots of different of my new sheets. Thank you for my stickers. Help mommy and daddy obey Jesus. Help my heart love Jesus and mommy and daddy. Help me sleep good. Amen."

I had to bite my hand to not laugh. She is really into this coloring thing these days. I think if I would let her, she would color for hours at a time. She threw a fit this evening when we told her she had to put things away to go upstairs for a bath and bedtime. After getting into a bit of trouble for that, she and I had a "decussion" upstairs about how sometimes it is "bery tricky" to obey when she doesn't get her way with the coloring, and how Jesus is our helper, and can help her to obey even when she doesn't want to. It was funny, but touching, too.

This child has a very strange fetish with...well,...poopoo. She gets so excited to "make poopoos" as she says. And it is almost always in a very weird order. When she has to go number 2, she says, "I will make poopoos, then tootoos, then peepees." And it normally goes in that order, too. I think that is slightly unnatural, but who am I to question these private things? Seems strange to me. She also asked me the other day if she could pick some up to "see the other side." Her rational on this was that she had never seen the other side of the poopoo, and she wanted to know what it looked like. I tried explaining to her that it looked the same, but she said "How do you know if you don't pick it up?"

Good point. I guess I have no clue what the other side of the poop looks like either!

We had icecream at Friendly's tonight. Melanie had a Monster Sunday. Green (mint chocolate chip) icecream, with Reece's cup ears, reece's peanut butter eyes/nose, and a cherry mouth, and whipped cream hair. It was cute :) She said she liked being the boss over the monster, and I liked that she found out again that a monster was just pretend. It worked for both of us!

We also went to the craft store tonight to pick up a punch I need for Saturday. She asked me the name of the checkout lady - it was Pat. So, she said, "Hi Pat!" Pat said hello to her, and asked her her name. She told it - the entire thing! Then she said, "My birthday is in July and I'm going to go to the dentist. He has to check my teeth and I get bubble gum floride. I have to practice how to spit until then, because he makes you spit in a little sink beside the big chair."

Pat just looked at me. And I nodded. "Yup. She said what you think she said."

I was a little embarassed, I have to admit. I mean, spit doesn't seem like the kind of conversation you have with the check out lady at ACMoore. But alas - Melanie does not know that.

She did nap today; so hopefully we're getting caught up on sleep, and out of the crank mode.