Are you special?

Tonight we were reading the kids book "Are you special, little one" and so we asked Kylie "are you special?" And she so proudly replied "YES, because I am a Chinese little girl". All of a sudden she is realizing she is from China and she will also tell people "I was born in China". So I'm sure more questions to come on that subject.

But I digress....today was Kylie's first day of "school" aka daycare to you and me. We dropped her off and so far so good. We made it thru the 3 hours and I got soooo much done without having the "help" of a 3 year old underfoot if you know what I mean? So Mark went to pick her up and the teachers said she did well but cried a few times. She came home to tell me all about it and the first words out of her mouth was "I cried at school momma because I missed you" aaaaah! So I asked her if she wanted to go back and she said "no". WRONG! We praised her and told her it was ok to be a little sad and that she would get use to it and by later tonight she thought school might be ok next week. So we try again. So we as proud parents bribed her with dinner anywhere she wanted to go in honor of her first day at school. Where did she insist we go.....McDonalds at Wal Mart of all places???? So off we went for Happy Meals and a little shopping. Oh what an exciting life we lead.

But on the plus side I must really brag here.... I got ALL my Christmas packages WRAPPED today. Again thanks to the help of a 3 year old picking out the bows and insisting blue and purple ARE Christmas colors and should go on red and green packages. All the while in the background "we" were watching Sprout tv. For those of you not tuned into this channel it's a toddler cartoon channel produced by PBS. So excellent as it may be at dinner time distracting a 3 year old it almost drove and almost 40 year INSANE while wrapping presents and arguing about bow colors. Annnnnd to top it all off I also put up our tree while Kylie was at school. So we're the winners on the block for being the first ones. All we did was light it but still Christmas is in the air at the Munsinger house.

So now Miss K. is in bed and I am off to do my nightly trek on the stationery bike. 8 miles a night is this weeks goal. Sweet dreams to all........