Sassy Pants

Now that Grace has gotten older, she doesn’t like the Nick, Jr shows anymore. There isn’t a lot out there for her age group. Disney Channel seems like it would be good, but if I was watching them with her and they are terrible!

There is one that I like – Good Luck Charlie. The parents are involved, the family is close, the kids don’t get away with everything, etc. Much of the rest of the shows are just dumb. The jokes are dumb, some of the characters are dumb, etc. And many of the younger characters are disrespectful and it’s laughed at and tolerated instead of corrected.

And then Grace started being sassy. Part of it is her age, I know. Part of it is what she sees on TV.

So for about a year, I curtailed her Disney channel watching. And she was really a stickler for it. She didn’t watch it at Maw maw’s house when I wasn’t around because I didn’t want her to. So after many conversations, I relented and we started watching some of them again, but I was watching them with her so I could point out the sassy stuff, and again – just dumb. She likes to sneak off to our room and watch by herself, but we are good about tracking her down.

We’ve made Sunday our family day and last Sunday she was terrible. She lost “personal TV privileges” for the rest of the week. Again, she tries to sneak off to watch it by herself. We’ve also been dealing with a lot of screaming and fit-pitching, so I got a spoon. And every time she starts screaming and pitching a fit for no reason, she get smacked with it. It’s worked before and it’ll take about 2 weeks of being consistent with shutting down the fits and reinforcing our expectations of her behavior.

Some days are good, some days are bad. She is testing boundaries. I’m having to reinforce to her that there are some things that our family does and does not do. She can be so sweet sometimes, though. Some days she’s helpful and full of win and awesome. Fridays have become our “date” night and this Friday we went to see “Little Mermaid, Jr” at my school. It was amazing. It was a musical and they used wheelies to get around the stage. We were really impressed.

Grace’s blog

My parents gave Grace one of their old laptops for her birthday this year. We also relocated and re-batteried her kid’s digital camera, so I offered to set up a blog for her under my blog.

Her camera is a kid’s camera, but it’s digital and it connects to a computer, so I showed her how to do that and move the pictures over. There were a lot of old pictures on there from when she first played with the camera and lots of unflattering shots of just about everyone. 

So far, her blog is just pictures of her baby dolls and how much she loves the people in her life, but I think she may be able to use it more as she grows to document stuff that happens. Like what I do with this blog – document our life so I can go back later and see it. I have a terrible memory, so this helps to make sure there are memories there.

She chose her own name – Grace’s School Blast and all of the content is hers. Drop by and give her a comment if you can.

http://gracefullofgrace.blogspot.com/ 

Crazy Gracie

So she's been acting a little crazy lately. Scott goes to his friend's house to play a game with a group every Sunday. It's something he likes to do and we are glad he is able to do that. Lately, Gracie has been losing her shit every time he leaves, though. Since I had friends over this weekend, Scott wanted to invite his friends over for Labor Day. Gracie is excited about it; Scott is excited about it. I heated up the spaghetti from the other night to eat and we had plenty of bread left over. Gracie helped me set up the table with a table cloth and place mats - totally unnecessary - these are bachelor dorks, but I would like for them to feel welcome here. I suggested that Gracie put on a stained shirt to eat the spaghetti in and she completely lost her shit again. She wants to look nice for Daddy's friends. This could go well or badly. We'll see.

Funny Gracie moments

Gracie has been off the chain these days. Not sure why. She's been watching an InuYasha movie all the time. It's weird that she likes it so much. Scott and I do too and have for years.
Funny: Grace notices everything . . . and comments on it. She keeps commenting about me releasing my seatbelt before I turn the car off - or something similar. A few days ago she said she was proud of me for waiting to unbuckle my seat belt. I asked her why it bothered her and why she commented on it. She said it's because she wants me to be safe. So sweet. Ha! I told Scott that and he said he couldn't imagine where she got the "noticing everything" gene. I said it was from Nana. He said Nana wasn't the only Mooney-girl with it.
Funny 2: We were going to the grocery store and she wanted to know what I was wearing. I asked her if I could wear what I had on. She said people would laugh at my night-night pants. Hilarious!

She seems to be adapting well to kindergarten. She likes it and she hasn't had to move her feather at all. She's singing new songs and talking about her classmates and teacher. Scott walks her to school and goes to get her. That's a special time for them. She's been good at getting up early and playing at running with me, but she gets ready well and dressed.