It's the second week into school, and Lexis is still under the weather. However, I've had to send her in every day, besides, unless she spikes a fever I would never pull her out. Every day of learning counts. But she's been doing the I don't want to go to school bit, and this morning was no exception.
Even though I can still manage to get her there without much trouble, today at drop off the tears just started pouring down her face. It broke my heart, but I didn't know what to do. I couldn't help her. I didn't understand it either, was it because she was still feeling ech, or was it more than that. At the time she wasn't ready to talk, but just kept repeating, "I don't want to go to school..." Then I rushed to work. Guilt all the way.
Lexis watches a lot of YouTube against my better judgement but the content varies here and there. Lately, it's been a lot of cake making videos and she knows more about fondant than I do. But this evening, she asked me for some balloons. Then she grabbed one of her many Barbies. Now, if you know where this is going, then you too have a child who has seen many a YouTube videos of this, but if not, I'll explain. I don't know who the YouTuber is, and there is probably more than one, but one person out there has shared how to make pretty interesting Barbie outfits with balloons. You have to cut the balloons in a certain way, then pull them over the Barbie's head or underneath from the bottom, and I've seen tube tops, dresses, headbands, and more and it's quite ingenious. Not that I would want to play with latex. It is better though than the outfit Lexis made with Play Doh several weeks ago. That got messy. Imagine now, a five year old making latex outfits for her Barbie. Oh, the stuff they learn these days! In my days, there was no YouTube, but I think I would have just been pretty content with the store bought outfits? That's the difference between her and me.
As you know we went to Party City over the weekend to check out some birthday party ideas. Lexis decided on mermaids, that eventually turned into the ultimate mermaid: Ariel. The thing is though, this party came on very quickly and unexpectedly because I was under impression that we were still planning to do the theatre party at the end of October, giving me a lot more time and obviously out of the house! None of her friends had done one before, so I was really excited to be the first one, and looking forward to a change in the normal kids party scene and showing them all a good time. Turns out, there's only one PG movie playing around that time and she showed no interest in it at all. In fact she downright said: "No." That would have been an easy party for me. Sigh. I've never had it easy when it comes to parties. They've always been at the house. They've always been chaotic, with flying candy, and dirty wet shoes, and crumbling homemade play dough with little star confetti under the beds. This party will be at the house again, in less than a month!
And did I mention that I still have to design the invitation?
And did I mention that I still have to design the invitation?
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