Cheer clinic

We registered Nina for what she believes was a piece of heaven. The chance to be smothered with attention by a whole squad of cheerleaders from Matt's school. As an added bonus, she learned some basic cheer moves, a little dance and had the chance to show off her new skills at halftime of the football game. During the whole experience she was all smiles and starry-eyed. Apparently we will be repeating this next year.

I guess I asked for it

Matt was putting new sheets on Nina's bed when all of the sudden she starts screaming. Apparently he didn't let her jump on the bed before he put new sheets on (don't worry that it was sheetless all day). I go in to help Matt finish and she is hysterical. I try all kinds of things to calm her down, but nothing worked. So finally I was frustrated and I said, "Just pee on it tonight and we'll change it again tomorrow, then you can jump on it without sheets" (don't ask me why I said that, it's a long, painful story). We finished putting her bed together and went back downstairs. Later, I read a much calmer Nina her story and kiss her goodnight when she gets this little grin on her face. I asked her what was so funny and she said, "I think there's pee on the bed, so maybe we should change the sheets." Yep, after Matt and I went downstairs, she peed on her bed so that we would have to change the sheets again. Just like I told her to do. Score one for Nina.

A tough one for me

Normally, as you all know, I have been okay letting Nina wear pretty much whatever she wants. But when she requested this hairstyle, I had a really hard time agreeing. She asked for one half to have a french braid and the other half to be in a ponytail because "we've never tried this one before". It boiled down to pride. I feel confident that nobody has ever accused me of picking out any of Nina's special outfits. That's not so obvious with this hairstyle. I thought it was possible that people would think I'd totally lost it and forgotten to finish her hair. So although it may be debatable whether or not I'm crazy - it's not because of this hairstyle. We're just trying new things over here.