Nothing like a 3:00 AM wake up call...

I'm sound asleep this morning and from the depth of a most delicious sleep, I'm wakened by the mewling cries of my darling daughter. Like any good mother, I tense... hoping beyond hope that this is just a momentary glitch and that she'll go back to sleep on her own. Instead, the wails intensify and conjoin into an actual sentence of "I want my binky... I want my binky in my mouff!" Definitely a cry that means business. So, I dragged my sorry butt out of the warm (delightfully so) bed and down the hall to the light switch where I'm momentarily blinded in the glare. I continue down the hall and into her room to find her laying there quitely with the binky firmly ensconced. "What," I think??? I got out of bed for this? But no. Of course she wouldn't disappoint me like this because as soon as she saw me looking in disbelief at the binky, she said, quite clearly, "I want my bubba. I want my bubba in my mouff."

Arghhhh... I told her that bubbas were not for the middle of the night and that she needed to go back to sleep immediately. I covered her back up, turned the music on the mobile on and blindly headed back to bed where I inserted the ear plugs as deeply as I could and went back to sleep. Mothers need far more patience than I have at times...

Almost forgot this one...

Yesterday, while on the way to daycare, Gracie saw a yellow school bus and told me again- that she wants to ride on one to school. She wants to go to school in the worst way! I reiterated again that she needs to be 5 before she can go to school. I then asked her if she knew what grade she'd be in when she starts school. She was silent so I told her that she'd be in Kindergarten when she was 5. After a minute, she told me that she was going to pick all the flowers in the garden. I thought, huh? How did we move to the gardening topic? So I asked her what garden she wanted to pick flowers in and she said (duh!) KINDERGARTEN!

After I stopped laughing, I explained that Kindergarten isn't really a garden at all but that she'd have fun there and meet lots of new kids. It was just so cute.

Halloween fun

Last night was Gracie's first time hitting the neighborhood as an official Trick or Treater. She actually did very well and was so excited about ringing doorbells to get candy. We started off the evening with her at the Boo at the Zoo festivities. We met a couple of moms from my mom's group and caught up with them for a few minutes. Then we wandered around a bit and then headed home so that Gracie could do some trick or treating. She was so excited about going and she had no hesitation about knocking on doors! I was pretty surprised by how easily she settled into the routine and fun of it. I really enjoyed going with her and was only just a little bit wistful about how fast my baby is growing up. She looked adorable in her "Princess Butterfly" costume too.