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This is ridiculous: School accuses 5-year-old of sex harassment

My daughter is almost 2 1/2. I need to start looking into where to send her in a couple of years.

Lost and Found

Over Thanksgiving weekend, we lost Bethany's Polly Pocket doll. We looked everywhere. The poor people in the toddler nursery at church even took everything apart TWICE because we thought she had left it there.

Yesterday after her nap, she got up and played for a few minutes then said, "Where's Ears?" (Ears is a beanie that she got in the NICU after she was born. He's her sleeping buddy and goes almost everywhere she does)

I said, "I don't know, did you leave him in your bed?"
B: "I throwed him out!"
Me: "Where?"
B: "On the floor!" (duh, mom)
Me: "Well let's look behind the bed. There he is!"

After I picked him up I saw her. Bethany had "throwed" Ears right on top of her. It was Polly Pocket!

I said, "Bethany, guess who is back here?"
B: "Ears was!"
Me: "Who have we been looking for?" I pull her out...
B: "POLLY POCKET!!!!" Begins doing a jumping dance and giggling like crazy!

The rest of the afternoon she didn't let her go. Bethany took her in the bath, took her to bed, and had her this morning when she woke up. I don't think we'll lose Polly Pocket again any time soon!

Sad Saxophone

Nathan had Bethany in the car a few days ago. The radio was on 107.7, playing 24/7 Christmas music. Kenny G (barf) came on. Bethany says to Nathan, "What instrument is that, Dada?" "That's a saxophone". Bethany replies, "That's a SAD Saxophone!"

Yes, it is.

New songs

Bethany now makes up complete songs. They're pretty disjointed, but they are completely original. She used to just make up words for tunes she already new. Now I catch her singing original compositions. Words and music. I don't think she's ready to publish or anything, but she's well on her way! :)

Safety Patrol

As we're pulling out of the mall parking lot the other day Bethany says to me, "Mama, you forgot your belt!" I hadn't put on my seat belt yet.