Charlie Brown and The Blankie Blues

Mia has pretty much memorized the entire Be My Valentine Charlie Brown dvd.  She has watched it just about every day I think since we received it from Granmommy a couple weeks ago.  I will have to post her impression of Lucy throwing a fit.  It's pretty hysterical.  It's really been pretty entertaining for me and Shelby too.  I had no idea how clever that show was.  Lennon doesn't really seem to care if it's on or not.  The only thing he will really pay attention to at all is Baby Einstein Neighborhood Animals, which he refers to as "Doddie", or Elmo in Grouchland.  We've seen a lot of "doddie"  in the last couple of days since we've been doing the breathing treatments for his cough.  He seems to be almost done with it now.  I didn't even do a treatment tonight because he seemed so well.  He LOVES taking baths with his "sissy" and he loves the Elmo faucet protector.  She has really been hamming it up for him lately and he just laughs his head off.  This afternoon while Mia was still at school I made the mistake of taking Lennon down with me to throw some laundry in.  The mistake was letting him see me put his blankies into the dryer.  He didn't protest at the time, but as we started to go back up stairs and he realized we weren't bringing the blankie back up he got pretty upset.  For about the next 20 minutes he stood by the gate off and on asking for his blankie.  He has a sign for it and he calls it "bank."  I tried my best to distract him, but finally had to break down and just grab his slightly damp "bank" out of the dryer.  He was quite happy to be reunited with his precious blankie.  

Lennon's newest word is happy or "appy."  He sort of chants it as I'm bringing him a favorite snack or we're starting a favorite activity.  This of course, makes me about the "appiest"  mom around.  He definitely has bad days/weeks, but I am seeing more and more of his giggly, happy, explorative side these days.  

I'm meeting with Mia's principal next tuesday to discuss taking her out of school.  I am nervous just because whenever I'm up there I automatically go into being in school mode and I feel like that is my principal or something.  I know, it's weird.  What can I say.  I already got yelled at by her teacher so I'm a little worried about what the principal is going to have to say to me - some crazy Texas lady who wants to pull her kid out of their fine schools in the middle of the year.  Oh well.  We'll see.