Super Bunny and other oddities

While we were on vacation my daughter saw an episode of Max and Ruby where Max was listening to his favorite radio show called "Super Bunny." (I could expound here about how much I dislike that show, but she loves it, so occasionally we let her watch it, as it's on after dinner when we're all tired and need a little bit of a break--it's not bad, it's just annoying because Max always gets in trouble, Ruby is such a know it all, and besides, where in the world are their parents??). Anyway, he had on a red cape and was running around the house trying to save things while he listened. That night before bed she took her beloved purple blanket (she's so attached to that thing and it's a good thing we only allow her to have it in bed, because on vacation when she was allowed to have it in the car and hotel she hardly touched anything else. She's seriously obsessed) and put it around her shoulders like a cape. She started running through the hotel room yelling, "Super Bunny!"

It's become a daily event now. Every morning she wakes up, stands up in her crib, puts it around her shoulders and declares herself to be Super Bunny. When I come in she says, "Super Bunny, book?" That means she would like me to sit with her in the rocking chair in her room with her blanket wrapped around her and read a book. This has now become a daily routine, too. After naptime it's the same thing. The only reason I've agreed to it is because it gets her out of bed. Prior to "Super Bunny book time" she would lay and play in bed for a half hour or so after her nap was over just because she wanted more time with her precious blanket. Now it's a quick book and then she's ready to put the blanket back in bed and go downstairs to go about our day.

When we put her to bed at night we'll often hear her talking in the monitor for a few minutes before she falls asleep and inevitably we hear at least one, "Super Bunny!" and know exactly what she's doing.

Tonight she took an afghan from off the couch and started being Super Bunny in the living room instead.

Here's another weird fact about my daughter. She takes her socks off during every nap and pushes them to the floor behind her crib. I've started taking her socks off before her nap because if I forget then I have to pull her crib away from the wall after she wakes up and rescue the lost socks (and usually find several other pairs back there as well). I don't even bother putting socks on her after her bath at night for this very reason. She seems to prefer being barefoot. Which is strange to me because both my husband and I really don't like being barefoot. Where did she learn this?

Speaking of where she learned things....she has another very strange behavior that we can't explain. Whenever she gets excited about things she likes to throw herself on the ground or bend over and put her head on the floor, looking backwards between her legs. Where in the world did that come from? Last week we went to story time at the library. We hadn't been in awhile, so it seemed new to her. At the last minute my friend, Allecia and her son, Kaden walked in. I hadn't told her they were coming because I didn' t know for sure if they'd be there, so she was very surprised to see them. Well, she was so thrilled to see them that she proceeded to throw herself on the floor and kick her legs throughout the story time. It was rather embarrassing. I took her in the back of the room once and told her to stop (she could've easily kicked someone because there were a lot of kids there), and then we went up and tried again. She was better, but at the end she got excited about one of the songs they were singing and she did the same thing. This time I got up and left with her, since she had already been told to stop. She cried and carried on quite a bit about that. I was going to try again this morning, but I had too much to do and didn't make it. We'll try again soon and see if she's any better.


Today was definitely a "ugh...she's two" kind of day. Constant fussiness, a public scene (crying and carrying on because I put a toy back after she had said "all done car" and handed the car back to me! I put it away and started walking away. She decided she wasn't done with it after all but I wouldn't go back and get it for her. She didn't like that one bit and made sure the whole store knew it. We left. Quickly.), and testing Mommy and Daddy over and over. We did a lot of disciplining today. It was exhausting. And then tonight she was going back and forth between us giving us hugs and kisses--how can she be such a stinker one minute and then be so darn sweet the next???