a 'cate'

A week or so ago I got a video for Rachel out of the library--it's one I've had out before (in fact, it was one I had on vacation and she watched it over and over again in the car....), but she hadn't seen it in a long, long time. One of the shows on the DVD is The Wonder Pets, a show she doesn't ever watch (it's not on at a time that she's usually allowed to watch a show). She's choosing this one a lot, and gets particularly excited when they put on their capes and get in their "flyboat" to go save some baby animal.

Last week sometime she brought me a blanket and said, "Cate, Mommy? Put cate on?" It took me awhile to figure out that she was asking me to put the blanket around her shoulders as her cape (she does this all the time, but usually it's as Super Bunny and she doesn't call it a cate!). So I put the blanket around her and she said, "Thank you my cate, Mommy." Then she was looking around for something. I asked her what she was looking for, and she said, "I looking my flyboat," which is what they call that red contraption in the picture you see. So we found an empty box and that became her flyboat. For several days that sat in the family room and whenever she'd choose to watch The Wonder Pets, she'd get her 'cate' on and get in her flyboat (then I cleaned and the flyboat went out to the garbage....yesterday she was asking for it again.....oops!).

So next on my agenda is making her a 'cate.' And maybe finding a new flyboat.