Kayden

I truly feel like Kayden is really smart, except on days when she does something that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.   On those days I wonder what is going on in her head.  We've been struggling with her and light in her room.  She's afraid of the dark (age appropriate) but also tends to do things that are dangerous: dismantle a lamp while it was plugged in (because she couldn't reach the plug behind the protector) and scale furniture to reach the lamps that are too high for her to reach.  We thought we'd solved the problem by putting these little flashlight night-lights in her room.  She proved us wrong however during "nap time" when this happened.

Apparently she was trying to put the chain from this necklace between the flashlight and the wall (while it was plugged in).  It essentially welded the necklace to the flashlight.

It also did this to the outlet and flipped the breaker switch.  We are investigating some other night light option now....

Later that night, she was still talking about the "pop" sound that it made and how they were dangerous. After we'd relived that a few times with Dad, we started talking about our trip to Disney World.  We'd just watched the Little Mermaid and Ariel Beginnings (both girls are very sick) and I asked if she thought we'd see Ariel at Disney World.  She hesitated for a minute and I was afraid she was going to talk about Ursula or the fact that Ariel's mom dies in the first one.  She didn't though.  She pointed to the counter and said, "We need to take those black things up there (the remotes) so we can skip past the dad when he's grumpy."  Kelly and I had to try really hard not to laugh - at the fact that the dad being grumpy was more traumatizing than Ursula or the mom dying and at the fact that she thinks the remote control can "skip past" the scary parts in life.