Invisible

Blitzen loves to play the game ‘invisible’.  She will hide under the covers while we search and search and search for her.  Finally, we find her and we are so delighted and relieved and she is happy and giggly.  We play this game at least once a day. And it is so fascinating. It is [...]

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Fairies, resuscitated and school, explained

Ok, so last night, as Blitzen was falling asleep, she carefully laid out her argument for why Therapist V is incorrrect about fairies. 1)  Fairies are in lots of books 2)  There are fairie sized plates and other household objects in the fairie house and SOMEBODY has been using them 3) Some mornings, when we [...]

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Fairies, RIP

Andrew was at the new therapist with Blitzen. Our email exchange: Subject: Fascinating shit going down Therapist V started by calling fairies fake.    Blitzen is furious at me.   ”Everything I believe in is a fairy tale!   Is that right?!” Love, A >>Subject: RE: Fascinating shit going down How helpful of Therapist V. Carrie >>> Subject: Re: Fascinating shit going [...]

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the point sheet

Blitzen has a schedule / point sheet.  As we move through the day, she can accumulate points and earn a prize.  She has to get a 70 out of 72 or higher to get a prize.  We usually give her stuff that we would give her anyway – a new headband or a book or something [...]

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the tooth fairie

At the dinner table, Blitzen shared that a friend at school lost a tooth.  Apparently it was a very exciting moment for the entire 3rd grade. Then she says, ‘My friends say that parents give you the money, not the tooth fairie.’  She has a funny look on her face, eyebrows arched, curious and skeptical [...]

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other kids

Since Blitzen had such a rough week, I didn’t give her the store bought mermaid tail personally.  But I really wanted her to have it because I thought it would be a great toy for the long weekend and as I’ve mentioned, Blitzen’s obsessions often reach such a fevered, crazy pitch of intensity that no one can rest [...]

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the mermaid tail

Well, two things happened simultaneously. The tail that I bought because I was pretty sure the homemade tail would be a complete failure, arrived.  And the fabric for the homemade tail arrived so we sewed our homemade tail while wearing our store-bought tail.  The whole thing is fairly adorable.  Blitzen could not wait for us to borrow [...]

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fairies and mermaid worlds collide

Blitzen asked this morning if we could write a note to the mermaids and ask the fairies to deliver it.  Hilarious.

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the make up

Blitzen and I had a day to ourselves to play on Friday.  I was excited but approaching our girls’ day with some trepidation since we’d had some rough moments last week.  It started going south around morning snack when I asked her if she wanted grapes, she said yes and then screamed at me for getting [...]

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Fairie house building in the great outdoors

Blitzen, Andrew and our friends J and D built an awesome fairie house in Central Park.  When asked what the fairies do at this natural oasis, Blitzen replied ‘They sit on the bench and do nothing but watch the sunset…..’ Sounds good to me!

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