Weirdness Insues

Chloe had her first playdate since we moved. We met another family who used our adoption agency and live in our town. Their daughter is 3. Chloe had fun playing with stickers, blowing bubbles and watching a Barbie princess movie. We are going to have another playdate at our house next week. We are hoping to organize a playgroup in our area for pre-school aged children adopted from China. Most of the activities for our FCC group are geared for older children (over 6 years old), so for those of us with toddlers, there seems little for us to do. Hopefully we can change all that and get some more people with younger children involved and set up playgroups and other activites.

Like clockwork, Chloe has been waking up crying and yelling, "Mommy hold you" for the last 7 nights. It is always between 11:30 p.m. and 1 a.m. that she wakes. We have been putting her in bed with us as she becomes increasingly upset if you try to put her back in her crib. We had pondered what could be waking/frightening her. Last night, we discovered she just likes sleeping with mommy and daddy as I tried to put her back in her crib and she screamed, "NO, NO, sleep with you bed." Once we put her in our bed she is as happy as a lark. What have we done?

We have had a running joke for the last week that we have a garbage poltergeist in the house. We have a hidden trash can that looks like a cabinet in the kitchen and pulls out. For no apparent reason, it will slide open and it is never when you are in the kitchen near it. You will throw something away, close the trash, turn around and tend to something on the stove and next time you look, it will be open. We have tried adjusting the bins and rollers but it still does it. I guess the trash can wasn't enough for our little poltergeist as it decided to move to our laundry room. Twice now, our giant, 48 load liquid detergent has fallen from the shelf to the floor, spilling its entire contents over the laundry room floor. It fills the entire floor and is a complete pain to clean up. After the first time it happened, we could explain that the washer shook it off the shelf when it when to spin cycle. The second, which was yesterday, proved that the "safe" location we move the detergent to was not so safe after all. Lucky for me, my darling husband was working from home and he cleaned up the laundry room.

We got Chloe's photos on-line from JC Penney. I posted the one where she is not so happy. I think it is cute and funny. I am also posting photos of Chloe making faces. Yesterday during lunch I asked her if she was ready for a nap and she kept making a face. I thought it was hysterical. Everytime I would say the word "nap" she would pull this face.