Grandma and Papa got my 3 year old daughter a set of plastic food items and a kitchen set. She takes as many of the plastic food items as she can carry to bed with her each night and gets very upset when you tell her she can't take any more. And also gets upset as she walks up the stairs and drops the plastic food items because she's trying to carry too many. Two nights ago, she woke up at midnight screaming. She had rolled over one of the semi-sharper plastic food items and it had scared her. She was half asleep, so she thought it was her favorite blanket (she's like Linus with this blanket) that had poked her and demanded that the blanket be removed from the room. The next night, I took all of the plastic food items out of her bed after she went to sleep. She then got upset with me in the morning when she discovered them on the floor.
It's trying. It's stressful. There's lots of tears and whining (mainly from daddy... she cries and whines some too). But I can't imagine a day without her. Life without them would be boring! |