We have been telling Kimmie for several weeks now that Grandma and Grandpa are moving. Her response has always been "no."
On Wednesday they closed on their new place. That evening we went to help them with a few things. We had to take Kimmie with us, but thought maybe she would understand it better if she saw the old place boxed up. And maybe the new place would be a new adventure waiting to be explored.
Well . . . it mostly just got her worked up. At Grandma's house she always goes immediately to the video cabinet and picks a movie to watch. Once the movie starts she might go to the linen closet to get her blanket. Then she might gather the teddy bears to strew across the floor and get her books to open to her favorite pages. Once she has all her "stuff" then she is content to sit for a while.
Well . . . she went to the video cabinet . . . no movies. We told her they were boxed up to go to the new house. She looked around at all the boxes, leaped up and frantically started trying to dig through each box, while I chased her around trying to keep her from unpacking them.
She was mostly worried about where her Aladdin movies were.
Today, while she was at school, we moved everything to their new patio home. The first box I put in my car was the box of her videos. The second thing I loaded was her video cabinet. When we got everything over to the new place, we made sure the TV was hooked up and the videos were in her cabinet next to it.
When I told her tonight that we had her movies in her cabinet, she signed, "Aladdin?" I assured her I put the Aladdin movie in her cabinet.
Tomorrow we will see if she is better about the move.
--Mom
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13 years ago
Well, Kimmie has her corner, but she was still pretty aggitated when we were over there helping unpack. She's used to people sitting with her while she plays, but we were all too busy working. The commotion and chaos seemed to keep her worked up. But she hasn't said anything about going back to the "old" house.
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