A Pup Named Scooby-Doo

A while back Kimmie took a liking to the Scooby-Doo series “A Pup Named Scooby-Doo.” She picked out one of the DVDs and carried it home. She loves to carry this DVD box around, point at Shaggy and sign, “boy Shaggy.” She loves it so much that we bought a couple more of the DVDs.

A few weeks later I was at Target with her. We were looking through the movies and she picked this “Pup Named Scooby-Doo” one. I looked at the box, decided we didn’t already have it, and so I let her buy it along with a new pair of shoestrings.

On the way home Kimmie was working on opening her new pair of shoestrings and didn’t get around to opening her new movie. When we arrived home, I looked in the DVD cabinet to make sure we didn’t already have this movie . . . well, there it was. We already had it. I quickly pulled out the movie from our cabinet, gave it to Kimmie, and hid the new one so I could return it to the store.

The next week, Dad took Kimmie shopping with him. When he came home with her, he reached in a bag and pulled out a new movie he had let her buy. He says, “We don’t have this one do we?” It was the same “Pup Named Scooby-Doo” movie, in the red box, that I had just returned to the store two days earlier! Bethany and I immediately said, “Yes, we have that one.” Again we gave Kimmie our movie, so we could return the unopened one.

I hope the store doesn’t have some way of tracking WHO buys and returns items, because I’m sure they would think we were crazy to be buying and returning the exact same movie multiple times in a two week period.

--Mom

Kim Possible

A few years back Nickelodeon had a cartoon on named “Kim Possible.” Kimmie really liked this show although it created a bit of an identity problem for her. Actually, we all really liked this cartoon.

Recently she pulled out of the DVD cabinet one of the “Kim Possible” movies. She has been carrying it around and telling us that she is pretending to be “K-i-m-p-o-s-s-i-b-l-e.”

We are very excited about this! This is the first time Kimmie has pretended to be a GIRL character! Usually she is pretending to be Aladdin or the Blue Genie, Abu the monkey or Superman, Shaggy or Scooby-Doo . . . .

I also think she’s really proud of herself because she can spell “Kim Possible,” and she loves to spell it. She spells it two or three times every morning at breakfast.

She seems to have gotten over the unease of sharing her name.

--Mom

Movie Collection

I’ve talked about Kimmie’s propensity to be a collector. I’ve told you about her Care Bear collection and Star Wars sword collection, but I don’t think I’ve told you about her biggest collection—MOVIES.

Kimmie loves to buy DVDs. Kimmie loves to shop and whenever we go shopping she thinks she has to buy a movie. Unfortunately, she has so many movies that we often have trouble finding one she doesn’t already own.

Kimmie always wants to be the one to choose which movie to buy, but she will often pick something that we already have at home. This creates A LOT of drama. When we tell her we already have that movie, she simply doesn’t understand and cries when we won’t let her buy it. We don’t know if she thinks it is her movie that is somehow at the store instead of at home or what? It seems to be one of those reasoning things that she can’t quite understand.

When we buy a movie, she usually opens it in the car on the way home. She likes to open the box and see the round disk inside. And she likes the disk to be straight up and down, lined up just right in the box. She fixes it that way if it is not.

Now, when we get home, she may or may not watch the movie. Sometimes she just wants to look at the pictures on the box. Sometimes she will simply carry the box around, look at the pictures, point at them and talk about them.

She will often open the DVD cabinet and sit in front of it, pulling out boxes, looking at the pictures and talking to herself.

She’s a funny girl.

--Mom

Aladdin Playing Cards

Kimmie has wanted a deck of Aladdin playing cards for a long time. As I wrote about earlier, she was very disappointed that we could not find them at Disney World.

Well, we resolved the problem and Kimmie now has a deck of Aladdin playing cards. They are actually Aladdin and Kimmie playing cards.

For Christmas we had a personalized deck made using one of the pictures taken when we saw Aladdin at Disney World.

Kimmie loves her new cards. Well, she loves the ones with numbers on them. She’s not a fan of the “letter” cards, Aces, Kings, Queens and Jacks. She throws them and the jokers off to the side.

--Mom

Christmas

Christmas has come and gone. And I think that it’s good to have it over with.

Christmas seems to be very difficult for Kimmie. The anticipation begins so early each year and lasts so long, causing her to be anxious and excited and just a bundle of nerves.

By the time the big day arrives she is so worked up from the waiting that she can hardly enjoy it.

Overall, I think the whole experience of Christmas is hard on Kimmie.

We have talked about whether there are ways that we can tone down the anticipation, but we haven’t figured out how to do that when so much of it is out of our control. The stores, the television shows, school, church, lights and decorations around town . . . There’s really no way to delay the beginning of the anticipation that escalates and lasts way too long for a little girl who has trouble coping with all those feelings.

--Mom