February 11th

Last Friday I went to the mall and got my eyeballs checked. I got some new glasses (they aren't in yet). While I was doing that Eddie took Vallerie to the indoor playground. She had a good time running around. I was a little worried about germs. Normally I'm not like that, but it just seemed like the kids that were playing there were... a little dirty. I know that's not nice of me to say, but come on. When you leave the house you don't have to dress your kid in designer clothes, but you can at least put them in a non-stained shirt.

After I was done and we got Vallerie away from the play set (aka bribed) we went to the candy store! It was her first time and she was thrilled. She kept opening the buckets and wanting to reach her hand in to grab candy. It was cute. We got her a bunch of different gummies (my fave were/are the peach flavored penguins) and some little tootsie roll things. She also got a little stuffed tiger. She named it "Ty-Gee". (Even though the tag said it's name was Stripes. She did NOT want to name it that)

The lucky little darling also got to ride the tiny merry go round in the mall. She loved that too.

A couple weeks ago we bought Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. We got the special one that came with a free gift. This one came with a lunchbox. Vallerie loves it. It's now her movie lunchbox, so when we have movie night we'll fill it with popcorn and candy. It's good because she can have her own stuff and not eat half of something and put it back in the big bowl. Nothing is grosser that eating a 1/2 soggy piece of popcorn!!

We also bought her a squishy brain that you dissect. The set came with a body and squishy organs too, but we think those are too small for her now. She really likes the brain though... Only, she doesn't like us to put the eyes in the skull because she doesn't want it looking at her. The box said 8+ but hey, who says she can't train to be a brain surgeon earlier than that?

We watched Puss N Boots over the weekend for movie night. Now Vallerie runs around pretending to be a Ninja (I guess that's what she thinks he is) She even asked me to buy/make her and Bot a Ninja costume. I suppose I'll have to do that soon.

So far Vallerie's current favorite movie is Despicable Me 2. She watches that movie over and over and over. She even quotes the damn thing! But, it's ok, she's cute.