Rose-ism: cheese (and ALLOWANCE!)

Sometimes when I get home from work, I am absolutely starving and just need a quick snack so I don't bite someone's head off before dinner. Rose is always up for a quick snack, so we now share in the habit of occasionally having "a slice of cheese to tide us over." (I am from Wisconsin, after all, so what else would tide me over until dinner?!)






Yesterday Mike picked up Rose at daycare and HE was starving. Rose, being the thoughtful girl that she is, suggested that they each have a slice of cheese "to tie us up."   




Ha!




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In other news, I think I've mentioned how infatuated Rose is with her magiclip dolls. She has been incessantly asking for more princesses, more dresses, more princes, more houses for them, etc. A couple months ago we started her Christmas list so we could deflect some of the never-ending begging for more, more, MORE. She is now up to 30+ entries and still counting.




So yesterday we decided to try a new approach: we instituted a weekly allowance to start teaching her the value of money. We're starting with $1 per week (seems reasonable for her age, no?), so she got her first dollar yesterday. She is SO excited about her dollar and has been taking very good care not to lose it. (Pretty impressively so, for a three-year-old!) She has been begging to go to Target to get a new doll for the last couple weeks, so I told that we would go yesterday afternoon and check to see how much the dolls cost.  I was bracing myself for the inevitable disappointment that I was sure would ensue she she realized that the dolls cost $5-7 each. What I was not prepared for was stubborn little miss insisting that we just weren't looking hard enough and surely there was a doll available for only $1. We must have spent 30-45 minutes in the toy section at Target, with her stubbornly insisting that we look harder (and ask for help!) and me stubbornly insisting that she would just have to start saving her money because EVERYTHING in the entire STORE costs more than a dollar. ARGH!




I finally got her out of there, but I still don't think she's convinced.