This and That (Kyrie)

• We went to a free movie in the morning. Unfortunately due to a mix-up (in my head) on the free movie schedule, we had gone to see a rather horrible and scary movie (supposedly for children) the week before and walked out two minutes into it. So when we went yesterday, I had shown the kids the trailer for the Bee Movie and assured them it would be much different. One believed me; the skeptic did not. She insisted that "Bee movie too scary for me." Ben really wanted to see it or I would have been fine giving it up. So we marched into the theatre with Kyrie protesting. Then she wouldn't sit with us and insisted on sitting on the floor. (Fortunately it was 10am and everything was spanking clean. I still used sanitizer on her.) Four minutes into the movie I caught her turning around and peering through the seats in front of her. A few more minutes and she was up on the chair beside me. And she exited the movie saying, "It wasn't too scary. It was funny." She told her dad this later and recounted the movie to him. But she certainly doesn't trust my judgment.
  
• Kyrie struggles with the sin of public defiance. Trips to the grocery store often find me resorting to bribery to get her: to sit in the cart, not whine for things she wants, not hit her brother or; otherwise obey. Yesterday, I realized we were in a bad pattern and as we approached the entrance to Costco and she was screaming and arching, I turned around and we went back to the car and home. This was a sacrifice on my part but it made the point. And Kyri got to explain to her father last night why there were no eggs. These are the hard tasks of parenting. I'm afraid I have many more ahead of me.
• Kyri would like you to know she is letting her parents sleep at night now. This has been going on for months now but I have been too afraid to declare it permanent. It may be a great risk now. But we are now contemplating the idea that someday we'll let Kyri sleep in a real bed. Like maybe when she's five.