Protector

The expanded title is Protector and a New Argument.

First, the protector part.

For the last, maybe, 4 nights, Ginger has laid outside of Spencer's door after he goes to bed.  She actually lays up against the door.  She won't move.  She seems agitated.  Out of curiosity I let her in there on Friday night.  I thought that maybe she had "buried" a treat somewhere in there.  Side note: Ginger has some strange anorexia tendencies (I know, unbelievable for such a pudge) and she often hides her treats around the house: in couch cushions, under my clothes on a chair, under blankets on the bed.

Anyway, she went in there and just made herself comfy at the foot of his bed.  She refused to move for 2 hours.  I think she was trying to protect him.  From what I am unsure.  It warmed my heart though.

We'll move on to the new argument.  There are actually two.

We still argue, daily, about the name of Linny on The Wonder Pets.  Spencer still insists it is Winny, spelled with a "p".

Now we are arguing about the song Turkey in the Straw.  Spencer was singing it this weekend and it sounded like he was saying Turkey in the Stro.  We said that wasn't the correct word and then he said, "yes it is.  It's turkey in the stroll.  Stroll, like when you take a little walk.  I'm impressed at his ever expanding vocabulary and his ability to define words, but now he'll be playing and when I walk into the room he whips around and he says, "mommy, it's Winny and it's turkey in the stroll. You're wrong mommy."

The second new argument is that we are going to the zoo with Megan and Hadley this week.  We're going to see the animals and then let the kids play in the splash pad when it gets hot.  Spencer insists that he does not want to go to the zoo with the splash pad.  He wants to go to the zoo without the splash pad.  He also insists that we just have to ask Megan and she can tell us how to get to the splash padless zoo.

This is Spencer at age 3.  Can you imagine him at 14 when I, his mother, don't know anything?