Flitter

Ada's daycare class has a class "pet", Flitter. Flitter is not your standard pet, Flitter is a little stuffed butterfly and comes with a picture book of all of her adventures. Each child in the class gets a chance to take home Flitter for the weekend and this past weekend was Ada's turn. Ada LOVES Flitter and will do just about anything for Flitter. Trust me, we used this to our advantage.

Friday night we were hanging out in our room after work and Ada wanted something from her room but when she went into her room it was dark and she came back to our room she wanted Elliot or I to come with her to turn on the light for her.

Sidebar: When we set up Ada's big girl room, with the big girl bed, and the new layout, we purposely set up one of her sets of blocks directly under the light switch so that she could stand on top of the blocks and reach the light switch. She KNOWS how to turn on the light.

So back to Ada trying to con Elliot and I into helping her turn the light on... We went back and forth a few times with Ada continuing to insist that she could not turn on the lights without assistance and Elliot and I holding firm to the idea that we have taught her how to turn on the lights and she has demonstrated time and again that she can do it without help. Finally it dawned on me, FLITTER!!!!

At this point Flitter was hanging out on the bed with Elliot and I, so I picked up Flitter and told Ada that Flitter wanted to help her turn on the light. Which she heard as "Ada, Flitter wants to turn on the light, will you help her?" Tomato, Tamato. Ada took Flitter into her room, Elliot and I waited, and waited, and waited, and then, YES, the click of the light switch!! Ada ran back into our room and told us that SHE had helped Flitter turn on the light in her room.

HORRAY for Flitter!!!