Acccckkkk....my heart is stupid....

OK, you might want to know why.

And I'm willing to tell you.

I know you know this because I am willing to blather on about almost nothing for, oh say, three or four hundred words.

And guess what?

Today is no exception.

Only I'm gonna limit my words today because I have a date.

Yes, I do.

It's with my husband and our son and his girlfriend and we are going to see Guy Fieri.

And I need three or four hours to trowel some make-up on so I look like a hot middle-aged frumpy woman in case Guy wants to invite me on stage or something.

But...

Just so you don't think I make stuff up... I give you these three photos as proof positive that Morgan might be right in taking out Nadias eye and ear.

This child sticks to Mo like a magnet.

I mean it.

Morgan cannot go anywhere without being closely followed and bullied by Nadia.

But, hey, a picture is worth a thousand words (which is a good thing...did I tell you about need a few hours to get ready to see Guy's roadshow at 7:30? Oh yea, I might have mentioned it a time or two earlier...sigh)

OK, hmmm.... yea, picture, thousands words, blah, blah, blah....

I mean...seriously. Anyone would want to hang out right next to this sweet little girl... And the stupid heart part?

Nadia was the only child with no-one there. Not a Mom. Not a Dad. Not a Grandma. Nobody.

So I helped her spread her chocolate frosting on her sugar cookie.

But don't tell Morgan, OK?

Cuz I think I need both eyes and both ears to go to Guy's Road Show tonight!

Sigh...

Uh oh, better watch out Nadia...

...cuz Morgan is really steaming now.

Today when I picked her up she said "Gamma, Nadia hit me. Nadia threw sand. Nadia is not a nice girl!"

And I said "Mo, there are a lot of mean people in the world. You just have to stay away from them. Mostly people are mean because they are unhappy. So maybe we should say a little prayer that Nadia will find a way to be happier."

And she said "No, Gamma. No pay. No mean peoples. Only Nadia is mean people. And then proceeded to name each child followed by this statement "is nice people." As in "Cade is nice people. Eisa is nice people. That boy with 'de red shirt is nice people.", etc. etc. etc.

And after I got her lunch ready she finally stopped the litany of the meanness of Nadia and I thought we were done for the day.

Ha! I have underestimated, again, the wrath of a three year old.

After lunch she wanted to play with the Fisher Price Christmas sets before her nap. There are several sets AND 18 reindeer.

The first set of reindeer was originally lost by our oldest Granddaughter. I ordered a replacement set for them at Fisher Price online (did you know this? It's a cool thing.)

Eventually when our sons speakers started making funny noises he had to take them apart and low and behold they were filled with 9 little plastic Fisher Price reindeer.

So we have a lot of reindeer here.

A whole stable of reindeer power for the Fisher Price sleigh.

Where was I going with this?

Oh, yea.

So Morgan is out there mimicking Santa and the elves and making reindeer noises. And then I hear "Dat reindeer is Nadia."

And I go out to see her surrounded by all the good reindeer with one reindeer off by itself. A reindeer with a chewed off ear. Apparently our weiner dog likes to "play" with the FP stuff, too. I ask Morgan to show me the messed up reindeer and she does and then very seriously says "Nadia no have ear Gamma," and looks really solemn.

The rest of the reindeer are whole and happy sitting in Mo's lap. (can you see the little chewed off ear there by Nadia the injured reindeer?) So now Nadia is down an eye and an ear.

She better not pick on Morgan any more on Friday.

I think we are moving into the further dismemberment stage.

Sigh.

Morgan is struggling with the true spirit of Christmas...

...maybe because she's three.

Or maybe just because she's not super interested in being a victim.

There is a little girl in her pre-school that she really dislikes. Nadia is her name. Nadia is mean. Nadia is a bully. Nadia takes Morgans graham crackers.

So today we were attempting to fill 18 envelopes with 18 stickers and cards preparing for the big pre-school sticker exchange this Friday.

Morgan happily draws her smiley faces inside the cards. Some are drawn in red marker. Some are drawn in green marker.

But all have a circle with two eyes a big smiling mouth and two arms and legs sticking out.

Finally we get to Nadias card.

"I no draw picture Gamma," she says with great determination.

I say "No, Morgan, we are going to draw a picture in every card."

"No Gwamma. I no draw picture for Nadia. Nadia is mean!"

I say "Mo, it is Christmas, let's just draw a picture."

She sits.

She finally draws a half-hearted circle.

She finally sticks some legs and arms on it.

She sits some more.

Finally she puts one dot on for an eye.

I say "Morgan, where is the other eye?"

She says "I no like Nadia" and goes to stick the card in the envelope WITHOUT a sticker.

I say "Mo, you only drew one eye and you didn't put a sticker in."

She sits some more.

She thinks some more.

Finally she says "OK, Gwamma, Nadia have sticker but she only have one eye."

And that is that.

She is not going to draw another eye.

And I give up.

I suspect Nadia will not notice.

And I kind of admire Morgan for sticking to her convictions.

Cuz she is strongly following the biblical rule...and eye for a graham cracker.

And she's not backing down.

Sigh...