Grace's wake up call

Wednesday night, Grace asked if she could sleep with me tonight (Friday). I reminded her that she was with her Dad this weekend, but I figured the reason she wanted to was because her birthday is Saturday, so I offered to let her sleep with me last night instead, which seemed to work just fine.

As she was getting ready for bed last night, she asked if I would wake her up this morning with "Army Bear", one of her stuffed animals. This is one that plays a birthday song, so I said sure, even though I figured it would be a moderate nightmare finding in in Grace's room.

So, this morning after I got out of the shower, I went looking for "Army Bear." Now, Grace has a tendency to switch her animals clothes all around, plus she has the messiest room in the world, so I figured it might take me awhile. I quickly found a bear wearing camo, but he didn't have a noise maker. Then I saw more camo, but it was just a shirt with no animal attached. Finally I was reduced to picking up any animal I saw, looking for a noisemaker and listening to the song.

Finally, I saw him. A Frog wearing Hello Kitty pajamas. THAT'S when I remembered, it's not Army BEAR, it's Army FROG who plays the birthday song!

I woke her up to the song, and she was happy, but she didn't seem to understand why it was so difficult for me to find Army Bear, when he's actually a frog wearing pink Hello Kittie pjs!