The Cheese Man

If you know my daughter you know she is scared of anything in a costume to the point of wanting to run out immediately.  Since then we have worked incredibly hard to eliminate this fear.  It has been a challenge but slowly she is starting to come around. 

On this particular day we went to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate a friend's birthday.  She and I always discuss what we do if we see Chuckie...walk (run in her case) away.  As I see him come around the room with his sign I turn around to grab Kaylie to avoid any unnecessary fear and couldn't find her.  I about feel over when I found her at the end of his line following the others over to where he does his dance and throws tickets.  I have to say I was shocked.  While keeping a close eye on where the mouse was she actually participated by dancing with the song.  The minute he started to move closer to her she was gone.  She never came to me she just shot him the look of death and waited until he moved before she joined back in.  Her favorite part came when he threw out the tickets.  This child has no problem jumping in the pile of kids to get her stash of tickets.  She may be small but she is definitely fearless when it comes to getting in her way of the things she wants.