August and September 2012

I am trying to get better about blogging as I dont want to miss out on not remembering fun things going on and the infamous "terribl twos". But I have been failing thus far :) Nonetheless we have been up to Potty Traning and Moving from our Crib to a toddler bed. The toddler bed was much better than I expected and she has done very well. The first night she got out three times and we put her back in and from there she has only had a couple of occassions where she not been interested in staying put. But she has done fantastic, especially when I hear about some parents battling with their children for more than an hour trying to keep them put. Allie has napped great in there as well and loves her bed, often telling people about it when they see her or of course her infamous "My bed and my room". She often goes upstairs and gets in her bed byherself although mainly because her paci is in there and she knows she can have it if she goes "night night". Potty traning is going pretty well, we have had some accidents but not many and can def count them on my hand. She does the best when she is in big girl panties or nothing at all and will tell me in hasty voice "I have to pee pee" with such an urgency that we immediately whisk her away and go to the bathroom. Yesterday she was successful at the library in a public restroom as that has been scaring her so this was a big deal as she usually wont go near them. She also told me while she had her pull up on which usually she just goes in that. Our next step is to increase our outings without a pullup on and graduate completely to big girl panties. We are close. But just more practice. She is doing quite well. Our next goal after potty training will be to get rid of her paci completely. But that will be an issue as she loves it :). She is so funny these days and can be quite the pill too. Her favorite foods are: spaghetii, pizza, chips/salsa, fruit-grapes/strawberries/sometimes bannanas but not as often as she used to/ apples with peanut butter; M&Ms; Vitamins; peanut butter on waffles NO JELLY, not a big fan of cookies/doughnuts; kolaches but no meat just the bread; ham/cheese; cereal, she is obsessed right now with cereal; sometimes bacon but not much; french fries with ketchup; chicken nuggets. She is a very picky eater and really doesnt mind not eating. She loves her juices and milk. She can be such a pill sometiems, often not minding and telling you NO or thats mine. She tells you always what she wants when she wants it. She has her tantrums at times but we just let her throw them and then she calms down. We were at Ikea the other day and she decided she didnt want to leave so she proceeded to just lie down on the outside of the store pavement, EWWW, I had all sorts of stuff in my hands so I was finally able to get her up and just carry her to the car, but man I was one mad mommy. She doesnt hit as much but when she does its when she is tired and she goes to time out. She doesnt go often, but I do have to use the 1,2,3 or bribery. If on 3 she doesnt do what I need her to do then I have her go to time out, but lately I have resorted to bribing :) I know not great, but when Will is out of town and I am so tired it just gets the job done. We also will take baths together and her favorite thing to do is to drink out of a cup in the faucet and give it to me to drink as well. I got her some bath crayons, what a mess and she likes them alright but she mainly likes playing with the holders vs the crayons. She is wearing a size 2t and size 5 in shoes. She still loves her baby dolls and putting them to sleep. We go through many dish towells as she insists on those being the only blankets the babies can use b/c they are they right size. She also likes blocks and coloring with dry erase markers. I recently bought her some stamps which she likes as well and proceeded to stamp her entire body. She also loves shoes right now, I bought her some black squeaky shoes which she LOVES but mommy and daddy do not so we took the squeaker out for public outings and inside too :) She loves music and is singing all the time, mary had a little lamb, itsy bitsy spider, old mcdonald, twinkle twinkle, happy and you know it, and still some country. One of my favorite things is when she is in bed with me and we have popcorn together and she watches her barney. She gets so excited. She loves to go to story time which we do once a week, and we get togther with Sara McCarroll and her girls too. WE go to the park a lot and do some shopping but try to keep that to a minimum. She says thank you and please quite often and will say "your yelcome" for your welcome. very cute. She states "I did it" for I'll do it. Or she states I do it myself. She is a very strong willed toddler but very cute esp when you see her get so excited for something. she loves animals and loves to count. she sings ABCs all the time. Loving this age although it can be quite challenging. On another note we are pregnant, YAY, about 16 weeks. We find out in three weeks what we are having. I think its another girl, I was more sick this go round in the first trimester-naseous at times and didnt feel like anything to eat, also very tired. but no crazy symptoms, although breaking out for sure like I did with Allie. I started feeling baby move about 11 weeks but no kicking yet just the butterfly feeling. I have been eating a lot of cereal and popcorn, more salty cravings vs sweet which with allie i had no cravings and if i did it was more for something sweet. Nonetheless we are very excited, due date is march 17th, 2012. We have told Allie about the baby but she still doesnt get it as I am not very big. She points the baby in my belly and hers. Another adventure but excited to start.