Once again, it's been months. Happy Bastille Day!
Updates:
- still at daycare two days a week, and finally loving it. When I ask if she wants to go to "school" she actually grins.
- Eating is not going well. She refuses to eat most evening meals, which is frustrating. Hubby keeps feeding her snacks, so we have to cut them back so she's hungrier at dinner and will eat what we cook.I've borrowed "French Children Don't Throw Food" from the library. First task - meals at mealtimes only. Second task - no more snacks as bribery (eg. to keep calm in the car). Third task - she will eat what is given at dinner, or scrambled egg, or just bedtime milk. No more choices.
- she has about 25 signs now. I'm thinking of becoming a baby sign instructor. She's like a sponge and wants to know more, more more. Last week we showed her a possum outside and she signed "cat". So it's all computing in her cute little brain!
- She's had two haircuts. Less mullet, more style now! Have kept a lock of her hair, a little curl from the first haircut.
- Lots of words and attitude are starting to appear. Plenty of "no". Grrr.
- She wants to sit on the potty "pot pot" but it has only seen one deposit, at Yia Yia's. She ran screaming from it. Not a good start!
- Loves: strawberries ("dawbies"); cooking (play cooking utensils in a container of rolled oats); posting (colander and pipe cleaners); drawing with chalk on the fridge chalkboard; books; watching the birds outside; babycinos at the Store; scrambled eggs; chairs.
- She is starting to say her own name, although about a month ago her favourite joke was that her name was "Yia Yia". We would ask her what her name was, she would reply "yia yia!" and laugh hysterically. I love that she is starting to develop a sense of humour.
- Everything red is "apple". I guess colours are the next thing to work on.
Dislikes the beach. She tiptoed around in the sand last weekend at Fingal Bay and said "no, no!" when I showed her the water after being forced to paddle the first time. She did enjoy sitting in the sand and playing with handfuls of it though.
Tomorrow we are going to put her toddler bed together. Her Boori cot changes into a toddler bed so we just have to get the bits from mum and dads and take off the cot parts and put on the bed parts. She doesn't sleep well and over the past two months has spent a lot of time in our bed (where she sleeps very well). We bought a king size doona because of these nocturnal visits as one of us was always missing out!
I'm feeling the pressure on making her baby album, so plan to get to it ASAP.
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