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| My crazy girl |
51. When trying to turn pages in a book, you first lick your fingers just like you see Mommy do.
52. You say "Thank you" for everything. If someone hands you something you asked for, "Thank you." If Mommy gives you milky, "Thank you." If Mommy gives you the other "boo boo" when you want to switch sides, "Thank you." It is super, duper cute!
53. Unloading the dishwasher is something you do to help Mommy. You hand her the items and started saying "Thank you" when you hand them to her because Mommy always thanks you for handing them to her. Silly girl!
54. April 11, 2016 was the first night in your big girl bed. You have been doing great! You climb in yourself sometimes and lay down on your pillow. You now have quite the collection of stuffed dogs and cats who sleep with you! At first, you woke up no more and no less than you had in your crib.
55. Birds, or "cheep cheeps" as you call them, are a favorite of yours. You get excited when you see one. It helps that our block wall must house some yummy bugs because we get a lovely Gila woodpecker who visits often. (That mother effer better not poke any holes in our stucco because we just had our house repaired and painted.)
56. Every once in awhile you like to sit and do a wooden puzzle with Mommy. You are getting better at it, but you lose interest very quickly.
57. Twice now, you have fallen out of your booster seat at the table. It's not totally your fault because you weren't buckled. Well, the first time was your fault actually. You climbed up all on your own and kept standing up. Mommy told you to sit down, and when you wouldn't, she walked over to make you sit and buckle you. You were being silly and trying to sit quickly when you saw Mommy coming, and you fell right over backwards hitting the kitchen floor. You did it again when you were trying to see what Genevieve was doing instead of sitting properly and eating. Now, Mommy has learned that you have to be buckled.
58. On 4/16, you got your bedroom door open, but thankfully you haven't been able to do it since.
59. One day Mommy caught you playing Barbies; you were making one say "EIEIO" and then the other would reply back with "EIEIO". I guess you didn't have much conversational language at this point. Now, you make them say "Hi", and you still enjoy making them kiss.
60. Speaking of EIEIO, you know a lot of words to a lot of different songs. You sing them in the car and sing them to request a specific song. You sing "Johny, Johny, Yes Papa", "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", "Baa Baa Black Sheep", "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star", and "The Finger Family Song". You also request "1,2, Buckle My Shoe" by saying "Shoe" and the Gummy Bear Song by saying "Bear". There is a version of Baa, Baa Black Sheep in which a sheep passes gas at the end. You now make a raspberry sound with your mouth while singing this song.
61. Speaking of passing gas...when anyone does so, you now say "Toot". Sometimes you laugh right after. You used to say "poop", but have recently learned the difference.
62. When you don't like something, you say "Yucky." Sometimes you make a funny face too.
63. Mommy thinks it's hilarious when you try to bounce a basketball. You basically just hit it while it is on the ground.
64. We have a stuffed Santa Beanie Baby, and when you saw it awhile back, you said "Ha, Ha, Ha". I have no idea how you knew to do that, and think your rendition of his belly laugh is so cute.
65. 5/7 and 5/8 you had your first stomach bug. Mommy caught it first in the middle of the night. By the following evening, you started throwing up. The next day brought trouble from the other end. You took like three naps that day; you even put yourself to bed once while Mommy was napping and Daddy was on duty. Genevieve got it next but not until several days later, and luckily, it never got its claws into Daddy.
66. 5/9 you had a skin prick test done. We met with a new allergist who was phenomenal. Testing showed that you are definitely allergic to almonds and mustard, but based on your history, we shouldn't need to worry about them being life threatening. You had skin reactions to a lot of other foods, but the wheals (bumps) were tiny and the flares (redness surrounding the bump) were non-existent by their measurements. Since I am going to do a separate post on this, I will just say that we have to avoid around 19 different foods.
67. The week of 5/9, you said your first three word sentence. You said, "Daddy help you" because, well, you needed help with something and Mommy told you to tell Daddy. I'm glad you listened.
68. If someone gets an owie or is crying, sometimes you come over and try to give them a kiss or hug. Genevieve often wants some space or only wants Mommy at this time, but sometimes she allows you to comfort her, and it is the sweetest, most precious thing. If you are the cause of her pain, she doesn't usually accept your hug or kiss as an apology. We are working on this.
69. The above was a nice segue for this next little tidbit. The other night you were in Mommy and Daddy's room jumping off of a large, plastic tote. Genevieve quickly hopped on and layed herself down on it so you could no longer get on. You were so mad, so you said "Sister hit you." Then you proceeded to whack her in the back with your fist, making her cry.
70. This one is momentous. On May 17, 2016, you slept through the night for the very first time! For a little more than a week, Daddy has been sleeping on the guest bed in your room to allow Mommy a chance to get extra sleep. At first it was hard for you to not have "milky" at night (and really hard for Mommy), but it started becoming easier and easier for Daddy to get you back to sleep with a drink of water and a back rub. Once (or twice) he found you sleeping on the floor by the door. Even one night when you woke several times, you put yourself back to sleep. I am hopeful this will continue even when Daddy decides to vacate the guest room...(Update: As of 7/1, you have slept through the night approximately 2 or 3 more times.)
71. You almost got us KICKED OUT of the library. First you were running through the children's area yelling, clapping, and saying "Yay!" Then, you kept taking books off of the shelf and throwing them inside of something in the kid's area. I had you return a book to the shelf as I returned the rest, though you really didn't want to help. You went back for more books, and that's when I put you in the Ergo carrier for a "time out". Of course you fought and screamed, and that's when the security guard came over. I think he heard me trying to quiet you down and realized I was not trying to snatch you away from your mother. I calmed you down, and you wanted to go play with "Sister". Genevieve was building with big, wooden blocks, and as you went to join her you tripped and fell smashing some blocks. You screamed at the top of your lungs, and as I was explaining to Genevieve that we needed to leave because Sissy was having a bad day, the security guard again came over. I am pretty sure he was about to ask us to leave, but we beat him to the punch. After that, I bought me a venti chai cream frappucino from Starbucks, and Genevieve got a chocolate cake pop.
72. You ran down a Little Tykes slide in Meguire's backyard one day. Mommy didn't witness it, but Meguire was freaked out and impressed at the same time. There is no doubt that you are trouble! The smirk you gave Meguire when she told you to sit down at the top of the slide the next time was proof of that.
73. Whenever you see a cake, especially the pretend one with a candle, you say "Happy". Then you try to sing Happy Birthday.
74. You are an opportunist, just like your sister. As soon as I leave the room in the morning to take a shower, I hear the kitchen chair scooting over the floor. You can then be found getting into Mommy's purse or stealing the tablet or phone from the counter. You are intrigued by anything on the super messy counter; it's like a treasure trove.
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| Cecilia stole Daddy's phone from the counter and did this when she saw me coming for it! |
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