Today, Michael stayed home with the kids while I went to church. They are still not 100% and with all the funk going around I figured it would be best to keep them home. He got to go to church the last time, so today it was my turn. I walked in from church with my purse and bible in hand. Lila was sitting at the table. Her first words to me were, "It's a...Bible!" I didn't even know she knew what it was. It made my heart melt and I felt so proud!
Then, as quickly as it came...it faded fast. She proceeded to argue with me telling me, "No, It's Daddy's Bible." It wasn't, but she sure thought she was right. Aaahhh...that girl!
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Guess what she did?!?
This afternoon we were dabbling in some art and Lila got marker on her pants. I know, I know I should not have let her use markers. Anyone know what gets it out?
I went to take her pants off so I could work on the stain and she started wiggling and crying and did not want me to change her diaper. I told her that I wasn't changing it, only taking off her pants to wash them. Well, as soon as I took them off she ran into the bathroom and stood beside the toilet and said "poopie diaper." I asked her if she wanted to go in the potty and she said uh huh. So, I checked her first to make sure she hadn't gone and then went and got a book for us to read while she sat. As we were reading she was kind of grunting, ect. but more fake like than anything, so I figured she wouldn't do anything. Well, I get to the end of the book and Lila makes this face...yall know the one I am talking about....THE FACE. All the sudden she tries to hop off and says "all done." I just held her on there and cheered her on saying Good Job and told her what she was doing. She looked at it and I showed her what she did and got all excited. She just jumped off and told me to "close it" pointing at the lid. Normally she wants to flush and wash her hands. She ran into her room and grabbed a diaper for me to put on her. I think it totally freaked her out actually going in the potty. I pray it didn't scare her too much! I felt like I needed to reward her somehow and didn't want to associate anything bad with going. I wasn't actually expecting her to do it so I was not prepared. I did go get her a piece of candy just because it was the first thing I could think of and I was still shocked. I think I will do stickers from now on. Anyway..my girl went poopie in the potty!!! I have decided that if she asks to go then I will put her on there, but she is also only 21 months old so I know she is still so young. Honestly, what will propably be the most difficult is the pee pee in the potty. This girl hardly goes all day long, but usually pees through her diaper every night. It is like she holds it all day until she relaxes at night. She likes to tell me all about it too. I usually hear while changing her, "HOLY COW..soakin' wet!" :) So, I know we are a long way from being potty trained, but for now I will just revel in this "first" moment. I AM going to continue talking to her about going poopie before her naps whether it is in her diaper or the toilet. I am loving these 2 hour naps vs. the usual 45-an hour. I don't know what I will do with myself if she keeps that up!! I might actually get things done....or maybe just take a nap myself. :)
I went to take her pants off so I could work on the stain and she started wiggling and crying and did not want me to change her diaper. I told her that I wasn't changing it, only taking off her pants to wash them. Well, as soon as I took them off she ran into the bathroom and stood beside the toilet and said "poopie diaper." I asked her if she wanted to go in the potty and she said uh huh. So, I checked her first to make sure she hadn't gone and then went and got a book for us to read while she sat. As we were reading she was kind of grunting, ect. but more fake like than anything, so I figured she wouldn't do anything. Well, I get to the end of the book and Lila makes this face...yall know the one I am talking about....THE FACE. All the sudden she tries to hop off and says "all done." I just held her on there and cheered her on saying Good Job and told her what she was doing. She looked at it and I showed her what she did and got all excited. She just jumped off and told me to "close it" pointing at the lid. Normally she wants to flush and wash her hands. She ran into her room and grabbed a diaper for me to put on her. I think it totally freaked her out actually going in the potty. I pray it didn't scare her too much! I felt like I needed to reward her somehow and didn't want to associate anything bad with going. I wasn't actually expecting her to do it so I was not prepared. I did go get her a piece of candy just because it was the first thing I could think of and I was still shocked. I think I will do stickers from now on. Anyway..my girl went poopie in the potty!!! I have decided that if she asks to go then I will put her on there, but she is also only 21 months old so I know she is still so young. Honestly, what will propably be the most difficult is the pee pee in the potty. This girl hardly goes all day long, but usually pees through her diaper every night. It is like she holds it all day until she relaxes at night. She likes to tell me all about it too. I usually hear while changing her, "HOLY COW..soakin' wet!" :) So, I know we are a long way from being potty trained, but for now I will just revel in this "first" moment. I AM going to continue talking to her about going poopie before her naps whether it is in her diaper or the toilet. I am loving these 2 hour naps vs. the usual 45-an hour. I don't know what I will do with myself if she keeps that up!! I might actually get things done....or maybe just take a nap myself. :)
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Do you think it counts?
I must preface with this post with 2 things. 1.NO, I am not trying to potty train!!! 2. If you don't like reading the word "Poopie", you may want to skip this post. :)
Lila has been very interested in the potty since going to Morristown at Thanksgiving and watching her cousins use the big girl potty.
She started by running into the bathroom and backing up against the toilet and pulling up her shirt. At that point, I would ask her if she wanted to sit on the potty. I knew she wouldn't actually go, but I would put her on there just because she acted interested. Well, recently she has started telling us "Poopie Diaper" all the time. Sometimes she does have one and other times she won't have one until an hour later or so. I started thinking that maybe she is actually telling me BEFORE she actually goes because she feels like she needs to. She is queen of lying down for nap and then waking up in the middle of it with a dirty diaper. SO, I have started asking her if she needs to go to the bathroom while we are eating lunch. I mention it to her several times during lunch and afterwards to get her mind thinking about it so she will go before nap time. So far, this has actually worked and she has taken longer naps! Several weeks ago when she was sick, we found her here:
She was actually wiping her bottom and then putting the toilet paper in the trash can. She managed to pull the whole roll of toilet paper off. She was also saying, "Shoo Wee!"
On Thursday, she said to me several times that she had a poopie diaper. I checked her and she didn't. When I was checking her she said "Poopie Potty" while nodding her head yes. I asked her, "Do you want to poopie in the potty?" She said yes. I took her in the bathroom and sat her on the toilet. She grunted and pushed and even said, "Push it OUT!"
(When she is constipated, sometimes I do the cheer, "Push it out, Push it out, WAAAYY out.") Oh help me, I can't believe I just posted that on my blog. :)
Anyway, back on track. She sat there for a long time and worked and worked. She then said, "All done" and hopped off. I never heard anything come out, but, whatever, she tried, right? So I picked her up with her bottom under my arm and guess what is on me?!?! Yep, you guessed it. She HAD gone. I don't know if it got stuck and it didn't come all the way out or if it startled her when it actually started happening so she hopped off and then went right afterwards. So, does it count? I don't know. I don't want to push it, but others have said maybe I should. What do you think? I just can't imagine that she is REALLY ready to potty train. Oh, and what do you refer to "Poopie" as? I usually just try to say Dirty Diaper, but Lila is big on calling it "Poopie."
Ok, now I am beginning to question whether this post is appropriate at all.
Lila has been very interested in the potty since going to Morristown at Thanksgiving and watching her cousins use the big girl potty.
She started by running into the bathroom and backing up against the toilet and pulling up her shirt. At that point, I would ask her if she wanted to sit on the potty. I knew she wouldn't actually go, but I would put her on there just because she acted interested. Well, recently she has started telling us "Poopie Diaper" all the time. Sometimes she does have one and other times she won't have one until an hour later or so. I started thinking that maybe she is actually telling me BEFORE she actually goes because she feels like she needs to. She is queen of lying down for nap and then waking up in the middle of it with a dirty diaper. SO, I have started asking her if she needs to go to the bathroom while we are eating lunch. I mention it to her several times during lunch and afterwards to get her mind thinking about it so she will go before nap time. So far, this has actually worked and she has taken longer naps! Several weeks ago when she was sick, we found her here:
She was actually wiping her bottom and then putting the toilet paper in the trash can. She managed to pull the whole roll of toilet paper off. She was also saying, "Shoo Wee!"
On Thursday, she said to me several times that she had a poopie diaper. I checked her and she didn't. When I was checking her she said "Poopie Potty" while nodding her head yes. I asked her, "Do you want to poopie in the potty?" She said yes. I took her in the bathroom and sat her on the toilet. She grunted and pushed and even said, "Push it OUT!"
(When she is constipated, sometimes I do the cheer, "Push it out, Push it out, WAAAYY out.") Oh help me, I can't believe I just posted that on my blog. :)
Anyway, back on track. She sat there for a long time and worked and worked. She then said, "All done" and hopped off. I never heard anything come out, but, whatever, she tried, right? So I picked her up with her bottom under my arm and guess what is on me?!?! Yep, you guessed it. She HAD gone. I don't know if it got stuck and it didn't come all the way out or if it startled her when it actually started happening so she hopped off and then went right afterwards. So, does it count? I don't know. I don't want to push it, but others have said maybe I should. What do you think? I just can't imagine that she is REALLY ready to potty train. Oh, and what do you refer to "Poopie" as? I usually just try to say Dirty Diaper, but Lila is big on calling it "Poopie."
Ok, now I am beginning to question whether this post is appropriate at all.
Monday, March 2, 2009
Snow Day
We woke up on Sunday morning to find the yard covered in WHITE. YAY..we finally got some accumulation that actually amounted to something. It didn't last long though. Our white covered yard usually means some green poking out too. (Yes, we actually live in a county that doesn't have any plows.)
I was so excited to bundle Lila up and take her out!
I'll let the pictures tell the story.
What is this:
"No, I not like it."
"Holdyou Momma"
Yeah...I am still debating if that 30 minutes it took to get her and myself bundled up was worth these photos or not.
I was so excited to bundle Lila up and take her out!
I'll let the pictures tell the story.
What is this:
"No, I not like it."
"Holdyou Momma"
Yeah...I am still debating if that 30 minutes it took to get her and myself bundled up was worth these photos or not.
Yummy Cereal!
Yes, Graham is 5 months old, but we finally tried cereal. Between sicknesses and Michael being gone, I wanted to wait. He did ok. Mainly, we spent our time cleaning up and trying to catch what he pushed back out with his tongue. We will keep trying though and I am sure soon enough we will be chowing down!
Saturday, February 28, 2009
What's in a name?
I know my given name is Kelly, but the last 20 months I have been known as "mommy". Well, technically Lila has only been saying some form of Mommy for about a year now. But Michael and I have referred to each other as mommy and daddy, even when talking to our animals, for years.
Wednesday, Lila up and decided that I was no longer "mommy" but "Kellwee". She first said it when were upstairs and she wanted to go down. It went something like this: "Kellwee down!" Then at lunch when she was finished, she said to me with her finger pointed up in the air, "Kellwee, wipe it."
On Thursday my mom came in to stay with me and help me with the kids while Michael is gone skiing. I hosted a baby shower today at my house, so I needed an extra set of hands while trying to prepare. Anyway,the point of my story is this. Lila is great at calling all of her grandparents their names, except for my mom, who goes by grandmother. Lila picked up from an early age that me and all my sisters call her "mom".so Lila's name for her became "Ma". Well, Ma is no longer after this visit. She is officially "Grandmother" now! I think Lila called her ma only once before trying a few times until she perfected grandmother. So for all those people that think being called Grandmother is too hard for babies to say, I have proof from my 20 month old that it is not. Yep, this week we have the loss of one name and the addition of a new one.
Oh, and just for an update: I am back to being mommy again! Yeah!
Wednesday, Lila up and decided that I was no longer "mommy" but "Kellwee". She first said it when were upstairs and she wanted to go down. It went something like this: "Kellwee down!" Then at lunch when she was finished, she said to me with her finger pointed up in the air, "Kellwee, wipe it."
On Thursday my mom came in to stay with me and help me with the kids while Michael is gone skiing. I hosted a baby shower today at my house, so I needed an extra set of hands while trying to prepare. Anyway,the point of my story is this. Lila is great at calling all of her grandparents their names, except for my mom, who goes by grandmother. Lila picked up from an early age that me and all my sisters call her "mom".so Lila's name for her became "Ma". Well, Ma is no longer after this visit. She is officially "Grandmother" now! I think Lila called her ma only once before trying a few times until she perfected grandmother. So for all those people that think being called Grandmother is too hard for babies to say, I have proof from my 20 month old that it is not. Yep, this week we have the loss of one name and the addition of a new one.
Oh, and just for an update: I am back to being mommy again! Yeah!
Friday, February 27, 2009
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