Our sweet girl is 31 months old this month....amazing! She is doing so well and we continue to be amazed and surprised by her every day. Here's the latest scoop:
- She has done so well in the BGB (Big Girl Bed, or Good Girl Bed as she sometimes calls it). The first few nights were brutal- up 3-4 times, and the 3rd night was hands-down, the worst night I have ever had with her. She woke up at 1 wanting more milk. I lied and said we didn't have any more milk, and I would get it in the morning from the store (aside here- if I had given her the milk at 1am, she would have woken up every.single.day. afterwards, at 1am, wanting milk. She is SUCH a creature of habit and this same scenario has bitten us time and time again...till finally, WE LEARNED!) Well, she wasn't pleased with that news and decided to play in her bed until 2am. I had gone back to our bed but couldn't fall asleep because I would hear her messing around. Finally at 2 I went back to her and she proceeded to tell me to rub her back, her hair, pat her back, hold her hands, etc etc etc until finally around 4:30 she fell asleep again. It was horrible! When Paul came to get me out of her bed (I fell asleep, too) when my alarm went off at 5:30 I thought I would die. Let's just say Thursday at school was a day I'd like to forget!! But since then, she has actually done well and is doing a marvelous job of staying IN the bed (which I doubted, highly, that she would) and she hasn't woken up at all the last 2 nights. PROGRESS!!!
- She also learned to pedal her tricycle this week. This is JUST about all I can stand....seriously, why does she have to grow so big, so fast?
- She is getting to be pretty funny about baby Audrey. The other day I pretended to cry over something and she told me matter-of-factly, "Mommy, STOP crying." So Paul was wondering aloud what kinds of things she's going to say to Audrey when she cries and Emily slammed her breakfast spoon on her highchair and said, "DADDY, we don't say Audrey is crying. That's NOT NICE. We haffa say nice things about Audrey. Audrey is a baby an we haffa be NICE about her!" It was hilarious and cute all at the same time! She is already a little protective!
- Another Audrey story- Emmy and I were talking about Audrey and I asked if she was going to be nice to Audrey when baby Audrey came out of Mommy's tummy. She looked me dead in the eye and said, "I will hit her." I was shocked and asked her if that would be nice...and reminded her that we always have to be nice to a baby. She looked at me again and repeated, with a more final tone this time, "I will hit her." GREAT. At least when they are big girls and are fighting I can tell Audrey, "look sweetheart, she told me she was going to hit you when she was only 2 years old!" LOL! What a kid.
- She is obsessed with her sleeping "friends" in her bed. Last night it was Minnie, 2 Mickeys, Pooh, Tigger, a silky, a blanket, another blanket (Toy Story), another blanket (Mickey Mouse ears), and her sheet. I have to sneak in after she falls asleep to make sure she isn't burning up under all those layers! If all her friends aren't in her bed JUST SO she can't sleep.
- She LOVES school. Finally! The 19th made a full month there and I was hoping we'd have seen some progress with the dropoff situation- and this week, she did it! I would take her in and she'd leave my side and go play, and 2 days she "pushed me out" (this is something the kids do where they push the mom/dad out the door...gives the kiddo the feeling that he/she is choosing when the parent leaves, instead of the parent just walking out.) I was SO proud! She is also getting tons of hugs and kisses from her little friends before she leaves in the afternoons. Melts my heart!
- The toddler quirks are increasing. Last week for Show and Tell Day, she brought a placemat from our kitchen table. She was so proud of it! She wore her snow boots with shorts on Sunday. She brought a train whistle this week for S&T Day (I was prepared for anything...a spoon? one of my rollers for my hair? a Q-tip?). Today, she wanted to go to the mall with me wearing her clothes and Elmo slippers. Just for the record, we DID go to the mall dressed just like that over the winter...but today I was able to convince her to wear real shoes. Speaking of shoes, she refused to wear certain shoes (all but one pair!) for 12 straight days because all other shoes were "TOO BIG!". Also, several pairs of pants were vetoed for the same TOO BIG status. She is a trip!
That's all I can think up right now. I will leave you with some wisdom from our girl today though- she told me today, after she hit me, that "It's very hard to be good!" HAHA!
