Last night at dinner, Lj told me "I love my new home. Our home in Colorado didn't have riding toys". Ahhh. so simple! Some kind soul who stayed here while we were gone left us THREE riding toys! We leave one outside so she can ride around out there while I water or whatever.
In the evening, about 6/7pm she and Tom go for a walk. This means they walk down the street a little ways, turn left towards the little neighborhood mosque and go into the shop attached to the mosque. Every neighborhood mosque as a little shop - think local 7-11. All the same types of food and candy (= Tom buys her a tiny bag (think Japanese candy size, here) of gummi bears and a little thing of strawberry milk. Needless to say, this is about the highlight of her day.
Running around without clothes on. Yes, many of you know she did this at home, but here she REALLY can because it is so warm!
Dates - anytime and anywhere. She can take the seeds out by herself now, even though she actually swallowed one the other day and pooped it out the Day of the Great Poop when J and V were here. More on that later.
Lynn - the maid across the street. M and V sent her over to help clean the other day and she has a real knack with kids. Lj is now calling her "our Lynn".
Barney and Blues Clues - J and V brought these over when they came for the weekend. We haven't exactly avoided the enormous market of videos created for young kids, I'm just not the shopper that cruises around looking for that stuff. Plus, no one in my family is. Hence, it's all new and fascinating for her (=
Getting a drink out of the water cooler herself. The ultimate in independence. I have her cups, plates and bowls in a low cabinet and we bought her a plastic "coffee mug" and she can get a drink of water out of the cooler for herself now. It took ENORMOUS urging for her to learn she could only take what she could drink. The desire to fill the cup up was so strong at first (= She eventually figured out that she could push the drink thing multiple times and take tons of little sips and then we are all happy.
Looking at ants. Sadly, she can find ants anywhere in this house. She likes to watch where they are going. This started when Tom and I were staring at the floor trying to figure out where the $#@% they were coming from so we could kill them. She didn't figure out this last part (= Tom finally realized that our REAL ant problem (could it be worse?) is a huge number of ENORMOUS ant hills out in the yard. Not sure how to solve this other than laying down lots of ant poisen powder. He did that last night before their walk outside.
Breastfeeding her dolly. Yes, she has figured this out. When J and V were here this weekend, she got lots of chances to see this in action as Ellie is only 5 months old. Lj is very curious and wants to see how it all works and V was very accomodating. Now Lj sits on the floor with the dolly standing up between her legs, lifts up her shirt and feeds her (=
Daddy putting her to bed - no change here. Always been her favorite thing (-; Mama's quite happy about it too! Her bed is just a mattress on the floor these days and getting up and down from there is nigh on impossible at the moment.
I'm not sure what else she would say....I know she is enjoying her room. She feels totally safe and secure which we can tell by the fact that she's slept through the nights without crying and orders us to leave when she's had enough cuddling before naps/bed (= We're grateful for that.
You all could pray for the pooping issues again. She didn't go for NINE days and that was with using Miralax, three separate doses of laxatives and then we finally went for the suppositories. It all blew the day J and V were here so that was poor timing! She's back to holding it again and I'm a little worried about it. They say that kids can get in the habit of holding and you don't want that but I'm not quite sure how to manage it all. I'm not too stressed, because it worked itself out last time, but I've also heard horror stories about this topic that I'd like to avoid (= Anyway, I would say that is our biggest headache at the moment.
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I love reading these posts. It seems so far away for us, but we will be there re-experiencing things with kids in no time at all too!
so happy you guys are back.
Love reading your posts, Steph!
Tim has struggled with that over the years. We chart when he has a bowel movement, and we set goals - like if he goes every other day for a week in a row he gets a reward, etc. She might be too young to grasp that, but maybe a variation of it would work. When he was younger, he had to sit on the toilet for 5 minutes after each meal (when the body is typically ready to go) and he got to put a sticker up when he did that. Anyway, I'll pray, but don't worry. Tim has had fairly serious issues and still no perm. damage says the doctor. He's almost 7 now and doing much better.
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