Happy Valentine's Day!
Finger painting for the first time
Final collaboration with Mommy
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
Green Beans and the Stalling Queen
Yesterday at dinner, Taylor did something unprecedented. She ate her green beans. But she not only ate the green beans, she devoured them and asked for seconds, thirds, and fourths! This was a kind of new green bean recipe with soy sauce and sesame oil that we've only tried a couple of times before. It was a hit! I don't think she ate much of the chicken and rice, but I was pleased none the less. It's always felt like a tiny failure for me every night when I have to scoop off all the green stuff I had set aside on her plate. Now I feel like we had a tremendous victory. What a proud parent moment - I nearly cried with joy.
Bedtime was not quite as successful though. Taylor has become a pro at stalling tactics, but they all seem like legitimate requests so it's awfully hard not to concede to her requests. As part of our usual routine, we read a few books and I turned the lights off and let her start nursing. Then she pulled off and told me she needed to poop. So, we went to the bathroom and she did her business and we went back to bed and back to nursing. After another minute, she pulled off again and said she was hungry and insisted on Cheerios. Since it had been a few hours since dinner I figured she might really be hungry, so we got out of bed and she gorged on Cheerios and water for about 30 min...offering me a Cheerio every single time she took one out of the box ("No, thank you, Taylor, that's for you. No, thank you, I don't want one. No, thank you, sweets.").
Then I cut her off and we moved back to the room to wind down again. Once lights were off and we got settled, she announced that she needed to pee. ::Sigh:: Since I committed myself to paying attention to her bathroom needs with EC I couldn't bear to tell her to just go in her diaper or ignore it (as if she would anyway), and we got up and went to the bathroom again. When we returned to her bed I was determined to stay in there until she was asleep. It took less than a minute back in bed before she insisted that she was really hungry and needed more Cheerios, but I held my ground and she stopped crying in a couple minutes and nodded off for the night. Phew. I will have to do a bit of tweaking to the pre-bedtime routine, I think, to avoid a repeat episode.
Since we got to bed so late, we slept in really late this morning and I felt like I didn't accomplish much during the day. I have got to get myself on a better daytime routine. I feel like there is a lot to do, but I don't have firm goals...or much motivation to reach the goals I do set.
Other Taylor updates: she likes to sing portions of Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Happy Birthday now. We can recognize some words and notes in there. I'll have to catch her on tape sometime soon. We're working on teaching her the Alphabet Song.
She offered to nurse me the other day. It was hilarious - "Milk? This side? Now this side?"
And we tried out finger paints for the first time yesterday. They were a gift from her Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen. She loves it! I took photos of the process, but will have to post later.
Have a great weekend!
Bedtime was not quite as successful though. Taylor has become a pro at stalling tactics, but they all seem like legitimate requests so it's awfully hard not to concede to her requests. As part of our usual routine, we read a few books and I turned the lights off and let her start nursing. Then she pulled off and told me she needed to poop. So, we went to the bathroom and she did her business and we went back to bed and back to nursing. After another minute, she pulled off again and said she was hungry and insisted on Cheerios. Since it had been a few hours since dinner I figured she might really be hungry, so we got out of bed and she gorged on Cheerios and water for about 30 min...offering me a Cheerio every single time she took one out of the box ("No, thank you, Taylor, that's for you. No, thank you, I don't want one. No, thank you, sweets.").
Then I cut her off and we moved back to the room to wind down again. Once lights were off and we got settled, she announced that she needed to pee. ::Sigh:: Since I committed myself to paying attention to her bathroom needs with EC I couldn't bear to tell her to just go in her diaper or ignore it (as if she would anyway), and we got up and went to the bathroom again. When we returned to her bed I was determined to stay in there until she was asleep. It took less than a minute back in bed before she insisted that she was really hungry and needed more Cheerios, but I held my ground and she stopped crying in a couple minutes and nodded off for the night. Phew. I will have to do a bit of tweaking to the pre-bedtime routine, I think, to avoid a repeat episode.
Since we got to bed so late, we slept in really late this morning and I felt like I didn't accomplish much during the day. I have got to get myself on a better daytime routine. I feel like there is a lot to do, but I don't have firm goals...or much motivation to reach the goals I do set.
Other Taylor updates: she likes to sing portions of Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and Happy Birthday now. We can recognize some words and notes in there. I'll have to catch her on tape sometime soon. We're working on teaching her the Alphabet Song.
She offered to nurse me the other day. It was hilarious - "Milk? This side? Now this side?"
And we tried out finger paints for the first time yesterday. They were a gift from her Uncle Mike and Aunt Jen. She loves it! I took photos of the process, but will have to post later.
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Happy 2nd Birthday, Taylor!
Our sweet little girl is 2 years old today - so spunky and full of personality. We celebrated with cake and presents this last weekend in Evansville. Today will probably be low key - maybe we'll do leftover cake with a couple of new candles to blow out.
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