So I really wish I had time to write down or video tape everything you say little girl! While we were at your cousuns birthday this past weekend, his grandmother said, "Oh Kylie, you're just a laugh a minute!" And it is SO true!
I know I've wrote this before but your memory is just so incredible. The other day we were downstairs looking at the toys down there and you found a top then said " HMM Where's the other girl? When I got lemonade?" Because back in June we went to a garage sale where some big girls were selling lemonade and gave you that top! Then today we were reading a book about seasons and I asked you if you remembered chasing firefly sand you said "ya, at Memere a and Papa's" which is where we were. Then you added " and daddy threw the ice cream" HAHA! You were remembering when he threw the last little bit into the woods and you caught him and were quite upset! This was back in July or August!
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Friday, October 16, 2015
Ages and stages: 26 months!
You are still the sweetest thing! Yesterday when we were leaving our gymnastics class, we walked past a preschool class in the hall and you said "scuse me, scuse me" the whole way! You still love to be my big helper, just 20 min ago I was putting things in the dishwasher and you got out the dish detergent for me! Your newest obsession is helping me bake. You absolutely love it and are getting good at pouring all the ingridents in! I'm very excited for another excuse to do lots of holiday baking this year haha. You have also really been into having "picnics" with your play food and "parties" with your play birthday cake. You still have lots of fun with a variety of your toys but recently you have been asking for your Cinderella and Tinkerbelle dolls. They are usually the guests of these picnics and parties we are having daily.
We have had a cold the past week or two, which hasn't been anything to major except you will often whine, "my boogers my boogers!". You have a few tantrums but they don't come too often only if you are very tired or hungry. You have become more particular about the clothes you will wear. Sometimes it's not an issue but probably 50% of the time you don't want to change and it's usually that you want to keep your pjs on (or just be "nakey"). Most of the time I can convince you by thinking of some game type thing or lately I've been telling you you need your warm clothes so you can feel better and not stay sick. It still takes a good 20 min sometimes till you give in though (and a few times it's been longer!).
One of your newest adorable things you say is "member?" For example, at lunch today you said "Member the little red caboose worth the fats and sweets? member?". Haha! These are the things I never want to forget!
We have had a cold the past week or two, which hasn't been anything to major except you will often whine, "my boogers my boogers!". You have a few tantrums but they don't come too often only if you are very tired or hungry. You have become more particular about the clothes you will wear. Sometimes it's not an issue but probably 50% of the time you don't want to change and it's usually that you want to keep your pjs on (or just be "nakey"). Most of the time I can convince you by thinking of some game type thing or lately I've been telling you you need your warm clothes so you can feel better and not stay sick. It still takes a good 20 min sometimes till you give in though (and a few times it's been longer!).
One of your newest adorable things you say is "member?" For example, at lunch today you said "Member the little red caboose worth the fats and sweets? member?". Haha! These are the things I never want to forget!
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Fall Book Ideas!
Just sharing some fun fall themed books that we own or have checked out at the library!
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Ages and Stages: 25 months!
Oh how I love you! You are so funny and cute and spirited! You still love puzzles and playing pretend! Recently you have been all about your princess dresses and "glass slippers" (really just white. Toddler dress shoes or hot pink water shoes). In fact, two nights ago you insisted in sleeping with your dress over your pjs! You have also gotten a little to brave when climbing lately. We have thus had to rearrange the living room a bit but you still try to climb up on the arm of her couch and jump down onto the cushions. We have been trying to channel this energy in a safer way by making a mountain of cushions on he floor which is working pretty well so far but we might have to introduce time outs in the near future.
You speak just like a little adult now. Everything is in sentences, sometimes quite impressive ones. In fact, you have progressed from using "no" frequently (and event went through an 'ow' phase), to using the word "not" when disagreeing with us. :P It is very cute especially when used like "I think not".
Temper tantrums have crept up in number, but they don't really last that long, so we haven't had anything too traumatic yet. Usually I just offer a hug but you don't usually want one, so I wait until you are ready and then you will calm down a bit and I will hold you until you are relaxed. It can be hard sometimes, when you get mad about things that are pointless to adults, or something that I can't do anything about (or when you get so frustrated you can't decide what you want). But you are so funny and fun and sweet most of the time that it makes up for all of the crankiness anyway! We have been very busy lately and it's been hard to keep up with these monthly updates but I will continue them as long as I can!!
***Updated to add that a favorite past time lately has been taking on and off your Velcro sneakers, again and again and again! :p
You speak just like a little adult now. Everything is in sentences, sometimes quite impressive ones. In fact, you have progressed from using "no" frequently (and event went through an 'ow' phase), to using the word "not" when disagreeing with us. :P It is very cute especially when used like "I think not".
Temper tantrums have crept up in number, but they don't really last that long, so we haven't had anything too traumatic yet. Usually I just offer a hug but you don't usually want one, so I wait until you are ready and then you will calm down a bit and I will hold you until you are relaxed. It can be hard sometimes, when you get mad about things that are pointless to adults, or something that I can't do anything about (or when you get so frustrated you can't decide what you want). But you are so funny and fun and sweet most of the time that it makes up for all of the crankiness anyway! We have been very busy lately and it's been hard to keep up with these monthly updates but I will continue them as long as I can!!
***Updated to add that a favorite past time lately has been taking on and off your Velcro sneakers, again and again and again! :p
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Things I always want to remember....
When Kylie is Alvin, Daddy is Dave and I am "Theodawrf"
Today you made up a song that said "Dr. Suess you have to brush your teeth. Brush brush your teeth."
Today you made up a song that said "Dr. Suess you have to brush your teeth. Brush brush your teeth."
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Ages and Stages: 2 Years!!
Forgive me for being a few days late but I wanted to wait until after your doctors appointment so I would have accurate stats for weight and height. Which are, 21lbs (1% at our doctors office) and 34 inches (55%). And your head is at
Kylie you are so incredible! I want to remember everything, because you say about a dozen hilarious things a day, but sadly, I often don't even remember them long enough to tell Daddy at the end of the day. At this exact moment I am sitting on the floor beside you attempting to type this and remember what I want to say, while you are looking at a Sesame Street calendar from 1990 that Memere kept for Daddy haha. Wow, talk about coming full circle! You find the pictures very interesting.
Okay, so you still absolutely love puzzles and really like the body puzzle I got you for your birthday. You also are very into dinosaurs right now and Daddy found you a nice play set for your birthday as well. You still LOVE to play pretend and most recently you have been pretending that you are Fozzie, I am Miss Piggy and Daddy is Kermit OR that you are "D.W.", I am Binky, and Daddy is Mr. Ratburn LOL!!! Another thing that cracks me up is this new game that you just started where you force me to look into my closet, Daddy to look into his closet and then you run into your room too look in your closet and then say "I have books in my closet" and name anything else you see. We have also played a pretty fun game where I pretend to be Santa and you tell me what you want for Christmas and so do all your toys. You will make up your own songs by singing gibberish to the melody of songs you know. You can count up to 18! You are a great little helper and love to do things "all by myself" as you would put it. :)
You have been eating really well lately! And since we weaned a few weeks ago you have been sleeping through the night more than ever! Sometimes you still wake up once though and ask for a snack.
Kylie you are so incredible! I want to remember everything, because you say about a dozen hilarious things a day, but sadly, I often don't even remember them long enough to tell Daddy at the end of the day. At this exact moment I am sitting on the floor beside you attempting to type this and remember what I want to say, while you are looking at a Sesame Street calendar from 1990 that Memere kept for Daddy haha. Wow, talk about coming full circle! You find the pictures very interesting.
Okay, so you still absolutely love puzzles and really like the body puzzle I got you for your birthday. You also are very into dinosaurs right now and Daddy found you a nice play set for your birthday as well. You still LOVE to play pretend and most recently you have been pretending that you are Fozzie, I am Miss Piggy and Daddy is Kermit OR that you are "D.W.", I am Binky, and Daddy is Mr. Ratburn LOL!!! Another thing that cracks me up is this new game that you just started where you force me to look into my closet, Daddy to look into his closet and then you run into your room too look in your closet and then say "I have books in my closet" and name anything else you see. We have also played a pretty fun game where I pretend to be Santa and you tell me what you want for Christmas and so do all your toys. You will make up your own songs by singing gibberish to the melody of songs you know. You can count up to 18! You are a great little helper and love to do things "all by myself" as you would put it. :)
You have been eating really well lately! And since we weaned a few weeks ago you have been sleeping through the night more than ever! Sometimes you still wake up once though and ask for a snack.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Weaning During World Breastfeeding Week
It's been a week with no breastfeeding and I think it's safe to say we have officially weaned. I was afraid to post anything before in case I might jinx it, and maybe somehow I still will. But so far everything has been going really well. I ended up putting band aids over my nipples and telling Kylie they needed a rest. She cried for about ten minutes the first night but then let me bounce her to sleep, although this did take a really long time because she was being extras fidgety trying to fight sleep (and boy can she when she tries). Then when she woke up around four the next morning she just let me rock her in the chair. The next night it was easier to put her to sleep but when she woke up she was more sad. Since then most nights have been pretty easy (some really easy) but there were two that she was extra tired and a little more cranky. But I think that is more just the regular patterns of a two year old than anything to do with breastfeeding. She doesn't even ask to nurse anymore. Now instead of telling me "it's time to nurse", she says "mommy's boobies are alllllll gone".
I'm a little sad, ideally she would have let go on her own, but I think I would have had more luck with that had I stopped nursing her to sleep when she was younger. But really I'm mostly happy and relieved it is going so well. I'm actually surprised I'm not more sad and in some ways it just feels normal. Since it has been so gradual and I have been working up to this point for basically the last six months, taking out this last step of nursing at bedtime and night hasn't really changed our routine that much. I'm also super happy to find that because we had nursed so rarely, my boobs have been adjusting really really well. It hasn't even been as bad as when I would just skip a feeding back when we were nursing regularly. The first day was no problem, the second day was pretty full, and the third day was quite full but still I hadn't felt like I really need to express anything out to be comfortable. And by the fourth day they had started to get soft again! I didn't even need to use those cabbage leaves I bought!
I think another surprise of weaning has been how proud I feel. I was expecting to feel guilty because I'm usually feeling mom guilt of some sort, but I really just feel very proud that we made it to two years! There were definitely times when I doubted myself, and especially during this second year I wondered if I was making a bad habit that I would never be able to stop. But now I just feel more confident that I did exactly what I wanted to do and everything worked out fine!!
Weaning during this week has meant many breastfeeding articles and pictures on my Facebook newsfeed to remind me that we are no longer nursing. I thought great, this is just going to make me sad, but really it has again just made me feel really proud and appreciative of our breastfeeding journey.
I'm a little sad, ideally she would have let go on her own, but I think I would have had more luck with that had I stopped nursing her to sleep when she was younger. But really I'm mostly happy and relieved it is going so well. I'm actually surprised I'm not more sad and in some ways it just feels normal. Since it has been so gradual and I have been working up to this point for basically the last six months, taking out this last step of nursing at bedtime and night hasn't really changed our routine that much. I'm also super happy to find that because we had nursed so rarely, my boobs have been adjusting really really well. It hasn't even been as bad as when I would just skip a feeding back when we were nursing regularly. The first day was no problem, the second day was pretty full, and the third day was quite full but still I hadn't felt like I really need to express anything out to be comfortable. And by the fourth day they had started to get soft again! I didn't even need to use those cabbage leaves I bought!
I think another surprise of weaning has been how proud I feel. I was expecting to feel guilty because I'm usually feeling mom guilt of some sort, but I really just feel very proud that we made it to two years! There were definitely times when I doubted myself, and especially during this second year I wondered if I was making a bad habit that I would never be able to stop. But now I just feel more confident that I did exactly what I wanted to do and everything worked out fine!!
Weaning during this week has meant many breastfeeding articles and pictures on my Facebook newsfeed to remind me that we are no longer nursing. I thought great, this is just going to make me sad, but really it has again just made me feel really proud and appreciative of our breastfeeding journey.
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