It was another long week at work for me. I hadn't slept much or well so by Saturday I was wiped out. I got up with Rachel as usual Saturday morning and we made breakfast together. I don't remember ever making pancakes for her so I turned to her and said, "Would you like to help me make pancakes this morning?" Her eyes got really big and you could tell she was excited and exploded with a "Tamcakes!" and a happy giggle. I put her on the step stool and let her stir as I poured in the ingredients. I won't lie, they weren't the best pancakes I'd ever made, but she was so excited about breakfast.
I gave in after we ate and went downstairs with her to watch Finding Nemo for the 1,536th time. I have always loved that movie. I'm finding that I really don't anymore. So we've gone from Elmo to Monsters Inc. to Cinderella to Shrek to now Nemo. OMG, I am SO tired of all of the aforementioned items. Please, Dear Lord, let her move on to the next obsession! And the real complaint I have with all of those (then I promise I'll stop complaining) is that the DVD player in the laptop we use upstairs for a tv has gone out and the little tv I have with a DVD player in it doesn't work well. So in order to watch her favorites, we have to go downstairs. And when we go downstairs to watch tv, it's up and down, up and down, up and down. Hence; I don't want to go downstairs to watch a movie I'm already really worn out on! So when I can find other activities to keep her busy that don't involve any of the above, I take it! But we somewhat contentedly watched the movie.
When Jason woke up it was getting close to time for me to head to the Chiropractor, which I go to every Saturday morning around 9. Lately I've been taking Rachel with me because she'll sit quietly while I get adjusted then I take her with me to the grocery store. However, this Saturday that didn't happen. She let me change her shirt, but fought me on the pants and by the time I got to socks I couldn't take anymore and just left her with Jason. They apparently had a great time while I was gone! However, when I got back home after going to the grocery she had fallen asleep on the couch for about 10 - 15 minutes and this is where the day got REALLY dicey. She got up when I got home and we ended up playing until around noon, which is when I put her down for a nap if she hasn't already gone to sleep.
For an hour and a half I got up about every 15 minutes to go into her room to try to lay her down and tell her it was time to go to sleep. NOTHING WORKED. This child went the whole day without a nap. Which means I went the whole day without a nap. This situation is a no win situation. Jason ended up taking her to play for a few hours so I could lay down. It was the first decent amount of sleep I'd had all week!
By early evening she was getting really fussy so we put her to bed an hour early at 6:30.
So Sunday I woke up completely refreshed and ready to go. Rachel didn't wake up until 6. As she played and did her thing I went about our usual Sunday morning which ends with me getting the both of us ready to go to church. I had gone in to get dressed and say goodbye to Jason when I walk into the kitchen and see this:
Me: (angrily) "What are those?" Points to the crayon markings
Rachel: (happily) "Circles!"
Bah! How do you continue scolding that?! I gave up and we left for church.
On our way home Rachel fell asleep about 5 - 10 minutes from home, which made me nervous. Whenever she falls asleep in the car or at home for just a few minutes, she won't take a nap later when she's supposed to. You just read about what happens earlier in this post. It's not just her that needs the nap, we need her to take that nap! So imagine my surprise when I get her out of the car and into the house to take her coat off, and she's barely keeping her eyes open. I ask her, "Do you want to lay down in your bed?" Completely expecting her to snap out of it and tell me no. Nope, she nodded her head and tried to climb into her bed on her own. So I tucked her in and that child slept SOUNDLY for over 2 hours. I wish that would teach her not to forgo the naps again!
When she woke up I changed her clothes and didn't have much left in her drawers as I was in the process of doing laundry. As she ate lunch I got a few photos. Check out the outfit I put her in:
I'm noticing even more words coming out of her into sentences. Still a lot of jibberish, but also a lot more "real" words. She still gets a few words a little wonky:
Monty = Mossey
Come on = Tome on
Cookies = Tookies
Chips = Sheeps
Octopus = Ocpuss
Jump/Hop = Pop
Blue = Boo
Some of her favorite phrases is, "Oh, deer it is!" "I did it!" "I found it!"
Right now whenever she's throwing a fit I normally hear a wailing "aaaaaaaahhhhhh my mommy!" or "aaaaaaaahhhhhh my nigh nigh!" (pacifier). Sometimes I can't help but giggle when she's crying out for "my mommy" and I'm right there holding her.
Rachel was also kind enough to point out to me multiple times over the weekend that we have an ant problem. "Mommy!!! Ewwwww! Bugs!" She likes looking at bugs, but it really seems to bother her when they crawl on her stuff. I tried showing her how to squish them since they're the really tiny ones, but she won't have anything to do with it.
On Sunday I was trying to clean up the house a bit in between play time and I turned on some light jazz music for noise, but nothing obnoxious. She LOVES to dance when she hears music or sees characters dancing while watching a movie. "Dancing" consists of mostly spinning in a circle and hopping around. Sometimes I join in. Why not? Nobody's watching but her :o)
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