Happy 1/2 birthday to my sweet baby girl!! Where has the time gone?! I must say, seeing her face brightens up everyday. Between Daphne's smiles and giggles, and Evelina's constant goofiness, we have lots of blissful moments. <3
I've seen this blog (http://reasonsmysoniscrying.tumblr.com/) floating around the interwebs over the last couple of days. It is totally hilarious and totally accurate. If it had a submission page I would need to include an episode from this morning.
Chris is in VT for work so I had to take over the morning responsibilities today. Daphne woke first and while I was feeding her and getting her dressed, Evelina woke up. We usually let her chill in bed for a little bit to wake up, otherwise she is Miss Grumpy Pants. Well, I clearly didn't wait long enough this morning. I went into Evelina's room and put Daphne on the little sheep skin rug in front of the bookcase. She loves chilling there and usually Evelina enjoys "playing" with her little sister for a bit, getting her to laugh and smile. This morning Evelina decided to be her difficult self and throw everything from her bed onto the floor and sulk. She was probably peeved that Papa wasn't home. All I wanted her to do was get undressed and use the potty...not too much to ask right? What I wanted to avoid was a fight...why does everything need to be a fight? I used one of my reverse psychology methods and told her that I was going to finish getting ready (in hopes that she would want to do the same). I had to run downstairs for something and while I was down there I hear Evelina screaming while breaking down in tears. From this outburst alone, I thought for sure she had fallen off of the bed or hurt herself in some other way. I ran upstairs as fast as I could to make sure she was okay. She was tucked against one of her bed rails crying when I entered the room. I asked her what happened, her reply in a tearful voice....."Daphne smiled at me....WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"
Wow...just WOW. I swear, it is really tough to be a toddler when your cute little sister smiles at you because she thinks you are the bees knees.
This weekend we are tackling potty training. Evelina has been peeing on the potty for months now but I don't think Chris and I were really ready to take the potty training plunge yet. This weekend we don't have anything going on so I thought it would be the perfect weekend to make the transition to underwear. So far it is going okay. She's had a few accidents and leaks but for the most part, she makes it to the potty (after we ask her about 1000 times if she needs to go). Pooping on the potty is another story though. The first time she actually pooped on the potty was last week at school and we have yet to have a successful #2 this weekend. She had said she needed to go, so on to the potty she went (after bribing her with Caillou on the iPad if she was successful). I left her with some books and went away to give her some private time. She started reading Thomas and Friends Blue Mountain Mystery to pass the minutes. She had no idea I had come back upstairs to spy. Chris and I love how she licks her finger to turn the page. Hilarious...she learned it from her teachers at school. Oh, and in case you were wondering, no success on the poo front.
It was finally nice enough yesterday to let Daphne have her first ride in the swing. Evelina was so excited to be swinging next to her little sister. She kept telling me how much fun it was and she wanted me to push Daphne higher and higher (um, don't think so!!). Daphne seemed to enjoy it.
I've been meaning to write a 5 month post but haven't been able to find the time. I did take Daphne's 5 month photos though!! Here is our cute little daffodil in all her cheek glory.
We plan to wait until Daphne is 6 months before officially starting her on solids, but I thought I would give her a little taste on Easter...just for fun. She seemed ambivalent about it. We had asked Lina over the last weeks what she thought Daphne would do when she first tasted food, she said she would cry. She neither cried not hated it. You can't ask for much more than that!! She had a blend of butternut squash and oatmeal. Carrots would have been more appropriate for the day but I hadn't whipped up any yet.
Apologies for the shaky camera, I was trying to shoot the video and feed at the same time while Chris was taking some photos. I also can't forget to mention that Evelina can't be missed in this video. We have a fresh one on our hands, especially when she wants ALL of the attention...which is pretty much 99% of the time.
