Friday, September 11, 2015
Toddler Fashion Friday: Undie Hats
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Silly Day
So today was an interesting day. Just a bunch of randomness.
This morning Dustin and I were trying to take apart the baby highchair and couldn't get the straps out. Alivia is always so helpful...and was trying to get the straps out as well. I told Dustin "We may need to use a butter knife" to which Alivia says "Oh I know! I'll get my knife for you and put butter on it!"
Alivia had almond butter and jelly for lunch today...and dinner. In my defense she had a different jelly each time, and they were organic!
Alivia is wearing a swim diaper for bed tonight. Yes I knew we were running out and no I didn't get to the store to buy more. Oops.
Dustin was juicing this morning and each time he'd turn on the juicer Juliana would start laughing and clapping!
We walked through H&M this afternoon (more like ran through) and Alivia randomly started snuggling with all the clothing we walked by. And wanted to hold the hands of all the mannequins. Goofy girl. I have a video of the cloth snuggling...I'll share it later after I have time to put it together.
Alivia is talking in her sleep again. Two days ago during her nap she started talking in her sleep. She kept saying "Give me that" "Hand me that thing" and was looking around her room and pointing at something. Then yesterday she was saying "Play with me" lol. Just a bit ago here at bedtime she started crying and was sitting up in her bed pointing at the wall saying something I didn't understand. She has been talking in her sleep more and more. I'd like to record it sometime but EVERY time I do she stops...
It was a good day. We had a nice morning before nap time and then both girls woke up early from their nap so we headed to the Cherry Creek Mall. I've been sick for 2 weeks now and just needed to GET OUT OF THE HOUSE. I didn't want to be around laundry or toys and didn't have the energy to go to the park so we went to the mall to play at the play place. Alivia had a lot of fun and so did Juliana.
So...going to the mall may have prevented me from making a nutritious dinner BUT we all had fun AND the girls both got a bath tonight and their hair washed so I consider that a win!
This morning Dustin and I were trying to take apart the baby highchair and couldn't get the straps out. Alivia is always so helpful...and was trying to get the straps out as well. I told Dustin "We may need to use a butter knife" to which Alivia says "Oh I know! I'll get my knife for you and put butter on it!"
Alivia had almond butter and jelly for lunch today...and dinner. In my defense she had a different jelly each time, and they were organic!
Alivia is wearing a swim diaper for bed tonight. Yes I knew we were running out and no I didn't get to the store to buy more. Oops.
Dustin was juicing this morning and each time he'd turn on the juicer Juliana would start laughing and clapping!
We walked through H&M this afternoon (more like ran through) and Alivia randomly started snuggling with all the clothing we walked by. And wanted to hold the hands of all the mannequins. Goofy girl. I have a video of the cloth snuggling...I'll share it later after I have time to put it together.
Alivia is talking in her sleep again. Two days ago during her nap she started talking in her sleep. She kept saying "Give me that" "Hand me that thing" and was looking around her room and pointing at something. Then yesterday she was saying "Play with me" lol. Just a bit ago here at bedtime she started crying and was sitting up in her bed pointing at the wall saying something I didn't understand. She has been talking in her sleep more and more. I'd like to record it sometime but EVERY time I do she stops...
So...going to the mall may have prevented me from making a nutritious dinner BUT we all had fun AND the girls both got a bath tonight and their hair washed so I consider that a win!
Monday, August 17, 2015
Our first story time!
(Wow...I wrote this back in April and forgot to post it...)
I'm always trying to find new things for Alivia to do and experience. She has never been in day care before and has only been taken care of by those that know and love her very well. I think that having family help to take care of her is important, it helps to foster a healthy relationship between her and loved ones. She loves her grandmas and grandpas so much as well as her aunties and uncle. I know that she would still love them if we had her in daycare, however, when we aren't doing daycare and our only option is myself or my husband and that doesn't work out we have to turn to family. And she in turn gets to spend more time with them.
All that said I definitely know that she is missing out on a few things by not being in day care. Interactions with other children, learning how to deal with unfamiliar situations, new adults and other ways of learning, coping, etc. I don't think all of those are necessary for such a young child and we're very fortunate to be able to have family help raise her however I do think it's important for her to learn how to interact with other kids and to be in new situations. So I try my best to get her out whenever possible.
Recently I had a very rare moment to myself roaming through the book store and saw a sign that was for Story Time! Every Saturday at 11:00am our local Barnes and Noble has story time. So I took Alivia and she loved it. She even loved when Arthur came out and wanted to go say hello to him. Which actually surprised me because she's usually pretty unsure of things like that, especially big costume people...what is Arthur anyway? An ant? Chipmunk? Huh. anyway, she'd never seen or heard about him before so it was new to her all around but she still liked meeting him.
After the story they got a little treat from Starbucks and got to color. All things she loves (and she doesn't get sugar often so the treat was extra special to her!)
We'll definitely be going again!
I'm always trying to find new things for Alivia to do and experience. She has never been in day care before and has only been taken care of by those that know and love her very well. I think that having family help to take care of her is important, it helps to foster a healthy relationship between her and loved ones. She loves her grandmas and grandpas so much as well as her aunties and uncle. I know that she would still love them if we had her in daycare, however, when we aren't doing daycare and our only option is myself or my husband and that doesn't work out we have to turn to family. And she in turn gets to spend more time with them.
All that said I definitely know that she is missing out on a few things by not being in day care. Interactions with other children, learning how to deal with unfamiliar situations, new adults and other ways of learning, coping, etc. I don't think all of those are necessary for such a young child and we're very fortunate to be able to have family help raise her however I do think it's important for her to learn how to interact with other kids and to be in new situations. So I try my best to get her out whenever possible.
Recently I had a very rare moment to myself roaming through the book store and saw a sign that was for Story Time! Every Saturday at 11:00am our local Barnes and Noble has story time. So I took Alivia and she loved it. She even loved when Arthur came out and wanted to go say hello to him. Which actually surprised me because she's usually pretty unsure of things like that, especially big costume people...what is Arthur anyway? An ant? Chipmunk? Huh. anyway, she'd never seen or heard about him before so it was new to her all around but she still liked meeting him.
After the story they got a little treat from Starbucks and got to color. All things she loves (and she doesn't get sugar often so the treat was extra special to her!)
We'll definitely be going again!
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Toddler Fashion: Sometimes it makes sense
OK...today she hit the nail on the head :-)
And LOVE the boots. (thanks mom!)
And LOVE the boots. (thanks mom!)
Friday, August 14, 2015
Alivia 32 months old
My little baby is 32 months old today. It's really amazing to me how much she's grown in just the past few months. I always wanted to do updates monthly on my blog but just never got around to it. So I'm going to try keeping up on it, or rather just doing it, for Alivia and Juliana. Since Alivia was born on the 14th and Juliana on the 1st I'll try doing an update every 2 weeks for the girls. We'll see.
So I thought it was kinda fun to note that 1 year ago today, I was 20 weeks pregnant with Juliana and Alivia turned 20 months old.
Big difference 1 year makes! Now we have a crawling 7 month old and a very active 2.5 year old. Onto Alivia! She has SO much personality! I just love it. Pretty much every time she opens her mouth something cute is said, although I'm her mother and I think everything she does is cute so ... yeah. And she talks a LOT. Literally full blown sentences. She can tell us stories, she makes up songs and makes her dolly's and toys talk. Several months ago we started counting how many words she was saying in 1 sentence. Actually...it was about 8 months ago when she turned 2, many time is flying by. Yesterday I gave up counting after 15 words lol. The girl can talk.
One of my favorite things she just started saying this past month is "Whobody" as in "whobody wants to have a snack with me?" The first time she said it I had her repeat it a few times because I just couldn't figure out what exactly she was saying. Then I realized she was combining "who" and "somebody". It cracks me up now every time she says it. I want to start writing down more of what she's saying because it's all day long and I usually forget what it was by the time I can get around to telling anyone about it.
She's been doing really great with potty training. She will be fine in undies all day long, not have any accidents and just wear diapers to bed and for nap. But for some reason she is afraid to poop in the toilet. This may be crazy but I think it's from last December when she got really sick. I was working so I wasn't home with her but Dustin was and she had such a bad stomach bug that sadly she had it coming from both ends. I know she pooped in her undies and I think threw up and she flipped out. Full on freak out. It really scared her because she wasn't expecting it to happen and had zero control. She was sick for a while with that and I think it just stuck with her. I think she's afraid of seeing poop or something, I don't know. But today we started trying again. She told me several times that she was scared so I finally got her to at least sit on the toilet (actually her potty chair) with her diaper on to poop. And she wasn't kidding about being scared, she literally had me hold her hand and then kept checking in the toilet to make sure it wasn't leaking out lol. But I'll do a post another time about this training.
Alivia is doing really wonderfully with her baby sister, really she is awesome with her. She loves her so much, she calls her "my baby", she hugs and kisses her and wants to hold her all the time. She cuddles with her and is such a sweetheart. She even calls her "my little sweetheart'. It's enough to make anyone's heart melt. I love it. She's concerned about her when she's crying and will say "Maybe she wants some mommy milk", she gets excited when she tries a new food for the first time or learns how to do something new. She's her biggest cheerleader.
Juliana is crawling....so....Alivia is having a harder time with the sharing. She will pull things right out of Juliana's hands and no matter how many times I ask her not to do it it's almost like she can't control herself. And really, who am I kidding...she's 2 years old. I know plenty grown adults who have no control over themselves so I get it, she's little. I just wish I knew what to do to help her not be so grabby. Sometimes she will "trade" her things, so she'll take away a toy Juliana is playing with and then try to giver her something else. Which is nice, although sometimes Juliana gets a baby wipe in place of a toy car lol. But if I could figure out how to not have her be so jealous of her playing with her toys. And it's not ALWAYS. There are times every day where Alivia will see her playing with something and she gets excited that she's playing with her toy so I'm not sure what flips the switch!
I do know that Alivia HATES things to get wet. And of course Juliana sticks everything in her mouth so I do know that's part of the issue. I've been telling her that if Juliana gets anything wet I'll make sure to wipe it off when she's done. It's sorta helping. And this "wet" thing goes well beyond Juliana and her infant drooling. If Dustin or I wash our hands and don't 100% dry them off before we touch Alivia or something of her's she has a melt down lol I don't mean to laugh but man...it must be hard being 2.
She's still my snuggle bug. She loves having mommy milk still and loves when I do her nap time and bed time. (which I've been doing all of lately) She loves all of her family so much and asks about each person during the week "What's Uncle Ryan doing?" "I haven't seen grandpa Bruce in while" "When will daddy be home?" She loves when I make up stories about what they may be doing or where they are when she asks. Oh and speaking of Uncle Ryan, she also is talking in her sleep. A LOT. It's freaky sometimes. And my brother is known for talking in his sleep. She always cracks up laughing when I tell her she's talking in her sleep like Uncle Ryan. <3 p="">
This summer I've been babysitting my 3.5 year old niece 2 days a week and Alivia loves it. She's learning how to hang out with another kid older than her on a regular basis, she's learning new things and really just looks up to her. Almost every night she says "Purity coming over tomorrow?" Since we don't have her in day care it is nice to have another kid for her to play with and spend time with and it's even better that it's family. She also loves hanging out with my best friend and her two little ones. I've written about them before, Coltrane is also 3.5 and he has a new little sister Quinn that Alivia just adores.
Lets see, what else is new with Alivia. She's a great eater and will try just about anything. I contribute BLW to that and the fact that we're always offering her new foods to try and have been since she was 6 months old. She loves reading books. OH yes, I have to mention she LOVES Curious George. We have to check out a new one every time we go to the library. She loves that little monkey.
She loves playing outside, watering our tomatoes, picking basil out of our garden and eating it, going for walks, playing at the park. This girl does it all :-)
She's healthy and happy and just such a sweetie.
So I thought it was kinda fun to note that 1 year ago today, I was 20 weeks pregnant with Juliana and Alivia turned 20 months old.
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| Alivia 20 months |
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| Juliana 20 weeks gestation |
Big difference 1 year makes! Now we have a crawling 7 month old and a very active 2.5 year old. Onto Alivia! She has SO much personality! I just love it. Pretty much every time she opens her mouth something cute is said, although I'm her mother and I think everything she does is cute so ... yeah. And she talks a LOT. Literally full blown sentences. She can tell us stories, she makes up songs and makes her dolly's and toys talk. Several months ago we started counting how many words she was saying in 1 sentence. Actually...it was about 8 months ago when she turned 2, many time is flying by. Yesterday I gave up counting after 15 words lol. The girl can talk.
One of my favorite things she just started saying this past month is "Whobody" as in "whobody wants to have a snack with me?" The first time she said it I had her repeat it a few times because I just couldn't figure out what exactly she was saying. Then I realized she was combining "who" and "somebody". It cracks me up now every time she says it. I want to start writing down more of what she's saying because it's all day long and I usually forget what it was by the time I can get around to telling anyone about it.
She's been doing really great with potty training. She will be fine in undies all day long, not have any accidents and just wear diapers to bed and for nap. But for some reason she is afraid to poop in the toilet. This may be crazy but I think it's from last December when she got really sick. I was working so I wasn't home with her but Dustin was and she had such a bad stomach bug that sadly she had it coming from both ends. I know she pooped in her undies and I think threw up and she flipped out. Full on freak out. It really scared her because she wasn't expecting it to happen and had zero control. She was sick for a while with that and I think it just stuck with her. I think she's afraid of seeing poop or something, I don't know. But today we started trying again. She told me several times that she was scared so I finally got her to at least sit on the toilet (actually her potty chair) with her diaper on to poop. And she wasn't kidding about being scared, she literally had me hold her hand and then kept checking in the toilet to make sure it wasn't leaking out lol. But I'll do a post another time about this training.
Alivia is doing really wonderfully with her baby sister, really she is awesome with her. She loves her so much, she calls her "my baby", she hugs and kisses her and wants to hold her all the time. She cuddles with her and is such a sweetheart. She even calls her "my little sweetheart'. It's enough to make anyone's heart melt. I love it. She's concerned about her when she's crying and will say "Maybe she wants some mommy milk", she gets excited when she tries a new food for the first time or learns how to do something new. She's her biggest cheerleader.
Juliana is crawling....so....Alivia is having a harder time with the sharing. She will pull things right out of Juliana's hands and no matter how many times I ask her not to do it it's almost like she can't control herself. And really, who am I kidding...she's 2 years old. I know plenty grown adults who have no control over themselves so I get it, she's little. I just wish I knew what to do to help her not be so grabby. Sometimes she will "trade" her things, so she'll take away a toy Juliana is playing with and then try to giver her something else. Which is nice, although sometimes Juliana gets a baby wipe in place of a toy car lol. But if I could figure out how to not have her be so jealous of her playing with her toys. And it's not ALWAYS. There are times every day where Alivia will see her playing with something and she gets excited that she's playing with her toy so I'm not sure what flips the switch!
I do know that Alivia HATES things to get wet. And of course Juliana sticks everything in her mouth so I do know that's part of the issue. I've been telling her that if Juliana gets anything wet I'll make sure to wipe it off when she's done. It's sorta helping. And this "wet" thing goes well beyond Juliana and her infant drooling. If Dustin or I wash our hands and don't 100% dry them off before we touch Alivia or something of her's she has a melt down lol I don't mean to laugh but man...it must be hard being 2.
She's still my snuggle bug. She loves having mommy milk still and loves when I do her nap time and bed time. (which I've been doing all of lately) She loves all of her family so much and asks about each person during the week "What's Uncle Ryan doing?" "I haven't seen grandpa Bruce in while" "When will daddy be home?" She loves when I make up stories about what they may be doing or where they are when she asks. Oh and speaking of Uncle Ryan, she also is talking in her sleep. A LOT. It's freaky sometimes. And my brother is known for talking in his sleep. She always cracks up laughing when I tell her she's talking in her sleep like Uncle Ryan. <3 p="">
This summer I've been babysitting my 3.5 year old niece 2 days a week and Alivia loves it. She's learning how to hang out with another kid older than her on a regular basis, she's learning new things and really just looks up to her. Almost every night she says "Purity coming over tomorrow?" Since we don't have her in day care it is nice to have another kid for her to play with and spend time with and it's even better that it's family. She also loves hanging out with my best friend and her two little ones. I've written about them before, Coltrane is also 3.5 and he has a new little sister Quinn that Alivia just adores.
Lets see, what else is new with Alivia. She's a great eater and will try just about anything. I contribute BLW to that and the fact that we're always offering her new foods to try and have been since she was 6 months old. She loves reading books. OH yes, I have to mention she LOVES Curious George. We have to check out a new one every time we go to the library. She loves that little monkey.
She loves playing outside, watering our tomatoes, picking basil out of our garden and eating it, going for walks, playing at the park. This girl does it all :-)
She's healthy and happy and just such a sweetie.
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