Thursday, July 21, 2005
I’ve not
written much this month so I’ll try to catch up a bit today.
We went to
Lauren has
found her voice and boy does she love using it. She is chattering up a storm.
We were trying to watch a movie last night and just gave up since she would not
stop jabbering. She is up on her knees now and rocking back and forth. She
wants to crawl so badly. She had her 6 month appointment last Friday and here
are her stats.
Height: 26 ¾ “
(90%)
Weight: 15 lb
2oz (25-50%)
Head: 42 ½ cm
(50%)
She also got
three shots and only cried for a bit.
Katherine has
been a little sweetheart lately. Being off of her routine has caused a bit of a
problem with bedtime but we are working on it. She’s suddenly discovered a fear
of monsters in her bedroom. I’ve been spraying Lysol and explaining to her that
not only do monsters not like that smell, they also know that Katherine is way
too sweet. They’d get a tummy ache if they come near her. J She seemed to accept that.
July 27, 2005
OK. Why didn’t
anyone tell me how much you will question yourself when you are a parent? I have
an ongoing dialogue in my head 24/7. It’s driving me nuts!
Katherine has
been acting different. Not naughtier, not bossier, not more spastic, not even
bratty…just different. She’s not her normal super-happy bouncing off the walls,
enthusiastic, affectionate little girl that I’m used to. It’s pretty subtle and
I was second guessing weather or not something was even different or if it was
just me over-analyzing things as I’m so apt to do. I made a point to spend some
extra cuddle time with her thinking that perhaps a little Lauren jealousy has
crept in. Nothing changed.
Today I posted
this to the parenting club message board.
“Katherine is acting strange. Not bad, just not her usual chipper
self. But it's really hard to get an almost 3 year old to tell you what's
bothering her. I suspect she's finally getting jealous of Lauren but when she's
asked what's wrong; her answer is always something like "i don't have a
lollipop" or "I am not blowing bubbles right now". Crazy kids!
:-) I hate to see her sad but I don't know how to fix it for her. Any ideas on
how to get her to talk to me?” I
got a good suggestion to do a puppet show with her and see what she says.
When I went to
pick her up from daycare, I mentioned to Candice that I thought she was acting
weird with the hopes that Candice would either tell me I was nuts or that she
would have a brilliant suggestion or possibly a phone number to the nearest
toddler mental health professional. Instead she said Dale (her husband) and
mentioned she was acting “off” too & that she’d noticed it also. Well, at
least I know it’s not all in my head right?
In the car on
the way home I tried playing amateur psychiatrist by asking her what mommy,
daddy and Lauren did to make her happy (hugging her, kissing her, giving her
treats etc.) and sad (giving her time outs). She’s not giving me any leads.
So after her
bath tonight I made coffee filter versions of the members of our family and
stuck them to straws. Oh yeah….the creativity was flowin’ in the kitchen
tonight! They were oh-so-lovely.
When I was
tucking her in we played with the puppets. Mommy puppet asked Katherine puppet
if she was happy or sad….she said happy. Then we went on to talk about how much
we all love each other. Ok, so that didn’t work at all! I guess I’ll just see
what happens over the next few days.
The thing is,
if she’s jealous of Lauren or of the time we spend with her, she sure doesn’t
take it out on Lauren. She’s sweet as pie to her and she begs me to bring
Lauren in to “show her to my friends” at daycare every day. She also has
nothing but nice things to say about her.
Hmmmmm. I’m
stumped. I thought I had at least a few more years before I had to deal with a
non-communicative, sullen, moody person.
As for Lauren,
I suspect a growth spurt would be to blame for the near-constant nursing and
the large amounts of cereal and sweet potatoes she’s been eating over the last
couple of days. She’s a chow hound!
She’s also been sleeping a lot but when she’s not sleeping she’s up on all
fours rocking back and forth. She’s been reaching with her hands in a crawling
motion…she really wants to move.
I was lying in
bed on Sunday morning just chattering with her. The Duh-Duh-Duh type of baby
chatter that is so sweet. Then she said “Da-Da”. I know she didn’t mean too but
it was worthy of the journal none the less.
Final note for
tonight before I pick up the screaming baby. Katherine has a taste for baby
food. Every night at dinner time when I’m feeding Lauren, Katherine always says
“she’s finished” or “Lauren doesn’t like that”. When Lauren is actually
finished with her meal, I give it to K who scarfs it down. So now, Katherine’s
main source of nutrition at home is carnation instant breakfast, cookies from
Super Target, noodles with butter and cheese and baby food. Thank god she eats
at daycare. Note to self: remind her of this when she is the littlest kid in
her class and complaining to me. ;-)
Thursday, July 28, 2005
As Woody &
I sat and watched, Lauren went from lying down on her tummy to sitting up. Then
she crawled. Not a very stylish crawl but a crawl none the less. She lurched
forward a couple of times using both her legs & arms. It wasn’t pretty to
watch since I kept waiting for the face plant, but it was awesome. Things are
gonna be changing round these parts.
Friday, July 29, 2005
I was tucking
Katherine into bed last night and I gave her a big hug and then I looked at her
and said "do you know how much I love you bunny?". Her reply
"TOO MUCH!" was said with a big grin & followed by a kiss &
hug from her.
That is the perfect answer.
