2 3/4 year old

It is so hard to believe that my once little baby has 3 short months until she turns 3!!! It is also hard to believe that in the next 3 months it will turn from Spring to Summer and then Summer vacation! I can't wait! Also, Spring Break is only 1 week away!

I love watching her learn and grow. She has a great vocabulary and amazes me when I hear her use a hard word! She is curious and is always asking "what's that?" but once we tell her she does not forget! has a great memory and like I said you tell her something once and she's got it for good!

My current favorite phrases:
"I have a problem"- when she can't do something on her own
"It is a mystery"- when she can't find something

She LOVES Peppa Pig and loves pretending to play Peppa Pig. She says "you mommy pig, you daddy pig, I peppa pig" and we all act out scenes from Peppa Pig in a English accent!!

She really loves reenacting scenes from any movie or show!

Most of her play right is all imaginative... and what an imagination she has!

She has started liking Lalaloopsy too. They are really cute so I don't mind her interest! Poor Dora... she is so last year!

She is getting into princess' some. Her favorite is still Cinderella but we watch Tangled (Rapunzel) about once a week. I really enjoy Tangled!

We plays LOTS of "tea party" and "sleepover"

Her fear of Chuck e Cheese is still going strong! We tried going a few weeks ago and she enjoyed the games but once she would catch any glimpse of him she would freeze and cover her eyes... I am pretty positive we will not get such a cute smiling Easter Bunny picture as we did with Santa!

She LOVES going to her dance/gym class. We started it right before Thanksgiving and we haven't missed a week yet! She is getting much more confident in doing the activities and is willing to try the new skills at least once. We already signed up for Summer classes. They will be big girl classes since she will be 3! She will also be doing tap!

She is still a wonderful picky eater but sometimes surprises us in what she will try.

She is potty trained by day (underwear full time)  We haven't tried nap/bed time yet and one day she will get #2's. She just has to overcome the fear of public restrooms! She is sometimes willing to sit on the potty but only with the portable seat! Most of the time I would hear "NOO, I am going to fall in!" She only wants to wear underwear in public though so for the past month we have been doing outings with no pull ups and she has been doing really good.. no accidents

We saw Sesame Street Live last weekend! We will be seeing Winnie the Pooh later this month!


I can't believe my girl is growing so fast!!!!

Thank you Target!

Today I was home sick from work. I went to bed with a 101.7 temp and woke up with a 101. I slept all morning and woke up fever free at noon!! Thank goodness!!! I now just have a common cold but we were out of cold meds so I had to get out. I went up to target to stock up on myself and for Jacie just incase she is next and I hit up the 70% off toy aisle!

I am so glad I did! I feel like I got some good deals. I got LOTS of squinkie toys for under $3 each that I plan on giving her for Valentine's Day. She loves the old school polly pockets that her mimi brought out a few weeks ago and these are similar and so cute!

After I went to pick her up I had to run by another Target because I forgot to get eggs for a MLK activity our classes are doing tomorrow so  I went to check their aisle out too. I found some other items also for a great deal. Those items I plan on putting in her Easter Basket!

All and all I call it a success. I added it all up tonight and I spent $50 on what would have cost $175!!! PLUS I got 2 holidays out of the way! 

Accident free weekend!

She did it!!! She went the whole weekend without any accidents! I am so glad it has clicked! 

Potty Training revisited...

Let me start by saying I started this post over 3 weeks ago!

After our fail in the Summer I knew she was absolutely not ready. Over the last months the potty has just been there used or not used, we have done lots of asking and have heard lots of "NO" There even was a good week in November I thought she was getting close and was tempted to try over Thanksgiving but then it went back to 'NO!"

I decided we really have nothing to lose if we try again and its a fail. I would rather try and know then not try and not know.  I mean I have 2 weeks off so its a great amount of time to just stay home with many potty chances.

I started Wednesday after her 2 1/2  year doctor appt. We went to Target because I wanted her to be pick out new underwear that she choose this time. She picked princess ones. So she keeps telling me "Cinderella does not want to get wet" or "Ariel wants to stay dry, it would make her so sad"

( I had deleted everything I had previously wrote and here is the summary) For 2 weeks she was in underwear and for 2 weeks she was doing the potty dance for hours and never relaxing enough to go when she sat. She knew she had to go... we all knew she had to go but she had a REALLY hard time just going. We had lots of accidents and a handful of pees in the potty but nothing that I would call a huge success. I was so discouraged! She loves underwear and so badly wanted to be a big girl but couldn't just mentally do it.

I went back to work Wednesday the 2nd, we tried 1 day of underwear with her mimi and papa but it was just more of the same. So that night I told her the underwear fairy took all her underwear away because Dora, and the princess' were all so sad they were getting so wet! She seemed okay with that answer but when I went to put a diaper on her she looked at me and said " Mama, Am I a baby again?" It seriously broke my heart a little.  She did finish out the week in diapers but she was still acting like she had underwear on. She didn't want to wear a wet diaper and wanted it changed right away! I figured if she was still acting like she has underwear than I need to give her the opportunity to get to the potty whenever she was ready to start going on her own.

We went out and got more pull ups on Saturday ( I said I would not use pull ups except on outings but I felt like I had no choice at that point) I didn't want to go backwards with her! And I didn't want her to feel like she was a baby again!

On Sunday, she was in a pull up and right on time started her potty dance like usual. We were asking her if she wanted to go try and were hearing the "no" or "dont have to" but again we all knew she did. On Friday I got her 2 new potty books and it is all we have been reading this week. So I finally said "remember what the book said to do when you have to pee?" She got up, ran to get the book and went to her potty, she pulled the pull up down herself sat down and started RIGHT AWAY!!!

She has been successful this week as well. At night she is going as soon as she sits on the potty, she is even using the big toilet, not just her little potty. She EVEN let me know she had to pee during her bath! She is doing so good! I am so proud of her... I even think she might be potty trained before she goes to Kindergarten ;) LOL! ( I have been telling myself for months that all my kindergarteners are potty trained so I know she will too)

Christmas 2012

It was not anything less than amazing!

On Christmas Eve we got to my parents at 3. The cousins played for awhile, then we started the kid presents. After presents dinner was preparing and the kids did a Christmas craft together which was fun. I hope we can continue that tradition. After dinner, the girls all went to play together while the adults opened their presents. I got a Cricut! I can't wait to use it.  We packed up the car and headed home at 8:30. Jacie fell asleep within 5 minutes being the car.

We got home and she woke back up. We had to open our star presents... she was so happy to see the penguin dream lite in the sack. I also got matching penguin jammies too which I thought was a cute touch on dada's part. We put out the cookies, milk and carrots and got her into bed.

We didn't have anything we HAD to build before Christmas but we really wanted to build the kitchen we just got from my parents. We had built the train table the night before and I had built the puppet theater earlier in the week and had it hiding in the closet. Not thinking we would be up super late we got building. 4 hours later it was done! We went to bed at 2:30am!

Christmas morning I woke up before anyone. Finally at 8:30 I went to wake everyone up. I was too excited to wait any longer =) Jacie came out and got busy emptying her stocking and opening presents. We got busy opening boxes and building what needs to be put together. I tried to offer breakfast but she didn't wan to take a break! It was hard getting her up and going so we could get to Ben's parents house for their Christmas. I finally got her dresssed and we were out the door at 11.

We got there and of course she got right to business. I don't even think she said hello to anyone! She is the only grandchild so there is no need to wait or take turns at their house =)

Right before lunch the rain started turning to SNOW! She ran to the door and saw the snow coming down. I told her after lunch we would go out (although I really didn't think it would snow so I didn't dress her right) We stayed outside for about 1 min and she was ready to go back in. We packed up the car, and headed home.

When we got home we unloaded the car and got her ready for a nap. While she napped I found new homes for all her toys =) She got up at about 5:30. After snowing for 5 hours we had enough on the ground to play in for awhile.

After we came inside, she continued to play and play and go to bed! 

Christmas though the years

Days 21-25

Day 21- Eat lunch with Dada. It has been almost 2 years since I brought her up to his work. She loved the Christmas decorations and receiving goodies from his co-workers.

"Riding" in Santa's sleigh

Day 22- Christmas snack

So loved the candy cane

Day 23- Make Christmas cookies for Santa

Day 24- Open her star present! It was a penguin themed present since she really wanted a penguin dream lite so she also got penguin pj's and a penguin Christmas book

We both got penguin jammies. Dada planned mine =) 

Day 25- Celebrate and open Christmas presents =)

In the morning after she opened all her presents. She was checking out all her new toys 

Christmas post to come... FYI....IT WAS A WHITE CHRISTMAS!!