Sunday, July 30, 2017

Conversations with Farrah // Episode 2


My oh my, is Farrah growing and changing so much and so quickly.  She keeps us busy, that is for sure.  I have absolutely loved this stage since she's turned two.  She has finally stopped being anti-daddy and she will cuddle somewhat (usually when she's watching cartoons on the tablet).

She talks a lot, so much, and her vocabulary is so big.  She just recently switched from saying "help you" when she wanted help, to "help me."  This made me a little sad.  She has learned big words such as finished and delicious.  She will repeat what she is saying over and over until she is acknowledged, but you have to say exactly what she's trying to say or it will upset her.  

She was talking so much during one of Kylie's softball games, nonstop, asking for popsicles and jabbering about the girl in the way at the concession stand and the boy on the bike and wanting to play with rocks and asking for her drink and dropping Lambie and asking where Kylie was and on and on.  Eventually some people around us looked at us and I said I was sorry and they all laughed and said that's nothing to be sorry about.  One lady said her husband had said, "She's actually making me want a popsicle myself." 

She talks about how she drank milk from Mommy's boobies when she was a baby, a lot.  And she was asking about Daddy's nipples and I was trying to explain the difference to her.  I picked her up at daycare the other day and she pointed out my boobies and her teacher, Emily, said, "Yeah, she's been talking about boobies all day.  She's very talkative."

She never wants to sleep, but then she sleeps really great.  We had a set back on the night time sleep when we attempted the big girl bed, but more on that in another post.  

I keep jotting down notes I want to write about.  Before she turns 16 next week (seems like), I want to remember her at 2!  She loves playing hide and seek and she usually hides in the same spot over and over and she'll giggle while she's being searched for.  As she was searching for Kylie the other day, she noticed where Kylie was obviously hiding and instead of finding her, she said, "ummm, where are you?" just like we do when we are pretend looking for her!

She's starting to tell little fibs like she says she sees something before we even get close to it: I see it!  or she said Kaden hit her the other day when she wanted him to go to "time out," and that Nana and Papa's black cat bit me when it had only rubbed her leg lovingly


She likes watching Bubble Guppies and Roar and Mickey Mouse.  She has enjoyed some Blues Clues and Dora, and she has just discovered Peppa Pig.  She loves to swim and help me water flowers and help spray and wash the coffee table and just about anything you'll let her spray.  She loves to wrestle, wrestle, wrestle with Daddy each evening.  

She is moody and unpredictable.  She is like a sleeping dog, you leave her alone when she's pleasant because she is likely to switch moods entirely for no reason. 

She is bubbly and sweet when she's happy, and when she turns down my offer for something, she'll check, Mommy, you happy?  You not sad?  to make sure she didn't hurt my feelings.  She calls the four wheeler four wheeler ride and likes to lay on the dashboard in the pickup truck when we're driving through fields.  She likes to play in the dirt and get dirty, but she doesn't like bugs and mud on her feet in the lake. 

She loves little animals and loves playing chase around the house with Kaden and Kylie.  She likes to eat and clean up after herself.  She loves ketchup and ranch.  She drinks a lot of milk and water.  She wants a band-aid on every little boo boo, and she loves to wash her hands, brush her teeth, and play in the water any chance she can get.

Here's a fun little video I made.  I love her little voice and demeanor.  I never want to forget this stage of Farrah.  I don't want to forget the way she says slide saa-liiide and the way she tries to cup her hands around her mouth to holler but ends up covering her mouth and how she says Umm...turtles (Ohh Toodles) on Mickey Mouse.

Conversations with Farrah / Episode 02 from Kristina Brooks on Vimeo.

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Potty Training my Little



Potty training has begun!  I started it on a Wednesday, I bought her some big girl panties and we tried them on.  I watched the clock intently and took her potty 10 minutes after she drank anything and every 15 minutes after that.  She had two accidents and after the second she cried for her diaper on.  I wasn't sure that we were ready, but I was afraid she was giving up and I was uncertain if I should not push her and encourage even when she wasn't willing, or if I was supposed to let her decide.

We tried again the next day and spent the entire day running to the potty, usually for nothing to happen, and we had a couple accidents as well.  But we stuck it out the entire day.  I felt exhausted and overwhelmed and wasn't sure if we were making progress.  The following day, Friday, she went to daycare and they said she did great and kept letting them know when she had to go.  I had sent a sticker chart with 1/4 stickers, and she completed the chart at daycare!

On Saturday, Farrah spent the night with my parents while Keane and I celebrated our 3 year anniversary at an oyster bar in STL listening to a Blues Rock Band.  I had forgotten to take her potty ring she had been using, but surprisingly enough, she did so great using the regular potty chair.  She earned 6 stickers that evening!  She has been doing wonderful since, with only a handful of accidents. 

She is quick to let me know when she has to poopy again, which is how she says she needs to pee.  Yesterday, Sunday, she went poop in the potty for the first time, and she has a couple times since then.  A lot of the the other times she seems to time it when she has a diaper on, which I put on for car rides, sleeping, and when we go out to places in public.  Once she used the little toddler potty in the living room to go, and she said Kaden, Kylie, Daddy waiting Farrah's poopy come out as they sat on the couch and tried to mind their own business, ha.

She has been waking up dry in the mornings and after aps.  She likes to wipe and flush and tell her pee bye Farrah's pee pee...see ya later...next time!  We go potty a lot outside and she thinks that's great!  I have to give her the most credit for this potty training success.  She has done a lot of it on her own and I am so proud of her for it!  Stickers, stickers, and more stickers at our home!








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