I am currently watching the Olympics and typing on my laptop. I just put Andi to bed and picked up a little, probably not as much as I should have though. Bryan is trying to fix my Elliptical Machine. It squeaks and clunks and drives me crazy when I try to use it. Bryan just finished his last class and is waiting to hear back from Excelsior College about his clinicals. Work is going ok. My hours have changed a little and I’m not too thrilled about that. Neither is Bryan since it effects his sleep schedule. I’m hoping when Bryan gets his RN lisence that he will work full time and I can cut back to 32 hours a week. I’ve been getting a little stir crazy with the winters. There isn’t too much Andi can do at her age so we spend a lot of time at home playing toys. I’m anxious for spring so we can get outside more. Last weekend Amy, my mom, and I took the kids to Funset to ride the train and play the games and have pizza. Saturday Bryan and I took Andi to Disney on Ice. I would highly recommend it. Even if you don’t have kids it would still be a good show. Andi is doing well. Learning so much. She learns new words so well. She will ask me what something is and I’ll tell her and then she’ll repeat it. It doesn’t always sound quite right, but close. She seems to always remember the words after she learns them the first time. A lot of times she’ll be saying words to me which I’m sure is something one of us taught her, but since she can’t say the word exactly right I don’t know what she’s talking about. I was talking to a co-worker of mine who told me she just got so used to the way her daughter talked that they never realized she couldn’t say her “r”s until she started kindergarden. I thought that was interesting. Andi says keekee for blanket, melmo for elmo, nose for snow and nose for nose, four for floor, but we know what she’s saying. She is a very clumsy little girl. She falls down quite a bit and gets lots of bumps and bruises. She doesn’t eat well either. I’ve decided for her bedtime snack she will be getting her left over dinner from now on. She eats about 2 bites at dinner and then and hour later is asking for a snack because she want something better than meats and veggies. She’s too smart for her own good. I’m also having a hard time getting her to listen and mind. I’m sure that is just with her age though. We don’t have any very exciting plans coming up other than spring!
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Ah, the picky eater . . . we have one of those, too. For Sawyer, we don’t force him to eat dinner but there is not bedtime snack if he does not. Also, he knows that if he doesn’t eat at dinner time, he gets nothing more until breakfast the next morning. Usually, he eats the one or two things on his plate that he likes and the rest he leaves. I’m fine with that but again, no dessert if his plate isn’t empty.
Andi is very good at learning, repeating and remembering her words. She has a very sweet little girl voice so it is adorable and precious to hear her talking. Just wait until she can say, Momma, I love you.”
The Disney on Ice looks neat. I’m excited for when our girls get a little older and we can bring them to stuff like that . . . girl’s night out will have a very different meaning!
Thanks for the pics. Oh, and sorry for canceling your date night with Bryan. Hopefully you guys can get out sometime mid week . . . maybe an early movie or something.
I would love to take Sophia to that Disney on Ice show. Now that I know that even a little girl as young as Andi will sit through it I will definitely have to plan to take Sophia next year.
Sophia is also a very picky eater. Picky not only with the foods she eats but also with how messy her plate, fork, and place mat are.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have a meal w/o having to worry about getting our little one’s to eat properly!?
IN the morning I often find apple cores in Sophia’s bedroom where she has snuck down the night before (while she was supposed to be going to sleep) and grabbed one after not eating enough dinner. Grrr!
That’s funny Kelley. Well, at least it’s apples and not candy bar wrappers. Tuesday night I felt like I was yelling at Andi the entire night. She wouldn’t eat her dinner and threw it all over the floor, then I was trying to clean and she was in my dirt piles and climbing into the dishwasher and walking all over my wet mopped floor. Finally when I was finished cleaning I looked at her and said “Now I don’t have to yell at you anymore tonight” and then she goes over the the stereo and TV and starts pushing all the buttons!!