Thursday, February 28, 2008
Congrats!
Congrats to my lil' sister Hillary who got a great promotion at work! It has been so rewarding working with both of my younger sisters and see their progress and how wondefully professional and respected they are! I better watch out or I may be reporting to one of them one day!
Now!
The latest to come out of my lovely child's mouth is 'Mommy, I wannit NOW' and I emphasize NOW. I am really not sure where this is coming from. I honestly don't think I ever say anything like this, but she is becoming a demanding little sucker. She gets all red in the face and just hollers at me. Seems like it's only me she yells at, but she is down right mean! I try to stay calm (and sometimes try not to laugh) and very firmly tell her that is not a nice way to talk to me. Then she looks at me as if to say, 'yeah, whatever'.
She has also decided to refuse pajamas at night. I grab a pair of pjs out of her drawer and she says 'I don't want it' and starts to kick and yell at me some more. So, I proceed to give her several choices, none of which she chooses. Now, if it was July I'd probably just let her sleep in her diaper, but it is like 20 degrees at night and that just won't fly. So, I end up wrestling with a screaming child to get something on her. So tonight I told Chris that he needed to get her dressed and she didn't fight him one lick. Man, I feel abused. Oh, and the toothbrushing breakthrough was just a fluke. We're back to screaming every night.
With her sentences becoming clearer every day, it is becoming even more clear that she is a pretty spoiled little girl....lordy, what's next.
She has also decided to refuse pajamas at night. I grab a pair of pjs out of her drawer and she says 'I don't want it' and starts to kick and yell at me some more. So, I proceed to give her several choices, none of which she chooses. Now, if it was July I'd probably just let her sleep in her diaper, but it is like 20 degrees at night and that just won't fly. So, I end up wrestling with a screaming child to get something on her. So tonight I told Chris that he needed to get her dressed and she didn't fight him one lick. Man, I feel abused. Oh, and the toothbrushing breakthrough was just a fluke. We're back to screaming every night.
With her sentences becoming clearer every day, it is becoming even more clear that she is a pretty spoiled little girl....lordy, what's next.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Toothbrushing breakthrough!
For some unknown reason, Meredith has become very receptive to letting me brush her teeth over the past week. Normally it is a kicking and screaming nightly battle, but for the past several nights, she has fairly willingly opened her mouth at let me scrub those pearly whites! Yeah for clean teeth!
Friday, February 22, 2008
What exactly is a banshee?
I'm not too sure what a banshee is, but my daughter has started screaming like a wild one! I don't know if this is something she picked up at daycare, but she just screams really loudly and at a super high screechy pitch for no real reason. Sometimes it's to express how unhappy she is with me when I tell her she can't have 'cream' (ice cream) before dinner (which I know is terribly unreasonable on my part!) and then sometimes it may just be in the car for some random reason.
The actual really nasty tantrums seemed to have decreased for the time being and she has been having some really sweet moments lately, which is very nice. Her Aunt Hillary got her loads of cool stuff for the bathtub for her birthday (colored fizzies, bath gel pens, foam letters etc) and now we are having the opposite problem with the bath again... not wanting to get out. Most nights I have to just throw the towel on her in the tub and somehow scoop up a wet squirmy screaming little body. She usually gets over it fairly quickly, but most often the banshee makes an appearance for awhile!
I picked Meredith up today and her babysitter reiterated how well Meredith eats when she is there. Today she made broccoli and was quite amazed at how muchMeredith ate of it! I was quite proud :)
I'll try to post some pictures this weekend.
The actual really nasty tantrums seemed to have decreased for the time being and she has been having some really sweet moments lately, which is very nice. Her Aunt Hillary got her loads of cool stuff for the bathtub for her birthday (colored fizzies, bath gel pens, foam letters etc) and now we are having the opposite problem with the bath again... not wanting to get out. Most nights I have to just throw the towel on her in the tub and somehow scoop up a wet squirmy screaming little body. She usually gets over it fairly quickly, but most often the banshee makes an appearance for awhile!
I picked Meredith up today and her babysitter reiterated how well Meredith eats when she is there. Today she made broccoli and was quite amazed at how muchMeredith ate of it! I was quite proud :)
I'll try to post some pictures this weekend.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
It's tough being the mommy
So, I've had evening obligations every night this week, which has meant that daddy has been in charge. I left after dinner Monday night and he had to get her bathed and in bed, then last night I had a work dinner, so I didn't get home until after 8pm and tonight I got home at a more reasonable 5:30 and Chris was about to pull his hair out. He admitted to the fact that I usually do 99% of everything for Meredith and it is hard work. I laughed and said, "it's tough being the mommy, huh?" He just sheepishly shook his head in agreement and left to go play poker with the boys.
Are all you other mommies out there nodding your heads in agreement too??
Are all you other mommies out there nodding your heads in agreement too??
Monday, February 11, 2008
Nice Weekend!
We had a really nice weekend. I got to visit with good friends Kelly & Pamela on Saturday and Meredith got to play with Kelly's son, Jamie. They played really well and it was fun to watch them together.
Chris got new golf clubs while we were gone on Saturday. He swears that with gift cards and discounts, he didn't have to pay anything out of pocket for his new TaylorMade irons...he is such a shopper it isn't even funny! He is pretty excited because he is going down to Pinehurst with his best friend Randy next weekend and he gets to play Pinehurst #2 (for all non-golf enthusiasts, this is a big deal bc it was the site of the 2005 US Open). The other great part about it is that Randy won this package from work, so it will be minimal cost. He's like a little kid in a candy store :)
Sunday we went over to my mom and dad's for Meredith's birthday celebration with them since we were out of town last weekend for her real birthday. We had a yummy 2 year old friendly meal of homemade mac n cheese (YUM), cheese bread (YUM), cottage cheese (are you seeing the carb/cheese theme?). My ever health conscious sister Hillary made some good kale and a really intersting and tasty orange, red onion and green olive salad with a citrus vinaigrette (sounds crazy, but it was really good!). Cupcakes and ice cream topped it off. I've decided that Meredith must be really sensitive to lots of sugar because both last weekend and this weekend about 5 minutes after diving into the frosting on her cake, she got all dazed looking and started rubbing her eyes like crazy. I really don't give her much sugary stuff at all, so maybe it's just a sugar rush from not being used to it. It was a fun afternoon.
We're in for a busy week....off we go.
Chris got new golf clubs while we were gone on Saturday. He swears that with gift cards and discounts, he didn't have to pay anything out of pocket for his new TaylorMade irons...he is such a shopper it isn't even funny! He is pretty excited because he is going down to Pinehurst with his best friend Randy next weekend and he gets to play Pinehurst #2 (for all non-golf enthusiasts, this is a big deal bc it was the site of the 2005 US Open). The other great part about it is that Randy won this package from work, so it will be minimal cost. He's like a little kid in a candy store :)
Sunday we went over to my mom and dad's for Meredith's birthday celebration with them since we were out of town last weekend for her real birthday. We had a yummy 2 year old friendly meal of homemade mac n cheese (YUM), cheese bread (YUM), cottage cheese (are you seeing the carb/cheese theme?). My ever health conscious sister Hillary made some good kale and a really intersting and tasty orange, red onion and green olive salad with a citrus vinaigrette (sounds crazy, but it was really good!). Cupcakes and ice cream topped it off. I've decided that Meredith must be really sensitive to lots of sugar because both last weekend and this weekend about 5 minutes after diving into the frosting on her cake, she got all dazed looking and started rubbing her eyes like crazy. I really don't give her much sugary stuff at all, so maybe it's just a sugar rush from not being used to it. It was a fun afternoon.
We're in for a busy week....off we go.
Friday, February 08, 2008
Dinner tonight...
So, Meredith's self proclaimed dinner tonight consisted of a bowl of cereal, a turkey dog and baked lays. That's a grain, a meat, and a dairy right? Almost all 4 food groups! Oh wait, she had orange juice too, does that count as a fruit?? I won't even pretend that I'm counting the chips as a potato. Hey, at least she ate.
Isn't two fun!?
Isn't two fun!?
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
My favorite babysitter ever!
We have been so blessed with our wonderful babysitter. There is such comfort in knowing we are leaving Meredith in such loving and competent hands every day. God really sent an angel our way :)
This is a picture of Prissila, Meredith and Prissila's daughter Monsi (short for Monserath. It was a new one for me too!).
The big TWO!
My baby girl is 2! We spent her birthday in Tennessee with Chris' mom, step-dad, sister and brother-in-law. Meredith really enjoyed the horses on their farm. She helped Kaci feed them and take them out of their stalls to the pasture. We literally had to drag her inside because she loved being up at the barn so much. She had an Elmo cake (by the way, Elmo is like crack for little kids!) and got lots of nice gifts. Chris and I also were able to go out to dinner and a movie while we were up there. Date night is a very good thing for parents of a two year old! We stopped through Thomasville on the way home to see Chris dad, step-mom and grandparents. They gave her one of those yellow and red little tike cars. To say that she loved it is an understatement! We had to put it right next to her in our car so that we could get her in the car to go home. She is a bit obsessed at this point!
Today was Meredith's 2 year well check and she came through with flying colors! They had to prick her finger, which made her go ballistic, but otherwise she did really well. She weighs 31 lbs (92nd percentile) and is 36 inches tall (80th percentile).
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