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September 24, 2002
September 24, 2002
Virginia is officially 2 years and 4 months old and I've decided she has got to be the cutest little girl ever.
She has also made me laugh so much this last week.....it's almost like she knew I needed my spirits lifted.
What has made me laugh so hard?
*Her words to "There was a boy who had a dog and Bingo was his name-o. B, I, theioshfioewrj, o. B, I, nidojaiorjeoi, o. B, I, fjeiwoerjoeis, o and Bingo was his name o. My friends were cracking up also when they heard this.
*Shouting at the top of her lungs during the Sermon at Church.
*Giving me kisses over and over and laughing in between.
* Hearing her belly laugh just cracks me up
*Watching her "shake her dragon tale" ...a little dance where she shakes her behind back and forth really quick.
*Asking do you want to do this? NO. Do you want to do that? NO. Do you want to do this? Okay! It's always that routine, first the answer is always no and then OK.
*Watching her smile at herself in the mirror. It's like she is thinking, I'm so cute. I have the best smile. I am absolutely adorable!
*The fact that she says "that tickles!" to every thing (from brushing teeth, to chewing food, to putting shoes on).
Why? Why? Why?
Yes, the Why's have started. Just a few times right now, not all the time yet. We give her 1 minute time-outs in her room (even though there are toys, she hates to be away from us). On the way to her time out, she always asks "why? Why? Why?" I'm not sure she grasps the concept yet because she seems to repeat her mistakes that gets her time-outs (usually throwing something at me).
She has known her alphabet since right before her 2nd birthday....but now she spells anything and everything out that she can see. E-L-M-O. T-E-X-A-S L-O-N-G-H-O-R-N-S (that made Karl proud), etc. That really amazes me! One of my (childless) friends asked if that was reading. And I guess it sort of is, but No she isn't reading yet. Although she has a few books memorized.
The weather finally cooled down for us (now in mid 80's during the day) and we took Virginia's Pamper Perks electric Jeep wrangler outside. She loves it. She turns around says and waves "Bye!" and starts driving. She's not so good at steering (good thing it only goes 2.5 mph) but she thinks she is pretty cool in her new car! She wants to drive in it all the time. So I know now it was worth clipping all those points (pampers were the only ones that seemed to not leak anyways). I wonder if they will have another point promotion soon.
I also took her to the park for the first time in 2 months yesterday (again it was just too darn hot). She loved it. Of course she is living by the toddler creed at the moment (it's mine. That's mine. If it looks like mine, it's mine, etc, etc). So I had to continually remind her that the other kids (4 of them) could also use the slide, swing, teeter totter, etc). I kept apologizing to the other moms (she was the only 2 year old....the others were 3+ and out of the MINE stage). I think she got to one of the boys though, because he ended up hitting her. Not hard enough to make her cry, and to tell you the truth she deserved it. I mean you can only listen to that's mine for so long and you eventually would rather pull all the hair out of your head then listen to that! (no, I still have all of my hair!). The little boy's mom had him apologize and I thought that was a good example for Virginia. (hasn't stopped her from throwing stuff at me).
Speaking of throwing stuff at me. Karl isn't exactly helping out with this situation. It's not that he is throwing stuff at me, but he will end up throwing her toys (either to her or into the toy bin) and he just doesn't understand that that is teaching her to throw. That she is learning by example. That you can't expect her Not to do it, if you do it. Not sure what else I can say to get that point across. He's also the one that taught her how to spit, again not on purpose, but by example (how attractive is that!).
Question for the readers: Anybody go to a Chiropractor? I just started to go to one to see if he can help alleviate some or all of my sinus problems. Just wondering if anyone has had success with a Chiropractor.
I also wanted to thank everyone for their kind words on my TTM board. Last week was rather rough and it was nice to know so many people care. ;-)
Love,
Katrina and Virginia
ps...I'm still waiting for last weeks pics to be posted, so check last week's entry.
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