Lillian is quickly approaching the two year mark. It's hard to believe she has been a part of our lives for only two years yet those two years seem to have flown by at lightning speed.
She has just recently hit a growth spurt and seems to have gained some inches. Her 18month once piece pajamas are now too short though the rest of the 18month clothes still seem to fit better than most of the 24 month or 2T clothing. Our scale said 24.5 lbs the other day, the scale is less then reliable so I am eager to see how much she weighs at the doctors office. Her hair is one thing that just keeps growing and growing, when its wet you can really see how long it is getting, down below her shoulder blades.
Just today she hit a new milestone--one that I would have rather seen delayed, she asked "why" a number of time--and so it starts. Just an update, so far, it was just that one day which was about 9 days before her 2nd birthday and I haven't heard it since--knock on wood.
Let's see, some of her favorite things: bluberries is probably her favorite food overall---unless you count chocolate, she also loves: meat, brocolli, and macaroni. The only things I can think of that she doesn't care for are: rice noodles which are asian noodle that is very very thin (its a consistency thing), cantaloupe is an off/on thing, coconut which again I believe is due to the strands, and she isnt a big fan of cheese.
She absolutely loves Dora, Elmo, and the 'wiggles' much to my dismay. I dont mind sesame street and the wiggles arent bad sicne they get her to dance alot. If it were up to me she wouldnt watch tv ever but daycare watches it and then well I am coming to realize I cant keep her in a bubble or a bomb shelter for the rest of her life so it is enevitable. We do try to not overdo the commercialization thing.
She talks---alot. She is extremely advanced in talking from what others have told me, of course being our first two year old I didnt really know but it does seem she talks much more than other kids her age. According to all the milestone charts she is meeting verbal milestones for a 3 year old including stringing together 5 words and more to make sentences, putting lots short sentences together, being able to understand the majority of what she says, others being able to understand her etc. Along with the talking is her opinions, now that they are understandable boy does she have alot of them!
The other day I said do you want a banana or an apple, she said "I want pineapple". hmmm now that isnt on the menu and of course I didnt have any but she was very insistent about wanting pineapple.
Other milestone type things, she is not able to really dress or undress herself yet, she has put her pants on by herself maybe once and occasionally can get her clothes off but unfortunately she takes after her mom and gets frustrated when she cant do something right away and then wants help. The things she has figured out to do like take off her shoes and hat and coat she doesnt want ANY help with--at all.
She can run but not jump, she thinks she can jump but one leg remains firmly planted on the ground. It is really cute she will say, "I jump, watch" and she really tries.
She is very sweet if you tell her your head hurts she will say "I kiss Daddy's head" and "Daddy all better?". She also likes to rub peoples back which we love.
She likes to sing, she is very good at singing ring around the rosies but her version goes like this " ring around rosies pocket full rosies ashes ashes ashes ashes ashes we all fall down" with a variable number of ashes, sometimes I think she gets stuck on repeat at that point and others its just the normal two. She also sings along pretty well with the ABC's, twinkle twinkle, and patty cake. She loves the song 1,2 buckle my shoe and we just recently started singing that one. Her version so far she only has "1,2 buckshoe 3 buckshoe" it's cute. She also counts, normally it goes 12345789, she doesnt like 6 for some reason and she still jumbles it sometimes but generally gets the 1-5 right.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Potty Training
Lillian is going to be two in a week and she is down to only wearing a diaper when she is sleeping or riding in the car. I dont think she has had an accident all week, at least not in a few days. She does very good and has completely forgotten about or lost interest in getting prizes/stickers. We also dont have to ask her anymore if she needs to go, she tells us in plenty of time now.
It started out we just had a potty chair in our bathrooms and sometimes she would sit on it. Then about 19 months or so her interest increased and she started going on the potty sometimes. I went to the dollar store and got her a bunch of small toys, pens, markers etc and put them in buckets and if she went on potty she got a prize. She was doing pretty good for a while going up to 4-5 times a day but then she lost interest, we tried to go with what she was feeling but would still ask her if she wanted to go, mention prizes, etc.
The week before thanksgiving something 'clicked' and she started going on potty at night time after getting home from daycare really well. I printed off a potty sheet and got some stickers and decided to 'ramp up' during holiday. The 4 days off for thanksgiving she did really well and the two days we were home all day she only had a couple accidents. We started putting her in underwear all the time and talked to daycare who was more than willing to accomodate us. The week after thanksgiving she started going potty at daycare and at home, she has only had 2 accidents at daycare in 2 weeks and at home she has only had a few as well.
We are soo excited to almost be done with diapers, we are down to just 2-4 per day. We put one on at night. She is waking up and going on the potty in the morning but there is still generally some in her diaper. Then she gets one on for traveling to daycare, one for nap at daycare, and sometimes one for traveling home from daycare. Sometimes we just put plastic pants over her panties for travel.
She definately 'gets' it now. Yesterday morning Jared went to put a diaper on her to get her ready to go to daycare and she said, "no diaper, baby diapers, I big girl, baby Ty (daycare) diapers--baby wah wah". She always says babies say wah wah because of a song her toy has on it that says that and then the baby at her daycaer who is new cried constantly. Yes, she does talk in that long of sentences, she puts 4-6 word sentences together routinely or when using short ones put multiples together like above.
Hopefully, I will be donating those stacks of diapers in the closet that I thought I needed to stock up on!
It started out we just had a potty chair in our bathrooms and sometimes she would sit on it. Then about 19 months or so her interest increased and she started going on the potty sometimes. I went to the dollar store and got her a bunch of small toys, pens, markers etc and put them in buckets and if she went on potty she got a prize. She was doing pretty good for a while going up to 4-5 times a day but then she lost interest, we tried to go with what she was feeling but would still ask her if she wanted to go, mention prizes, etc.
The week before thanksgiving something 'clicked' and she started going on potty at night time after getting home from daycare really well. I printed off a potty sheet and got some stickers and decided to 'ramp up' during holiday. The 4 days off for thanksgiving she did really well and the two days we were home all day she only had a couple accidents. We started putting her in underwear all the time and talked to daycare who was more than willing to accomodate us. The week after thanksgiving she started going potty at daycare and at home, she has only had 2 accidents at daycare in 2 weeks and at home she has only had a few as well.
We are soo excited to almost be done with diapers, we are down to just 2-4 per day. We put one on at night. She is waking up and going on the potty in the morning but there is still generally some in her diaper. Then she gets one on for traveling to daycare, one for nap at daycare, and sometimes one for traveling home from daycare. Sometimes we just put plastic pants over her panties for travel.
She definately 'gets' it now. Yesterday morning Jared went to put a diaper on her to get her ready to go to daycare and she said, "no diaper, baby diapers, I big girl, baby Ty (daycare) diapers--baby wah wah". She always says babies say wah wah because of a song her toy has on it that says that and then the baby at her daycaer who is new cried constantly. Yes, she does talk in that long of sentences, she puts 4-6 word sentences together routinely or when using short ones put multiples together like above.
Hopefully, I will be donating those stacks of diapers in the closet that I thought I needed to stock up on!
Friday, December 12, 2008
This and That
Wow, almost 3 months with no post. Next year I think I will try to use this a bit more.
We are getting ready for Lillian's 2nd birthday party tomorrow, a week before her actual birthday to try and save some insanity from the overcrowded holiday weekends.
Lillian is getting so big, she is really starting to thin out and her talking is out of this world. She is a blast right now. I know there is terrible 2's and everythign but the 2-3 range has always been my favorite---of course that was for other people's kids lets see if that holds true for our own! She has definately developed strong opinions of her own lately so I think its starting.
Jared is very busy with work lately, lots of overtime and a few side jobs for digital rescue as well.
I have been busy deciding whether I want to enroll in a phase 3 clinical trial for a new cystic fibrosis drug, called defusonol, more to come on that later.
This year for christmas we decided to keep it small. We had Jared's family over for thanksgiving, we will have some of mine over for christmas eve visit and then we will stay home and have a small dinner on christmas day. We also decided to spend a small amount on Lillian for christmas, she already has so much and then to spend the rest of the money we budgeted to spend on each other for some families in need. More to come on this as well.
We are getting ready for Lillian's 2nd birthday party tomorrow, a week before her actual birthday to try and save some insanity from the overcrowded holiday weekends.
Lillian is getting so big, she is really starting to thin out and her talking is out of this world. She is a blast right now. I know there is terrible 2's and everythign but the 2-3 range has always been my favorite---of course that was for other people's kids lets see if that holds true for our own! She has definately developed strong opinions of her own lately so I think its starting.
Jared is very busy with work lately, lots of overtime and a few side jobs for digital rescue as well.
I have been busy deciding whether I want to enroll in a phase 3 clinical trial for a new cystic fibrosis drug, called defusonol, more to come on that later.
This year for christmas we decided to keep it small. We had Jared's family over for thanksgiving, we will have some of mine over for christmas eve visit and then we will stay home and have a small dinner on christmas day. We also decided to spend a small amount on Lillian for christmas, she already has so much and then to spend the rest of the money we budgeted to spend on each other for some families in need. More to come on this as well.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Blog Expansion & a Man Named DAVE!
I think I have decided to expand this blog to make it a part of our everyday life instead of just posts about creating and then following our family life. I dont find myself getting over here to update enough and I have been thinking about starting a separate blog for my CF related items but I decided to instead just roll everything into one.
First on my list perhaps should be a mention of the amazing change we have had in our lives this year. In January we attended a 'live event' for Dave Ramsey. www.daveramsey.com I bought these tickets for Jared as a christmas present because he liked listening to Dave on the radio but we were in no way following his principles. Perhaps it was having Lillian that spurred me to want to be more financially secure. I also reckognized my need to be more knowledgeable regarding our finances and be involved all the time not just when I wanted something or was upset over something).
We were impressed. We decided to buy a kit that includes CD's of financial lessons and lifetime membership to attend classes as well as books etc. These are not typical financial lessons, they are interesting, fun, easy to understand. They are 13 1 hour CD's which the counterpart of the 13 one hour DVD's are the base for the classes.
We started Dave's Plan in February which basic premise is get out of debt adn dont go back in for any reason. We couldnt be more pleased. From Feb1-current we have paid off over $30,000 in debt leaving us with just our last student loan. We plan to be debt free in the spring of 2010 if not sooner. I would HIGHLY encourage everyone to click on the icon on the right hand side of my blog for a financial reality check.
If you are interested in more just let us know, both Jared and I LOVE LOVE LOVE to talk about this. We are currently attending classes that will end the day after Lillians birthday. Perhaps next year we will become small group leaders. We feel THAT passionately about this.
PS you don thave to buy a kit, if you want a free place to start Dave has tons info on his website and the book I would recommend you start with is Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.
First on my list perhaps should be a mention of the amazing change we have had in our lives this year. In January we attended a 'live event' for Dave Ramsey. www.daveramsey.com I bought these tickets for Jared as a christmas present because he liked listening to Dave on the radio but we were in no way following his principles. Perhaps it was having Lillian that spurred me to want to be more financially secure. I also reckognized my need to be more knowledgeable regarding our finances and be involved all the time not just when I wanted something or was upset over something).
We were impressed. We decided to buy a kit that includes CD's of financial lessons and lifetime membership to attend classes as well as books etc. These are not typical financial lessons, they are interesting, fun, easy to understand. They are 13 1 hour CD's which the counterpart of the 13 one hour DVD's are the base for the classes.
We started Dave's Plan in February which basic premise is get out of debt adn dont go back in for any reason. We couldnt be more pleased. From Feb1-current we have paid off over $30,000 in debt leaving us with just our last student loan. We plan to be debt free in the spring of 2010 if not sooner. I would HIGHLY encourage everyone to click on the icon on the right hand side of my blog for a financial reality check.
If you are interested in more just let us know, both Jared and I LOVE LOVE LOVE to talk about this. We are currently attending classes that will end the day after Lillians birthday. Perhaps next year we will become small group leaders. We feel THAT passionately about this.
PS you don thave to buy a kit, if you want a free place to start Dave has tons info on his website and the book I would recommend you start with is Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Lillian's World
Just a quick drive by post of some Lillian cuteness after having past 5 days off with her.
She is getting good at puzzles, the shapes she has almost mastered, including the colors of some of the pieces. The animals seem to be a bit harder for her. I didnt know it but the animal puzzle I got her has a picture of what the animal 'makes' under it like bacon, milk, etc --kinda weird (good thing we arent vegan eh?).
She also is in LOVE LOVE LOVE with elmo. The only real time we ever let her watch is when she was sick and that was while I was holding her, we have only used it as a 'babysitter' when she was small a couple times, I think she watched two baby einstein videos. Of course we watch too much tv, at least in my opinion (that opinion is NOT shared by my darling husband). The daycare has tv on in the morning and afternoon for the older kids that get on and off the bus since that is what they like but now that it is summer I think its a bit more prevalent. Lillian was saying ello for a couple weeks before we realized it was ELMO (thanks to uncle Jason), so to test it out we brought up a sesame street on screen and she went BEZERK ELLO ELLO ELLO LA LA LA. Now we have some elmo toys she loves, I rotate her toys and they happened to be 'out' of rotation, now that they are out she just LOVES them and yesterday she started insisting on taking her hard chicken dance elmo to BED with her LOL! She asks to watch elmo all the time (I am sure the 'he's sleeping trick' wont last much longer). I already know I am fighting a loosing battle with the TV and computer.
Besides Elmo, some of her favorite things are sliding, splashing in her kiddie pool (but not actually sitting in it), coloring is BIG right now, she absolutely adores phones and will beg for your 'hello', she just recently is into a stuffed singing animal that has lights on its chest and says different phrases and sings--she will sing the 'itsy bitsy spider along with it' and talk back to it. She also loves bubbles but they are so messy I broke down and got her a bubble gun so all she has to do is pull the trigger, we will see how that one goes.
She can say all her animal noises, including the bunny for which she tries to move her nose and the fish which she does really cute. She actually has a couple of her colors down to the point of getting them right more often than not, of course her default answer is 'pink' if she doenst know. She counts to three but now her new favorite number is 9 and she often just repeats 2, 9, 2,9 etc--it's cute. She still likes taking wagon and 'beep beep' (little car) rides but she prefers to be doing the walking now and gets impatient after a block or two.
She is such a hoot right now. For some time now if you act like you are sleeping she will wake you up by yelling your name, well now when we 'wake up' she cocks her head over to the side, leaves her eyese WIDE open and goes "shoo, shoo, shoooo" like she is sleeping, she tries not to smile but she always does and it is SOOOO cute, of course then she refuses to be 'woke up' without a full minute of saying her name and tickling--its adorable!
A couple things she JUST started doing is if you want something, like say a kiss and she cant be 'bothered' she will smile and close her eyes like shes making you go away, then she laughs! She also just started saying 'hug' and runs up and gives you a big hug and then says 'luvu mommy' spontaneously---I must admit that melts my heart!
thats all for now, pictures soon!
She is getting good at puzzles, the shapes she has almost mastered, including the colors of some of the pieces. The animals seem to be a bit harder for her. I didnt know it but the animal puzzle I got her has a picture of what the animal 'makes' under it like bacon, milk, etc --kinda weird (good thing we arent vegan eh?).
She also is in LOVE LOVE LOVE with elmo. The only real time we ever let her watch is when she was sick and that was while I was holding her, we have only used it as a 'babysitter' when she was small a couple times, I think she watched two baby einstein videos. Of course we watch too much tv, at least in my opinion (that opinion is NOT shared by my darling husband). The daycare has tv on in the morning and afternoon for the older kids that get on and off the bus since that is what they like but now that it is summer I think its a bit more prevalent. Lillian was saying ello for a couple weeks before we realized it was ELMO (thanks to uncle Jason), so to test it out we brought up a sesame street on screen and she went BEZERK ELLO ELLO ELLO LA LA LA. Now we have some elmo toys she loves, I rotate her toys and they happened to be 'out' of rotation, now that they are out she just LOVES them and yesterday she started insisting on taking her hard chicken dance elmo to BED with her LOL! She asks to watch elmo all the time (I am sure the 'he's sleeping trick' wont last much longer). I already know I am fighting a loosing battle with the TV and computer.
Besides Elmo, some of her favorite things are sliding, splashing in her kiddie pool (but not actually sitting in it), coloring is BIG right now, she absolutely adores phones and will beg for your 'hello', she just recently is into a stuffed singing animal that has lights on its chest and says different phrases and sings--she will sing the 'itsy bitsy spider along with it' and talk back to it. She also loves bubbles but they are so messy I broke down and got her a bubble gun so all she has to do is pull the trigger, we will see how that one goes.
She can say all her animal noises, including the bunny for which she tries to move her nose and the fish which she does really cute. She actually has a couple of her colors down to the point of getting them right more often than not, of course her default answer is 'pink' if she doenst know. She counts to three but now her new favorite number is 9 and she often just repeats 2, 9, 2,9 etc--it's cute. She still likes taking wagon and 'beep beep' (little car) rides but she prefers to be doing the walking now and gets impatient after a block or two.
She is such a hoot right now. For some time now if you act like you are sleeping she will wake you up by yelling your name, well now when we 'wake up' she cocks her head over to the side, leaves her eyese WIDE open and goes "shoo, shoo, shoooo" like she is sleeping, she tries not to smile but she always does and it is SOOOO cute, of course then she refuses to be 'woke up' without a full minute of saying her name and tickling--its adorable!
A couple things she JUST started doing is if you want something, like say a kiss and she cant be 'bothered' she will smile and close her eyes like shes making you go away, then she laughs! She also just started saying 'hug' and runs up and gives you a big hug and then says 'luvu mommy' spontaneously---I must admit that melts my heart!
thats all for now, pictures soon!
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