Blog | Already?
As Brianna keeps telling us almost every day: I growing so fast! It is amazing to look back at pictures that I would swear were taken just yesterday and see how she has changed. She is now 34.5″ tall and weighs 28-30 lbs (depends on the day and time of day – she likes to play with the scale lately). Her hair is so long now – it is definitely “relatively” longer than mine (meaning it goes farther down her back than mine does), and I think it just might actually be longer than mine. If it is not, it is sure getting close. As she will tell you, she mostly likes to keep it long, but will let us put a little braid or a hair bow in to keep it out of her eyes. We also try to make sure it is always back in a pony tail during meals to keep it as clean as possible. She talks up a storm these days and comes up with the strangest reasons for doing/not doing things. If she does not want to say hello, good bye, or night night, she will excuse it by saying “when I’m taller” – if you pick her up to make her taller, she will generally comply. If you ask her why she did/did not do something (e.g., why didn’t you eat your crackers? why don’t you want to dance?), her reason is generally “It’s not nice” (not really sure just yet how to explain what “it’s not nice” really means!). She still sleeps great at home, although we now generally have to snuggle with her in the rocking chair or rub her back for two minutes before we leave, and we now need to turn on her stars at night (she has a turtle that projects blue and/or green stars onto the ceiling). Her imagination is starting to affect her sleep a little bit – she has woken up a few times in the last couple of weeks (once shrieking for us in a panic). When we get there, she calms down pretty quickly, and tells us the dog in the window (apparently that means outside her crib) scared her. I think the harvest moon made some funny shadows in her room and she didn’t like it. We shall see how it goes at the next full moon. Potty training is going slowly – for the most part she is not interested. Although just today, she started marching off to the potty the minute I had her diaper off, before I could even ask her. Perhaps we have reached a turning point? I think if she hasn’t accomplished this on her own by then, we will use Thanksgiving weekend to lose the diapers (at least during the day). She is still fascinated by Cars, loves silly bands, and loves shoes that make noise and/or light up. All in all, she is a typical toddler!
Right now she is all about the pumpkins and FUN Halloween stuff, but you can keep the skeletons and other scary monsters. Here she is with her new battery-operated jack-o-lantern and her pumpkin sunglasses.
I bought the jack-o-lantern at Target last week, and she pretty much carried it with her everywhere for the next several days. The last couple of days she switched to my stuffed jack-o-lantern – probably because it is softer, easier to carry, and I will let her take it in her crib with her at night (the lit one seemed like a bad idea in light of recent night time awakenings!).
This past weekend we took her to a corn maze and let her participate in all the associated activities. She had a great time – I will need to take her back as we just did not allot enough time for her to feel like she got to do everything. We started with the corn maze.
Helping Daddy hold the maze flag:
Posing in the picture boards:
Ready to go (thinking intently about which way to go)!
Wrong turn…
The corn maze was fun, but she got bored with that pretty quickly. She much preferred the nearby playground, farm equipment, and bouncy house.
The big tractors were scary, but this one is just my size!
What does that do, Daddy?
We had a great day in the beautiful fall weather. Good thing too, since the evening was definitely ruined by the AWFUL game.
