21 is a Good Number of Months

Well little thing, you've made it this far. So let's enjoy this month in review.

After church, which is about a 2 minute drive from home(because your mommy? she is lazy) and I promised you that we'd see our kitty if you got into the car. You acquiesced to my request but when we walked in the front door, and you saw the kitty you pointed and said "Kitty!' like "Holy crap! I didn't know he was going to be here! This is so awesome!" which made me giggle.

But not all the days have been roses and sunshine. Camping this past weekend, you went with your grandparents on Wednesday, but I couldn't come up until Friday. When I got there, everyone wanted to tell me about what funny thing you had done, mostly about how you threw a fit and laid on the dirt or smacked your great grandma in the face. So when someone came up to me and said, "Your little girl is so cute" I finished her statement "but so evil." Unfortunately, I don't think that was where she was going with her statement, but honey, you really are evil. Last night brought 2 time outs in the period of 4 minutes. They seem to work temporarily but not long term. I guess your logic skills aren't advanced enough to know that when you do something bad you get punished. Just so you know, your grandmothers are both requesting corporal punishment for you, but I have not given in to their demands for "soft smacks on the hand" mostly because I don't think I'll be able to do that without being angry and super nanny hasn't given me the go-ahead yet.

Feeding you is insane. There is nothing that you consistently will eat that gives you any nutrients. Broccoli is still okay, but you won't eat a meals with of it. Mac'n'cheese? You need the spiral noodles and then it's only a maybe. Even cheese, you'll be loving it and 2 seconds later you're spitting it out and cursing its name. Hot dogs can find favor with you, but I haven't figured out what the trick to those are.

You are really into singing right now. If there is music you will generally sing your own words and tune with it. At church you sang your little heart out during the hymns even though your words weren't English, but it was totally cute.

We did make it to the park this month. We stayed forever! I brought a picnic lunch, but you were too interested in sliding and running and swinging to even think about eating. Not even the juice box could keep you all there for long. You do have a very short attention span, so we swing for about 3 minutes, then it's run to the slides for a few times up and down. then push the keys on the broken xylophone then, hey! swinging! and then, wait, there are slides? and so on. We both got a bit too much sun even with our sunscreen and you went down hard for your nap.

There are still good times and hard times, I guess that's life and i wouldn't trade you in for anything else. Probably not even a pony.

Love,

mama