Baby Girl - I knew a time would come when I would fall behind on monthly updates - maybe it is because life is busy or maybe all the changes and your milestones have naturally slowed a bit? The last couple of months have been busy, fun and unfortunately also full of illness. You are going on your 5th straight week of cough and sinus drainage. I think you keep catching new virus' and there are plenty to go around right now. The fact that you are cutting your 2 year molars and want your fingers in your mouth makes it hard. This last week you got a fever and then broke out in a rash - Rosela. As always, you take illness by the horns and it doesn't slow you down a bit. You haven't been sick enough to visit the Dr., thank goodness, as we would like to keep you as far from antibiotics as possible for awhile. The yeasty beast has yet to leave us alone - it has been a long hard battle, but someday soon we hope we will beat it.
Okay - enough about being sick - here is a snippet of your life at the moment.
Events: In October we went to a reef talk event, a pumpkin patch party, had dinners with the Simanjuntaks and Keisers, you ran the Keiki loop at the Run for the Dry Forest, and dressed up as triathlete and hula dancer for halloween. In November we celebrated Mommy's 30th birthday, went to a Hula competition in Waikoloa, and the Coffee Parade with Becca and Calvin. We got to spend Thanksgiving at a condo on the ocean side and spend time with good friends. So far in December we went to the light festival in Holualoa and saw baby Jesus at the Nativity and you got to spend a week in Oahu at the Disney Aulani with your cousins, Grandma, Papa, Uncles and Aunt. Five days later we went to Kauai with Nana and Papa and stayed 100 feet from the ocean. To say the least - we are all a bit spoiled and trying to enjoy every minute of it!
Personality: You continue to be free thinker - you have a lot of 'good ideas' and want to do things the way you think is best. We enjoy seeing your independence and creativity grow. This personality trait also leads to a bit of trouble when your good ideas are dangerous or obstinate to what we need you to do. Just this week you've started to yell no and stop at us while you swat at us if we ask you to do something you don't want to. All I can say it isn't doesn't end well for you. Hoping you figure out that it isn't a good idea soon. Most of the time you love to giggle and play and really are a great bundle of joy. You take great joy in loving and taking care of your babies. You have are very gentle and sweet with real babies and animals. You love to color and have started saying "now a w, k, l and a, x ..." as you scribble. You like imaginative play with your babies and little people. You spend huge amounts of time having them live out life.
New Phrases we hear all the time now: 'Right Now,' 'I have a good idea,' 'but I need it', 'just one more'
The other day you were trying to convince me to give you a clean disposable diaper for your babies and told me, "But I need to put a night diaper on Lily."
At the condo we were in the pool and a young girl about 7 or 8 got in hear us. You said, "What's that?" I said, "You know, you tell me." "Mama it is a girl." "Yes you are right. Can you ask her her name?" After a pause you said, "Mama she doesn't have any words."
In Oahu you would ask daddy, "where are my girls (Addy and Camry)?"
At the park in Kauai you look at the chickens and say, "Sorry chickens, we don't have anything for you."
You are quite the communicator and can pretty much describe and explain everything you need to. You can tell me where you have pain, how you want or do not want your food. You see things out the window of the car and tell me about it - stop signs and lights, buildings, trucks, motorcycles... You ask a lot of questions - what's this, what's that, did you hear that, what you did? On occasion you will spontaneously say thank you for things and you are working on please and sorry. You can read several of your books from memory and know many of the words to many books if we pause to let you fill in the blank. You love videos and we try to limit you to one show a day. Curious George, Dora, Care Bears and Shawn the Sheep are your current favorites. You continue to amaze me by how many wh questions you are able to answer. The last few weeks you go down for naps and bed time very easily. You just need a baby, a book and a blanket.
Foods: Since we are fighting yeast still - we are trying to limit sugar and gluten products. You love pasta, but luckily you like quinoa and rice noodles as a substitute. A typical lunch can include avocado, cheese, yogurt and granola, banana, applesauce, lunch meat, Okanawan sweet potato, rice noodles. You will sometimes try our food, but don't like anything saucy. New foods the last couple of months are fried calamari and little octopus. You really enjoyed both! You eat really well and although you may not eat right with us at meal time, you get plenty of calories to keep growing! Your pick of the week is 'cake.' Whole grain rice cake that is - love it!
Motor Skills - you are really trying to learn to swim - you jump in over and over and over and over - hold your breath and wait for us to help you up for a breath. If you are kicking and scooping really well you can almost get your head above water. With your water wings on you can cruise pretty well, only needing an occasional nudge or flip. In calm waters, you cruse in and out with the pull of the waves even when your feet are not touching.
Discipline and potty training - Timeouts quit working. You seem to really understand that when you do not listen or do something we've asked you not to, that a baby or toys will go in the closet. It is rough on all of us, but really the only consequence that seems to make an impression. You have gotten into quite some trouble with your crayons at home and a pen at the Aulani. Your experimental tendencies far out way your fear of trouble. You have a pretty strong will and we are sure it will serve you well in the future. For right now we just have to help you learn the rules, how to be a good listener and how to be safe. Potty training comes and goes. Before you went to Oahu you were going pee in the potty 2-3 times a day. Now you have no interest again and you even put your potty chair in the closet. Soon enough you will want to use the potty and wear big girl underware. I told you this and you replied, "But I'm little mommy." Soon enough I'm sure you will become more interested.
We love you sweetheart and are so blessed to spend each day with you! We love you all the way to the moon and back everyday!!! Love, Mommy and Daddy
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