The Canes are back in action so we have been rooting them on and sporting our gear on game day, we've also been trying to get out and do some things on the weekend. Now that the weather is getting a little cooler (or so we thought) we took the girls to the Home Depot kids clinic to kill some time one Saturday morning. The beginning of September was still hot but they had a great time making and painting their project (and got to make a second while we waited for paint to dry), no one got hurt and no one smashed daddy's fingers with the hammer! When G&G were in town at the beginning of October they went again and built fire trucks, which of course are still sitting in the garage!
C is doing much better in school and we have settled into a nice little routine. She is excited though on Tuesdays and Thursdays when she gets to stay home with me, as soon as she wakes up she immediately tells me that she does not have school that morning! She loves to tell me about her day and has started to ask me when I pick her up what I did today, when I tell her I spent the morning cleaning she asks me "what else" did I do, as if cleaning the house is not enough! She has her five little friends and looks for them when we get to school each morning, she gets all concerned if someone is not there and wants to know "what happened". They have started working on the alphabet, her teacher is using Zoo Phonics, and have done letters A (for Alligator) and B (for bear). She is starting to look for letters on signs when we are out and is so proud of herself when she recognizes one. Play-doh is her favorite activity and she is upset if they don't play it, it's usually the first thing she tells me when I ask about her day. After being dry and having no accidents the first few weeks she graduated to underwear at school, she loves to use the small potty and is finally getting the hang of pulling up/down her own pants.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are our special time together while J is in school. We usually run and play at the park (her reward for being a good stroller rider) one of the days. We've had a few dates to Chick-fil-A for lunch, she won't share her ice cream with me and went with my mom's group on a Publix tour. Of course she loved getting a cookie from the bakery the best and when she got to go inside their giant freezer she said it was "too chilly".
Someone decided all on her own one day that it was time to throw her wubbie away. She randomly came to me one morning and said "I don't need them anymore, I throw my wubbies away" and headed for the trash can with all four of them in her fists. Of course I had to stop her and get her to reenact it so that I could get it on video. I told her a few times that if she threw them away they were gone and that I had no more in the cabinet, she said "I know" and proceeded to chuck them, not a smart idea (mommy did pull them from the trash and washed them just in case). Later that afternoon when it came time for a nap of course she threw a fit but I didn't give in and of course she took no nap (up until this day she was still napping like a pro). Same thing happened when she went to bed later that night, after over an hour of yelling, screaming and crying (and mommy and daddy at wits end on day one) she finally went to bed but woke up in the middle of the night crying for her wubbie. Day two, three and four went by and we were at the same place we were day one but didn't cave thinking it was bound to get better. We were never really sleep deprived with our kids when they were babies so the two and three times I was getting up a night (sometimes taking over an hour for her to go back to sleep and me having to sleep on the toddler bed) was taking a toll on me! I was told it could take up to 10 days to change a habit, we were four days in and decided to push on (even thought everyone was miserable, irritable and cranky), it was bound to get better right? We tried to let her sleep at night in the toddler bed, converted her crib to a toddler bed, coddled her, ignored her, nothing we did worked and the behavior continues...
All of this crazy behavior about her wubbie led to a behavior chart for the girls. Between C's tantrums and the two of them fighting like crazy of late (even though they say they are best friends) I needed to do something. My sister had made something similar for her kids and one afternoon when they were supposed to be resting (they were both in their rooms crying) I pulled out paper, markers and tape and went to town! J has managed to keep herself either on green or yellow, C on the other hand has gotten to blue and isn't a happy camper (as you can see in the video) when she gets moved off of green. Her Dr. Jekels are out in full force of late, G&G were here for a weekend visit and got to see her throw a tantrum in real time and also the fit she throws when it is rest or bed time. I keep walking around smacking my hand to my forehead, someone has picked up on that and now doing it too!
And like I've said in the last few posts no month is complete without a trip (or two) to see the famous mouse! With these two trips we learned that even if we don't step foot in the Magic Kingdom the girls still have a great time! They had to put up with what others wanted to do and learned that it isn't always about Peter Pan and Princess Aurora (there were still plenty of autographs gotten by other characters)! To not hear the Small World song on either of these trips was magical! They are obsessed with playing Disney at home and C even attempted to draw her first Mickey Mouse, not bad for a two year old.
Here are the pictures from the month.
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