Just a random update to say we are still alive. Our major accomplishment this month? Natalie is using the potty!!! I am afraid to type this, but, knock on wood, no accidents in two weeks! Yahoo!!! We had tried a few suggestions from others, none of them worked. Everyone kept telling us to just put her in big girl panties and she would stop peeing in them because she wouldn't like being wet. Well...the girl is as laid back as they come and being wet didn't bother her at all. So when the house was all wet, we stopped that. We tried other things, still no progress. Finally, we thought, we'll just wait. Then one day a couple of weeks ago she said she wanted to potty. She did all day and each time I wisely rewarded her with chocolate. (what girls will do for chocolate.)
Now here we are. I'm not sure when I'll learn to filter kind advice and just let her grow at her speed. She's done most everything when she decided she was ready. She threw away her pacifier. She gets herself dressed. She eats however much she is going to eat and that varies on any given day. She takes her own pictures.
The only constant is chocolate milk every morning. She comes by that quite naturally. :-)
We've enjoyed a day off together. It's been fun to run around the house and watch movies. She napped with me for the first time in a long, long, time. As she snuggled up close to me I found myself enjoying the being still with her. We run all the time. It's nice to know that some things, some times, when she chooses, she still wants to do with me.
2 comments:
at least she has cute shoes to look at
what a sweet blog. :) Your baby girl is growing up!! (megs)
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