The Big Event

What: Yard Sale
When: Saturday, September 13, 2008 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Where: My house

Come one, Come all, and shop, shop, shop!!!!

back to work

It's official. Labor Day is over and I'm back at work full time. My summer of fun is over. I love my job and I love the students but it's still hard to go back. E.A. and I had such a good time together this summer. We did fun things like go to storytime at the library, go to imagination place, go to the playground, play outside and swing and play ball and play in the sprinkler. We watered the plants and went for walks in the neighborhood and watched TV -- Max and Ruby and the Backyardigans are my personal favorites! I'm looking forward to a great year, but this summer was probably one of my best summers ever! Thanks, E.A., for being such a blast!!

terrible 2's

The terrible 2's are here. I know what they mean now. They mean your otherwise angelic, adorable child (see photo) who turns into someone you've never met before. She pushes, and hits, and screams, and grabs, and won't even think about letting anyone else touch anything that belongs to her. Play date? How can you play with someone who's crying because you just pushed her down and grabbed the fake peas out of hand? Heaven forbid that your friend play with one piece of your 100 piece playfood set! Later that night, after the disastrous "play date" was over (which ended in a bath, since E.A. ground dirt into the other kid's hair while the moms weren't looking), E.A. looked at me and said, "I don't want my friends to cry." I just said, "Well then you need to share your toys and be sweet to them. If you hit your friends they will cry." She thought about it, and said, "O.K. mommy." We'll see.

Sleeping Woes

A new era has begun. It's the big girl bed era. After numerous successful attempts to crawl out of her crib when she just didn't feel like being in there, we decided it was time to change to a bed. So it was bye-bye crib (oh how I miss you, old friend) and hello bed. We decided on a single bed, since we could use it for a long time (as opposed to a toddler bed). In the days of the crib, bedtime was pretty easy. A bath, some quiet play, a few books in the rocker, and then off to the crib where a relatively contented E.A. would read and play and talk and sing herself to sleep. The rules are different now. There's still the bath, and the play, and the books...but no more contented toddler cocooned in her own little world. Now there's a preschooler in a real bed who doesn't WANT to go to sleep. Who wails and cries and demands all kinds of unreasonable things. "I want to sleep in your room." "I need some milk...some water." "Where's my little teddy bear." and on and on and on. After about 10 days of hysterics and night wakings and trying to convince her to stay in or go back to her bed and lying in the bed with her and sitting in the chair forever and, and, and....we have a system. After story time and prayers, We (meaning me - Momma)sit in a rocking chair near the door until she falls asleep. Then around 2:30, she gets up and comes in our room where she sleeps on a little pallet on the floor. She seems to be O.K. with it, and until further notice this is how it is!

2nd birthday party

 

These are pics from E.A.'s 2nd birthday party. She prayed hard for a swingset and her prayers were answered! I can't believe she's already 2. The party was fun. It was a sweet family time.


If you haven't noticed...I have a new blog name. Stormy Wunderblatt. It was given to me as my spy club name and I'm VERY proud of it. Thanks, Spy Club president. I don't know your name and I hate to reveal your true identity.

One of my duties in the spy club is writing limericks. I'd better get to work!

First Birthday Part 2

 

Here she is diving into her cake -- a first birthday right of passage. I'm thinking of trying to make my own cake, or cupcakes, this year. Any suggestions??

Elizabeth's First Birthday

 

Elizabeth is coming up on her 2nd birthday. I can't believe it! This is how she looked one year ago. I can't believe how she's grown!!!!

She's growing up

 

Elizabeth is growing up. She likes to drive her car. She LOVES her baby dolls and every Pooh character. She's afraid of the count on Sesame Street. She's really into nursery rhymes right now. Her favorites are "Ring around the Rosies," "Little Bo Peep has lost her Sheeps," "Baa-Baa Black Sheep," "Yankee Doodle," and tons more!! Her vocabulary is AMAZING. She has some kickin' grammar. Example:

Me: "Where's your xylophone?"
E: "I don't know. Let me check. I'll be right back." (goes to her room and then runs back). "It's not in there
Momma."
Me: "Yes it is."
E: "Oh. It must be in my closet." (Runs back in her room and then back to me). "Here it is."

She knows the alphabet. She can count to 12 (sometimes she leaves out 8). She makes stuff up. Yesterday in the car she said, "There's a unicorn, Momma." Ha-Ha.

She is VERY auditory. She hears every little sound outside. Birds, dogs, cats. Sometimes when she hears an ambulance she says, "There's an ambulance. Somebody needs help."

She loves to roar like a lion, but she's not very scary. :)

She's also really into hanging out in the bathroom. She loves "washing" her hands and "brushing" her teeth. She REALLY wants to put on makeup and she's obsessed with chapstick. Unfortunately, she recently discovered the toilet. She has no interest in going potty. The bathroom is her playground.

That's all for now. I can't believe she'll be 2 in just over a month!!