So here's a quick video catching Ellie at her finest "2 year old" self.
Saturday, January 19, 2013
No, No, No
We hear a lot of "no's" these days. Or more specifically, whatever we ask of Ellie these days, she's inclined to do the opposite. At first I was really hurt, frustrated, etc but more recently I've caught on to this being "very 2 year old" behavior and no reflection of what we are or are not doing.
So here's a quick video catching Ellie at her finest "2 year old" self.
So here's a quick video catching Ellie at her finest "2 year old" self.
Taking after Piscasso
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Preschooler
All quiet in the house. B is traveling and Ellie is napping. Good time to catch up on "stuff". Christmas was crazy this year. We are blessed with a big, loving family. That means lots of events around the holidays though. All fun events and Ellie loved all the Christmas traditions...Santa, presents, cards, singing, etc. But I think the time just after the Christmas was most fun for B and I. We didn't have anywhere to be and no one to see :) Just time to be at the house and to play in the snow.
In the last month, Ellie grew taller. She's now fully into 3T pants and 4T shirts. Her sense of being also grew. In many ways she looks and acts the preschooler now. We marvel at the sentences she puts together, the logic she uses and the skills she's acquired.
She's been a Daddy's girl...hard core... recently. Somehow it feels like she's battling me out for Alpha female status. Is that possible? She seems to engage in power struggles with me that she doesn't with Braden. I definitely sense that she has type A tendencies. She can get very bossy towards others (children and adults alike) when she wants something done a certain way.
I know I have that in me too...so I'm not sure if it's nature or nurture. But if you were to ask me, it seems to be encoded in her genes.
The other thing possibly genetic that I've found fascinating recently is her propensity (is that the right word?) for saying "sorry". It usually comes at times that seem odd. Like she accidentally clips the corner of a end table, causing herself a bump but in no way hurting the table or anyone else. She'll say sorry.
But won't necessarily apologize when actually required...like taking a swing at me out of frustration.
Talking to my cousins at a xmas gathering, we figured out that most of us have the tendency to plead apologies for things that don't necessarily make sense to others. The word "sorry" is over used and can annoy those around us because it's used so frequently and for petty things. And most of us do it...although we had lots of different inputs and only one common set of genes growing up. Can our few commonalities be this strong over so many different families? It's such a crazy, crazy thing to me.
Whatever it is...Ellie seems to have it too :)
We are just starting potty training full time this month. I'm not ready to commit to training underwear yet but have made the transition to pull up diapers. I'm putting her on the toilet at regular intervals. Some days it seems like she gets it and others not so much. My hope is that we can make good progress towards full potty training before she reaches preschool in a few months.
Other than that, we're enjoying a relatively quiet January and focusing back on our unit of 3 :)
In the last month, Ellie grew taller. She's now fully into 3T pants and 4T shirts. Her sense of being also grew. In many ways she looks and acts the preschooler now. We marvel at the sentences she puts together, the logic she uses and the skills she's acquired.
She's been a Daddy's girl...hard core... recently. Somehow it feels like she's battling me out for Alpha female status. Is that possible? She seems to engage in power struggles with me that she doesn't with Braden. I definitely sense that she has type A tendencies. She can get very bossy towards others (children and adults alike) when she wants something done a certain way.
I know I have that in me too...so I'm not sure if it's nature or nurture. But if you were to ask me, it seems to be encoded in her genes.
The other thing possibly genetic that I've found fascinating recently is her propensity (is that the right word?) for saying "sorry". It usually comes at times that seem odd. Like she accidentally clips the corner of a end table, causing herself a bump but in no way hurting the table or anyone else. She'll say sorry.
But won't necessarily apologize when actually required...like taking a swing at me out of frustration.
Talking to my cousins at a xmas gathering, we figured out that most of us have the tendency to plead apologies for things that don't necessarily make sense to others. The word "sorry" is over used and can annoy those around us because it's used so frequently and for petty things. And most of us do it...although we had lots of different inputs and only one common set of genes growing up. Can our few commonalities be this strong over so many different families? It's such a crazy, crazy thing to me.
Whatever it is...Ellie seems to have it too :)
We are just starting potty training full time this month. I'm not ready to commit to training underwear yet but have made the transition to pull up diapers. I'm putting her on the toilet at regular intervals. Some days it seems like she gets it and others not so much. My hope is that we can make good progress towards full potty training before she reaches preschool in a few months.
Other than that, we're enjoying a relatively quiet January and focusing back on our unit of 3 :)
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