update on sleep regression: thankfully, she returned back to normal after my post last week, PHEW. not only with her sleep, but her general behavior. everything must have tied back together. finally no crying when leaving the house for daycare, and then going back to sleep around the 8:30 timeframe again.
i had another weekend with just her and i again (since carlo has his annual training hell weeks, which means he has to work over the weekend) - and honestly, as she gets older, it gets so much easier and more fun. it would be even EASIER if i wasn't pregnant and it wasn't as much trouble to sit on the floor to play with her (doesn't feel great for my back or legs).
it
was seriously SO fun to be with her all weekend and doing literally
everything together. she loves me so much and i love her right back
tenfold. being able to comfort her when she wakes up in the middle of
the night (sometimes). reading to her before she sleeps and being able
to hold her and being so close to her. her sitting on my lap (recently)
for mealtimes. me holding her while we're in front of the mirror and her
just having this HUGE smile on her face. her putting me to pretend
sleep and patting me (not so gently) on the back. her holding my finger
when we're going out on walks. listening to her jibber jabber about her
observations and randomly breaking out in indistinguishable songs. her
asking me if i'm okay when i make grunting noises to sit on the floor
(like an old person) or when i randomly make exclamations from dropping
things. her saying "sorry" when i bump into her. her wanting me hold her
n a specific way (like.. seriously i have to be STANDING and holding
her, she won't let me sit down and hold her.) her baking me fake cakes
and us sharing it together. her singing happy birthday to me. OMG my
eyes are watering so much right now.. the list is really endless and i
need to really cherish all of these moments because this precious time
is really ticking away.
AAAANYWAY. damn i just had like a good emotion 10 minute cry session that would have probably lasted longer if i didn't have an errand to run right now.. looking like a hot mess.. lol. GOT ME ALL IN THE FEELS. good feels. bittersweet feels. just going to be another chapter in our lives. i was talking about my brother about having a #2 and he was like.. yes #1 will have a fit and sometimes cry.. but they learn to be so independent that way and it's all for the better. transitions and changes are not always fun, but they are always a growing experience. it will definitely be a learning and growing experience for all of us and i know mya will be smart and capable enough to handle it.
other notes from this past month:
- first time swimming in the pool. really likes kicking and swimming! this is the 2nd time we introduced it to her and she warmed up to it quite quickly, though it helped that this time, it was because there was another kid in the pool that kept wanting to talk to her, which means that mya retreated and wanted daddy to hold her.. which prompted him to get her to start kicking in the pool! :)
- got sick again! only a mild fever and sore throat.
- already grew out of a pair of shoes that we got her less than 3 months ago.. had to size up! must have definitely grown a lot physically since may, when both our sets of parents just left. it's crazy, when i look at pictures of her just turning 2 (vs her being 2.5 now), she looks so much more like a baby back then!
- can express herself more and more as she is more aware of her feelings and knows more words.. like when i picked her up from daycare that friday, she said, "i missed mommy and daddy. i was sad." GAHH HEART WRENCHER!!!! and then over one of the weekends, carlo was buying something and waiting for the receipt so i started walking to the door. mya turned around and told me to stop walking because we had to wait for daddy. lolol. she's so freaking cute!!
- LOVES the gabby cats show on netflix. no more pocoyo! I think there's only like 8 episodes, but that's literally all she watched while she was sick.. on repeat. 8 episodes means like 4 hours of content at most.. and she was watching about 3 hours of tv a day, for about 5-7 days straight. i have no idea how many repeats of gabby she watched but she still loves it even when i recommend any other show each time.. she used to have a straight face when watching tv but she really smiles and interacts more with the shows now and asks questions and things like that
- doesn't have us read to her as much anymore. does like looking and analyzing pictures in the books now and sometimes reads to herself quietly. SUPER CUTE, i wonder what she's thinking about.
- she loves going shopping and specfically she says "looking at stuff!" lol. i wonder if we said that to her once and it just stuck to her. thankfully she's really good at putting things down and leaving things in the store so we don't have to buy them and it's not a fight to get her to leave the store either! at least for now. i think she's used to things not belonging to her because of daycare.
- daycare peeps told us she only talks to one teacher and she's too shy to talk to other adults! we don't know if she talks to the other kids, but i imagine she does. when we're out though and a kid is REALLY friendly, she usually feels more reserved. but at the playground, if kids are doing their own thing, she likes observing. i think she's like me where she doesn't like attention or being put on the spot.
- starting to ask for specific food for dinner (last week she told us she wanted chicken! and over the weekend, when we were heading out for lunch, she envisioned pizza.. lol.. and then when we went to get vietnamese food and the server served us our food, she was like, "this isn't pizza! she is so smart!)
- new favorite food: CHICKEN SKIN! loves nectarines and all the stonefruits. ate some apple wedges by herself. loves broccoli, still doesn't care about many other vegetables
- her memory has been getting crazy good too. one
day, her toys ran out of batteries, so i was explaining that we don't
have any in the house, and that i would need to buy more, the next time
we go shopping. on another day, it was raining and she was holding our
adult-sized umbrella, which is too big and heavy for her to wield. i
told her we would get her a new, smaller umbrella for her. she said "we
have to go shopping for batteries and umbrella.".. putting something
else together from ANOTHER day. i was pretty mindblown.
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