I swore no more months after 18 but here I am, with a 21 month old. Haha. I swear I'll stop at 2. Because 25 months sounds stupid. I shall go with 2 years 1 month instead. :) Anyways, our darling daughter is 3 months (or now 2.5 months) from being 2. WHAT!!! What the heck, time is going so fast! I blame it all on the people who told me it would. You all made it go faster, you jinx us. :) Just kidding but it does go so fast! I probably should've done a photo session to celebrate 21 months, it sounds so important, but I didn't. I have been taking pictures though. My parents showed up on Apr 30th & it was so nice seeing them. My brother showed up that Saturday (May 3rd). I definitely miss being so close to family. Not that Az was super close, being 16 hours from family, but it was still closer than a 3-4 day drive. Won't get into that now though, other than it makes me sad Katie won't grow up around our families. Maybe we'll get stationed closer to home sometime, we still have at least 7 years left in the army. :)
Well, I don't know how tall or how heavy little miss is, though my mom claims 20 lbs. She did the weigh herself, then weigh with Katie. The other day it showed 18.4 lbs with Katie standing on it in a diaper & shirt. I do think she's grown in length, she seems quite a bit taller. I should measure her. She's in size 3 diapers & 18m clothes. She's talking a lot & it took my mom being here to realize she'll ask you "what you doing?". I ask her that all the time so it figures she'd pick that up. :) She can pick out a monkey(& make their sound), a giraffee, & an elephant(tries to make their sound). She's correctly picked out fish, lion, tiger, & a few others but I'm not sure if she's really certain on those yet.
Big girl.... Yesterday I finally made Katie's crib a toddler bed. She never tried to crawl out of it, she had no problem just sitting in there waiting to be picked up/let out. I didn't have to switch her but I felt it was time. I did panic that I made a mistake. She at first stayed in there & didn't know how to get down. Or maybe thought she'd get in trouble. Then she thought it was a game getting in & out. I am happy to say we've now had a successful night & currently having a successful nap in there. I may've gotten lucky but I know if she has a bad night her being able to get out of the bed will be bad. I still put her to sleep on me/next me. Now she'll usually lay down next to me to fall asleep. I need to start a bedtime schedule, I really do.
Next Big Thing: Potty training. Ok.... My parents brought the potty my 2nd cousin Izzy used. It's a princess one & it plays music. Katie thought it was so cool & kept sitting on it so I started sitting her diaperless on it. When she pees it plays music & celebration & while my parents were here she peed 4 times in the potty. The music/celebration scares the crap out of her. Ugh! I made a potty sticker board for her & today we started potty training. I wonder if she's too young or not ready. The fact she peed with my parents here & thought the seat was so cool made me think it was a good time. But her being freaked out by the music is frustrating. Yes I can turn it off but I want to wait til she starts peeing consistently. Or maybe it should be the the other way. Who knows. So, today, day 1 of officially trying, the naked bottom method, and....ugh. 1 success & 5 mini accidents. They were mini for a reason, she immediately alerts by "uh oh" & she'll stop while we run to the potty. Only once she actually peed in her potty though. I did put a diaper on for nap time but I plan to take it off when she gets up. I hope I'm not screwing myself but having 2 big changes at once. I guess if it doesn't work this time we'll just try again in a week or two but she deserves a fair shot at it so we'll see how today goes. :) My big big girl! :(
Mother's Day. It's still weird to celebrate MOTHER'S day! To have a reason to celebrate. I celebrated being a dog mom but it's different having a human baby. It is nice being able to actually be hugged & kissed. :) Daddy didn't have her do any crafts for me so I did my own. Her handprint in salt dough & I need to write on it. :) I am a mommy & I will always be! :) Well, nap should be over soon so I shall go. Have a great day.
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