Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day everyone! 

Four Generations

Navy and Granny

Navy and Nonna

 

Navy and me

Big Girl

The weather is finally starting to feel like spring (somewhat consistently) here in Southern Indiana.  Navy loves being outside, so we have been spending a lot of time outdoors.  Navy asks everyday if she can go and play on "Navy's park" which is her play set in the backyard. 

 

Navy and her cousins, Langston and Easton

 

We went to the zoo a few weeks back with Navy's friend, Jalal.    She really likes watching the otters swim and trying to catch the peacock.  Luckily she has never been successful----

I have no idea why she was doing this

Navy's talking is continuing to increase daily.  Her favorite question to ask Jonathan and me, several times an hour, is "What are you doing, Momma?" or "What are you doing, Dada?"  -----This must be her prepping us for the dreaded "Why?" 

She also likes to verbally plan out her day, telling us where she is going, who she is going to see and she always ends it with who is going to be picking up her at the end of the day.  She likes to tell me that "Dada is at work" and in the mornings when I am getting ready for work she tells me "Go take a shower, Momma."  She still says words that are unintelligible, but for the most part I am able to understand most of what she says.

She also continues to want to "help" me in the kitchen or while cleaning around the house.  Her favorite thing to do is help me cook, though.  Except for her pouring garlic powder all over some fish I was making one evening, we haven't had too many mishaps. 

I don't want to speak too soon and jinx us, but potty training seems to be going well.  We tried to start her back in January, but she wasn't very consistent.  She just didn't seem that interested.  We tried again several weeks later, and she did alright peeing, but would not poop on the potty---at all.  After multiple days of having to deal with that, we stopped pushing it and put her in a pull-up.  It was just really gross otherwise.  Occasionally she would tell us she had to go, and she would use the potty, but never consistently.  Then, the week before last, Navy went upstairs by herself, pulled her pants and underwear off, climbed on the potty (all by herself) and pooped on the potty.  Then we put her in underwear all the time during the day and never looked back!  She is very stubborn and I think she finally decided this is something that she wants to do and she has done it.  We are going on night five of a dry diaper in the morning when she wakes up, which is a pretty big deal for her, considering how much she drinks all day long.  I hope I have ordered my last case of size 7 diapers from Amazon.....

Navy is growing up so quickly.  She doesn't look like a baby anymore and tells us all the time "I not baby; I big girl."  And she really isn't a baby anymore-------

Easter 2013

Dyeing Easter Eggs

Yesterday was Navy's first experience dyeing Easter eggs.  We had been talking about it for almost a week, building the experience up, so she was VERY excited.  I laugh because she had no idea what "dyeing eggs" actually meant, but she was determined it would be fun! 

Aunt Melanie, Cousin Josh and Aunt Sally got everything ready for Navy to dye the eggs.  At first it wasn't that messy......that quickly changed. 

 

Painting an egg with Aunt Mel

Aunt Mel touching up Navy's painted egg

 

Navy had so much fun and was really proud of her eggs.  Her favorite thing to do was paint an egg with a Q-tip. Today she gets to hunt for the eggs she dyed.  I hope she likes that as much as she liked dyeing them! 

 

 

 

A lot of nothing much

Not much has been going on in our house.  Winter is still hanging around, which means very little outside play time, so we've been making the most of indoor activities.  Navy still goes to the 4C Play and Learn two times a week, plus Toddler Storytime twice a week.  On Thursdays she started attending Kinderfun at Mesker Park Zoo.  It's a 13 week program where the kids learn about a letter of the alphabet and then get to see an animal up close and personal. 

Coloring at Kinderfun

Navy's therapy with First Steps is going well.  Jonathan says he can't tell if her talking is improving, but I have noticed improvement in some words that she used to have difficulty with.  She is definitely talking more and sometimes says the funniest things.  She continues to love to sing songs.   Her favorites are "Old McDonald," "Wheels on the Bus" and the theme song to "Max and Ruby."  Sometimes she asks Jonathan or me to sing the song with her.  Other times she sings all by herself. 

She loves her "paa" and prefers to have two at a time.  We haven't tried to take her pacifiers away yet....

Navy also has become obsessed with her "babies."  She likes to feed them, change their clothes, brush their teeth and trim their fingernails. 

 

 

Navy loves playing with her cousins, even though they fight over toys sometimes.

 

 

 





This past Sunday the weather was very nice, so we headed to the zoo.  Grandpa Greg, Grandma Wendy and Aunt Michele came too. 

Grandpa and Navy running fast

Aunt Michele and Navy

Daddy and Navy

Navy is obsessed with cleaning.  One of her favorite phrases to say is "Navy help Momma."  She insists on dusting and sweeping the floor anytime I attempt to.  She does a pretty good job too.  She tries to help me fold clothes, but that usually consists of waving them around the room and then leaving them in a pile on the couch.  We will continue to work on that :)