New Bed / New Room

This weekend we changed Mally’s room into the kids room.  : ) 

Here is a little sneak peek.

This is baby boy’s side of the room.

These circles are still a work in progress.  I painted the monkey tonight and the other two circles (a bear and a turtle) will be a different night.

Miss Pink is still here.  : )  This is Mally’s side of the room.  In her new bed!

Adjusting to the new bed has been going okay.  She cries when we put her in it.  We close the door and she comes to check the door and then crawls back in her bed and stops crying and falls asleep.  So she doesn’t cry for more then a minute or two and then stops and falls asleep.

When she wakes up she cries immediately too and runs to the door.  Hopefully she will get use to her new bed and feel more comfortable and not cry when she wakes up.

She loves to pretend to go ni-night and play in her bed – just as long as she doesn’t have to stay in it.

Funny Crying

This afternoon when Mally woke up from her nap she was extremely chatty.  She talked and talked and played.  I left her in there for a long time then all of sudden she started crying.  Like a hurt/scared cry.  I go in her room to find her standing up in her crib holding onto her puppy and she is holding her other hand in the air like it is hurt. 

I’m asking her what is wrong – however she is crying so hard I can’t understand.  I look at her hand and I see a booger on her hand.  I start laughing hysterically!  I tell her Mally that is just a yucky from your nose – momma get a kleenex for you.  As soon as I cleaned up her hand she immediately stopped crying and started talking about yucky nose.

Then tonight Jesse was giving her a bath and she spotted some toe-jam in the water and started asking “whats dat?” and pointing.  He told her it was dirt and removed it from the water.  Then she found another piece and started panicking again “whats dat?  whats dat?  whats dat?” and pointing.  Jesse tells her it is dirt and removes it.  A few moments later she is crying.  He tries asking her what is wrong but she is crying too hard she can’t talk.  He takes her out and she calms down.  He asks her why she cried and she said “dirt”.  Apparently there was more toe-jam in the water.  He told her the dirt won’t get her.

When Jesse was telling me about this I was laughing so hard that I had tears.  Mally was standing there while he was telling me and she says “dirt not get you”.

She’s Gone Girly!

I found this blog post and I must of wrote it over a month ago and never made it live.  I feel like I want to remember this – so I am going to post it.  The pictures are also from a month ago – I must of  had good intentions of blogging about this but got side tracked.

Yes, I dress her totally girly – but she didn’t play like a little girl.  She was more into riding bikes/trikes, digging in the dirt, picking up rocks kind of girl. 

I have a basket full of stuffed animals and a doll or two and that basket would sit un-touched.  However, puppy is a must.  Puppy goes to bed with her and puppy even comes in the truck sometimes for our little outings.  If she is feeling sleepy or snuggly or hurt she will ask for puppy.  Otherwise – she isn’t into stuffed animals or dolls.

That all has changed the last couple of days.  She picked out a doll from the basket and started pretending and talking to the doll.  She would pretend to take the baby to bed which went something like this…

Holding baby in front of her while tipping her head.

M: Ni-Night? 

Silently look at baby with her head still tipped.

M: Okay.

Run to her room with baby in tow.

M: Kish.

Give baby a kiss.  Toss baby over the crib rail.  Come running back to the living room.

M: Baby.

Me: Your baby go ni-night?

M: Yesh.

Run back to her room and run back to the living room.

M: Baby.  Help you.

Me:  Is your baby stuck?

M: Yesh.

Run back to her room and I follow her.  I get baby out of the crib. 

She will also pretend to feed her baby snacks and give her drinks from the little tea cups.

Today she really started pretending and being a little mommy.  She was playing with her baby running back and forth from her room to the living room.  I would look down the hallway to her room and she would be sitting in chair in her room with her baby talking away.

Then she came out and said baby was “hungee” (hungry) and tossed baby into her high chair.  We got baby some pretend snacks and the tea cup and she fed her baby.

I showed her how to hold her baby and how to burp her baby… things she hasn’t seen yet because we don’t know anyone with a little baby. 

She even went as far as to get a diaper and try to put the diaper on the baby.  I have a few newborn diapers left over from Mally – I went and got one and we put it on the baby.  To which Mally picked up the baby and said “potty” and ran to the bathroom with baby.  I quickly chased after her saying “NO!  Baby doesn’t need to go potty!”  I find her holding baby over the toilet!  Thankfully she didn’t drop baby in!

It is kind of fun to see her take such interest in doing these sorts of things – I have never seen this side of her.  It also warms my heart and makes me feel like this might prepare her for baby brother coming.

Just two days prior to her running around with baby… she was hauling a mouse around with her.  I plastic-real looking rat type mouse from Halloween.  She had to eat lunch with this mouse – he sat right on her tray.  She even had to take this mouse to bed with her along with a tea cup in case mouse needed a drink.  Ick.

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Update on our health… Last week was still pretty rough.  However, yesterday morning she woke up with yucky matted eyes and as the morning went along I could watch her eye turn more and more pink.  She still had her runny nose and cough.  I finally caved (since this was the start of week 3 of being sick) and called her Dr.  They tell me it is just a cold and to keep hanging in there.  I was starting to wonder if she didn’t have a sinus infection because she would point to her cheeks and say hurt and cry.  Nurse tells me that would be very rare for a child to have a sinus infection and she could be pointing to her cheeks in regards to the teeth that are coming in.  And as far as her eye turning pink now – she said that is all part of the cold too.  I could go in and get drops for it if she went to a daycare but she stays home so they said there was no need for that.

Other than all that we had a really good start to our week yesterday.  She was in such a better mood and played so good.  After supper when I took out of her highchair I was holding her and asking her for my snuggles and she gave me a big hug and then said “down”… that’s my girl!  She isn’t a snuggler!  : )  So for her to snuggle with me for two solid weeks – I knew something was wrong. 

We have also been able to go outside the last couple of days – which she loves!  You ask her if she wants to go outside and she starts running to her room yelling “socks and shoes”.  We started going for walks again (since it has been warm – as in the 30s) and she loves to walk by herself “on da road”.  She even spotted the moon yesterday on her walk and once she spotted the moon every three steps we had to stop and point to the moon.

I think we are on end of this illness and getting back to normal.  Who knew normal could feel so good!!  Thank you all for your kind words and encouraging me!!