Contradiction

"Mommy, poopy"

"Okay, lets change you."

"No", runs to the other side of the house (our new house is very long).

I go get a diaper, set everything up to start.

"Mommy wants to change your diaper."

"No... okay", new thing - haven't figured it out, expect maybe it comes from me often saying okay after she says no.

"Can we change it."

"Thor Kibby!" Our cat's name, given to her by MLO, and off she goes.

"Please come here, I'll be quick."

"Okay."

She actually lays down on the mat.

Starting to take off her pants, "No".

Wrestling starts.

Diaper finally gets changed.

"Thank you", with a hug before running off again.

Yep - happens at least once a day.

Hard questions have started

I am already getting hard questions, like: What noise do animals make?

There are a few I am at a loss on how to describe them to MLO:

Fish - splash?
Butterfly - flap?
Caterpillar - ?
Spider - ?
Giraffe - ? (found out they don't have vocal cords)

She isn't even two yet!!!

Clothes (shorts this time)

So it had become time to buy MLO some new shorts. She really only has about three workable pairs and unless I want to be a slave to my washer/dryer, she needs more.

Being that she will out grow these in only a few short months I rarely grace any of those high end baby/toddler clothing stores.

We hit Ross and bought two pairs of shorts (and a really cute jean dress) and we went to a cute little place called "Once Upon a Child".

"Once Upon a Child" is one of those trade in your outgrown items for bigger clothes or better toys, type place. I once brought a huge bag of clothes and they only wanted a few things, so I pretty much just shop there and keep the outgrown stuff for the next kid or to give to friends who have babies.

While there, I bought her another two pairs of shorts and a very cute red skirt.

So this brings us to seven pairs of shorts. Some weeks this means I only have to do laundry once (my preferred method). However other times this still means more than one load a week (along with those occurrences of more than one bath a day).

Breakfast

(originally couldn't type in the title field on blogger for some reason - but they fixed it)

Hi, I am back. Sorry, the holidays and work just ran me over.

MLO is doing great, absorbing information at an astonishing rate. She really has learned so much and just keeps going. We get a lot of surprise sentences now and she can communicate in words exactly what she wants.

We have gotten to the point where I have to LET her tell me something. She has to tell me what she wants for breakfast, she has to pick out her own clothes (still working on getting them on, but that is moving right along).

Of course, there are the times she doesn't want anything that happens to be in the house. This morning it went:

"Are you hungry?"

"Hi" (her Japanese word for yes - not sure where that came from).

"What do you want?"

Silence...

"Cereal?"

"No."

"Eggs?"

"No."

"Chicken?" (Left overs from the previous night which she had devoured at the time).

"No."

"Juice?" "Apple?" "Grapes?" "Any fruit?" "Bagel?" "Cheese?" "Jerky?" (can you detect the desperation?)

All with "No" as the response.

"What then?"

"Food."

Ugh.

Note: She ended up eating my cereal once I had poured some for myself. The other trick that always work - wanting whatever mommy is having.

Too cute

Great Grandma is in town

MLO's Great Grandma came to visit over the weekend. Yesterday she took over watching MLO (with gramma there as well) and they played all afternoon. We then had a nice dinner at our new house and got to chat.

As you might have guessed Great Grandma is no old granny. She is traveling to Peru in a few months to do some tours there and then is going to the east coast, Maryland area to visit her younger sister. While she is 80 years old, she is very active.

So MLO and her had a great time and I and hubby got an "errand date". We got to go out and do errands (and not have to worry about the time I had to get back) together. Errands mostly ended up consisting of household items needed and not as much work stuff, but it was all good.

Then I came home and made us all some Chinese food (orange chicken, vegi rice and egg rolls - all from Trader Joe's and pretty easy to make).

Great Grandma loved our new house, thought MLO was a total angel and very bright and responsive. We think so too :)

"What's That?"

This is MLO's newest favorite phrase.

This means I am now spending all waking hours naming things and answering questions.

She has been opening up her books and pointing at pictures and asking "what's that?". She smiles when you tell her and sometimes repeats the name.

When outside walking around or at the store it is asked, over and over and over.

I think I have named every farm animal in existance, many different types of bugs, clothing, elements of a house (like door), plants, furniture, parts of the body, fruits, vegetables and more.

Means my little girl is growing up, doesn't it?