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Wendy said:
"I don't want to be 2. I want to be 3!"
and i tried to press her on why.
I also explained that when she's 3, that I'd have higher expectations of her, like I'd expect her to put on her own clothes and set up her bath, etc.
She looked excited and took her clothes off for tonight's bath with less fuss than usual.
Then before bed she was playing with my old harmonica I've let her have, and then when she was bored of it she threw it into the fireplace.
Then her father and I were meanies and said that she couldn't turn 3 if she did naughty things like that, she'd have to stay 2 forever.
She began to cry a little.
Poor thing. They feel things so strongly at this age. No sense of sharing or the value of items still. I suppose this just comes as time goes, and she experiences how we treat things of value.
Elizabeth
Has been walking around using the bee like a champ.
She hasn't taken a step as good as Wendy's first step, but my mum and Pete have both proclaimed that they have seen her take steps without holding onto things.
Well until I see it myself with my own eyes, she still can't walk yet.
Maybe she will walk at daycare later this week.
I found a bottle she likes to drink from, so I'll be preparing some formula/EBM and whatever for them to use with her in it.
Today she seemed to get really hot in the afternoon so I gave her some cows milk (the reccomendation is for cows milk after 12 not before 1) from the fridge to drink and she drank it so quick.
I just felt sorry for her and she looked thirsty. I do think she struggles to get enough from me during the day when she is distracted with playing and Wendy and all sorts. But at night she is happy to sit and suckle. I don't want to starve her only to have her drink more at night.
She's been more or less exclusively breastfed (without bottles or even a dummy, although I have tried) until 6 months and even with my mum, she barely took more than 80mls not from the breast once a week, 3x a month, until 11 months. Come on. She's ready to fly the coop, we can't be boobs forever.
My mum chastised me for not offering the breast first before giving the bottle but only an hour ago I had offered and she wasn't keen. If she's thirsty....
It's been so hot too. I'll ask the carers to make her bottle cold because that's how she's been having it, actually.
The kitchen
I've finally gotten around to making some stock. But ideally the fridge needs to be clearer and the freezer needs space - you know- so the stock has somewhere to go.
They sell those ready packs of stock at the supermarket for far too high a price of convenience and I doubt there's much in those packs beyond water... and... whatever they decide to make the flavour from. So if I don't have any home made stock I just suffer.
May2 ate some congee so well last week made with some random fast stock I made, so I need to make some real congee for this week.
It's a labour of love. Plus I just can't bear to buy the store stuff.
"I don't want to be 2. I want to be 3!"
and i tried to press her on why.
I also explained that when she's 3, that I'd have higher expectations of her, like I'd expect her to put on her own clothes and set up her bath, etc.
She looked excited and took her clothes off for tonight's bath with less fuss than usual.
Then before bed she was playing with my old harmonica I've let her have, and then when she was bored of it she threw it into the fireplace.
Then her father and I were meanies and said that she couldn't turn 3 if she did naughty things like that, she'd have to stay 2 forever.
She began to cry a little.
Poor thing. They feel things so strongly at this age. No sense of sharing or the value of items still. I suppose this just comes as time goes, and she experiences how we treat things of value.
Elizabeth
Has been walking around using the bee like a champ.
She hasn't taken a step as good as Wendy's first step, but my mum and Pete have both proclaimed that they have seen her take steps without holding onto things.
Well until I see it myself with my own eyes, she still can't walk yet.
Maybe she will walk at daycare later this week.
I found a bottle she likes to drink from, so I'll be preparing some formula/EBM and whatever for them to use with her in it.
Today she seemed to get really hot in the afternoon so I gave her some cows milk (the reccomendation is for cows milk after 12 not before 1) from the fridge to drink and she drank it so quick.
I just felt sorry for her and she looked thirsty. I do think she struggles to get enough from me during the day when she is distracted with playing and Wendy and all sorts. But at night she is happy to sit and suckle. I don't want to starve her only to have her drink more at night.
She's been more or less exclusively breastfed (without bottles or even a dummy, although I have tried) until 6 months and even with my mum, she barely took more than 80mls not from the breast once a week, 3x a month, until 11 months. Come on. She's ready to fly the coop, we can't be boobs forever.
My mum chastised me for not offering the breast first before giving the bottle but only an hour ago I had offered and she wasn't keen. If she's thirsty....
It's been so hot too. I'll ask the carers to make her bottle cold because that's how she's been having it, actually.
The kitchen
I've finally gotten around to making some stock. But ideally the fridge needs to be clearer and the freezer needs space - you know- so the stock has somewhere to go.
They sell those ready packs of stock at the supermarket for far too high a price of convenience and I doubt there's much in those packs beyond water... and... whatever they decide to make the flavour from. So if I don't have any home made stock I just suffer.
May2 ate some congee so well last week made with some random fast stock I made, so I need to make some real congee for this week.
It's a labour of love. Plus I just can't bear to buy the store stuff.
