She is so two
April 19, 2007It has been a rather long time since I posted about Widget and her doings. And she is doing…. constantly! The weekend I spent in TN at the beginning of March, M said to me, “she really is busy, isn’t she?” Yes, yes, yes! She is in motion 90% of the day. The only time I can get anything done in terms of housework is if she is napping.
She is talking up a storm, although as she has started putting longer sentences together, her words get jumbled and it is a little harder to understand her than when she was speaking single words or two word sentences. She sings a lot: Twinkle, twinkle; ABCs; Itsy Bitsy Spider; I’m a little teapot among the many she knows. She loves Dora, Diego, and WonderPets, although if it is a cartoon type show, she’d watch it- I need to be better about how much TV she watches.
She would walk for hours outside if we’d let her. T was amazed the other night because they walked around the block and she didn’t ask to be carried until they were almost home. She has mastered pedaling her tricycle. I will miss having a driveway for her to ride it when we move.
Give her paint, chalk, crayons and she is content for quite awhile. Messy but content. She has become very precise in the way she paints or draws, carefully choosing which color (mostly blue) and determine where she wants to use it. T’s mom watches her one day a week and we usually have a piece of artwork to bring home. They explored fingerpainting not too long ago and that was an absolute blast.
We haven’t moved her to the toddler bed yet because she is content in her crib and not interested in climbing out. Nor have we started potty training. She occasionally expresses some interest in the idea but doesn’t appear to actually want to use the potty.
She does try my patience regularly and sometimes I feel like I’m always snapping at her to stop climbing on me, stop kicking, stop hitting, running away while I’m trying to change her diaper or get clothes on her. We haven’t found a successful discipline method- we generally use time outs now but I’m not sure they are actually making a difference. It makes for some frustrating times.
She is so very two!
