Silly girl

Miss R has been a smiley girl since birth. She laughs, smiles and has a good old time. As she gets a little older she is learning what is funny and will do things to get a laugh. She loves playing peek a boo or putting things like a ball in her mouth and then showing you.

Her vocabulary is ever increasing and her favorite, FAVORITE word and thing is DUCK. Ducks are the most exciting thing in her tiny little world. When she sees them she starts to squeal and flap her little arms and just gets all worked up. It's hilarious.

Pre-School

Miss C started Pre-School yesterday. I am seriously not sure when that happened but it sure snuck up on us. It went pretty easy and I think that was because she goes to the same place she was going, just new teachers and a new class. Things in Pre-School are more structured and more "school-like" and so far, so good.

It's weird because Miss C seems so grown up in so many ways but even with starting Pre-School this week, she still is a little girl. Just like when she was first born, I want to bottle up her sweet, sweet innocence and carry it with me forever. I want to record all those times now where she goes, I love you Mommy and I haven't said it to her first. I want to take a mold of her tiny hand holding mine and capture that bond displayed so simply and yet so clearly.

I love that my little girl can be so independent and is enjoying her new class and Pre-School, but I hate that it means she is growing up.

Pacifier

Miss R loves her pacifier. LOVES it. Very much attached to the paci and it's a definite soother for her.

We try to keep the use of the paci to a minimum and reserved for nap and bedtime. That holds true at day care but at home some times we cave and give it too her if she seems overly worked up.

She is also pretty attached to her blankie but in the blanket arena it can really be any blanket not just a specific one. Still she does have a specific blankie (with back ups) that she sleeps with.

So tonight we tried paci-free bedtime with the blankie. There was some fussing but in the end she feel asleep without it so we'll see how it goes tomorrow.