I TOLD you

Keeley has started this funny habit where, just before she is going to do something she is not supposed to, she'll come to us and say "Don't see what I'm doing/don't see me/don't hear me..." Makes me laugh every time that she is warning me that she is doing something she isn't supposed to be doing.

She did this yesterday after dinner and I said okay. While Kelly was giving them their bath, I discovered that what she had been doing was putting model magic in the mop bucket. That is actually a good little science experiment and I would have gladly let her put it in water to see what happened to it, but I didn't want it in the mop bucket. I went in to the bath and told them what I had found and that I'd had to throw away the creations because they were ruined in the water.

Keeley looked at me, quite annoyed, and said, "MOM, I TOLD you not to see our work."

I had to try really hard not to laugh.

Food

Keeley is certainly challenging my patience with her eating, or lack thereof. I've spent hours on-line, talking to friends, talking to the pedi, talking to our aunt that is a pedi,...

Suffice it to say, I am trying to get her to eat and to eat better. We're eliminating snacking except for designated times, eating all food at the table, etc. I also thought, while we were at it, I might try to make the food I am offering a little more fun. This is a perk of staying home I suppose. I actually have the time to do it (sometimes!) and at least the first thing the kids say is something positive when they see their food instead of "I don't like this".

This morning I made them a good breakfast to power them through swim lessons. Keeley said she was starving and not happy she had to wait. She did smile when she sat down to this.
And then this is what was left when they were finished.
Doesn't that look like a kid that was "starving"? So annoying. At least she didn't say she didn't like it. She just said "Kayden, if you want my eggs you can have them, okay." And she wonders why she is starving before every meal. It is because YOU DON'T eat I want to explain to her. And I'm not asking her to eat weird things. Those are mini waffles, french toast sticks, eggs, strawberries, blueberries, and banana (with some peanut butter "glue") on the plate. All of that kid friendly right?

Even funnier

Today for nap, after playing for 1.5 hours in her room, it got very quiet. I went back there and couldn't find Kayden anywhere. Her light was on and her rocking chair reclined. I looked under the bed, behind the rocking chair, and then I opened her closet. Why would you go in your closet, close the door, and fall asleep?! You'll notice she has quiet a few babies and shoes in there!

When she got up from her nap, I asked her if she had taken a nap in her closet. She looked at me and, in all seriousness, said "my babies were playing in there." I suppose she was supervising!

Sleeping

Oh my. Had you ever told me Kayden would be a worse sleeper than Keeley was, I would have told you that you were crazy. All those people that told me Kayden had to sleep better than Keeley certainly have jinxed me. We are not sleeping. Keeley turned into a great sleeper as soon as she dropped her morning nap. That is about the time when Kayden turned into the worst sleeper ever.

For a while I think it was because of reflux we didn't know she had. Just as we were finally getting that under control, she learned how to get out of her crib quickly and it has been a horrific week since then. She comes out of her room, bangs on the door, slams her drawers, gets undressed, gets redressed, calls for us when her diaper "comes of", jumps from her chair into her crib... We've taken to camping out just outside her door so that we can monitor how much she bothers Keeley and quickly put her back in her room.

Last night, we put her down at 7 (normal bedtime) from 7-9 she played rather loudly in her room but didn't come out. At 9, she called us because her diaper "came off". Kelly went in there to put it back on. This caused 45 minutes, yes, forty five solid minutes of crying and screaming because Kelly put it back on and Kayden wanted me to do it. After about an hour after the crying started, I went to check on her (it was 10 and she had been quiet for a while and we wanted to go to sleep!) This was how we found her.
Passed out in her chair with her paci and all her lights on.

You would think that perhaps she might have slept in the next morning. Being that she stayed up for 3 extra hours and cried/screamed for 45 solid minutes. You would be wrong. Kelly and I woke up at 5:45 this morning to both girls playing in Keeley's room with all lights on in both of their rooms.

Perhaps, you might think she took a good nap today. No. Just under 2 hours.

Maybe she went to bed nicely tonight. No. Solid 45 minutes of screaming and crying because I wouldn't rock with her. Now, instead of coming out of her room she will crack the door just wide enough to see that we are there and can hear her crying and then she goes and climbs in her crib. I swear this child is too smart for her own good.

This is not what I consider fun!!! I need more sleep!

Quotable Kids

Today we were driving past some fields and, in those fields, were some of those really tall, thin radio towers. This is my children's observations. I definitely feel it aptly depicts their personalities:

Keeley: What are those tall, tall things over there?
Kayden: Can we climb those?


Later in the car Kayden says, "My dress is beautiful. My clip is beautiful. Everything is so beautiful." I don't suppose confidence is something we need to work on soon!

Probably 50 times a day we hear, "Hey. I have a plan...." from Keeley.