Thursdays

My Thursdays are supposed to be nice days with just Avery. They have turned into a lot of work though. I spend all day in the car. We live in such a great neighborhood that we can walk to a lot so I really am not used to all the car time. This past Thursday I loaded Av into the car 12 times!!! It was crazy. We went from our house, to drop Camille off, then to Target, then I dropped her off at speech, I ran to the grocery real fast, back to pick Av up, lunch, hbr, our house to drop groceries off, OB appointment, library, and then back to pick Camille up. Ugh, I’m tired just thinking about it all. This coming Thursday should be much better though. Let’s hope so!

boy

Everyone still calls Camille a boy. When we are out, no matter how much pink she is wearing someone still thinks she is a boy. This weekend someone asked, “does he needed a highchair?” Poor thing. She does kind of look like a boy but a cute boy. My mom said I looked like a boy forever too.

13 weeks

My belly is getting big. Big for me that is. The other day Av was looking at my belly and asked when her baby brother was going to come out. It was very cute. I told her not for a while. It is a long time for someone her age. It’s got to be really hard for her to understand too. She asked me a few times that day.

I had an OB appointment this week that I took Av too. I told her we would get to hear her bother’s heartbeat. She was really excited. The appointment went well. His heartbeat was right around 150. As soon as we walked into the OB room Av spotted the stirups on the end of the table and asked right away what they were. I had to try to explain why they were there. I just told her they were where I would rest my feet when the doctor came in. Oh the innocence.

Necklaces and shoes

Camille is obsessed. Any shoes she finds in the house she tries to put on and walk around in. She has better luck in John’s shoes or mine. Av’s shoes just frustrate her to no end. She just does not have the coordination yet so she needs something bigger than Av’s. She looks so cute and is so proud of herself when she finally gets them on and walks in them.

We got a ton of necklaces from the St. Patty’s day parade and she puts them on then she takes them off. Over and over again until they are a huge tangled mess and then she throws a fit. She’s turning into a little diva too.

Almost 18 months!?!?!

How is the possible??? My baby is growing up way too fast. It’s amazing and sad all at the same time. I love her being my baby and wish we could just stop time for a bit. She is pretty funny and has quite a personality on her. She knows what animals say and she knows her body parts. She is starting to talk more independently. She will attempt to repeat any word you ask her to say. She says no and yes appropriately. She is not too bad about saying no yet but has started to say, “no no no no” when Av or another child is doing something she does not like. She sleeps well. She is an 11-hour (8pm-7am) sleeper on the nose, although she fights going to bed every night and naps for me at home. She seems to sleep well on her cot at school. She loves being outside and loves doing what her big sister is doing. She still has her giraffe lovie that she loves; she calls it “naffe.” She will be playing and all the sudden she will get up and run off to her room saying, “naffe” whether it is up there or not. She runs and tries to jump although she still can’t. She bends her knees and then straightens them fast and that is her “jump.” She is very loving. When we ask her for a kiss mostly she will stick her check in our face for us to kiss her. Sometimes we will get lucky with a kiss from her although she makes the noise first and then makes the contact with her lips. She loves Jack and all animals sometimes too much. She thinks John’s belly button is very funny and loves sticking her finger in it for some reason. If he is lying on his belly she looks for it on his back and gets mad when she can’t fine it. She likes to rough house and be played with rough. She goes down any slide possible no matter how big and how scared it makes her mom on her belly. She is still a very good eater. She has 12 teeth. Her canine teeth have been working on coming in FOREVER! She will cuddle for a bit in the morning and I just cherish those few minutes. Then she is up running off doing the eat sign (her version of the sign which is taping her first finger to her mouth). She loves to be sung too and says, “more, more” when she knows the song is almost over. She loves to be read to. She picks up any object but mostly her shoe and holds it to her ear and says, “hello” like she is answering the phone. It’s so funny. She likes to pick things up and bring them to me. Today she found and brought me her barrette, which she called a, “bow.” She was so proud of herself she did her happy dance after she handed it to me. The detangler I use on Av’s hair in the morning we have always called, “spray spray.” Even though Camille still does not have enough hair to even brush she always sees it and says, “spay spay” and wants me to spray her. She is a silly silly little girl.

dentist

I took Av to the dentist last week. It was supposed to be just a check up for her (mine was scheduled for the next week while she was at school) but they had time to fit me in too and asked if I wanted to. At first I panicked, what would Av do that whole time, would she be good, I had not prepared for this. I thought it would be nice to not come back though and they promised me they had books and toys to keep her busy. She went first. This was her second time at the dentist. The first time the dentist (our friend and neighbor) kind of cleaned her teeth, counted them and showed her all the stuff. Av was very reserved again this time but let the dentist count her teeth, clean them, check them for cavities and put fluoride on them! It was pretty much a real dental check up. She did so well. I was so proud of her. Then it was my turn. I spent an hour in that chair and Av was a good as gold. I just could not believe it. She watched a little, read some books, played with her bag they gave her and just sat quietly. She was just too good. It made my heart burst with pride. It’s so nice when your little one grows up to the point where you can take them to stuff like that a not sit on the edge of your chair the whole time wondering when they are going to lose it. I made us an appointment in 6 months to come back and do it the same way. We have a prenatal checkup this week. She is excited to hear the baby’s heart beat. It will be a long time before we bring the terror with us though!!!

Derby Dinner Playhouse

I took Av to her first play type thing this past weekend. Blue’s Clues. No she is not at all into Blue’s Clues but some friends were going so we decided to join them. It was really cute and Av was sooooooo excited. I got her a cute new little dress and off we went. We ate lunch first and then watched the show. It was only about 45 minutes long. Perfect! I let her pick out a little souvenir before the show. Instead of picking out the little Blue’s Clues doll she wanted the cat who is Blue’s Clues friend but also purplish in color. We had no idea but come to find out the name of the cat is Periwinkle. For the life of her she cannot remember the name Periwinkle. It’s so cute and funny at the same time. She keeps asking me what her name is again. She wanted to take her for sharing time today at school so we practiced the name many times. I think she finally had it. I tried to tell her to remember Perry and then Winkle rhymes with twinkle. John laughed at me and said, “that clears it all right up.” Also tried to tell her that periwinkle is a color, which is blue/purple. That didn’t help either. Wish I could be a fly on the wall in her classroom when she shares Periwinkle.