Five Years and Counting

Happy Anniversary

ABCs and a late 22mth update

I can't seem to post Naomi's monthly updates on time. She turned 22 months last week. Yea, that's 2 more months til our baby is TWO. Unbelievable.
As we encroach upon 2, Naomi has embraced the terrible twos with all her heart. In one moment she can go from the sweetest child, running around hugging and kissing everyone and everything, using her sweet little voice...and before you can even bat an eyelash, she turns into this little monster who's throwing her entire body onto the floor, stomping her feet, screaming so loud that our neighbors must think we abuse our child. Anything, absolutely anything can set her off. She LOVES bathes, she always asks to stay in for 5 more minutes every night. But the past two nights, she's completely resisted. Last night, during one of bigger meltdowns, she was literally trying to hit me with her shoe, while simaltaneously trying to put her sock on, and yelling out that mommy should go away cause she was a "BAD GIRL". It sounds awful I know, but picture the smallest two year old you know, yelling out phrases and sentences that you didn't even know she knew. It took everything in me to stop myself from laughing everytime she yelled out Bad Girl. I finally got her in the bath after my mom saved the day by telling Naomi that if Naomi wasn't going to take a bath, then SHE was going to go turn the water on. That immediately got Naomi to stand up, bolt into the bathroom, yelling out, "NO I'll DO IT!!!"
Temper tantrums aside, Naomi continues to amaze me everyday. As you can see in the video, she can sing her ABC's, while not perfect, it's completely recognizable and just unbelievably cute.
She can count to 14, then she gets stuck like a broken record..."1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14! YAY!!"
She's speaking in complete sentences. Her teacher left a message for me the other day when she was shocked to hear Naomi turn around and say, "Marcy, what's Drew doing?"
She understands the concept of when someone is over at our house or if they've left. Every day when I pick her up, she asks me if Ah-ma (grandma) is still here. I say yes. Then she'll say, "Ah-ma still here! Do-Do (what she calls my dad) in Chi-NA"
She loves the playground, mostly the slide. Whenever we drive by the playground (basically every day on our way home from daycare) she asks, "outside slide?"
She loves to sing, is always humming, or singing along with us. This makes me so happy since both Austin and I have a huge love for music. I'm excited that she picks up and enjoys music so much even at such a young age. She'll even pick up a mic we've given to her, and run around singing and dancing.

I really can't believe in less than 2 months she'll be two years old.

My Ray of sunshine on an otherwise dreary day

Time for a change?

I'm working from home today and was able to keep Naomi home with me since my mom is here to help me look after her when I get busy. This morning, Naomi asked for a blankie, and when she got one, she kept laying it on the ground and telling me it was her little bed. I asked her if she wanted to sleep in a little bed, and she said Yes. At school, they sleep on little cots, and apparently she's never had a problem going to her cot after lunch for nap time. She always lies on her cot, falls asleep on her own, and waits to get up until the lights go back on. If she wakes up early, she'll patiently lie on her cot and hug her mimi and izzie doll. At home, she's strictly been sleeping in her crib both for naps and nighttime.
Today when it was time for her nap, Naomi told me, "no crib" and was extremely sad. She kept lying her blanket down in the living room, where I've parked myself with my laptop and work. I decided to make her a makeshift cot out of a soft blanket. She immediately brought a stack of books to her "cot", her mimi and her izzie, and lay down and read her books for about 10 minutes before falling soundly asleep.
Maybe it's time to look into transitioning her into a bed.

Picture Day

Today was Naomi's first picture day at daycare. I'm a little sad that I missed getting her ready in the morning. I did lay out her outfit the night before, but it's still not the same since I depend on Austin's iphone pictures in the morning each day to see what she looks like. Her teacher's say she did really well and even smiled for the camera. Here she is practicing her for her portrait shot this morning.

Haha ok that's not her picture day outfit. This is:



Can't wait to get the actual pictures in 4 weeks. Excuse the greasiness..she had just received a fresh application of sunblock.

On another note, we got a call from the daycare today telling us that Naomi got into a fight with another kid today. They were out on a walk and Naomi was sitting next to her "friend" when they got int.o a little shoving match and Naomi's finger ended up in her "friend's" mouth. Yea another kid bit my kid. And that kid broke skin. grrr. Makes my skin boil...but what can I do...it was about a month ago when I got a phone call telling me that Naomi had bitten another kid. (at least she didn't make the kid bleed!) The school is really careful not to divulge the name of the offender, and only referred to the other kid as a classmate or "friend" in class. But the cool thing about this age is that Naomi can talk and understand when I ask her questions. So as soon as I got her into the car I asked her who bit her, she told me, and it was exactly the kid I thought it was. A girl in her class who I always see shoving, pushing, throwing, kicking, hitting and even sitting on other kids. Guess we know who the bully is in the toddler class.

Still rocking the shades

It's 4:50am, i'm up getting ready for work and decided to peek in on Naomi. Yup she's still rocking the Hello Kitty Shades. nice.

In other news, Ashley's got a cool giveaway on her blog for this cute chalkboard. Yes we already have the chalkboard wall in our kitchen, but this would be super cute in naomi's room, or maybe in our soon to be finished basement?

Ok off to get ready for work. ugh. is it weekend yet?

Random lovies

I mentioned in a previous post how Naomi has been holding onto random objects when she goes to sleep. Tonight it was her hello kitty sunglasses. She put them on while brushing her teeth and decided she wanted to leave them on. So throughout our bedtime stories, lullaby and prayer and finally down into her crib, she had them on. Every time I asked if I could take them off, she said nope, and pushed them back up securely onto her face.