Fun with kids September 12, 2008

“Life changes after kids” this was a familair phrase I used to hear often before being a mother and in last 3 years life HAVE changed! But it has changed for better and I am living a more happier life. One of the changes that I have really realized is that we are so much into activities. Weekend are totally jampacked with events and especially kids events which we were oblivious to three years ago.

It so much fun going to all those fun filled events with Ms V that I sometimes feel like I am re-living a kids life!

Just marking my calendar for these days.

Sep. 20 thru Nov. 2, 2008 – Autumn at the Arboretum (Dallas, TX)

Sep. 26 thru Oct. 19, 2008 – State Fair of Texas (Dallas, TX)

Learning the rainbow colors August 23, 2008

These beautiful moments watching my lil one grow are so precious that sometimes I wish the clock would stop and the time would stay here forever, yet, sometimes I am so eager to see how my lil one will be as she grows up into a young girl! Life is so beautiful at the moment watching her grow, spending this beautiful time with her.

She is growing up at a ligtening speed, dancing and singing tops her “things I love to do” list at this moment and she dances pretty good for a nearly three year old. The greatest milestone that she has reached at this time is singing the nursery rhymes and knowing the colors. Though she does not know any single nursery rhyme by-heart, she can sing along with the song and sometimes even pretend to know the song. It’s hilarious to hear her make up her own words for some of the words in the nursery rhymes, it is so cute that no words will do the justice to the sweetness she has. She can recognize  all the rainbow colors and even match them, while PINK is her favorite color. While being asked what colored ice-cream she wants she says “I want pink”..ask her what colored dress she wants to wear and Pink comes out the answer..so pink is the color for her right now.

The other thing that she is very much loooking forward to is her birthday.Attending so many of the birthday parties, poor child is anxiously waiting for her birthday. However, she got to cut the cake twice in a week on our birthdays and the glee in her face and the nervous look as she held the knife to cut the cake really told that she IS waiting for her birthday! She is full of suprises right now, one day she will say some big words out of blue and keeps us wonderfing where did she learn that from. I was amazed as she recognized Hannah Montanna (to which she refers as Hannah Tana ) on a t-shirt print showcased in Walmart ….and suddenly I felt that my lil one is growing indeed fast….

It’s okay July 22, 2008

It’s amazing how children grow so fast.Miss V is growing at a lightening speed and now that she is diaper-free, it really seems that she has grown into a big girl. She loves to wear dresses and is crazy about nail polish. Everytime, she see a nail polish bottle she goes “polish polish!”. I love applying polish to those tiny finger nails and toe nails of hers and the sight of how her faces beams everyime she gets to polish her nails is pricesless..these are the things I want to remember 15 years from now and I am sure everytime I think of this it will bring smile to my lips and she will forever be my little girl.

Yesterday, when my wet polish got smudged as she fiddled with my fingers, I just told her to stop fiddling with my nails  as she was messing my fresh wet polish. She stared at me, and with her little hand on my head as she was patting me she told me ”It’s okay” ….I was spell bound as I heard that coming out from her mouth. Here is my littel girl who is barely three years old reassuring me that everyithng is going to be okay. I felt like my little girl who was just a baby has really become a big girl …..and I said to myself…..I am so lucky to have her!

We have reached the finish line. May 28, 2008

This month has been a big milestone on Ms. V’s potty training saga. She is potty trained and my joy is in leaps and bounds as we are on the verge of bidding good bye to that diapers. Nowadays she wears them only while sleeping and if we are going to be out of the house for a long time. The other day we went shopping without her diapers on and we had a liitle accident at the shop so we decided we will have diapers on while going out of the house for a while. However I am not sure if this is the right move. Experienced Moms please give me some hints. But for right now we are celebrating this big milestone. We know that we have many milestones ahead of her but for right now we are happy on achieving this great one.

 

Potty Training – VII May 15, 2008

I am on the seventh episode of the potty training saga of my daguther and  I am so happy and proud to write that she is almost potty trianed. Yes..she is getting there…..Finally I can say that she IS POTTY TRAINED.

As soon as we get home in the evening she is diaper free until she goes to bed. Yesterday evening, one of the most amazing thing happened….

She was playing, she just dropped all her toys…ran to the bathroom (me following after her) shot right through the door and to the Potty!! My happiness leapt in bounds …..it has been only few weeks and now she REALLY got the hang of it. What I was most happy an relieved about was, she now knows when she feels like going to the bathroom..that’s my smart girl!! This morning also she used potty….!! We are right on track with our May end goal of getting her out of diapers.

However, I am faced with a dilemma right now, about whether to use diapers on weekends when we are out of the house? any pointers?

How is she growing?(30 months) May 13, 2008

Today, I read this article on Babycenter on child development and came across this

How your toddler’s growing: Your toddler is probably able to put on a piece or two of clothing by herself and name a few body parts. She may also be able to identify a color or a friend by name. As she grows more aware of what others are thinking and feeling, she’ll become more interested in interacting and playing with other children instead of just alongside them.

This triggerd me to jot down the twenty things that my daughter is able to do now and it’s such a joy to see her personality developing, see her becoming more independent.

1. She identifies all her friends by their name.
2. She picks what she wants to wear and currently she has a “thing” for dresses. She will not wear anything but dress.
3. She brushes her teeth by herself, though we assist her.
4. She counts from 1 to 10 in English and Spanish (spanish was a suprise since we don’t speak Spanish. She is learning it from school)
5. She puts on her shoes ( the easy ones like slippers and sandals) by herself.
6. She differentiates her favorite toy from other  toys and sometimes wants to hide them from other kids.
7. She repeats the nursery rhymes.
8. She dances and can copy the dance moves from TVshows.
9. She understands the story about Dora, Elmo as she watches them on TV. The oher day she cried seeing Elmo falling from a hill in the cartoon movie.
10. She talks on the phone.
11. She not only remembers her friends’ name but their parents’ too.
12. She shows you the way to her house once we reach our neighborhood.
13. She tells us the daily happenings at her daycare though only three four sentences is undersandable.
14. She scribbles only on paper and thank god she writes only on papers, this has been a great relief for us.
15.  She can eat by herself and drink from a cup or glass.
16. She gets happy when we have visitors in the house.She loves company of new people,giving her attention.
17. She cries when she does not get her way, but if left alone for few minutes chances are very high that she will cool down and forget that she was crying.
18. She puts her dirty clothes in the laundry basket when asked to.
19. She loves being outdoors.
20. She demands to hear stories before bed time every night.

Potty Training – VI May 13, 2008

It has been almost two weeks since I last updated the blog with the potty training updates that is going on in our household. Ms V has made a lot of progress. She has started to go “Pee-Pee” in the potty. I think she has not yet figured out how to tell when she wants to go potty but she will pee everytime I take her. The good news is that they have started potty training (occasionally) at the day care too.

Yesterday she had one accident and then again when I took her to the potty in next two hours she did go and got Dora stickers as the reward. I need to buy some Elmo temporary tattoos as she is asking for those as rewards.

Over the weekend one of my friends told me how stressful it will be , well at least to her when her daughter was potty trianed. She would get so stressed about her daughter having a pee-pee accident on couches, cars or in somebody else’s house…..well..I guess that is the part of the whole package. I know I will also go through that stress but hey things happen..and I will not sweat over it.

These days Miss V runs around diaperless in the house and the frequency of our diaper purchase is already going down. Yipee!!! I am so ready for that day.

perfect investments May 5, 2008

Yesterday, I had the most memorable time spent with my daughter.I spent the entire morning with her, just her and me. There was no hurry to brush the teeth nor to get dressed as it was a Sunday. So, we got up and after a cup of milk for her and a cup of tea for me we started the day by coloring some books. She loves to color as she refers to them any thing that writes as “colors”  I noticed that  now she is able to draw almost a circle which she could barely do about couple of weeks ago. Then, we spent the rest of the morning playing with the Play Doh and her little squeals of excitement and laughter as I sculpted bags, drums etc from the Play doh is still ringing in my ears.

It was on;.e of the happiest moment in my life and I realized that time and attention is right now the biggest investment that I can give to my daughter, to help her to grow up to be a happy child.

 

potty training V May 1, 2008

Apply Naked and $75 method works! I am so glad that I read about this method. Last evening little Miss V used potty for number 1 and number 2 as well !! YEAH!! She did and we are all so excited. I realized that if we take her to the potty and ask her to sit, she would not so this is what I did… I told her “don’t forget to use the potty if you want to go okay” to this she just replied “okay” . Yes, to our great suprise when we were least expecting it she headed for the potty whenver she felt like. Once she pee-ed she pointed at it and said “water water” . I had to explain to her and it called for  a clebration. So, I feel finally the most daunting task of potty training is working on her!!!

I think allowing her to run around the house with only the underwear really worked and I feel the potty training book “No diapers for me” has also contributed towards this training. How much I wish that she could be trained all day but unfortunately we cannot since she goes to the day care. Hopefully, just the evening training will finally get her out of the diapers by the end of this month. I am so excited!!

 

Potty training – IV April 29, 2008

The potty training saga still lives on in our household….Little miss V has made some progress since last time I blogged about it. But  have noticed that she thinks that potty is only for poop. The amazing part is once she poops she will not sit on the potty even for a second. She stands up and says “diaper change” that’s a relief at least she knows it’s yucky! However she has not realized that potty can be used for peeing as well. Another challenge that we have with miss V is her telling us when she wants to poop or pee. We have to keep a close watch on her and once she looks like she is about to poop/pee we have to rush her to the potty. As for peeing, she  holds it for a long time, when she is not wearing diapers. She held it for 3 hours until bedtime last night and finally we had to put a diaper on her.

I think our main challenge is CONSISTENCY . They have not started potty training her at the day care yet, so CONSISTENCY is the real challenge.  So, here is something what I am thinking of doing while she is at home.

• Keep giving her something to drink frequently
• Take her to the potty in every 30 minutes
• Apply Naked and $75 method.

I have set a goal of  having her diaper free by end of May.We will see how it goes.