We had chocolate cake to celebrate Sam's 1 year anniversary (January 18) of moving to San Francisco. Charli likes - very much!
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 18, 2010
a very fine visit
Bienbaw and Grampa came for a visit and we had a lovely time. Unfortunately, I've gotten quite lax in taking pictures, thus you get some very slim pickings. :(
Railroad approved
Ponpons and fevvers
*sigh* I tried to upload a cute video here, but for some reason it won't go. I'll try again later.
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
potty training - day two
aka Korin gives up.
Yes, today I have given up potty training. Charli is no longer willing to sit on the toilet for longer than a second, and even that takes a lot of convincing. She is not as enamored of her undas as she was yesterday, and I realized she pees a little bit like every 10 or 15 minutes. So, after she peed on the floor right next to her potty, I gave up and put a diaper on her and she was mad and hit me in the head, which resulted in a long time out and a lot of screaming. Potty training on indefinite hold.
Of course, most of that happened while Mom was at the library picking up all kinds of potty training materials - some videos, some books for Charli, a book for me... It was a quick meltdown. Perhaps we'll try some potty training preparation (on both our parts) before we actually get down to the nitty gritty.
Yes, today I have given up potty training. Charli is no longer willing to sit on the toilet for longer than a second, and even that takes a lot of convincing. She is not as enamored of her undas as she was yesterday, and I realized she pees a little bit like every 10 or 15 minutes. So, after she peed on the floor right next to her potty, I gave up and put a diaper on her and she was mad and hit me in the head, which resulted in a long time out and a lot of screaming. Potty training on indefinite hold.
Of course, most of that happened while Mom was at the library picking up all kinds of potty training materials - some videos, some books for Charli, a book for me... It was a quick meltdown. Perhaps we'll try some potty training preparation (on both our parts) before we actually get down to the nitty gritty.
who the heck is george?
Charli has made (and continues to make) her first joke. She started out two nights ago pointing to the pigeon in her Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late book and asking "Is that George?" We ask back "IS that George?", since we have no idea who George is, to which Charli responds "That's not George!" and laughs and laughs. Turn the page, repeat, until there is no more book. Then she moved on to the Winnie the Pooh book and asked it about every character in there, too.
Yesterday she started to include real people, asking everyone at the dinner table if they were George. She also started asking about her babus, in addition to characters in books. Today she has moved on to inanimate, non-representational things, asking if the wall is George, or the towel, or the cabinet door...
Yesterday she started to include real people, asking everyone at the dinner table if they were George. She also started asking about her babus, in addition to characters in books. Today she has moved on to inanimate, non-representational things, asking if the wall is George, or the towel, or the cabinet door...
Monday, December 28, 2009
potty training - day one
Complete and utter defeat.
I got Charli this Elmo underwear pack, and she just loves them. So we put her in them, and let her wet her pants in the hopes that she really wouldn't like it and would start using the toilet instead (which is just like the one her friend Bella uses). Some of the online stuff suggested just using the cotton undies so that the child can really feel when they're wet (Bella really hates being wet, and I was hoping Charli would too), and taking them to use the bathroom every 2 hours whether they ask for it or not, and instituting some kind of rewards system. So that was my starting plan.
No dice. Charli wet her pants about every half hour. She didn't like it, and would immediately want to change her pants, but it didn't seem to encourage her to try to control anything, or warn us beforehand - instead we were notified the instant after things happened. So we went through about 4 sets of undies ("unda") pretty quickly. After that, I thought I would just hang out with Charli in the bathroom with or without undies for a while. That lasted at least an hour, with Charli having fun taking her undies off and putting them back on, and sitting on her toilet perfectly willingly for short periods of time, but never producing anything. Eventually she actually fell asleep on me, because she got up REALLY early this morning for some reason, and I gave up. She's clearly not ready for no diaper while she's napping, so I put a diaper on her (she screamed bloody murder, so we had to put the undies on over it), and put her down for a nap. That also didn't go well - she fell asleep the instant she finished some milk, but woke up when I put her down and then screamed for another 20 minutes. I went to check on her after she was quiet for 10 or 15 minutes, assuming she'd be asleep and I could put a blanket over her, but she was wide awake. So now she is up, in a diaper, and I have given up for the day and will make a second attempt tomorrow.
Potty training = the big suck.
I got Charli this Elmo underwear pack, and she just loves them. So we put her in them, and let her wet her pants in the hopes that she really wouldn't like it and would start using the toilet instead (which is just like the one her friend Bella uses). Some of the online stuff suggested just using the cotton undies so that the child can really feel when they're wet (Bella really hates being wet, and I was hoping Charli would too), and taking them to use the bathroom every 2 hours whether they ask for it or not, and instituting some kind of rewards system. So that was my starting plan.
No dice. Charli wet her pants about every half hour. She didn't like it, and would immediately want to change her pants, but it didn't seem to encourage her to try to control anything, or warn us beforehand - instead we were notified the instant after things happened. So we went through about 4 sets of undies ("unda") pretty quickly. After that, I thought I would just hang out with Charli in the bathroom with or without undies for a while. That lasted at least an hour, with Charli having fun taking her undies off and putting them back on, and sitting on her toilet perfectly willingly for short periods of time, but never producing anything. Eventually she actually fell asleep on me, because she got up REALLY early this morning for some reason, and I gave up. She's clearly not ready for no diaper while she's napping, so I put a diaper on her (she screamed bloody murder, so we had to put the undies on over it), and put her down for a nap. That also didn't go well - she fell asleep the instant she finished some milk, but woke up when I put her down and then screamed for another 20 minutes. I went to check on her after she was quiet for 10 or 15 minutes, assuming she'd be asleep and I could put a blanket over her, but she was wide awake. So now she is up, in a diaper, and I have given up for the day and will make a second attempt tomorrow.
Potty training = the big suck.
a little hike
We went on a little hike in the snow today. We bundled Charli up and borrowed a backpack to put her in and headed off to Boulder, where we started the day off right with coffee and hot chocolate and breakfasty burrito things at Brent's favorite coffee shop.It was a really lovely day for hiking; it wasn't as cold as it has been. This is the coldest Christmas I can remember in Colorado! Charli was a little intimidated by the snow, but she had some fun walking around in it at the
end. We were hiking around some NOAA facility, and it had a little museum 
attached to it with science displays about weather which were pretty interesting for everyone, including Charli, and we also saw deer, which Charli was very excited about. Sam REALLY liked the hike.And here are some more cute pictures of Charli. Because you just can't get enough.
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