The problem with not writing for several days in a row is that when i sit down to write about one thing, i think of seven thousand things that have happened that i want to relay. i'll do this in a simplified manner, so as not to have you sitting her for the next three hours reading about the monotony (if possible) of our lives!
Halloween was last night; my two bumble bees that began wearing costumes a week ago today, for an entire week straight, turned into one bumble bee and one princess last night. M decided that she wanted to be a princess after six days of being a bee. i told her that if she could put together a costume on her own from her dress up clothes, she could be whatever she wanted. She amazed me with her creation! She may end up being the fashion designer of the family! the baby had such a ball watching all the big kids doing their trick-or-treating that she protested the stroller AND my arms and decided to walk (toddle?!) up to each and every house on the route. This resulted in my missing out on M's trick-or-treating, but luckily she was with all her best friends (about seven other four-year-olds) and their parents, so i had no worries! it was a sweet night for my girls, and fun was had by all.
the biggest topic, of course, is something i alluded to almost a week ago in To Come. The baby walking is a given, except that now that she is walking, she doesn't want to ride or be carried or do anything else. She even pushed the cart around the entire store the other day (extending a typically hour long shopping trip into an almost two hour long trip.) My potentially worst parenting decision ever... i rearranged M's room around the other day. I changed the bed and a few pieces of furniture so that she has a huge play area now. She loved it the entire day that i made the change. She played in her play area, she laid in her bed and read books. She told me how much she loved it. Yet, when it came time to go to sleep, she got hysterical. She cried that she couldn't sleep in the room with the bed where it was. She cried that the shadows were wrong, that the posters were different. it broke my heart into a million pieces. i told her that she could make it through one night and that we could move the room around the next day. well, an hour later, still sobbing, i just brought her into my room with me. she has pretty much been sleeping there ever since. she has slept one whole night in her own room, but that was after a huge halloween party and falling asleep on the couch, only to be carried to bed at 11:00p.m. no wonder she slept the whole night!
the rest of the nights, she has fallen asleep in her room (after crying at the bed's location), then, she appears in my bed sometime before morning. it continues to break my heart. tomorrow afternoon, i plan to move the bed back, and pray that i haven't ruined her sleep schedule forever.
and finally, happy 11/1/11, readers (and happy 11th birthday, C!!!)! i hope your autumns are off to a great start and that you had a happy and safe halloween! i'm going to be back on my writing regimen!
until tomorrow, farewell!
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