In 4 months she'll be three. Seriously?? Here's what going on with her right now:
- She is not potty trained yet, and although she has shown interest in the past, she is not currently caring. That's okay with me because, honestly, I don't really care either. I've been dreading potty training, simply dreading it. I've said before that if I had the money to pay someone to do it I totally would. It's not that I haven't tried but I don't care enough to have the patience to deal with the whole thing right now. In time the stars will align all of three of us will be ready to tag team the hell out of some potty training. Until then I'm not stressing about it.
- I know a lot of other kids her age that are sleeping in the "big kid" bed but not Ruby. We did attempt this in early July things did not work out so well. H insisted on her sleeping in the bed without a rail (the one that I had bought did not work with her convertible crib) and although it allowed me to get these shots...
- ...About 30 minutes later she fell off the bed and we ended up moving the mattress to the floor where she rolled off of that an hour later and we gave up and turned the crib around so that the opening was to the wall. After that she fell asleep within minutes and slept through the night. We haven't tried again and amazingly she has never crawled out of her crib. I admit, I am completely spoiled when it comes to her sleeping schedule. She's slept through the night 97% of the time since she was 8 weeks. I'll happily keep her in her crib if she's not bothered by it, our precious alone time in the evening is not interrupted, and I get a good nights sleep.
- Most of the time she's so easy going (she gets that from H) but at some moments she is just so ME. I've noticed that she is somehow, at the tender age of 2.5, very hard on herself and gets incredibly frustrated when she tries to do something and it doesn't work out for her. For example, she'll try to take off her shoe and if it's not off within .05 seconds she says, "I can't!!" but I know darn good and well she is perfectly capable of doing it herself so I make her do it. 99.9% of the time she accomplishes the task and lets out a delighted, "I did it!!" and I'm like, "Duh!" No, I don't say that, lol, but sometimes I feel like saying that. Instead, I say something much more encouraging like, "I knew you could!"
- Her current interests include running around like a nutty nut, "flop flip''-ing on the couch and/or jumping on the couch, having H toss her like a potato sack onto the couch, going "high" and then getting dropped from about 3ft in the air onto the couch. As you can imagine our couch has suffered some abuse and I am sure I will very much regret the decision to let her do her thing on the couch when our new pretty blue velvety couch is delivered in a few weeks.
- She also loves to dance along with the dancers on So You Think You Can Dance. That is like the cutest thing ever. I especially liked it when I got her on video dancing to a contemporary routine buck naked, lol. When the routine ends or the show goes to commercial comes on she usually gets annoyed and declares loudly that she wants to dance again.
- Don't mention the p-a-r-k unless you plan on taking her or else all hell will break loose. Also, don't say "grandpa" unless he'll be around in the next few hours otherwise she'll spend the next half a day asking, "where's gampa??" or "I go to gampas?" you could also replace grandpa with Lucy or Carla. Those people are the shizzle.
- She barely eats anything but I wouldn't call her a picky eater. Most of the time I don't make anything special just for her, she gets what we eat and that's that. Of course she loves "fwies", nuts (I caught her in a corner mowin' down on a container of mixed nuts one day), smoothies, peanut butter, indian food (which she calls, "sala"), grapes, and yogurt are her favorite things. She is very good about trying something if I ask her to. Most of the time she doesn't like what I have her try but I'm thrilled that I can at least get her to try it at all. Things she doesn't like: macaroni and cheese, spaghetti, edamame, and most vegetables.
