Big girl bed

Natali has been doing pretty good since we changed her bed to a toddler bed. The first night I checked on her before I went to bed and she was hanging halfway off the bed sound asleep so I scooted her back up and she did good the rest of the night.

This morning after my shower, I went to check on Natali. She wasn't in her bed and the house was perfectly quiet. Of course I start thinking bad things that she was unconscious somewhere or something like that. Well, I walk in to the living room and this is what I found......

Natali was sound asleep on the floor!!!!! I couldn't believe it. I bet from the time Josh left for work to the time I was out looking for her was maybe 20 minutes. I really wish I knew what happened in that time frame. :) So, we are experiencing new things with Natali now able to get in and out of the bed. She is cute - she says "Sleep in the big girl bed".

We are still working on the potty training - no more successes while sitting on the potty. A few times she has been on the potty, gotten up, and pooped in her diaper less than 10 minutes later. Very frustrating but I know she'll get it.

Naming our friends

Yesterday we changed Natali's crib into her "big girl bed" which is nothing more than taking the slats off the front and opening up her crib so she can get in and out on her own. We will post pictures and talk more about that in the next few days but I have a funny quick story about her during that process. We let her climb up and get in her bed on her own when we finished and she grabbed her little stuffed frog. I asked her what the frogs name was, and it doesn't have one so she said she didn't know. I then told her to give it a name since it didn't have one. She looked at it and thought very hard for a moment and then said "Samma-doo" followed by lots of laughing, and I have no idea how to spell that so I'm doing my best and spelling out what she said! So now the frog is officially Samma-doo. I just thought it was neat how she was able to give it a name and according to Grammie she remembered it's name this morning when she woke up! It's the little things that are special and that was a special moment for us with Nat!
-posted by Josh

Pool

These pictures are from last weekend I think - the first time we had gotten out the pool. Natali loves to play in water. It is hard to get her out of the pool when it's time to go inside. And if it wasn't for those pesky mosquitos we could go in the pool more often.

I think Natali is cutting her fourth back molar. She has the bottom 2 and the top left but the top right is peeking through. She has been chewing on her fingers a lot the past few days and not eating quite as much.

So, she's been a little extra cranky lately but I think we are starting to get used to cranky. :)

Natali talk

I am in our "office" on the computer. Natali came in and wanted something off of the bookshelf - a wooden skunk, cat, and a car. After saying "please" she got them. She took all 3 and went in the living room. About a minute later I hear- "Look at this vehicle Ranger, I got it from Mommy!" :) (Ranger is our dog) Then she said "I got this skunk too". She is so funny! She likes to talk to the animals like they are people and she loves to show people what she has.
I have the day off so hopefully I will post pictures later today. I just wanted to blog this while it is fresh on my mind.

I can't believe it!!!!!!!

I'll get right to the point - NATALI POOPED IN THE POTTY TONIGHT!!!!!! I know that is kind of a crazy way to start a post, but I am thrilled! We have had the potty out for over a month, maybe 2 months and we let her sit on it every now and then and we talk about it all the time. About how she needs to make poo poo and pee pee in the potty and no more diper changes and so on and so forth. Natali hasn't showed a whole lot of interest but some and she is definetly, shall we say, prize motivated. :) Yes, I'll say "I'll give you something special Natali if you do....." and just about every time she will do it. I know it sounds bad to bribe your children but we only do it when necessary. SO Natali got a little plastic frog for going poo poo on the potty. She was happy. This is a scary part of parenting for me - potty training. I'm really not sure where to go from here and what do you do when you are out somewhere and she needs to go potty and there are only big potty chairs? Oh what things life brings when being a parent. More to come on the potty training.......

Some of Natali's new favorite things

Natali has recently been interested in doing new things.

She loves to "stand on daddy"


"Stack 'm up" She likes to stack up these boxes she got for her birthday and knock them over, stack them up and knock them over, stack them up.... you get the picture.





She likes to spend time with daddy when he is able to come home in the evenings. Natali hardly pays attention to me if daddy is home. Oh well. We are glad that Josh has been able to come home a few nights a week lately and of course we are able to spend Sundays together because the coffee shop is closed.
We are having an interesting time dealing with our new 2 year old child with an opinion on everything, a will to disobey a lot of the time, a will to challenge things she is told to do, but also just plain cute and fun to have conversations with and talk to. She talks about EVERYTHING - if she sees something, she tells you what it is, if she is doing something, she'll tell you what she is doing, and so on and so on. Overall, I think we are doing well, but it sure is tough these days.

Last couple weeks

So yes, I (Christina) have been gone for a week in Ohio and then a busy weekend of work and then another busy first of this week at work. Josh posted the previous 2 posts while I was gone. :) I had a really good time with Rebecca and my mom came too. We picked out a wedding dress for Rebecca and the bridesmaid dresses.
Natali is going through another asthma flair up but I think it is getting a little better - at least I think it has stopped getting worse.
I have to tell a story from the first morning I was home. I got in Wednesday night after Natali was asleep. The next morning I got her out of bed and got her started on breakfast. I was in the bathroom and she walked to the door, and said "missed you mommy" and I told her I has missed her too and then she said "Daddy missed you". How sweet is that!!!!!!! So I was happy Natali was glad to have me back.
So hopefully some pictures to come when I have more time.