Month 28

Oh Val, I sort of suck. It seems that I've missed a couple of months
here and I'm sorry. We had a very busy summer and this blog, my gift to
you for the future, has suffered.

In the meantime, though, you've been a very busy girl. You've mostly
mastered potty training, graduating from cotton training pants to 'big
girl panties'. Most of the time, anyway.

Sometimes you shout 'I'm tinkling' and we grab you and run to the
nearest bathroom. Most of the time we get there in time, sometimes we
don't but no matter what, it all beats diapers.

You're happier at school these days. When you get dropped off,
sometimes you cry for a while but sometimes you don't. Your teachers
tell me that you don't nap at school. I feel bad for the teachers since
it doesn't give them a break but it means that on school nights, you go
to bed without too much trouble and you stay asleep all night.

Speaking of beds, you slept on a mattress on the floor while we went to
Disney World. You were so tiny in that bed, and you rolled off a couple
of times onto the floor but every morning when you got up all by
yourself and came into our room, we were greeted with a huge grin.

So this weekend we got you a big girl bed. Well, it's a toddler bed but
it's so darn cute. Seeing that little bed instead of your crib is sort
of emotional for us but you love that bed. The morning after you got
it, you grabbed 3 books and plopped down on the bed to read.

You have a repertoire of 3 songs: ABC's, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle
Little Star. You sing them constantly, in the car, in a store, at
dinner, and you always ask us to sing with you. The world is your
microphone, literally, as you sing into anything that remotely resembles
one.

Those are the highlights. I know I say this all the time, but it's
true. Being your mom gets more fun every month.