She is fully potty trained during the day. She is still in a pull-up at night, but I'm not worried about it one bit. We will get there with the night time training. She's still so young and I don't want to push it. She does really well in panties during her nap each day -- her naps are still around 3-4 hours. If she doesn't have that nap in, oh boy are we in trouble. She is miserable and miserable to be around. So, we try to make sure she has that nap in each day.
She's a pretty good eater. She loves "peanut butter and chocolate" (nutella) sandwiches and would eat one every meal if we let her. She loves to eat salad and fruit (especially blueberries, strawberries, and apples). She still has an intolerance to bananas, but she would eat those if I let her. Sometimes I cave in and give her a little bit of one, but we try to not let her have those a lot. She loves to eat yogurt and donuts -- pink with sprinkles! Sometimes she takes after her older brother and refuses to eat, but I'm thinking it's because her back molars are coming in. She has 2 of the 4 and the other two are due to pop through any day now.
We are trying to let her be more independent with things. Each morning we wake up, we ask her to make her bed. She obviously can't do it all on her own because she's so little, so I help her out with the comforter. But she's able to put her pillows on her bed where they are supposed to go. We also ask her to put her plates and cups in the sink when she is done with them (I guess I should say them -- she isn't the only one being asked to do these tasks). When we get home and she takes her shoes off, she is doing a great job of putting them in the shoe basket. If we didn't have them put their shoes in the shoe basket, shoes would be all over the house and we wouldn't be able to find them. We are also asking her to put her clothes in her drawers and pick out her pajamas and panties from her drawers to wear. We are still working on getting dressed on her own -- little girl clothes have so many buttons and ties -- but she's doing a fantastic job doing what she can. She loves to take her shoes off in the car... so annoying!
She is taking a dance class each week. It's a 45 minute class that does tap the first half and ballet the second half. She absolutely loves it! When I was debating on signing her up, I wasn't sure if she would even care about going and participating. I was just wanting her to get out and socialize with some other people her age. Also, it gets her away from me because she is rather attached to me. The first few weeks, she screamed when she went into class and barely even did anything. I was worried that I was wasting my money and the teachers time. But, I was going to give it a month or two to see how, or if, it would progress. Then the week before halloween (she started the beginning of October) she was told she could wear her costume to dance. I got her all dressed up in her Wonder Woman costume and we went to dance. She just walked right on in like it was nothing. I was shocked and relieved. Then they didn't have class on halloween so I was worried that taking the week off was going to put us back in meltdown mode. But nope, every week from there on out it was "Bye, Mama!!" and she was off into the studio. We've only missed one class since she's started, and she has done so well. She participates for the most part (she's by far the youngest in her class -- everyone else is 4 or close to it). She has her days when she would rather run around and play in the mirror than participate, but those days are very few and I've noticed when her nap is cut short. We just try to make Monday afternoons as relaxing as possible before we have to leave for dance. We are working on her being able to put her ballet shoes on by herself, but it's still a little challenging for her.
She's very sweet for the most part, but she can get a little sassy sometimes. She mainly gets sassy when she and Connor are playing and he doesn't do what she wants to do. She snaps and screams his name at the top of her lungs. It's terrible. I usually let them work their differences out -- as long as they aren't bleeding, I try to stay out of it-- but sometimes it just gets to be so much that they need to be separated (even if it's just for a minute or two). She responds really well to being sent to her room and having to sit on her bed. She understands that being sent to her room is punishment (especially with the door closed) and she calms herself down. Occasionally she's put in the corner for time out or, if we are out, being taken outside or off to the side to have a heart-to-heart conversation. She really responds well, for now. Literally, that could change tomorrow (please, don't!!!!).
We've just recently moved her into a double bed. She loves her "princess bed!" She moves around so much when she sleeps that she started getting into our bed in the middle of the night. We weren't sure if it was a phase (that wasn't phasing out) or if she was cold or scared. We were able to get our hands on a bunch of bedroom furniture (thanks PaPa and Dee!!) and ever since she's been in the bigger bed, she's barely come into our bed at night. It's seriously like night and day. She and Connor love to jump on her bed -- terrible!!! So that's been a challenge recently.
Here are some pictures of her updated room, one of her before dance, one from her appointment today, and one from the other day when it was almost 80 degrees out.
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