While playing with her toy food, she named a felt carrot "Peppa" and a knit ear of corn "Pororo" and then had them play that they held hands and were friends. Then they kissed. Slash crossover fic ( Read more... )

Breastfeeding is still going strong. I've started "putting the boob away" when she starts doing distracted nursing and forcing her to choose between nursing and whatever she keeps looking at instead of nursing ( Read more... )

Twinkle twinkle little star
how we wonder what you are
up athe whirl so high
like a gammon in a sky
(repeat from beginning)

then she taps stuff and says "brocksa-ah!" make the rabbit "upsihere" (abracadabra make the rabbit disappear)(or "armsupinair")

The bus goes "round and round the town"

Lina had her baby in the back seat with her ( Read more... )

She's starting to move to wanting Daddy as the primary parent instead of Mommy.  It's funny how as she exerts her independence from me she engages in attachment behaviors with him. For instance, when we go to the grocery store, she gets SOOOO mad if I steer the cart (heck, if I touch the cart) and keep her from running people over, but with Ariel ( Read more... )

But first:
( a loooong rant about Lafayette's traffic planning dept. )

For quite awhile now I'd noticed that when Lina went to bed before 10pm or so, she'd wake up about two hours later in a HORRIBLE mood. Well, really "wake up" since I now know that she wasn't really awake at all. We'd try to figure out what was wrong and managed to get her partially awake enough for her to start making demands. She'd finally come ( Read more... )

Was pretty uncomfortable, lol

But at the end of the day, we got to meet one of the niftiest little girls around.

She's gone from finding nursing confusing to being able to sing songs and jump and pour water.

Pretty cool.

"What color is this ( Read more... )

For the longest time, I thought I had weird arms that weren't put together like everyone else because I could only do push ups with my hands shoulder width apart and my elbows stuck way out to the sides. Well, it turns out, it was actually because I have wussy wussy triceps. By using  a wider position, I was able use my chest more than my arms-- ( Read more... )