I mentioned this before, but I'm cameraless at the moment. And I really, REALLY don't like that. Maybe I'll use this time to go through photos I've already taken and edit and post them (beach, Disney). Until then, I wanted to write down a couple random things that I don't want to forget, even if they have no accompanying pictures.
First has to do with Elliott at nap time. Tuesday when I laid her down for a nap, she cried for 20 minutes. The fact that she cried is unusual enough, but what really got us was what she cried. For 20 minutes, through broken sobs and reassuring visits from mommy, she cried, "Kellen... Kellen..." I had a zillion things to do and was determined to make her nap, but Kellen couldn't handle it. He begged to get her out of bed and promised to occupy her for the 90 minutes or so she would've been asleep. I let him, and he did. I didn't hear a peep from either one of them for almost 2 hours while he played with her in her room.
Seeing how well this worked, she tried it again on Saturday. Apparently she didn't want to miss any of the football the rest of the family was watching/playing in the living room. So at nap time she cried, "I wanna play football with Wyatt," again through broken sobs, for about a half an hour. And again it worked. I know, she's good. And I'm a sucker. It gets worse.
Yesterday (Sunday), she tried another approach. It was nap time, and about 5 minutes after I laid her down, I heard her pitter patter. She wasn't crying, and getting out of bed is unusual for her. From the top of the steps she hollared, "Mommy! I lud [love] you!" She waited for my, "I love you, too, Elliott," and then she ran back to her bed. A couple minutes later: more pitter patter, "Mommy! I lud you, too!" and back to her bed. This continued, while Wyatt and I giggled downstairs, for a good 20 minutes. So what did I do? I went and got her out of bed. It may be time to give up on naps. On the (really really really) positive side, she slept through the night Saturday AND Sunday! Considering that makes, oh, the 12th and 13th times she's done that in 2-1/2 years, I may be on to something with the no-nap thing.
Next random thing - my laundry is caught up. Maybe not a big deal to you, but one day I'll read that here and marvel that it actually has been done. Even if only once.
Random thing number next - Elliott is a football fanatic. More specifically, a Gator football fanatic. You already know that, since she was 18 months old, she would stop and yell "Go Gators" (which at the time sounded like "Doh Dators") and do a Gator chomp toward any TV on which there was football. Well, having been to a few live games now, she's on a whole new level. While we watched football on TV, she spent a good portion of Saturday begging me to GO to a game. At least 100 times throughout the day, she said/cried, "I need my Gator dress. I wanna go to football game!!!" By the time Sean got home from work, it had elevated into full blown waterworks, with her begging us to "please, PLEASE get my Gator dress. I NEED to go to the football game!!!" Makes a mommy proud.
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