Egg

Carly has really been enjoying the 7 books we checked out on Tuesday from the library. Three of the books are non-fiction and two of them are "summarized" to her as she looks at the photographs. Today when she turned the page of her Penguin book to a penguin sitting on an egg I asked her what the Daddy penguin was sitting on. Our child for FEW words said "EGG" and then proceeded to tell me that a baby would come from the egg (by of course just saying the word "baby" when asked what would come out of the egg). She may not be saying a lot, but she sure seems to be retaining a lot.

Swimming Lessons 103 - Session 1 (Kind Of)

Today was supposed to be Carly's first swimming lesson for 2012 (her third year of swimming). Unfortunately the instructor's child was sick, so our lesson for today was postponed. Here's to next week.

...Two, Three...

Carly and I went to the library this afternoon and selected 7 new books. Tonight after dinner she agreed to sit down and look through these new books (instead of reading her regular 3 Dr. Seuss books). We read or talked through all of them (3 of them were non-fiction animal books with A LOT of text but GREAT photos), after which I commented about how many books we had just read. I recommended counting through the books so that we would know how many books we just read and had check out from the library this week. I pulled the first book and said, "one." Carly then continued with "two" and "three." She paused for me to help her with four before continuing on with "five" and "six." Seven stumped her too. But either way, I was impressed that she paused wanting help with four and continued on without me for five and six, especially since we don't regularly count beyond 5 in our home with her. (We only count to three as part of our behavior system and then give her a 5 minute countdown anytime we need to transition to another activity/event.)

**After counting these books, we then read her regular Dr. Seuss books... but she wasn't interested in counting up to 10 after we finished.

24 Weeks

Carly and I went for my 24 weeks OB appointment this morning. Thankfully, she was a very good girl again today during majority of my visit. There is a lego table in the waiting room, another child had left two or three pieces on the floor earlier in the day. I asked Carly if she would pick them up before we started to read her books since she had already told me she wasn't interested in playing with the legos. Instead of picking up just the pieces on the floor, she picked them up and broke down the current lego display to put ALL of the pieces back in the net basket attached to the table.

All of my measurements were fine and the baby's heartbeat was 143 beats per minute. All of this was good news for us and for the doctor when we was finally able to come in. Unfortunately, we had a mom before us who had A LOT of questions (we could hear her through the wall) so he was slightly delayed in coming to ask if I had any questions.

I return on February 3rd for my glucose screening and then begin going for check ups every TWO weeks. I am slightly amazed that we are so close to being due for a check up every TWO weeks. We have plenty of time to get ready for this little boy and come up with a name, right?!? We won't be that far along in February....

Just Like Daddy!

For those of you who know my husband, then you know that he always has a pen tucked in his dress shirt pocket or in between the buttons of a polo shirt. If he is casual enough to be caught in a t-shirt, then the pen is probably in his pocket. This habit of his has cost us two loads of laundry and I have learned to search his clothing VERY, VERY carefully prior to adding it to the washing machine and the dryer. Apparently, I now need to search Carly's clothing too!

Amazed

Carly has changed a lot over the past three weeks. And looking back it amazes me how much change can happen in such a short period of time (especially since the three weeks prior to that seemed rather uneventful.)

Carly has begun to say many, many new words and put them together in complete toddler sentences. "Orange Juice", "CHEESE," "write" and "Mommy read" are the words/phrase that stick out in my head the most, but she has added at least one word a day over the past three weeks or so.

She has also begun rocking herself during our bedtime routine. She sits in her chair, holds her dolls and rocks, while I sit on the floor with her blanket - ready to welcome her into my arms and place her up in her crib.

While sitting in my lap today, Carly began calling out letters she saw in a nearby newspaper ad. The advertisement was for a furniture company and she pointed and said the letters O, M, A, E, C, B, D, T, and G. She also began telling me words that began with each of the letters.

It May be Time

I'm starting to think it is about time to move Carly out of her crib...

~ Today when she was upset I placed her in her crib so we could talk eye to eye. She immediately threw her leg up over the rail and placed her arms in position. Thank goodness nap and bed times come when she is physically exhausted.

~ During today's nap she asked for Elmo and "Blue" (aka Cookie Monster) to join her in the crib. At the moment she is sleeping with 2 baby dolls, a giraffe, a ducky lovey, a monkey, a BK crown on her head and now Elmo and Cookie Monster. (Oh yeah, and tonight she wanted an extra pair of pajamas in with her.) She would also love to sleep with her three stuffed tigers, thankfully David and I thought quickly and told her tigers were too big for a crib and would have to wait until she got a big girl bed.

~ She currently is excited that her next bedroom is painted BLUUUE!

~ During our Christmas travels she began rocking herself in the rocking chair, instead of letting me rock her. She typically gets out of the chair and into my arms when she is ready for her crib.

~ My due date is less than four months away...