June went by fast.
Over the last two months we sold our old house, packed up and moved into the new house.
The transition went very well. We were worried Natali would have problems adjusting. Not at all.
It likely helped that we visited the "new house" several times over the last few months. Natali has been calling it the "new house" for a long time. She hasn't had a single issue.
What has been an issue is potty training.
Her Daycare teacher was shocked when Kelli told her Natali won't use the potty at home. Natali has been using the potty just fine at school, even pulling down and up her pull up!
We are still trying. Natali will sit on the potty fine, but hasn't actually used it in the new house. We have tried taking away her Ipad, which had no effect at all. She didn't miss it at all.
We then tried a slice of birthday cake as she LOVES birthdays. Nope.
Cupcakes. Nope.
M&Ms. Nope.
Cookie. Nope.
Lollipop. Nope.
Natali knows what she is doing. She will sit on the potty for a while then say "I'm all done, no Lollipop for Natali."
We aren't giving up.
It's hard to believe Natali will be 3 years old next month. We ordered a new growth chart for her room as we had to take the old one down.
I'll try to update more, hopefully the next one will have potty training progress.
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Loves her cousins
Natali is rapidly approaching 3 years old.
THREE YEARS OLD.
Potty training is still planned this summer. She knows what a potty is. She will ask to sit on it every now and then, but she's used it only a handful of times.
She did go #2 with her Grandma recently. Kelli and I were at work when Natali told her Grandma she needed to go "poo poo". She went down the hall and went. Natali has never done that with us.
With all the house stuff we haven't made the time to potty train. That will change in July.
Beyond that Natali really enjoys playing with her cousins.
We recently flew to California to visit Natalis cousin Haley (and her parents Jami and Kelly).
As always Natali is VERY shy with everyone but Kelli and me. It doesn't matter if she met you last week, for the first 5-20 minutes of meeting you she is very reserved. I was very shy as a kid as well. She will grow out of it.
Natali has been taking swimming lessons for months and is very comfortable around water.
Jami and Kelly have a pool in their yard and the girls wanted to go swimming, but it was a bit chilly. They did have a great time kicking and splashing though.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XqMDaku3UU
I still look at Natali with amazement. She has come so far in such a short time and yet has a long way to go. I'm
THREE YEARS OLD.
Potty training is still planned this summer. She knows what a potty is. She will ask to sit on it every now and then, but she's used it only a handful of times.
She did go #2 with her Grandma recently. Kelli and I were at work when Natali told her Grandma she needed to go "poo poo". She went down the hall and went. Natali has never done that with us.
With all the house stuff we haven't made the time to potty train. That will change in July.
Beyond that Natali really enjoys playing with her cousins.
We recently flew to California to visit Natalis cousin Haley (and her parents Jami and Kelly).
As always Natali is VERY shy with everyone but Kelli and me. It doesn't matter if she met you last week, for the first 5-20 minutes of meeting you she is very reserved. I was very shy as a kid as well. She will grow out of it.
Natali has been taking swimming lessons for months and is very comfortable around water.
Jami and Kelly have a pool in their yard and the girls wanted to go swimming, but it was a bit chilly. They did have a great time kicking and splashing though.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XqMDaku3UU
I still look at Natali with amazement. She has come so far in such a short time and yet has a long way to go. I'm
Almost done
It's been very busy in the Byrd household.
We listed our current house for sale on a Sunday. We had an offer for full list price on the following Wednesday.
The plan is the close on June 7th on the old house and June 13th on the new house.
The new house is almost done. As far as our eyes can see the new house just needs carpet, appliances, a good cleaning of the floor and touch up paint.
Here's a video of the almost done house.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlJueR14B6U
We listed our current house for sale on a Sunday. We had an offer for full list price on the following Wednesday.
The plan is the close on June 7th on the old house and June 13th on the new house.
The new house is almost done. As far as our eyes can see the new house just needs carpet, appliances, a good cleaning of the floor and touch up paint.
Here's a video of the almost done house.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlJueR14B6U
Monday, May 6, 2013
First ear infection
We had a really good run....2 1/2 years of no ear infections.
Natali had a really rough night last week on Thursday. She woke up crying and screaming. She said her ear hurts, but we dismissed it as her sleeping on it funny.
The next day she was really moody. She never complained about her ear, but she had big mood swings.
Saturday she was normalish, but late in the afternoon she said her ear hurt. Sure enough she had a yellowish ring around the exterior of her left ear.
Off to the urgent care clinic. I felt bad for not looking at her ear closer on a weekday.
Ear infection confirmed. Thankfully Natali likes taking medication.
Still not potty trained. With all the house selling stuff we haven't given potty training much attention. Now that we replaced our vinyl flooring with carpet....we think we will just wait until we move into the new house, which should be in late June.
Natali had a really rough night last week on Thursday. She woke up crying and screaming. She said her ear hurts, but we dismissed it as her sleeping on it funny.
The next day she was really moody. She never complained about her ear, but she had big mood swings.
Saturday she was normalish, but late in the afternoon she said her ear hurt. Sure enough she had a yellowish ring around the exterior of her left ear.
Off to the urgent care clinic. I felt bad for not looking at her ear closer on a weekday.
Ear infection confirmed. Thankfully Natali likes taking medication.
Still not potty trained. With all the house selling stuff we haven't given potty training much attention. Now that we replaced our vinyl flooring with carpet....we think we will just wait until we move into the new house, which should be in late June.
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Now arriving gate 2....those "terrible twos"
Natali is a pretty good kid. I've been around a few kids...I know she is pretty easy.
People warned us of the "terrible twos". Natali turned two in August. I cringed....nothing happened...until lately.
She is learning how to push our buttons. Two of her favorite things to do are spill/spit water and take off her shoes.
The spilling/spitting water came along as a surprise.
She USED to have a sippy cup in bed so if she was thirsty overnight she could drink. Then she started to "spill" the water on the side of the bed and carpet. I thought it was an accident....until it happened several times.
Natali also will drink water while sitting at her table and then spit the water onto the table. She then turns around and says "uh oh I made a mess".
Beyond water she is taking off her shoes again. Natali went through a phase of taking off her shoes when she first started walking. It passed. Now it's back.
Either in the car, sitting in a shopping cart or wherever.
We are still working on potty training. She knows when she needs to go, but doesn't tell us until it's to late. A few times we've snatched her up and ripped her pants like they are on fire, then plopped her down on the potty. Baby steps.
Natali's vocabulary and speech skills are amazing. I thought my niece Haley was advanced at 2 1/2 as I was having conversations with her at that age. Natali seems well past that.
Natali is literally a sponge. We will give her a new fact...like where her cousins and grandma live. She repeats it a few times and then over the next day or so will ask us where they live. Before long she is telling us where they live like, "Grandma lives in Oregon" and "Haley lives in California."
She learned a while ago that "Mommy works in the building," and "Daddy works in the airplane."
Her sentence structure is also quite advanced. I'm very proud of her.
Beyond that we are just really busy getting this house ready for sale. Natali often says, "I want to go see the new house."
We should be there in under 90 days. Likely around 70 or so.
People warned us of the "terrible twos". Natali turned two in August. I cringed....nothing happened...until lately.
She is learning how to push our buttons. Two of her favorite things to do are spill/spit water and take off her shoes.
The spilling/spitting water came along as a surprise.
She USED to have a sippy cup in bed so if she was thirsty overnight she could drink. Then she started to "spill" the water on the side of the bed and carpet. I thought it was an accident....until it happened several times.
Natali also will drink water while sitting at her table and then spit the water onto the table. She then turns around and says "uh oh I made a mess".
Beyond water she is taking off her shoes again. Natali went through a phase of taking off her shoes when she first started walking. It passed. Now it's back.
Either in the car, sitting in a shopping cart or wherever.
We are still working on potty training. She knows when she needs to go, but doesn't tell us until it's to late. A few times we've snatched her up and ripped her pants like they are on fire, then plopped her down on the potty. Baby steps.
Natali's vocabulary and speech skills are amazing. I thought my niece Haley was advanced at 2 1/2 as I was having conversations with her at that age. Natali seems well past that.
Natali is literally a sponge. We will give her a new fact...like where her cousins and grandma live. She repeats it a few times and then over the next day or so will ask us where they live. Before long she is telling us where they live like, "Grandma lives in Oregon" and "Haley lives in California."
She learned a while ago that "Mommy works in the building," and "Daddy works in the airplane."
Her sentence structure is also quite advanced. I'm very proud of her.
Beyond that we are just really busy getting this house ready for sale. Natali often says, "I want to go see the new house."
We should be there in under 90 days. Likely around 70 or so.
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Tour of the next house
It's coming along well. Hard to believe it won't be done till June!
httpv://youtu.be/kb_CU0MYQoE
httpv://youtu.be/kb_CU0MYQoE
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The pacifier is gone for good!!
Natali has always been quite fond of her pacifier. However, we are not those parents that let their toddler run around all the time with a pacifier in their mouth. I can't remember when we made the pacifier only at bedtime rule, but I'm pretty sure it has been over a year at least. There were exceptions of course. She always had one on an airplane and we let her have it a lot when we were in Germany. It helped make her comfortable in those different situations. For daily life though she was only allowed to have it for naps and at night. Recently however, Natali had started to wake up in the morning saying her mouth hurt. Of course the obvious culprit was the pacifier, so I decided it was time to get rid of it for good. We went to New York to visit my brother and his family early last week, so I let her have it during the trip, but when we got back I decided that was it. Darren wasn't totally on board with the idea yet, so I waited until he was gone. Then I hid all of the pacifiers in the house. That first night Natali was in her normal routine of brush teeth, get pacifier, go to bed, so there was obvious crying at first when I told her the pacifiers were all gone. That only lasted for a minute or two though and then she went right to sleep. I was pleasantly surprised. I thought it would be a much bigger battle than that. Of course, she sleeps at daycare without a pacifier, so that might have helped a bit too. I thought we might also have a problem with her waking up in the middle of the night asking for it, but that didn't happen. She slept right through the night. The next night she asked for a pacifier again, but didn't protest at all when I told her they were all gone. Since then she hasn't asked again. It has been a whole week now. My little baby is growing up!
On another note, we are going to try potty training again this weekend. It has been since Thanksgiving when we tried previously. Recently Natali has started announcing every time she pees. Of course, then she asks to go potty after she has already gone in her diaper, so it really isn't helpful. I'm hoping this is a sign that she is really ready this time. We'll see how it goes.
On another note, we are going to try potty training again this weekend. It has been since Thanksgiving when we tried previously. Recently Natali has started announcing every time she pees. Of course, then she asks to go potty after she has already gone in her diaper, so it really isn't helpful. I'm hoping this is a sign that she is really ready this time. We'll see how it goes.
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