Faith 23 Months

It is hard to believe that in just one month my baby will be 2 years old.

She is becoming very self sufficient these days. She will often says "No I do it" "no me" or other phrases to express that she wants her independence. She has event old us she wants privacy when she is sitting on her little potty.

She is starting to use her potty occasionally, but only because we bride her with a jelly belly. Bryce also gets one for encouraging her. When she goes pee we all clap and say "yea Faith."

When Faith is mad she has taken to saying "You bad Mommy" or "Daddy" or whomever happens to be doing or telling her something so doesn't like. She will also sometimes spit at you or try and hit you. She has also picked up some potty talk from her brother. She says, "No you yucky poo poo guy." She especially likes to say it to Bryce because he get very upset.

Her vocabulary is continuing to grow even more. She now uses words like "tomorrow" "next week" "next time" all correctly.

Faith's 1st 2 year-old molar came in on the lower left side of her mouth on Sep. 17th. She had been putting her fingers in her mouth for a few days and then all of a sudden a tooth popped through.

Bryce 4 Years 2 Months

Bryce started preschool again today. All summer he has been telling me that he was not going back to school. He says he wants to stay home and play with me and that school is no fun.

I told Bryce that he had to go to school or else we could get in trouble because it was the law that all 4 year old have to go to school.

When we arrived I had to drag him out of the car. He was very grumpy and upset. He wasn't happy about having his first day of school picture taken. Once I got him onto the playground he just clung to me crying and kept saying don't leave me mommy. It was heart breaking. I stayed for about 10 or 15 minutes. Finally I had to leave so that I could take Faith to her first day at Toddler Playgroup. Birte, one of his teachers did a good job of taking him away from me. I tried to assure him that I would be back soon, that he would have fun, and that he was safe.

When I returned to pick him up I was told that he was only upset for about 5 or 10 minutes and then had a good day.

I think Bryce has a very difficult time with change. He has always had trouble adjusting to any new situation whether it be going on vacation, moving, or starting a new school year. His whole system gets out of whack and he becomes agitated and gets upset much more easily.

Bryce has also had a hard time adjusting to our move. It has been about a week and a half since we officially moved in with Nanny. Although we've been here since June 20th my mom didn't invite us to move in until July 22nd and we didn't move out of our house completely until mid August. He tells us that he misses his old house, but can't verbalize why. We try to tell him all the wonderful benefits of living at our new house, but he is very focused on being upset about it. I hope with time he comes to appreciate how blessed we truly are.

I think some of his issues lately also stem from the fact that I've been working a ton on Worth WeeCycling. He is not used to having my focus elsewhere. I feel bad that I've been putting in so many hours, but with the sale just two weeks away I have no choice.