Caroline is an animal lover. She often talks about how she wants to get a pet cat. When I remind her that Grandpa Fink is allergic to cats and if we got one he couldn't come to our house anymore to visit it doesn't seem to deter her wish at all. #sorrygrandpa
Caroline, however, has never been a bug kind of girl. I mean, I totally get it. Bugs are gross. And I mean, her hatred for bugs includes if we are outside and a fly or beetle flies by she is running the other way or crying. A little extreme but everyone knew which side of the love or hate bugs chart she was on.
Until.....
a recent stay at Grandma Fink's house over Easter which included a trip to the library where she apparently picked out a non-fiction book about spiders. She had me read this book to her which included facts about how spiders have many eyes, how they capture and kill their prey and different types of spiders including tarantulas. Which led Caroline to decide that instead of the cat that she wanted she now wants a tarantula for a pet. #really?
She couldn't stop talking about her new pet whom she decided to name Daisy. "It will have orange and black fur. I will keep it in my room and it will give me lots of kisses." When I reminded her that in the book it said that some tarantulas eat birds and asked her if she was going to go outside, capture a bird when her tarantula got hungry to feed it. She informed me that "Daisy won't eat birds." When I reminded her that tarantulas can bite people and how dangerous they are I was told, "Daisy won't bite me, she will just give me lots and lots of kisses."
I continue to inform her that we are not getting her a pet tarantula named Daisy but last night while at Michael's craft store, she came up to me with something behind her back and told me she had a surprise for me. With great excitement, she showed me a plastic figurine of a tarantula. When I told her she could buy it and take it home and this could be her Daisy; she changed her mind and instead picked out a tiny pig.
Hopefully this is the last of Daisy the tarantula. She lasted for about two weeks before Caroline's interests changed. Thank goodness I didn't go buy her a real one.
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Sunday, April 15, 2018
15 months, 16 months and coming up on 17 months...
Disclaimer: I wrote this post on time for 15 months. Since then I have been trying to get the pictures from my phone onto my computer which was never a problem before but for some reason is now an impossible task. *sigh* I wish I knew more about computers.
Lucy at 15 months is a climber! She loves to climb stairs, on to chairs and on to the dining room table. It is her favorite pastime. So much so, that she can get around any barricade that we placed at the bottom of the stairs. The older kids loved to climb as well but were not as determined as Lucy is proving to be. So we recently had to buy a gate for the bottom of the stairs. Lucy was very unhappy about that.
Lucy also likes to climb onto the couch and then up onto the arm rest and flip the light switch in the living room multiple times. Once, Evan left the room for 30 seconds and she had climbed onto the chair and then onto the TV tray. She was standing on it. (yikes!)
She also likes to climb onto the booster in the bathroom where she will grab any toothbrush within reach and start brushing her teeth with it. I must say I love her dedication to oral health but her infection control needs some work.
She also loves to climb up into her highchair. All by herself.
Lucy is very impatient when she is hungry. Screaming in her high chair is one of her favorite things to do as well.
Otherwise Lucy is a great toddler. She loves to play peek a boo and dump truck with her brother. She likes to play with Caroline and dancing is her favorite. She likes to walk over to the CD player on the floor and pushes play so the VBS songs will start playing. She then dances her heart out!
She rides well in the car. Understands where her ears, nose, feet and hands are. She loves to talk! She can say many words but also just loves to babble with you. She can probably say 15-20 words. She will also ask for you to sing 'Row, Row' and 'Up, bove' for Row your boat and Twinkle little star. Lucy can also say "Night, Night'.
She loves to video chat with her aunts and shows them that she can stick her tongue out and talk with them. She also likes to wave bye-bye and always tries to push the red hang up button on the phone.
With warmer temps we have been able to be outside more and Lucy LOVES to be outside. She likes to swing and really likes it when Liam pushes her. She likes to go up and down the stairs (shocker) and down the front sidewalk and down the steps onto the sidewalk. We really need to show her how to go down the stairs backwards because she definitely thinks she can walk down them just like we all do.
Lucy responds well when you ask her to do something. She loves to get her shoes, stand still for her coat to be put on, bring a book or toy to you and loves to back up into your lap. She has a couple of jokes thanks to Grammie Walles: If you ask her if she would like to read a book, she will smile a big smile and then shake her head no. She also likes to take the ducky that squirts in the bathtub and squirt Liam and they both laugh hard about that one.
Lucy wears size 3 diapers and her 12 month clothes although her 12 month sleepers and rompers are too short or getting snug. She has long legs like her daddy. Her wellness visit went well where she ran around the room babbling the whole time, climbing on and off the scale and not one bit nervous about Dr. Traeger. He commented that she is definitely the most lively out of our 3 kids.
She weighs: 18.8 lbs (12th percentile)
length: 2 ft 7 in. (70th percentile)
She takes one nap that lasts 1 1/2-3 hours depending on the day and goes to bed by 7:30 pm and usually doesn't wake until 7 am.
We gave up nursing shortly after she turned one year. Before my trip to Chicago with my sisters in December, I decided to pump to see if it was even worth it to pack it along and discovered after 15 minutes that I had produced less than an ounce....definitely not worth it. I realized I was only being used as a pacifier and my love for nursing with the third child had definitely diminished. I was ready to say good-bye. Lucy didn't seem to mind either.
So, now at almost 17 months, life looks pretty similar to what is listed above. Except that now Lucy can say even more words and is starting to put two words together. She says 'please' in the most adorable way possible and 'shoe'. She will also say 'sissy' in regards to Caroline but hasn't said Liam or Caroline's name yet. She knows even more of her body parts and still loves to read with her favorite books being flap books.
She is a total busy body; being still is definitely not her forte. When I have to go to the school for PTO duties she wiggles in my arms until I let her down and then runs all over the office. Most days I have to put her in my back carrier so I can actually have a conversation with the secretaries or principal.
Lucy happily plays with her toddler toys still if someone gets them down for her but is most happy climbing. Life is definitely more hectic and busy with three but we wouldn't have it any other way.
Lucy at 15 months is a climber! She loves to climb stairs, on to chairs and on to the dining room table. It is her favorite pastime. So much so, that she can get around any barricade that we placed at the bottom of the stairs. The older kids loved to climb as well but were not as determined as Lucy is proving to be. So we recently had to buy a gate for the bottom of the stairs. Lucy was very unhappy about that.
Lucy also likes to climb onto the couch and then up onto the arm rest and flip the light switch in the living room multiple times. Once, Evan left the room for 30 seconds and she had climbed onto the chair and then onto the TV tray. She was standing on it. (yikes!)
She also likes to climb onto the booster in the bathroom where she will grab any toothbrush within reach and start brushing her teeth with it. I must say I love her dedication to oral health but her infection control needs some work.
She also loves to climb up into her highchair. All by herself.
Lucy is very impatient when she is hungry. Screaming in her high chair is one of her favorite things to do as well.
Otherwise Lucy is a great toddler. She loves to play peek a boo and dump truck with her brother. She likes to play with Caroline and dancing is her favorite. She likes to walk over to the CD player on the floor and pushes play so the VBS songs will start playing. She then dances her heart out!
She rides well in the car. Understands where her ears, nose, feet and hands are. She loves to talk! She can say many words but also just loves to babble with you. She can probably say 15-20 words. She will also ask for you to sing 'Row, Row' and 'Up, bove' for Row your boat and Twinkle little star. Lucy can also say "Night, Night'.
She loves to video chat with her aunts and shows them that she can stick her tongue out and talk with them. She also likes to wave bye-bye and always tries to push the red hang up button on the phone.
With warmer temps we have been able to be outside more and Lucy LOVES to be outside. She likes to swing and really likes it when Liam pushes her. She likes to go up and down the stairs (shocker) and down the front sidewalk and down the steps onto the sidewalk. We really need to show her how to go down the stairs backwards because she definitely thinks she can walk down them just like we all do.
Lucy responds well when you ask her to do something. She loves to get her shoes, stand still for her coat to be put on, bring a book or toy to you and loves to back up into your lap. She has a couple of jokes thanks to Grammie Walles: If you ask her if she would like to read a book, she will smile a big smile and then shake her head no. She also likes to take the ducky that squirts in the bathtub and squirt Liam and they both laugh hard about that one.
Lucy wears size 3 diapers and her 12 month clothes although her 12 month sleepers and rompers are too short or getting snug. She has long legs like her daddy. Her wellness visit went well where she ran around the room babbling the whole time, climbing on and off the scale and not one bit nervous about Dr. Traeger. He commented that she is definitely the most lively out of our 3 kids.
She weighs: 18.8 lbs (12th percentile)
length: 2 ft 7 in. (70th percentile)
She takes one nap that lasts 1 1/2-3 hours depending on the day and goes to bed by 7:30 pm and usually doesn't wake until 7 am.
We gave up nursing shortly after she turned one year. Before my trip to Chicago with my sisters in December, I decided to pump to see if it was even worth it to pack it along and discovered after 15 minutes that I had produced less than an ounce....definitely not worth it. I realized I was only being used as a pacifier and my love for nursing with the third child had definitely diminished. I was ready to say good-bye. Lucy didn't seem to mind either.
So, now at almost 17 months, life looks pretty similar to what is listed above. Except that now Lucy can say even more words and is starting to put two words together. She says 'please' in the most adorable way possible and 'shoe'. She will also say 'sissy' in regards to Caroline but hasn't said Liam or Caroline's name yet. She knows even more of her body parts and still loves to read with her favorite books being flap books.
She is a total busy body; being still is definitely not her forte. When I have to go to the school for PTO duties she wiggles in my arms until I let her down and then runs all over the office. Most days I have to put her in my back carrier so I can actually have a conversation with the secretaries or principal.
Lucy happily plays with her toddler toys still if someone gets them down for her but is most happy climbing. Life is definitely more hectic and busy with three but we wouldn't have it any other way.
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