Potty Trained

It's been a week in underwear and I think I can now say that she is potty trained.  We had two bad days and the rest were great!  Only 1 accident in the last 3 days, and that was when she got excited with Aunt Candy, so, how can you blame her?!  She also spent the day at daycare and when I picked her up she was still dry!  We put a diaper on her for nap, but it is more often dry than wet when she wakes up.  She also wears one overnight, but that's it!  She now needs to be weaned off of getting Reese's Pieces when she tells us she has to pee and goes in the toilet!  HA!

I have also given up on trying to understand the eating habits.  After 6 days in a row of absolute screaming, she ate dinner no problem the next 3 nights.  Sigh.  As long as she tries it, I'm okay... but come on, just try it without it taking an hour!  Keep it up kiddo!  

She is also singing so much now that it warms my heart and makes me long to get her into some sort of music class.  She watches little nursery rhyme videos on the tablet and I can now recognize her requests, "Mama sing Old McGonna?" and recognize her tunes when she sings in her room.   I just have to remember these sweet moments when she tests my patience - which she is starting to blatantly do.  A new phase now where she points out that she is doing something she knows she isn't allowed to do, like running up to me with something small in her mouth and showing me just the corner of it sticking out while pointing at it!   At least every morning when she says "hi Mama!" I forget all that happened the day before... usually.

New Years Resolution

Well, Dania must have made a resolution to lose weight because she suddenly  has decided not to eat.  UGH!  It is absolutely painful.  I know most kids do this, but she's tiny and needs to eat.  She is potty training and her tights already don't stay up without a diaper!  Seriously!  She cries, screams, fights, throws herself around in the chair, won't be bartered with or bribed.  She won't swallow!  She holds a bite of food in her mouth and just lets it turn to liquid (48 minutes was the longest!).  I just want her to have 1 bite, always try something, but she isn't even taking 1 bite of her fav foods at supper.  I know it's not a painful reason because I broke down after day 6 and got her a Happy Meal and she scarfed that thing down in less than 10 minutes!  Oh, my!  It's just a crappy dinner hour and a half.  Mike and I can't talk over her yelling and we are constantly trying to reassure her and remind her that if she just has 1 bite and swallows that's okay.  She is so smart though that I honestly think she is waiting for us to break down and just let her get away from the dinner table without a bite and demand crackers.  If she has a bite of something new and she doesn't like it, fine, no problem, we will find you something else.  But I keep making stuff I know she has eaten before and she just screams.  I tell our friends this and then she goes and eats all her food and her friends' food at our weekly Sunday dinner.  What the heck!?  Well, if I thought it was over, I was wrong.  It's been 2 days since that and both nights have been:

And then she is fine once her feet hit the floor!  Even when she looks like this she does cute things that make us try not to laugh!  HA!

On the plus side, no accidents today and we were even in and out of the bitter, windy outdoors several times!  

Wow,  I just noticed that this probably has the most exclamation points in any of my other posts.