She's 3!

Yesterday marked Dania's 3rd birthday and about 18 months with us!  I checked her height on her growth chart and she's only grown about an inch in height since August, and I think it was all in the legs since all her pants are flood pants now.  I only officially record weight after the doctor's and we haven't needed to go in a while.  She has changed so much, and even just in the last few weeks her development in speech is crazy apparent.

She now officially is a preschooler!  She attends on Mondays and Fridays and her transition time was apparently not a problem at all (which totally makes me feel better about putting her in to daycare 1 day a week to ease her into school since she had a bit of difficulty transitioning into that big group situation) and has already made a best friend.  I guess her and a another girl, S, are just inseparable and I did meet her the other day and she continued to tell me how Dania is a big girl now that she is in the same room as her and that "she can even talk and everything!"  It was cute.  Dania was a little overstimulated come nap time, apparently she was running laps around the room, but she did calm down and didn't have trouble after the first day.  She is telling me stories as soon as she is in the car when I pick her up and I can even understand most of them!  This is getting fun now!  She is also more willing to sing herself instead of just asking me to sing and I catch her singing to herself all the time now and can always tell what song it is (although, last night at midnight it was a made up song, "I love CAAAAAAKE!").  She also sat and watched a different movie with me, well, most of it until she head butted me for putting the empty popcorn bowl on the table instead of letting her put it on her head.  It was Cinderella, and now she talks about her as well as Elsa and Anna... sweet, sweet variety!

She has been to the speech pathologist again and did well.  She went to the optometrist who was able to confirm this time that she does use both eyes equally despite the different strengths of prescriptions.  It's good that she isn't relying on one more than the other.  She even let them do the glaucoma 'puff-of-air' test.  When Mike told me that I was impressed.  Even my sister refuses that test LOL!  We have followup with the ophthalmologist next week.

Mike has been in and out to sea and that's clearly taking a toll on her (and me!).  It's hard to explain how many days until he comes back... she doesn't get beyond tomorrow.  It is also hard on both of us when I can't do one thing while Mike plays with her/watches her and she gets frustrated at lack of attention sometimes - and having to be good by herself while not getting that attention ie. not diving off the couch onto hardwood repeatedly.   I try to always give her a logical reason as to why I'm saying 'no' but it will still be time before she understands the 'why,' hahaha.

She is just so stinkin' cute sometimes!

birthday dinner out

Ontario

Holy moly, it's been a while since I posted but we've been super busy.   Mike is in and out to sea and it makes life that bit more difficult.   Dania and I did just go to Ontario and had a wonderful time.  We had a hell of a ride there though.  Delayed 5 hours so that we landed after 10 pm when we were supposed to land at 5.  I had planned it so she would hopefully nap on the plane and then be in a good mood when we got to Gramma's house.  Nope!  She didn't get to bed (without nap) until what would have been 1:30 am AST.  We both crashed hard that first night.

She played in the snow with Aunt Kitty, went to the butterfly conservatory, let me catch up with great friends and played with their kids, saw all of her great-grandparents on my side of the family, jumped a lot on a trampoline, and had a 3rd birthday party!  I'm so glad I did do it there because Mike now won't be here on a weekend when I would have a party at home and therefore, I don't want to!   Too much work for just me!  She had a rocking good time at the early birthday party though!  She had tonnes of cousins to run around with, pizza, a Frozen DQ cake, and lots of people fawning all over her.  I loved it too because I got to see so many people and have a huge catch-up/show off period.  Dania sang Happy Birthday to herself with everyone, blew out the candle (twas not possible last year!), and entertained people by singing Let it Go.

She's not going to remember the birthday anyway... but we have lots of people who will!   It was also a party that was a breeding ground for germs.  A whole bunch of us got sick, starting with 1 person vomiting at the end of the night (you know it's a good party when...) and the result has been sick days from work, rescheduled appointments, and me and Dania sitting around like lumps on a log not wanting to move much.  We just eat a lot of oatmeal.   She seems to be getting a bit of her energy back today though.  I am still fatigued and it's in my throat and chest now but it keeps moving around so I'm hoping it will move on soon!  I just realized that this is my first big sickness since she's been with us.  I am now synonymous with the Nyquil/Dayquil commercial parents...  guh.

Good thing she's been singing along to songs a lot more and singing them on her own so that she keeps me entertained!