The happs...

Natalie and I have been very social this week but overall it's been a pretty routine week for us. A little Curious George, a little shopping, a little napping, and a little playing. We had Brett over for barbecue on Saturday and watched Arizona get stomped by Cal despite the fact that Nat and I were both wearing our Arizona shirts to cheer our team on. I put a picture of her up from the NAU game where she went tailgating with Peter and her nanny, oh I mean, his girlfriend. Why do I keep getting the two confused? Ha. Not so funny. Let's see what else. We went to lunch with Brett on Sunday at a mongolia bbq place and Natalie was very well behaved and didn't cause people to stare at us in horror except when she and I went to the bathroom and announced to the first person she saw that "Momma, me, go pee-pee". Thanks Nats.
We had a ton of fun on Monday night, we went to Brett's parents house for dinner. They live on an acre and have a beautiful garden with lots of bunnies and Nat was just enthralled with them. " Me see bunnies, me hold bunnies, me pet bunnies." "NO, NO, NO bunnies no run, no shoo". As much fun as she had though I think Brett's parents had a better time. They don't have any grandkids in town and they were just all about Nat. It was nice and even Mr. "wait to get married" thought it was fun and natural!
Going to Houston tomorrow to see Tim. He was released today from the hospital and Mom says he's doing good so far. He is down to 130lbs but actually climbed the steps up to the bedroom with his cane and apparently felt well enough to eat some tacos!

Breakthrough!

We finally had a breakthrough today! Nat went down for her nap without a fuss, all curled up in the covers, sleeping in one of my t-shirts with lamby in her arms. I also settled down for a nap and when I woke up... Natalie's door was open, she was curled up on her bed naked, no diaper etc. I looked in the bathroom and she had gone pee without waking me up and then put herself back down for her nap!!! I covered her up and she just kept right on sleeping, in the nude!
On the other hand, Teala has been very naughty and got in the trash last night. Nat told the sales people at CostPlus that "Tee Tee big mess, momma's house, Tee-Tee naughty, no cookie". Damn, the girl is good! I love the things that come out of her mouth!

Oh shit, Momma!

The words are out! Natalie and I were having a little treat of oreos and milk before bed while watching a movie and out came "Oh shit momma, cookies all gone, where cookies?".
I am hoping and praying that she was just talking about the cookies that were sitting on the couch as the word "sit" often comes out somewhere between 'seat' , 'sit', and 'shit'. But who knows? I am hoping that she doesn't have a mouth like her father...Which reminds me of another time that we were in the car and Natalie was talking about sitting on the potty and going poo-poo. Unfortunately, the word poop was coming out like 'boo' and then she was saying 'shit' for seat. So the whole thing was very amusing when she yelled out at the top of her lungs "BULLSHIT MOMMA". I swear the guy in the convertible next to us was looking at me and probably was considering calling CPS...
And you are probably telling yourself that this sweet little girl in the picture couldn't have said such awful things, yeah right, this picture was 2 months ago!

2 year check up!

Natalie had her 2 year check up today... all is well! Skinny little thing is 26 pounds and 33 inches tall. She's on the 75th percentile for height and 25-50th for weight. You won't hear me complain about that but I will definitely be giving her some oreos at night! She had some shotters but she was good girl and got some nice band-aids to cover her ouchies. The doctor asked about her speech and language development and so Peter had to have her show off a nice story. Well, duh, her mom is a speech therapist. I might be a teensy bit proud of her!
We slept well last night, I ended up having to "lock" Nat in her room so that she couldn't come out and tell me she needed to go "pee-pee" or "poo-poo" or "watch blue momma". I felt kinda mean but she was banging on her door once and I simply went to the door and told her that she needed to go back to bed, that I was not going to open the door! She said "yea" in the most pathetic little voice I have ever heard but I didn't hear her anymore. What a relief!
Busy this week... we are going to be re-doing my cabinets and countertops in the next couple of weeks so I am totally excited. I have this nice boy who is going to help me out and he's kinda cute too! I am sure he will enjoy reading that!

We're Back!

Well after a long break, I have been encouraged to get back to my blogging! Thanks Tam, I totally have time to keep up with this! But I will try... it is kinda cool to read old posts especially about Nat and think how far we have come!
So... Natalie just turned 2 on August 20th and we are definitely in the terrible 2's. At least she was sorta good before so maybe they won't be too awful! Ha, who am I kidding?? We are officially potty trained, notice that I said "we". For you moms out there, that also means that we get to get up in the middle of the night and take our kids to the potty where the Dora seat is, help them do their business, flush, wash their hands, pull up their pants, and get them back into bed. Usually this tends to happen the most when I can't even open my eyes or I have taken a Tylenol PM and feeling loopy. Nat is also sleeping in a big girl bed which is fantastic, and I mean that with all sincerity especially when I have taken her back to bed for the 95th time in one night. Hopefully we are over that soon! Tee-Tee and Nat are doing great, Nat thinks she is a horse but loves feeding hr and giving her cookies. Right before she pulls her tail or tries to poke her in the eye! Gotta love it.
For those of you that know what happened to Tim, please keep him in your thoughts!!
More to come!