Sister love

Lauren is much better lately around Brier. The hitting/pushing seems to be fading. Many times a day she will run over to Brier and give her extended Eskimo kisses. The two of them will giggle and laugh and have a grand time. Eventually Brier somehow gets knocked over and the fun abruptly ends, but while it lasts it is super cute!

Die die naps!

Sadly at 2 years and 9 months, Lauren has decided she is finished with her afternoon naps. She doesn't sleep when visiting Norm's parents house on Tuesdays, then Thursday Stacey decided to not give her a nap and see how things went. Well since then she refuses to nap at home either! I put her in her room and 2 hours later I could still hear her playing. Loudly. It's for the best. Now when we put her to bed for the night at 7 p.m. she falls asleep very quickly, rather than banging around until 10 p.m. like she was starting to do with naps.

I will say, not napping makes for some very long days and I am having a hard time keeping her quiet when Brier is sleeping but TV is really helping!

My little girl is growing up!

Giggles!

I have been waiting for this moment for 11 months.

My little slugger

Ahhhhh.....

Lauren is going through a really rotten stage right now. She is hitting, pushing, kicking etc. Brier and now it is bleeding over onto her daycare friends and friends in general.

As a result, I have turned into the kind of mother I hate. I spank her, yell at her, give her time-puts, put her in her room with no toys, books, entertainment of any sort. None of it is working. I am at my wits end. I feel like crap, she feels like crap, I'm sure Brier feels pretty crappy too. I don't know if she is jealous, or angry, or what. \n some ways I can understand her attitude toward Brier, but I don't like her hitting kids at daycare. I don't want to be the mom of the daycare asshole.

This kid is going to be trouble

Brier is 11 months old this week Yes, I am very sad about this, moving on. She decided last week that she needed to start climbing the stairs. Umm, no.
Beyond that, she has no problem climbing out of 'the pit' so no one and nothing is safe. 

Man, I love that face.

Brower and the Bassle

Lauren is obsessed with "Sincesses" right now, so she was playing in her "bassle" and invited "Brower" to join her. Hopefully this is the beginning of a life long sister friendship.

Groundhog Day - July 1st edition

We went to the park on July 1st again this year, just like we had done one July 1st 2011 when it was just Lauren and us. I took the same action shots of the girls in their Canada Day duds (not intentionally). Can you tell who is who? Seeing them like this, I even have a hard time distinguishing between the two. Maybe it's the strategically placed soothers?

(In case 10 years from now I don't remember, Brier is in the red, Lauren in the white. Brier is 11 months old this week and Lauren was around 9 months at the time.)

Peg Leg

I had to get video evidence of Brier's crawling technique these days. She looks like a peg leg pirate. But it gets the job done and I will say she is quick!

Table Manners

Or lack there of.

This is our biggest problem of late. I understand dinner time in many households is a complete nightmare, but when it's going on in your own home it really sucks.

Lauren is brutal at meal time. Dinner specifically. She doesn't want to be in her chair. She doesn't want to eat what we're serving, she screams, she cries, she pushes her chair away from the table, etc.
It's bad enough at home, but she also does that in public or at other people's houses. And that's when I really lose my cool.

We are struggling with how to deal with this situation. I would like to take the " Fine. Don't eat, go to bed hungry, but sit there quietly while we enjoy our dinner." approach, unfortunately that doesn't actually work. I don't want to let her leave the table either because that's just giving in to what she wants. Then she gets to go have fun instead of eat. So what can we do? Sadly, I don't know.