25 posts tagged “baby m”

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I'm really torn in my decisions for gifts for Miss M.  Although she is 2 years old, her developing mind is moving towards needing toys geared for a 3 and 4 year old.  We have been enjoying Memory and Candy Land.  The other day I had to ask Mary if a shape was a hexagon or an octagon.  Miss M explained to me the difference between 8 sides and 6 sides.  Last Sunday she and I went shopping at the book store for her little friend, Audrey.   Audrey is turning two and Miss M wants to get her little friend some books for her birthday.  As we are browsing the shelfs, Miss M finds a Dora the Explorer board book she would like to get for her friend.  I ask her how much it is and she turns the book over and says, it's four, ninety-nine.  To my surprise and other passsers by observing the tiny Miss M, and her wide vocabulary, she was indeed correct on the price of the book.  Miss M is a surprising little character with her language skills at such a young age.  I was driving home about a month ago and must have had a worried look on my face.  She asked me from the back seat, "Mommy what's wrong?"  I responded, "Oh, I'm just thinking..." "She said are you worried about the tires on the car?"  I explained yes, because the car had been making a knocking noise.  She pays very good attention to conversations between the Daddy, myself, her older brother, and older sister.  She listens and often comments on something that she knows has to do with what we are talking about.  My older kiddos have a half sibling that is 2 years older than Miss M.  They were telling me that she has an imaginary pet dog that she calls puppy.  Miss M is listening to the conversation and comments that we have a real dog named Chloe. 

This past Sunday I was getting bombarded with telemarketing calls and began just letting the answering machine get it.  One call rang and Miss M perked her ears up before the answering machine picked up, she commented, "You should answer this one because it is Mom-Mom (grandma, my mother)... " and she was exactly right.  She is so in tune with things, it can cause one's eyebrows to rise with awe. 

If we can get the potty training thing down, I would like to enroll her in Pre-school next year in September.  Mentally she is ready.  She understands the concept of potty training, she is not ultimately motivated to do so on a consistent basis.  

Tonight she wanted to help me wrap presents.  I don't know who she has observed or how she knew but she decided she wanted to put the bows on.  She knew exactly how to tear the scotch tape off and she knew that when she picked out the bow that it would be sticky on the back if she removed the card board piece.  I asked her how she knew how to do this and she said Daddy showed her, but I just checked with my husband and he hasn't shown her at all.  So I'm stumped at how she knows how to do this.  She is really something.  I'm not trying to sound braggy, I just want to document the moment, so I can look back at dates and milestones.  Everyone who ever encounters Miss M's presence is really taken by her and her advanced vocabulary.  People consistently are amazed that she is just two, and will not be three until June.  I recently asked a neighbor to babysit Miss M, as my full time baby sitter was ill.  When I picked Miss M up, the sitter just kept asking me if I was aware of how bright and smart Miss M is.  I explained yes, that she amazes me every day.  The sitter had commented that she had brought out some magnetic letters and was stunned that Miss M could put letters together to spell her name and other small words.  When I'm shopping at the store and the lady behind the register asks for my phone number, Miss M spouts out the info. 

Earlier this evening she took out some Tinker Toys and made pretend lollipops.  When I pretended to eat them, she pulled it away from me and explained that I shouldn't really eat them, that they were just pretend.  I told her I knew but thanked her just the same.  

My birthday happens to be usually the first day of school and Baby M is the last day of school.

For my Birthday, Baby M cooked me a plastic egg in her play kitchen and served it to me in bed. 

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Each time we visit Grandma, aka: "Mom mom",  Baby M gets this flower pot holder and insists on sitting on it. How silly!

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Stewey Griffin, meet your match!  Introducing Baby M!  This girl loathes sleeping. 

Wednesday night J & G were home from their dad's so we stayed up relatively late playing cards, walkie talkies, games, watching movies, etc.  So we headed for bet at 11:30pm. 

Fast forward 11:45pm and Baby M starts crying and yelling Mommy.  So I go in and she has the "Cling-On" syndrome and won't let go for anything.  I try to take her to the Daddy who is still up playing WoW.  She wants no part of him.  (sigh)... so I put her in our bed.  This in itself was a huge transition in which I thought I had won the war.  So I put her in bed with me and like a metranome she flinches every 3 seconds,  arm up, leg figit, head turn, repeat.... I look at the clock it's 1:58am.  The daddy comes in the room and comes to bed. I decide they can have the bed and I proceed to go and sleep in the comfy glider rocking chair in Baby M's room.  I put the Baby Gate up so no one falls down the stairs in the middle of the night. 

At 2:48am I hear Baby M in G's room carrying on a full conversation with herself and our dog Chloe'.  She is carrying on with, "Hello, how are you today, I'm fine Thank you."... What is your name, My name is M,   And Hello to you Chloe', you are such a good Dog.....   and then she is accompanied by the jingle jangle of Chloe's collar making noise.  G gets up and and Chloe gets up and G asks Baby M, what the heck she is doing up and how she got out of her bed.  I explain to G to go back to bed.  I tell Baby M she absolutely must go to sleep because the Mommy has to work in the morning. 

Baby M starts out crying a little and then proceeds to recite her alphabet and count while clapping her hands and plopping her leg in her bed. Then she decides to sing.  I close my eyes and pretend to sleep, I look at the clock and it is 5:45am. ohhh good lord, I should just go back and work at the hotel...

Look Baby M I know you are far smarter than any other two year old that only says "Cookie"... and you don't have any kind of Stewie accent, and thank God my name is not Lois, but the mommy needs some sleep. 

Life is a ginormous roller coaster with children aged 13, 9, and 2. 

My 13 year old has the most gorgeous smile and has sworn for the last 12 years he would never have to have braces, well one weirdo tooth in the back and several thousands of dollars later. He does indeed have to have braces.  My poor baby.  As they were putting them on, he had the look of defeat, like why are you letting them hurt me mom... argh, I hate that look. 

That is the same look tht the 9 year old Drama Queen had after her kidney surgery last year in July. G is an emotional roller coaster going from giggly to tears 10 times a day for every reason under the moon.  She ran into her bestest friend that she has had to endure all of summer without seeing, at the pool on Sunday.  She was ecstatic to go down the tube slide with her best buddy,  when all of a sudden, another mutual friend arrived and then proceeded to steal the best friends attention away and the double tube would then be occupied by her instead of my Drama Queen.  There was a whole lot of pouting and hurt feelings going on. 

Meanwhile, my 2 year old prodigy that swears she is 6 years old on most days when you ask her, is involved in heavy conversations about words, spelling, alphabets and kids her real age that don't respond when you say hello.  Baby M is very friendly and wants to make friends quickly when she goes to the playground.  She often starts out with a hello and proceeds to try and engage the other small child in conversation and when they either don't talk or only babble, Baby M doesn't understand.  She asks me, "Mommy, I said hello, why don't they talk, why won't they play?"  I have to explain to Baby M, that not everyone is able to talk yet, or that they may be feeling shy. 

Baby M is scheduled for extensive Kidney testing on Monday, as she has the same genetic Kidney disorder that the Drama Queen had surgery for last year.  They initially scheduled a renal exam, which very quickly got changed to a DMSA scan which she will have full blood work up, physical, and she will be sedated for.  I have not discussed any of this with her and hope and plan to take it one step at a time.  We shall see. 

So while the EMO 13 year old sulks because he can't eat anything, the Drama Queen pouts over outfits, friends, and Barbie's hair having tangles, and the two year old is working on her Levitation Algorithm, or the first flying car... I blog and vent, and try to convince myself that someone may enjoy reading this. 

For Baby M's birthday, we had a Jack's Big Music Show Party.  For those of you who are not familiar with Jack's Big Music Show.  Here is a link with more information.  Jack's Big Music Show.  I think my husband and I enjoy the show as much as M, if not more.  The sad thing is that the show is not on anymore.  The gentlemen at Spiffy are extraordinarily talented people. You may recognize the voice of "Baby Bear" from Sesame Street was created from the same group.  We were posed with some challenges as they do not sell any "Jack's Big Music Show" products so we had to be creative.  I printed out the T-Shirt iron ons and made T-shirts for all of our guests and took the same print out to Kroger's and had them make our cake.  I bought maracas, candy necklaces, and I made tamborines.  My initial idea was to take pie tins and fill them up.  However we were expecting 10 2year olds and the mini pie tins were $4.00 for a set of 4.  I went over to the plant section and bought the plastic drip catch trays for $0.23cents each.  I then went to Fuzzywinklebeans candies and got colored m&m's and whistle pops and filled each one.  I used a single hole punch to put holes in the sides and sealed each one shut by tying colored ribbons to attach top and bottom. 

My husband used our projector to display "Jack's Big Music Show" on our living room wall.  The kids loved it. 

Pretty funny that my birthday is the first day of school, (August 29th) and M's birthday is the last day of school.  After I picked her up from the baby sitters we went home and gave her our present.  We got her the 30th Anniv Cozy Coupe .  We put a blanket over it and let her unwrap it.  We let her play for about 45minutes before we headed out for our family dinner celebration. 

We celebrated Baby M's actual birthday at Pump it Up.  It can be pretty pricey in my opinion to have a party there.  However on Thursday nights they offer a Family Jump in that includes pizza and beverage and an hour of play time.