Another Day

All is good in the McFadden house. We have been super-busy as always. There really isn't much going on, which is why I haven't posted in a few days.

Bailey is 100% better. She is still on an aggresive dose of antibiotics, but the eye infection is gone, gone, gone and we are just making sure it is killed at this point. She is back to sleeping well and eating well.

Recently, it seems that she is spending a lot more time crying and being whiny. I have done some reading and it seems that this is a normal stage and indicates good development. PHEW...it's tough, though. It comes and goes, but it seems to peak over the weekends when she is with us contantly. I assume that we are taking the brunt of it - they don't indicate at daycare that she is acting any different than usual. I am sure that she is feeling out her limits and testing our responses to her.

We always respond - sometimes firmly, if she is misbehaving - and we are hoping to get through it soon. She has started grabbing at our glasses. She knows that is a big, huge no no. She does it to get our attention...or maybe just because she wants them and has no impulse control right now. In any event, that lead to some serious scolding and her hurt feelings.

She still laughs when you tell her no. She'll look over her shoulder and give you a sly little smile. When you tell her no the second time, she laughs. At that point, one of us usually goes over to her and walks her away from the offending location, telling her no. Then she cries. Poor baby.

One new addition to our living room is a potty. We have started to take her diaper off about a half hour before we go upstairs. We open up the potty and let her play with it. She has figured out that she can sit on it, and does. We are not doing any kind of directed action with the potty yet...we just want her to know what it is and to be comfortable sitting on it. We let her watch us go to the bathroom and talk to her about what we are doing. In the next 3-6 months we'll start focusing more on the potty and what it actually does. Hopefully, by 2 she'll be potty trained!

Not much else is going on. It's status quo around these parts.