Jiana is growing up so fast! She is almost 16 months much to my angst. But at least I am soaking all of her in. She is really yummy. Yummy in that you want to take a bite out of her. :) Here are some of the things she is doing now and her developmental milestones:
1. If you say "nice to meet you" she puts her hand out for you to shake (with a huge grin)
2. She says the following words: cheese, momm(y), nana, and hi.
3. She makes animal sounds: dog, crows, and lions.
4. She has this hilarious walk that picks up speed as she starts walking, with her arms stuck straight out behind her and her neck tilted. Cracks me up every time!
5. She eats chicken but no lamb. (Suhana doesn't like meat) We give her mixed food which is rice, butter and shredded chicken. She gobbles that up!
6. She has four teeth on the top and bottom and her left side molars are coming in! Poor thing has been teething since 3 months and they still aren't all here.
7. Suhana also loves to play mommy to her now too. She will mother her like I do asking things such as "jiji, do you want food?" "jiji, come with me, okay, I will take care of you" It's really sweet. And Jiana soaks it all up. she will follow her sister anywhere. Sisters are cute.
8. She is also Miss Independent. She knows what she wants and that's it! I cannot believe how stubborn she is. If she wants to walk and you pick her up, NO way, she throws herself back and gets put back down.
9. She also has a memory like an elephant! She will not forgive and forget. Right now she is super attached to me..I can barely leave her sight. Even going to the garage, I have to sneak out of the house otherwise she starts screaming. So, you can imagine that leaving for work, makes her really mad. When I come home, I go and try to give her a hug and kiss, and she doesn't even make eye contact with me! She will continue playing and go around me!!! Attitude!
10. Jiana has the sweetest smile. She is truly adorable!
Anyways, I'm not really good at remembering all the things she does but some things are better than none. Bottom line, Jiana is pretty amazing!
Sunday, February 24, 2013
AT-TI-TUDE
Who ever said the twos were terrible, hadn't seen the threes. I figured it would catch up to me since I feel like I breezed through the twos. (well, it seems as such in hindsight) Suhana is almost 3 1/2 and acts like a 13 year old. It really is something! This kid has some attitude. Like the other day she had woken up from her nap and was sitting on the couch watching something on TV and I told her to finish drinking her milk, (God forbid that's too much to ask) and she looks at me, while slouching and with a bored look on her face, and says "Whatever you say mom" WHAT?? Aren't I supposed to hear that 10 years from now? I mean I like spunk but wow! Avikar and I exchanged an incredulous look mixed with a little bit fear.
We pick our battles you see. Otherwise we would all be yelling at each other constantly. Suhana has tantrums. There I said it. At first when I started seeing them, I would act how the blogs, websites and bestsellers on parenthood told me to act. Don't raise your voice, maintain eye contact, and give them space to cool down. Well, that lasted a whole two seconds. I mean I try to still use the second one, but it gets REALLY hard to be the sane one when the 3 year old is screaming at you for the littlest thing, I feel that my biggest challenge is to explain to her that this is such a small thing in the larger scheme of the world. That there are bigger things to cry about. That if you put your clothes on you get to go to a birthday party where there is cake and face painting. But who am I kidding??? I can't reason with her. And I constantly am reminding myself after the screaming, from me too, and the frustration that she is only 3 years old. I'm not using that as an excuse, trust me because I believe in disciplining my child. But the tantrums that come from the smallest things are sometimes her only way of expressing her frustration. It's hard being 3. I don't want to be 3. DO you?
And then there are days when she is the sweetest most obliging child in the WORLD. And those tantrums are a distant memory. I guess this is the universe's way of telling me that in the grand scheme of things, a few tantrums didn't hurt anyone. Get over it mom.
We pick our battles you see. Otherwise we would all be yelling at each other constantly. Suhana has tantrums. There I said it. At first when I started seeing them, I would act how the blogs, websites and bestsellers on parenthood told me to act. Don't raise your voice, maintain eye contact, and give them space to cool down. Well, that lasted a whole two seconds. I mean I try to still use the second one, but it gets REALLY hard to be the sane one when the 3 year old is screaming at you for the littlest thing, I feel that my biggest challenge is to explain to her that this is such a small thing in the larger scheme of the world. That there are bigger things to cry about. That if you put your clothes on you get to go to a birthday party where there is cake and face painting. But who am I kidding??? I can't reason with her. And I constantly am reminding myself after the screaming, from me too, and the frustration that she is only 3 years old. I'm not using that as an excuse, trust me because I believe in disciplining my child. But the tantrums that come from the smallest things are sometimes her only way of expressing her frustration. It's hard being 3. I don't want to be 3. DO you?
And then there are days when she is the sweetest most obliging child in the WORLD. And those tantrums are a distant memory. I guess this is the universe's way of telling me that in the grand scheme of things, a few tantrums didn't hurt anyone. Get over it mom.
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