Flys = Ladybugs in our house.

*gulping noises in the background*
me - "Bug, what are you doing?"
Bug - *smiling and pointing to the window, "I'm going to eat the ladybug!"
me - "Don't eat the fly."

I got the last laugh

Me to Husband : "look, your writing is so bad that Bug thinks that your writing is her drawing"

The age old question

To blog, or to play video games....

Video games won, I'll update tomorrow more about Loki's potty training adventure and what has been working for us and what advice we received.

(Big milestone though, Loki pooped in the potty for the first time today)

Potty Training

We have decided to do 'big girl panties' during all day light hours, and diapers at night until we have a solid grasp on potty training and then go to big girl panties all the time!
Saturday:
We had quite a few accidents, and the only time we made it onto the potty involved a little bit of an accident too.
Feelings were pretty discouraged by the end of the day.
Sunday:
One accident in the morning, and then bam right before nap time Loki does it, she pees in the potty! (which scared her and she though she had done something wrong, which was adorable)
After that we still had a few accidents, including going number 2 in her panties, which was very upsetting.
Monday:
Really feeling like we've got a handle on using the potty for going number 1. Still have yet to figure out the timing on number 2.
Loki does have a little problem with not always getting her panties down before sitting down if she really has to go, but it's getting much better.

All in all, at this point I'm saying it was a successful start to potty training.

The Great Potty Training Adventure

Is beginning tomorrow.
My current plan is to do a combination of pretty 'big girl' panties and wearing nothing on her bottom half at all for most of the weekend. I'm unsure as to how we're going to handle nap and bed yet, some people say just go with completely bare from now on, because diapers at bed will confuse her.
That being said, I might have to diaper her at night because she never stays in one place (she doesn't always even sleep on her bed, most of the time she sleeps at different spots on the floor, yes I realize my daughter's a little of an odd one.) With that in mind I think it might be a better plan for diapers at night for a little bit, nap time however, we might go ahead and go bare for, I think that will work okay.

Updates tomorrow!

Loki vs Toddler Bed

So far the bed is losing the battle. But I have some funny and cute pictures from it of odd positions I've found my daughter asleep in. 

This was during nap time. Found her in front of the closet. 

 She's not allowed to leave her room, so she sleeps in the doorway a lot. 

 One of the few times she was near her bed to sleep. 

 I laughed at this one, reminds me of the witch from "Wizard of Oz"

Blanket from Mawma, it's one of her favorites. 

 She's a blanket horder

 This would have gotten her in trouble if she wasn't asleep. (too far out of her room.) I think she just moved in her sleep though. 

 This is last night, she fell asleep coloring. 

Big Girl Bed Day 2 * Updated *

So over the next week I'm going to catalog our progress through pictures and posts here on the MommyLogue about how our little Loki is doing with transitioning to her very own big girl bed.

Day 2 Nap time:
We started out like this:

And somehow ended up like this:

She didn't really try to escape, but she did get a warning with she got a little loud, only for me to find out she needed a diaper change, so she didn't really get in trouble for that.

Day 2 Bed time:
She kept wanting to be wrapped up cocoon like for bed, which is adorable. That blanket is actually Husband's made for him by Mawma when he was little.

It took a while for her to fall asleep this time, i caught her quite a few times almost outside her room in the blanket, but she never left, which made me quite proud. 

When she finally did fall asleep I found her like this:

I know it's hard to see, but she's curled up on her bed! Only the second night too! Lets see if it keeps up.

*** Update***
Well it did not keep up, Loki woke up around 4am, (after one of the many times Odin was up last night) and it took a while to get her to stay in her room and quiet before she would fall back asleep, and to be honest I expected to be woken up by little hands scaring the daylights out of me of her coming into our room. But thankfully that didn't happen. (kind of dreading that also, although I'm sure with how bad me waking up screaming scares her it won't happen too often) But right now Loki is asleep in her doorway, I'd take a picture but I"m afraid it would wake her up. 

Big Girl Bed Day 1

So now she has no choice, Loki only has the option of her toddler bed or the floor.

If you couldn't guess the floor won, and we had quite the fight to get her to stay. (Which I talked about last post)

When she finally really fell asleep she was in this position. 

Achievement Unlocked

Today Husband and Suv took Loki's crib out of her room, leaving only the toddler bed. 

So far we've had lots of tears, a few arguments and a few fits before we reached an agreement:

If she stays in her room and isn't too loud, her bedroom door will stay open. If she gets noisy or leaves, the door will be shut (still letting in light, but not as much as she likes) 

Since the agreement has been reached the crying is calmed and she has not come out of her room. 

Let us see how the rest of the night goes...

***UPDATE***

Loki is asleep, but refuses to use the bed.

Instead she's sleeping on the rug with the blanket MawMa made her

Picture Show!

We went out to see Mimi and Papa today, and since it was a roping day, Loki got to help put away the horses.

Ber and Mimi had found an awesome toddler bed and mattress at a garage sale for me, and with a newly cleaned mattress pad (also a garage sale find from Mimi) Ber and I finally set up the it up so we can start transitioning the kids to different beds. (Odin's big enough that I worry about him in the bassinet even though he's within the weight guidelines) 

Here's the view to the kids' room as you walk in 

The toy chest was a gift from a friend of a friend when they moved, and it has served us well. This kid has so many stuffed animals!

Loki's new bed, complete with stuffed animal (minus her pillow since it's still in the crib)

The bed all made up, and then Loki decided she needed more pictures taken. 

Next we have the kid's book nook, with shelves made by Papa and a good friend, and both rocking chairs made by Papa's parents. 

Here's the crib (kinda messy still) 

And lastly the new closet space, the bottom dresser belonged to Papa when he was young, and is going to hold Loki's clothes, where as the little blue cabinets will hold Odin's clothing.

Oh! I forgot some newer pictures of Odin!

This is about as far as we get rolling back to stomach, we've mastered stomach to back though.

Also, the first time I looked at his outfit this morning I thought it said 'Mommy's Major Hulk' and I kept wondering why it wasn't green until I re-read it a little later.

Well, that's all for now! I'm hoping to write up an update monday since I have the day off.

I'd forgotten

Just how stressful it is having a new born, although I'm supposing you forget that on purpose, otherwise you probably would never have a second child (kind of like forgetting the pain of childbirth as soon as you hold your child for the first time)
That being said, it's been a little bit of an adjustment having both kids, and I'm sure it will continue to be so. Loki's doing pretty good most days, every once in a while she's horribly whiny and completely uncooperative, but for the most part she's adjusting okay to everything. We've been trying very hard to give her lots of one-on-one time with each of us. (Husband has been doing so wonderfully with that, Loki has really been enjoying her daddy time)
But Husband is working while I'm on leave from work, so that's making some of my evenings a little stressful, especially when Odin wants nothing other that to be held or nursed. It's a little hard to cook dinner for Loki and myself with a crying infant. But thankfully Loki's not horribly picky and enjoys sandwiches so if Odin is being particularly fussy I can just whip up a quick peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

In other news, Odin had his second doctor's appointment today, to see how he's doing and make sure he's gained back the his birth weight, and he has! He's actually 2 oz over his birth weight, so now he weighs as much as Loki did when she was born. Breastfeeding is going very well for us this time around, not latching problems like we had the first time.
This week will begin adventures in pumping and storing breast milk in preparation for me going back to work in just over a month. That will really be an adventure.

October 2012

I have been looking back through my 'drafts' folder her on my blog and found a few posts that I always meant to get up, but never remembered to, or I got distracted, either one is highly possible. So these next few days I'm going to post a few older ones (with the date they were from up above) and kinda look at my past a little bit. Not a whole lot, I mean I think there are only like 3-4 that actually made sense anymore. But here you go!

Ber and I went out to see Mom 

Loki's update

Since I've been posting so much about Odin, I figured Loki really deserved an update.

Potty Training
 - kind of at a halt due to her being terrified of the toilet and scared of her potty. No idea why the toilet is so scary, but it is. She's even lery of the training potty right now. So we've put it up for a little while, and will bring it out again soon when she seems more 'ready' to try again.

Talking
 - Not much around strangers, but you get her going and she's off just like her daddy. Her newest and most used right now are "we're here" "help" and "more please"
 - Most common thing for me to say to her...."Careful!" (she's started climbing, everything)

Almost 2
 - It's coming up so quick, only 6 days and my little girl will be 2. Where does the time go?

Comprehension
 - She may not have much more than 20 words she uses, but she understands most of what we ask or tell her. It was actually rather shocking when I realized it. It's kind of nice to talk to her like she understands and then actually have it start happening.

Crayons and coloring
 - Oh my does she love her coloring. So much so we have had to take crayons away a few times due to coloring on the cabinets. So she's on a strict crayon ration and is only allowed two warnings now before they get taken away (warnings come from coloring on anything other than the books, like for instance the windows or floor.)

Daddy's little girl
 - She loves her daddy, no doubt about that. Anyone who sees them together can tell. All she wanted to do on tuesday was sit in his lap and make him read to her. Needless to say he didn't really get much DnD reading done, but I think he read about the crocodile wanting to find his mommy at least 15 times. If he wasn't reading to her, she was happy to lay next to him on her tummy (same as daddy) and watch him work on his character creating.  Most of the time though she was just trying to steal his pencil to 'write' on the paper.

Eating
 - Loki is almost a picky as her daddy, but she's doing very well with eating with a fork, not as good with a spoon, but the majority of the food makes it to her mouth. Most of the time with the fork she stabs the food then grabs it and eats with her fingers, which is cute, but not exactly what's supposed to happen, but I suppose so long as she's eating and happy everything will come out in the wash and she'll get it eventually.
 - She does love cooked carrots, not a big fan of broccoli, but she can't get enough corn, and every once in a while we can sneak a green bean in without her noticing.

Doctor Update
 - She is officially 34.75 inches tall and 28.75 lbs. Her height has gotten much better than the last visit, and she's gaining weight well. (mom's scale had her much heavier, so I'm thinking mom's scale lies.)

Boy Thoughts

As odd as it sounds, I'm actually nervous about having a little boy. I didn't have this same feeling of nerves with I was expecting Loki, mostly because -obviously- I am a girl, so therefore I kinda know how things work in 'girl world.' How girls respond to each other and what not. (Also I'm not quite so worried about 'the talk' considering Loki and I have the same parts, and yes, I am already thinking that far in the future.)

But I was never really around little boys either when I was growing up or when I would babysit. I know they're a lot more rough and tumble than girls, but I have no idea with how to deal with the 'guy world' and their way of doing things. I just worry that I would be able to help him figure social situations out because I have no idea how to do it myself.

Also, Loki has yet to pee on me, I'm not looking forward to Odin doing so. (Everyone says it'll happen, and I'm fairly inclined to believe them)

How I know she's really my daughter

Husband told me a fun little anecdote about Loki today. She was looking back at Husband while walking and babbling to him. Until she ran straight into a wall. Loki promptly fell on her butt and gave the wall a dirty look and made the obligatory 'I'm hurt' noise. After a moment, she got up, and then proceed to continue walking while talking and not looking where she's going.
Husband declares this proof that Loki is definitely my child (as if there were any doubts)

Very important announcement!!!!

My daughter has learned how to say 'please'

Thank you, that is all.

SNOW!!!

We're finally getting some of the traditional winter weather, in a bit of an abundance. But since I'm not working right now I'm quite enjoying the weather and the fact that I can watch the kids having snow fights in the yard with Loki (she loves watching the kids playing outside)

it's kind of hard to see the snow outside, but if she's starting to get fussy, I just take her over to the window and let her look for a while. It's her new favorite thing to do. Although air kisses are becoming quite popular.

I just love watching it snow knowing I don't have to go out in the weather, and neither do my loved ones.

New Project

Thanks to my little sister, I'm actually going to be voluntarily taking tons of pictures of my daughter. At her suggestion I am going to take a pictures of Loki every morning when we get ready for the day, Sister wanted it so she could see what Loki wears every day, but MawMa gave me a different perspective, if you think about it wouldn't it be cool to have a little slide show of every day of her first year? Just to see how she's growing day to day. And yeah, you won't see much change at first, but as it goes that would just be cool to see.
In more baby news, we'll be running out of the last of our disposable diapers probably tonight or tomorrow morning, so then it's the (slightly scary) plunge into cloth diapers. And I for one am scared shit-less. Husband has no worries, and I so should be taking a page from his book, but let's be honest....I am very good at stressing myself out for no damn reason.
In further baby news, my daughter is adorable :)