This week we’ve been going through a wave of Beverly wanting to wear Big Girl Underwear. Some days she’s quickly ended up back in a diaper since I get tired of dealing with accidents on the carpet. Yesterday she spent the whole day in BGU (not counting naptime) and took herself to her little potty every single time she needed to go! Huzzah, hip hooray, and happy hamster dance. I know that it’s too early to count on it as a certainty, but it’s still exciting to think of having fewer diapers to wash.
Beverly & Naomi both have the sniffles right now. It’s fairly mild for Beverly, just a slimy nose she tries to wipe off on the couch, but Naomi has been rather clingy and hasn’t been napping well (though thankfully she’s still sleeping pretty well at night). I hope they start getting better soon, but holiday weekends are just so tantalizing to kids. It’s like they think, “I can be really sick for three whole days before I have to get better enough to avoid a Dr visit!”
It’s interesting to compare the two girls’ development tracks, especially since their birthdays are so close on the calendar. When Beverly was a baby she discovered her hands just before Christmas, so in most of her 1st-Christmas pictures she is holding her own hands. Naomi didn’t discover hers until week or so after Christmas – but now that she has, she’s making up for lost time! She’s getting more interested in toys too. Beverly is quite ‘helpful’ at giving her anything and everything to play with; most recently she was trying to give Naomi a taste of her cracker
Naomi wants to be able to sit up sooo badly. Sometimes she’ll settle for being propped up in her boppy or half-reclining in her baby chair, but most of the time she wants to be in my lap or up on my shoulder. I got some finger-paint for Beverly with some of her Christmas money. She seems to thoroughly enjoy doing “ping(er) paints”.