Kaylee sayings

Kaylee is talking up a storm and some of her favorite things to say are things that assert her newfound desire for independence like,:
"Don't, Mama"
"Stop-it!"

We've been considering how to handle this, I've been saying "Don't is not a nice thing to say. Be a nice girl." Sometimes the "Don't Mama" comes with a hit as well and then she gets a little talking to. We are contemplating how to go about doing time-outs. We'll have to find the best place to put her for them. Seems like she's ready for this.

Having said this, Kaylee is still so fun. As her language skills develop, it's so funny to hear the things that come out of her mouth. Yesterday, Eric was telling her not to eat "ishies" off the floor. Then she sat on his lap, observing him eating, and said "Daddy, don't eat ishies!" When she does something fun or is making a joke, laughing she stops, sighs and says, "Oh, Funny!"

Kaylee seems to have quite the memory. She has said "5,6,7,8,9, 10!" This amazed us. I worked with her on counting in a book and it was obvious it was only memorization, because she pointed to the fish in the book counting, "4...6."

Yesterday at daycare must have been someone's birthday because this morning she was singing "Happy You." It sounded like the tune but all she had down was the "Happy you" part. She has been telling us lately when she is happy. She says "Oh Happy." "Kaylee happy!" It's so sweet!

Kaylee knows so many body parts, possibly all that we've focused efforts on teaching her. Now in addition to the obvious ones she knows, head, arm, leg, knee, neck, chin, teeth, and lips. I'm trying to teach her tummy - she points to her chest. Close... I'm currently working on teaching her hungry and thirsty. She can say the words and now I'm trying to teach her how to use them.

Her teacher said that yesterday at daycare she said "Shush" to someone and Kaylee was saying "Shush" for quite a while afterwards.

We've had a very bad sleeping week, with lots of waking. Kind of surprising because last week she slept through the night several times. Maybe it's because she's feeling better? Or maybe she gets more tired out on the weekends? Not sure. I can't seem to muster the strength, heart or willpower needed for the cry-it-out method. And now she's so used to having her crying responded to that if you don't, her crying becomes incredibly voilent-sounding. Obviously I wait a few minutes always to see if she'll fall back asleep or not, and only respond to the ones when she's fully awake and crying loud. Not sure how we can get more sleep but am open to ideas.

On a positive note! It's almost the weekend. As Kaylee has pointed out, "Pumpkin went nite-nite" and it's almost time for Thanksgiving soon! Take care all.