"Mississippi!"

Kaylee is doing so many new things all the time!

She can now say two 4-syllable words – “alligator” and “Mississippi”. It’s so cute to hear her say them in her little, tiny voice sounding so smart. Kaylee loved going on walks outside with us again, and seeing the Mississippi River! She now cries for her stroller every time we head out to the car, thinking we are taking a walk.

Kaylee sings to herself in the car often, sometimes it’s her own song she’s been making up. She recently seems to like to sing “My fair lady” and “Wheels on the bus.” She has the melody right, but often gets some of the words wrong or mispronounced. It’s so cute to hear her sing in her soft little voice! Speaking of voices, she has also at the same time, learned to whine. She now whines for many things she wants and we are trying to teach her to ask for things nicely. We ask her to calm down from a cry/whine and try “using your words” and saying please.

Kaylee gets time-outs now. She sits for 2 minutes in an area where I can see her. I do it the supernanny way since I watch that show. She now gets the warning, “do you need a time-out” and sometimes stops the behavior before we need to do that.

Kaylee has another ear infection! It’s in her left ear this time and she’s on the same antibiotics. They sent her home Wednesday with a fever from daycare. Then that night I took her into the doctor. Then yesterday they sent her home again from daycare at about 3 saying that she wasn’t running a fever but was very despondent, asking for her Mom and Dad over and over and crying a lot. So I picked her up and this morning she seemed okay. Hopefully she will bounce back over the weekend with lots of rest and relaxation.

We bought a new toddler sized potty lid and tried to get Kaylee interested but she is not. So we will continue to try to get her intrigued but I’m not pushing her if she is scared or unwilling. She’s still really little.

Kaylee’s grandparents came into town last weekend. They said that Kaylee has grown an inch in the last 2 months they haven’t seen her. She had fun with them, we went out to eat a few times and she behaved admirably. The only bad thing was we went to a benefit for someone’s child, and the music there was way too loud. While we were there Kaylee looked out of sorts/dazed and when we left, she cried very hard. Some things a nearly 2 year old just aren’t up for. She loves to play with the train set that her grandparents brought with them, and loved having a new audience to perform for.

Can’t wait until her 2nd birthday – it doesn’t seem too far off now that it’s March! We are hoping to get her transitioned to a big girl bed and potty trained before the new baby comes. Those are my focuses for her as her b-day approaches.