Rosa loves to get her hair brushed. I use a really soft brush they gave us from the hospital when Eliza was born to get the tangles out, then my regular brush, just for the feel of it. Rosa sits very still with her head tipped a little bit back, her mouth a little bit open, and her eyes a little bit closed. When I stop, she says "More brushing!" I know exactly how she feels. I love getting my hair brushed too.
In other news, as of early June, Eliza is waving. I credit it to Papa Misha who was out visiting with Grandma Lois, and did some nice slow waving with Eliza. That was the first wave I saw from her, and now she's doing it more and more. In fact, she and I wave at each other every night when I put her down in her crib and am saying "Night night." I've found that if I keep a big smile on my face as I turn off the light and close the door, she usually doesn't cry. (Hope I'm not jinxing myself!)
And finally, we had an absolutely lovely 3rd birthday party for Rosa yesterday. At a playground (as requested), with lots of nice friends, and a beautiful day. What more could you ask. Pictures coming soon (it's too late to do all the downloading, selecting, uploading, captioning, etc. tonight).
Monday, June 27, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Pico
Pico (pronounced Pee' ko), is Rosa's imaginary friend. She has talked about Pico for a long time, but it used to always be naming a baby doll or stuffed animal "Pico." Now, it's pretty clear that there is no physical object she's talking about, but there are long detailed accounts of the adventures she has with Pico, that very often include describing what form of public transit they have taken, where they sat, what they said to the driver and what the driver said to them. Go City Girl! I ask her questions about Pico - she says Pico is a girl, but often uses the pronoun "he" (she doesn't usually make this mistake); also, sometimes she talks about Pico and Panella, where Pico is a boy and Panella is a girl. Sometimes Pico is her twin and sometimes he is a baby (I think baby sister as opposed to HER baby). It's been really interesting to see this just take off in the last week or two.
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Rosa is just fine!
After that weird night last night, Rosa did wake in the night, which is not unusually, unfortunately. But today she was completely her usual, go-go-go self with no hint of headache. :-)
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
June 2011 visit
Eliza said "Hey Mama" or something that sounded like it 2 days ago. She's been saying "a-da-da-da-da-da" for a couple weeks now.
Tonight, Rosa was doing her usual stalling at bath time, and started crying about not wanting to take a bath, which I ignored and set about making happen anyway. Then she really started crying in the bathroom, which I told her she would get in trouble for if she woke Eliza up. But she was whimpering so uncontrollably, I finally realized something was really wrong. She said her forehead hurt, and it must have been bad. I didn't see her fall or bump it or anything. I gave her some children's ibuprofen, and put her into her jammies. I left the room for about 30 seconds to fill the humidifier tank and came back to find her fast asleep on her floor. A full hour before she usually goes to bed (on a day when she's taken a nap). I've checked on her twice... I guess she's ok. Weird!
Also, here are a couple pictures from Grandma Lois and Papa Misha's recent trip. Turns out I didn't take many pictures. But Papa Misha did.
Here are my pix:
Rosa and her buddy Mateus at the little cars at the mall. At one point he had his arm around her!
Daddy and his girls.
Grandma Lois and Eliza.
One of those videos where you think it's a photo, but it's really on video. :-)
4 ladies!
Everyone in their jammies.
Rosa always finds cool settings on the keyboard. She was really jamming out, but of course stopped when I got the camera out.
Tonight, Rosa was doing her usual stalling at bath time, and started crying about not wanting to take a bath, which I ignored and set about making happen anyway. Then she really started crying in the bathroom, which I told her she would get in trouble for if she woke Eliza up. But she was whimpering so uncontrollably, I finally realized something was really wrong. She said her forehead hurt, and it must have been bad. I didn't see her fall or bump it or anything. I gave her some children's ibuprofen, and put her into her jammies. I left the room for about 30 seconds to fill the humidifier tank and came back to find her fast asleep on her floor. A full hour before she usually goes to bed (on a day when she's taken a nap). I've checked on her twice... I guess she's ok. Weird!
Also, here are a couple pictures from Grandma Lois and Papa Misha's recent trip. Turns out I didn't take many pictures. But Papa Misha did.
Here are my pix:
Rosa and her buddy Mateus at the little cars at the mall. At one point he had his arm around her!
Daddy and his girls.
Grandma Lois and Eliza.
One of those videos where you think it's a photo, but it's really on video. :-)
4 ladies!
Everyone in their jammies.
Rosa always finds cool settings on the keyboard. She was really jamming out, but of course stopped when I got the camera out.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
What is that Smell?
Rosa asks this question at least 20 times a day. Truly. It's as if her nose has just turned on. Of course, a certain percentage of the time, it's Daddy's farts (sorry - but it's true!). And then there are times when I have no idea what she's talking about. But I do know her smeller works. And she always says it like this: "What's that smay-ell?" Pretty funny.
And what about Eliza... she's a smiley, happy girl. In a nutshell: She's sitting up really well now, eating 2 meals a day, but still only pooping every 4 or 5 days sometimes. The prunes help, but they are no guarantee.
And what about Eliza... she's a smiley, happy girl. In a nutshell: She's sitting up really well now, eating 2 meals a day, but still only pooping every 4 or 5 days sometimes. The prunes help, but they are no guarantee.
Monday, May 23, 2011
May 2011 (including a big girl bed!)
It's been another full month! I am finally realizing that my blog entries are less of a journal about milestones and anecdotes, and more of a a series of photos with captions. That's kind of what it turns into when my blog entries are infrequent enough that I rely on the photos to remember what we've been doing the last few weeks.
This picture is of Easter morning. Jeff always says he's never in the pictures, so here's one that proves he was here. Rosa and her friend Mateus colored the eggs (what an adventure that was!), and I baked the Pascha bread.
That morning we did Rosa's first ever Easter Egg hunt at a neighborhood park. It was really fun! Rosa wore pink tights on her head to be bunny ears. Her friend Ember wore an egg hat. The moms wore new babies.
Rosa, complete with bunny ears, purse (to collect eggs), rain pants, and umbrella.
The Easter Bunny was there too! Rosa was brave enough to give him a hug!
Now we've jumped ahead a month to the "Spring Show" at Rosa's daycare. It was wild and fun, as you'll see! Here's Rosa's kitty mask.
Other kids telling about their masks:
"The Robot" dance. This was Jeff's favorite part!
One day at snack time, Rosa gathered all the babies and high chairs she could find in the house. She is eating popcorn (paaaa-corn), which she now eats for afternoon snack every single day.
In early May we took a trip to Pennsylvania for my Aunt Marilyn's memorial service. We also got to see Jeff's grandpa and cousins. It was Great-Grandpa's first time meeting Eliza!
Another of Rosa's self-portraits, which I believe will be in a famous collection someday. She was apparently sad about something just prior to taking the portrait.
As promised, here is a picture of Rosa's first trip to the dentist! I had heard all about kid dentists having videos and other tricks, which this dentist had none of (I was kind of disappointed!). But she was very gentle and good with kids and did a great job explaining what was going on in simple, non-scary ways. She poked, polished, and applied fluoride to all 20 teeth in Rosa's mouth, with perfect cooperation from Rosa... better results that I would have guessed, even with videos!
After Rosa began letting herself out of her crib every morning, and some nights, we decided to take the bars down on the front of the crib, thus converting it to a toddler bed. Rosa had to show us that she could stay in her crib when she went to bed at night for a whole week, and once she did that, we were ready. Here's how it used to look:
The crib is from Ikea, so it comes apart and goes together with Allen wrenches. Rosa helped with all the nuts and bolts and was actually very adept at this.
Then the last part required a Philips-head screwdriver, which she was also good at, thanks to the toolbox set we recently got her.
Here she was, reveling at the coolness of her new biggirl bed! She has done FANTASTICALLY in it ever since! I don't think she has climbed out (or fallen out!) once after going to bed in the 2 weeks that she's been sleeping in it like this. We did add a guard rail, which helps keep her from falling out by accident.
Eliza proved to be much happier, not to mention safer, in a clip-on high chair than she had been in the Bumbo chair (little blue chair that sat on the table - see Easter picture), so now she and Rosa are the bookends of our table.
Last weekend we took an awesome trip to a local goat farm! The kids all loved seeing the goats and romping in the grassy field.
Here's Rosa "protecting" Paxton from the goats. She's gotten into the protector role lately...
And here's Rosa, Peter, and Mateus, the Three Musketeers, romping in the grass.
Everyone had to wear "lunchlady hats" to keep their hair contained in the cheese-making room.
And Eliza was there too!
There's Daddy and Eliza holding court in the tasting room.
As if seeing a goat farm wasn't cool enough for one day, we and Ember's family went to a beach on the way home.
It had cool sandstone cliffs.
It was NOT a warm day, mind you, but by the end of it, the girls were enjoying the water, Northern California style.
And then the next day (see what I mean about a busy month!), Jeff took Rosa to the Maker Faire. The Maker Faire is Robotics meets Arts'n'Crafts with some Burning Man mixed in, just to liven things up. I stayed home and took some long naps with Eliza. Jeff and Rosa left home at 10:30 am and got back at 6:30 pm - this was a LONG day for Rosa. This picture sums up my mental picture of what the day was like for Rosa... a little overwhelming!
Here Rosa met some home-made R2D2s. Apparently, the guy had spent 6 years making them in his basement.
And here, the kids were spinning a 9,000 lb rock that was stood on its side with some ball bearings. Apparently there were lots of kids there and lots of neat kid activities.
And on that note, I close. I kind of hope for a calmer June, but am not counting on it!
This picture is of Easter morning. Jeff always says he's never in the pictures, so here's one that proves he was here. Rosa and her friend Mateus colored the eggs (what an adventure that was!), and I baked the Pascha bread.
That morning we did Rosa's first ever Easter Egg hunt at a neighborhood park. It was really fun! Rosa wore pink tights on her head to be bunny ears. Her friend Ember wore an egg hat. The moms wore new babies.
Rosa, complete with bunny ears, purse (to collect eggs), rain pants, and umbrella.
The Easter Bunny was there too! Rosa was brave enough to give him a hug!
Now we've jumped ahead a month to the "Spring Show" at Rosa's daycare. It was wild and fun, as you'll see! Here's Rosa's kitty mask.
Other kids telling about their masks:"The Robot" dance. This was Jeff's favorite part!
One day at snack time, Rosa gathered all the babies and high chairs she could find in the house. She is eating popcorn (paaaa-corn), which she now eats for afternoon snack every single day.
In early May we took a trip to Pennsylvania for my Aunt Marilyn's memorial service. We also got to see Jeff's grandpa and cousins. It was Great-Grandpa's first time meeting Eliza!
Another of Rosa's self-portraits, which I believe will be in a famous collection someday. She was apparently sad about something just prior to taking the portrait.
As promised, here is a picture of Rosa's first trip to the dentist! I had heard all about kid dentists having videos and other tricks, which this dentist had none of (I was kind of disappointed!). But she was very gentle and good with kids and did a great job explaining what was going on in simple, non-scary ways. She poked, polished, and applied fluoride to all 20 teeth in Rosa's mouth, with perfect cooperation from Rosa... better results that I would have guessed, even with videos!
After Rosa began letting herself out of her crib every morning, and some nights, we decided to take the bars down on the front of the crib, thus converting it to a toddler bed. Rosa had to show us that she could stay in her crib when she went to bed at night for a whole week, and once she did that, we were ready. Here's how it used to look:
The crib is from Ikea, so it comes apart and goes together with Allen wrenches. Rosa helped with all the nuts and bolts and was actually very adept at this.
Then the last part required a Philips-head screwdriver, which she was also good at, thanks to the toolbox set we recently got her.
Here she was, reveling at the coolness of her new biggirl bed! She has done FANTASTICALLY in it ever since! I don't think she has climbed out (or fallen out!) once after going to bed in the 2 weeks that she's been sleeping in it like this. We did add a guard rail, which helps keep her from falling out by accident.
Eliza proved to be much happier, not to mention safer, in a clip-on high chair than she had been in the Bumbo chair (little blue chair that sat on the table - see Easter picture), so now she and Rosa are the bookends of our table.
Last weekend we took an awesome trip to a local goat farm! The kids all loved seeing the goats and romping in the grassy field.
Here's Rosa "protecting" Paxton from the goats. She's gotten into the protector role lately...
And here's Rosa, Peter, and Mateus, the Three Musketeers, romping in the grass.
Everyone had to wear "lunchlady hats" to keep their hair contained in the cheese-making room.
And Eliza was there too!
There's Daddy and Eliza holding court in the tasting room.
As if seeing a goat farm wasn't cool enough for one day, we and Ember's family went to a beach on the way home.
It had cool sandstone cliffs.
It was NOT a warm day, mind you, but by the end of it, the girls were enjoying the water, Northern California style.
And then the next day (see what I mean about a busy month!), Jeff took Rosa to the Maker Faire. The Maker Faire is Robotics meets Arts'n'Crafts with some Burning Man mixed in, just to liven things up. I stayed home and took some long naps with Eliza. Jeff and Rosa left home at 10:30 am and got back at 6:30 pm - this was a LONG day for Rosa. This picture sums up my mental picture of what the day was like for Rosa... a little overwhelming!
Here Rosa met some home-made R2D2s. Apparently, the guy had spent 6 years making them in his basement.
And here, the kids were spinning a 9,000 lb rock that was stood on its side with some ball bearings. Apparently there were lots of kids there and lots of neat kid activities.
And on that note, I close. I kind of hope for a calmer June, but am not counting on it!
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Eliza is sitting, Rosa went to the dentist!
No time for uploading pictures this late night, but that will come. Just wanted to use the blog as a diary to jot down a few milestones!
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