Dear Katy Bug

Dear Katy Bug,

Your first words have so surprised your Daddy and I. Your first word naturally was Mama but the next delighted and amused us.  Thank you, you pronounced as Gak u.

Today you are 15 mths old.  This morning to being up with you lots last night I had a sleep in while you spent time with Daddy.  When I finally stumbled out of the bedroom you stood up and said "Mama, where you are?"  Your Daddy and I laughed as we understood you to mean, Mama where were you?

Yesterday when I got you out of the at church you took off to explore and got two metres away and then turned and looked and said 'Mama?'  I replied, "I'm here!" and you raced back to my side, grabbed my skirt the relief was evident in your voice when you said 'here you are!"

It delights me to hear your words and I look forward to understanding even more of your chatter. On Friday I noticed you needed to use the potty and I picked you up to take you and you stood beside the potty saying ka-ka, ka-ka!  your pronounciation of the Croatian word I use to talk to you about poos.  I'm wondering whether you will soon be ready for potty training.

Despite my sleepiness and crankiness today, I love you my little cheeky girl!  You are the delight of my life and I'm so proud of you for learning to sleep in your own bed.  Your night thirstiness?  Together we'll sort that one out as I encourage you to drink more in the day and not depend so much on the milk you plead for in the night hours.

All my love,
Your Mama

Night weaning

Last post I had said I wanted to night wean. Guess what! It's a heap harder then I could have imagined!

Would anyone have suggestions on how gently night wean?

Currently I'm trying to cut down slowly night feeds and offer water instead. 

Welcome

Since realizing that I was addicted to facebook and that I really didn't want to role model that to my daughter i decided to change the way I run my life.  So, instead of fb I'm going to do the odd blog so that I'm using my brain instead of just reading mindless gossip all day!

In the last week I discovered that the reason why our little girl was nursing all night was because she was not getting enough liquids in during the day and that she needed me to blend her grains and legumes.  So... excitingly enough, she is now sleeping for 4 hour stretches and not needing me to resettle her every hour!  I'm really thrilled and now daydreaming about fully night weaning her so that I can have energy and time to do stuff without her following me around all the time!

On that topic, we have moved her bed into her room and turned it into a cute little toddler room.  It's very exciting!

It looks like Miss K is about to bust six teeth.  Her bottom two molars and the side teeth to the centre ones as those haven't come yet. 

Now that Miss K is getting older she is becoming rather helpful in good ways.  Since I give her fresh apple juice with water (1:3) she has learned to put the apple pieces into the Baby Oscar Juicer and push the plunger.  She also helped me today to make the salad and happily throws anything in the bin for me!  She keeps me on my toes with throwing anything in the bin that's on the floor.  Hence I have become a bit more focused on keeping everything as tidy as possible!

 As K has changed into a little girl the reality of the responsibility I now have especially to start training and teaching her has overwhelmed me.  So I decided the first couple things I needed to do was go off facebook (I didn't want to model computer addiction to her) and start trying to get up early to do my devotional time.  We're going to start fully night weaning tonight so hopefully soon I'll be getting enough sleep to be able to get up before her!

~K's Mama