It's fun to be a mom

It's so fun to see Peanut expressing her personality. Lately she's picked up a few more words and can participate in conversations sorts. She says Mama, Dada, Papa, Tsss (Yes), No, a-MEN! and now she says Banana too! She's so fun!
Yesterday I went to get her following her afternoon nap. I opened the door and found her cute little blonde head peeking at me over the top of the crib. I laughed. She giggled. As I swooped her up into my arms, I asked "Did you have a good nap?" She nodded a strong nod as if to say "Oh yes Mummy! It was a long nap and I feel refreshed!"
I stood her up on her change table and as I did so she leaned in and gave me a kiss!
If ever there was reward for being a SAHM, this is it. The little moments during the day when being close and together is happiness enough.

Expressing opinion

This morning Peanut is upstairs playing in her room with Dad. I'm going downstairs, so I call to her from the landing, "Oh Peanut! Come downstairs with Mummy?"

nothing

Again I call "Oh Peanut, come downstairs with Mummy!"

She appears at the top of the stairs.

I call out coaxingly "Come downstairs with Mummy."

She smiles, waves her hand and says "Bye bye Mama!" Then with a proud giggle and a flurry of feet, she scrambles back to Dada.

Dang, I've been dissed.

Pterodactyl

Well, peanut is cutting more teeth... How can I tell? Because she's turned into a pterodactyl! I pick her up and all of a sudden she lets out a mighty screech, opens her mouth wide and does a dive bomb for my face! It's truly terrifying! When I'm not fast enough, I loose skin in my chin. Yeesh!

I thought it was just a mommy thing, but this past weekend she got my sister too.

I need to get her chewing on cold clothes.

I'm a supermodel and a mommy...

Well, not a supermodel, but I am a mommy and I love it! Today we had some highs and lows. We found out Peanut has excema, poor thing. : (
But today she drank out of a cup herself! She did one sip, delicious! Two sips, oh so proud! By the third sip she was brave enough to tip the cup way up - and dumped a full cup of water up her nose, down her clothing, down Mommy and onto the floor. I awaited the first cry, but she only laughed... a great deep belly laugh full of pride and accomplishment. What a girl!

We be blogging!

Inspired by the 'everybody can be cool'ness of the More Milk commercial, I've decided to start bloggin'. We'll see how it goes...