Love For Baby Brother & Other Discoveries

It was Jocelyn's bed time so I was doing my usual--read a story and rock her for a few minutes and sing her a few songs. To get her familiar with having her baby brother around in the next couple of months, I have her say good night to him. She kissed my belly (those are meant to be HIS kisses) and then she layed her head on my belly and sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to him. It was the cutest thing ever! What an angel. Along with Aubrey, she's going to be a great big sister!


There are some things that have happened recently with Jocelyn's growth that I wanted to be sure to take the time to record. One is that she is becoming more and more independent and head-strong as the days go by. Her favorite & new "word at the moment" this week is nope. It's very funny and cute how she says it too. Just plain old nope! And if we don't get the hint, she'll say it repeatedly until we understand. Some others have been:

1. Being a little more interested in using the potty. Nothing usually results in this sitting process but hey, atleast she's trying right?!

2. Sometimes tries to bite when things don't go her way-this is NOT fun on our part. She's getting better at not doing it thankfully.

3. I was changing her diaper this morning after waking up and she was babbling away just happy as can be. Not much of it could I understand except for the last part: "Daddy is a boy." LOL I had to call John at work to tell him the news and we both chuckled. But this is a great accomplishment as we've been teaching her the difference between a boy and a girl. Well, not in THAT way. Just the basic "this is a picture of a boy and this is a picture of a girl" in her story books.

4. Pointed to my tummy tonight and said "uh oh!" I looked down at my shirt half expecting that I dropped some food on myself at dinner but no. Better yet, she was pointing at the ever expanding outline of my belly button becoming more and more stretched. I too laughed at this wonderful discovery of hers but I was sighing inside. I don't know what it is. I love that I'm getting bigger for the baby's sake and health and all but that doesn't mean that I have to love all the weight gain that comes with it. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed her innocence in my belly button.
5. This girl has finally and I mean FINALLY started to get back into eating vegetables again. To my dismay, over the past year since she got off pureed baby foods, we haven't been able to get her to eat the vegetables on her plate. She of course amuzes us (or better yet gives us false hope) and pickes them up and SMELLS them and then puts them back down on her plate or smashes them between her fingers to smitherines. But this week it all changed. She had a small amount of peas and carrots on her plate next to other items and I was able to coax her into eating "just 2" here and there. This really is a big step for her and I'm proud that I have one less mommy worry to worry about. :)

6. Not too long ago, I went to get her up from her nap and as I walked in I instantly knew something was wrong. Could it have been the diaper she was holding out over her bed to me? Yikes! I didn't think she'd be able to undo her diaper with her onesie on but why am I underestimating her strength and power? There thankfully was no messes to clean while that diaper was off duty. Good thing too because I wouldn't have laughed otherwise. I suppose looking back on it as I am now it would be funny but some moments you can't find the humor. I'm doing better at it though.

***Some more words she can say now:

please, thank you, blankie, more, all done, cracker, juice, color, book, soccer, boy, girl, bye-bye, love you, morning, night night, brother, puzzle, movie, elmo, nemo, water, get up, back up----and many, many more. There are actually very few words now that we don't understand and in those circumstances, we have her SHOW us what she's talking about. Our baby is no longer. She is turning into quite the little girl.