Challenge Accepted!

My cousin issued a challenge on Facebook the other day to blog 6 days a week for a month. So I have accepted her challenge and it starts today. I think between pictures and anecdotes I will be able to oblige.

So Kaylee is 18 months old now. Very hard to believe. Especially since Brendan was that old when I got pregnant with her. She is talking more and more and more everyday. I LOVE that she will answer yes or no questions. Although usually she answers uh huh (yes). Let's see, I'll try to come up with a list of what she is saying now: uh oh, uh huh, lights, woof woof (for dog), high five (this one shocked me the other day), and oh no (her favorite). That's all I can come up with for now. She really does talk a lot and if you listen carefully you can understand. She's still being a bully. She even did it at church the other day. The teachers said she would get really quiet and just be observing the room and then she'd walk over and take whichever toy she wanted. Mean girl! She just got over a horrible bout with diaper rash. I finally called the doc after nothing was working and they said to put Lotrimin on it for 3 - 4 days and if it didn't clear up with that to make an appointment. I can't tell you how odd it was to put athlete's foot cream on my daughter's private parts. But it worked! And I am grateful. Around this time she was VERY cranky and running low grade fevers. I think she was also trying to cut a tooth. Poor little girl.

I had a moment at WalMart the other day where I was regretting having a daughter. I was looking in the big girl accessories since our daughter, like her brother, has a huge head. I came across the underwear display. You read that correctly. They had the underwear laying out just like they would at Victoria's Secret and any other women's lingerie department. They had hipsters and bikinis and other styles. Thankfully I did not find thongs among them (didn't have the stomach to look actually). But still, I have a BIG problem with this. Girls are supposed to wear Fruit of the Loom and Hanes and day-of-the-week underwear and be happy with it! They don't wear things that require different types of underwear like women do! I am not okay with this.

On to the boy. He is going through a scaredy-cat phase at the moment. He loves talking about lizards and caterpillars and other bugs all day long. But get him near one and he pulls his arms in and crouches and will not go closer than a couple of feet from it. Silly boy. His favorite movie right now is Puss in Boots. And my mom found boots, hat, belt, and sword for him to play with. If you come over to my house at any given time of day, he will be in them. Even when he's napping/sleeping. His talking is night and day from this time last year. I'm still gonna call the school district to get him tested. Mostly to see if there is anything we should be doing. Don't really think there will be anything wrong though. His teacher told us he was the first kid in his class to tell her all the days of the week! Thank you Mickey Mouse calendar episode and the fact that he constantly asks when school is. He is so smart. One of my favorite smart kid moments came at dinner time a couple of months ago. We didn't have any chicken nuggets but we had some steak fingers. So I gave him those. He looked at them funny and said brown chicken nuggets? We said yes! After many funny-faced bites, he ate them all. The next night I had been to the store so I asked him if he wanted chicken and he said (with a concerned look on his face) white chicken? He makes us laugh a lot. Potty training continues to go amazingly well. We've even managed to get him to quit running back to us from our bathroom naked. He'll actually put his underwear and pants back on first (and his aforementioned costume pieces, lol). We have a few other issues to sort out, but we're getting there. We still haven't attempted night-time training. But since he's off to the grandparent's lake house this weekend, I'll actually have time to get in his room and get it setup for that endeavor.

Brendan is still a picky eater. Kaylee has her moments. She's still eating broccoli and green beans (yeah!) but getting her to try new things seems to only work when they're on my plate. Not sure when we'll be able to convince Brendan to try stuff again. We usually have to bribe him when we try. So frequently there are four meals made in the house. Ridiculous. But since we're trying to lose weight, it's sometimes the only thing we can do. And a lot of times I give in and just make Kaylee the same thing as Brendan but I don't want her to fall into the picky trap. She's also been eating less recently. Hoping we're not about to start the hunger strike phase that frustrated us so badly with Brendan.

We bought the zoo membership again. This spring has been way too pretty and we want to enjoy it! We went on Monday and the weather was amazing. Kaylee's favorite part was the reptile/amphibian house cause I actually let her out of the stroller to run around. Brendan's favorite part was the Komodo dragon I think. We got a cute pic of him laying down like the dragon. It was funny. We love having something as a go-to outing. It's also nice to not feel like you have to do the entire zoo every time you go. It would be nicer if it was closer but it's not too bad a drive on most days. It has gotten very popular though. Parking has been awful every time we've gone so far.

That's all for now :-)