On Monday, we noticed that Kiley is getting a tooth!! A tiny little nub of a tooth on the bottom. She's been more fussy than usual but not awful. Wednesday, she took the tiniest baby step and then fell on her bottom. It was more like she just accidentally shuffled her foot forward but still... Then yesterday, we noticed something that the kids and I found quite amusing. Jake was playing on the computer and Kiley kept messing with him. He told her very gently and not at all in a stern voice, 'No Kiley you can't mess with that. No.' To which she promptly burst into tears and threw herself backwards onto the ground. This scenario was repeated several times, proving there was a definite pattern between her being told 'No' and her bursting into tears and flinging herself backwards. She is absolutely throwing little baby temper tantrums and it's cracking us up! Sydney found it slightly less amusing when I told her she used to do the exact same thing and get the same reaction.
On the food front, she can't get enough to eat these days. Today, she was so fussy and I'd fed her and nursed her and so finally I got out a bottle and some formula and she sucked down about 12 ounces of that on top of everything else. Now the challenge is to get her to eat at least one green veggie a day and we're getting there. Repeated exposure seems to be key, and sadly I'm hiding veggies in other foods, which is something I really never had to do with Jake & Sydney. She loves these low-fat spinach balls that I make, a broccoli, egg & cheese breakfast casserole, etc. But, she's eating her veggies and still eating food that the rest of us eat (and not her own special Kiley diet) so I'll take it... I've never been one to cook one thing for the adults and another for the kids - if I put one meal a night on the table we're doing really, really well!!
The big kids are doing well. Only four more weeks of summer! Jake has no more camps so he'll be home. I'm going to have to put him to work so he doesn't sit on the computer all day. Sydney is going to VBS this week and then to a drill-team dance camp in August; both are 1/2 day camps. We have their two free Six Flags tickets that expire in early August and will likely take a day trip for that. We have four Schlitterbahn tickets and are planning to maybe stay a night there in the coming weeks - hopefully with the Crider-Bleil family, whose daughter Bria is Sydney's best friend. We will wrap up summer with a long weekend at the Hill Country Hyatt. It's a fun summer with lots of little adventures and plenty of time to play with friends.
11 years ago
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