Brynlee loves to sing. The songs that she knows most or all of the words to include
"I am a Child of God"
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
"ABC song"
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
"Barney song"
"Elmo's Song"
"5 Little duckies"
"Rock-a-bye-baby"
She insists on singing almost all of them before she goes to bed. Thankfully she doesn't remember all of them each night or I would be in there forever. She likes to stall and ask me again to sing them. She also likes to ask for "dinner" or "noodles" or "milk" so she doesn't have to go to bed. If you fall for it, she won't eat/drink it, but she sure got what she wanted.
My favorite quotes: "I hold you" when she wants to be picked up. "Help you"- when she wants help. I try over and over to explain to her that you say "help me", but it is so cute to hear I don't try too hard.
Foods she eats: pretty much just carbs. She loves bread, rice, noodles (plain mostly, sometimes a little red sauce), crackers, mac & cheese, pancakes, candy and anything with sugar in it, ice cream, etc. She rarely eats fruits or vegetables and never eats meat. The only somewhat healthy things she eats are V8 juice, apple juice, milk, and oatmeal.
Brynlee's favorite shows are Baby Einstein, Barney, Super Why, and Cat in the Hat. Her favorite books are all Elmo books- "Time for bed Elmo", "Elmo count to 10" & "Elmo loves you". She also insists that I read a "Cat in the hat" book, which means a Dr. Suess book. John refuses to read them to her because some are 60 pages long. Who in their right mind would make a kids book 60 pages long? I was getting tired of the same books over and over again (Elmo, Elmo, Elmo) so I started reading the Dr. Suess books. I found she actually seems to get a little bored when I read them, which makes me happy because then she might go to sleep faster.
I find it interesting that Brynlee has memorized lots of her books. She will say the last word of each sentence of the books we read every night (see above).
Speaking of going to sleep... Brynlee has been such a nightmare for the last month or so. It often takes 1-4 hours to get her to sleep and almost always includes a bribe. Her bribes include a trip to the library the next day, chocolate milk in the morning, 1 piece of candy before the nap with a promise of the rest of the fruit snack or 2 more M&M's after the nap, going to Grandma/Grandpa's house, etc. I have no guilt bribing my child all day long to get her to do things as long as it works.
Brynlee has been saying some funny things. I had to start writing them down. Some examples- she bit John's ear the other day. When he said, "Ow, don't do that!" Brynlee said "Want to eat ear!!!!"
I love that Brynlee is starting to get a cute imagination. She will ask for a bib, spoon, and bowl then strap one of her babies or stuffed animals into her high chair and "feed" them. She asks for a diaper and "white" (wipe) so she can change her babies diaper.
I finally broke down and looked for some books in the library about how to manage a difficult child. Thankfully, one of them explains Brynlee pretty well. It's so nice to read that I'm not crazy when I think my child is waaaaayyy more difficult than the average 2-year-old. I just hope there are more suggestions of how to handle her so I don't lose my mind EVERY day.
"I am a Child of God"
"Twinkle Twinkle Little Star"
"ABC song"
"Row, Row, Row Your Boat"
"Barney song"
"Elmo's Song"
"5 Little duckies"
"Rock-a-bye-baby"
She insists on singing almost all of them before she goes to bed. Thankfully she doesn't remember all of them each night or I would be in there forever. She likes to stall and ask me again to sing them. She also likes to ask for "dinner" or "noodles" or "milk" so she doesn't have to go to bed. If you fall for it, she won't eat/drink it, but she sure got what she wanted.
My favorite quotes: "I hold you" when she wants to be picked up. "Help you"- when she wants help. I try over and over to explain to her that you say "help me", but it is so cute to hear I don't try too hard.
Foods she eats: pretty much just carbs. She loves bread, rice, noodles (plain mostly, sometimes a little red sauce), crackers, mac & cheese, pancakes, candy and anything with sugar in it, ice cream, etc. She rarely eats fruits or vegetables and never eats meat. The only somewhat healthy things she eats are V8 juice, apple juice, milk, and oatmeal.
Brynlee's favorite shows are Baby Einstein, Barney, Super Why, and Cat in the Hat. Her favorite books are all Elmo books- "Time for bed Elmo", "Elmo count to 10" & "Elmo loves you". She also insists that I read a "Cat in the hat" book, which means a Dr. Suess book. John refuses to read them to her because some are 60 pages long. Who in their right mind would make a kids book 60 pages long? I was getting tired of the same books over and over again (Elmo, Elmo, Elmo) so I started reading the Dr. Suess books. I found she actually seems to get a little bored when I read them, which makes me happy because then she might go to sleep faster.
I find it interesting that Brynlee has memorized lots of her books. She will say the last word of each sentence of the books we read every night (see above).
Speaking of going to sleep... Brynlee has been such a nightmare for the last month or so. It often takes 1-4 hours to get her to sleep and almost always includes a bribe. Her bribes include a trip to the library the next day, chocolate milk in the morning, 1 piece of candy before the nap with a promise of the rest of the fruit snack or 2 more M&M's after the nap, going to Grandma/Grandpa's house, etc. I have no guilt bribing my child all day long to get her to do things as long as it works.
Brynlee has been saying some funny things. I had to start writing them down. Some examples- she bit John's ear the other day. When he said, "Ow, don't do that!" Brynlee said "Want to eat ear!!!!"
I love that Brynlee is starting to get a cute imagination. She will ask for a bib, spoon, and bowl then strap one of her babies or stuffed animals into her high chair and "feed" them. She asks for a diaper and "white" (wipe) so she can change her babies diaper.
I finally broke down and looked for some books in the library about how to manage a difficult child. Thankfully, one of them explains Brynlee pretty well. It's so nice to read that I'm not crazy when I think my child is waaaaayyy more difficult than the average 2-year-old. I just hope there are more suggestions of how to handle her so I don't lose my mind EVERY day.
Notice the can of beans in her stroller? She likes to reorganize the pantry all day long.
Feeding her baby the bottle
"Sleeping"
Brynlee in her Christmas dress.
Feeding her baby food in the high chair
She has a new obsession of putting our shoes on her feet and trying to walk around. If she's wearing John's shoes she can't even take 1 step before falling.
Being silly
Wouldn't it be nice if as adults we had someone to put a blanket over us and give us a sippy cup of hot chocolate? I was a little jealous no one was there to do that for me!
Wiping the lamb's bum. Next comes the diaper
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