21 Jan 2012 No Comments
New blogging format
Well, here I am, trying something new again. The previous way of blogging obviously wasn’t working for me, since it’d been 3 months since I’d posted. Granted, I had very good reasons for being too busy to blog, but even so, I needed to find a way for blogging not to seem like such a chore. I do want to keep posting these tidbits about Amelia, but I guess it just need to not be so much work for me to do it.
So I’ve set it up so that I can blog by email. Meaning, I send an email and it turns into a blog post. No logging into WordPress, uploading images, writing a post, publishing it, and blah blah blah. Instead I’ll just be sending an email. Easy peasy! So, from now on, I’ll be posting more often, hopefully at least once a day. The posts will usually be very short, and because of that, much more palatable. Ahem.
A summary of the past 3 months! In November, Amelia had a lot of fun when Grandma and Leslie visited for Thanksgiving. In December, we moved to a new house. Amelia transitioned remarkably well, despite the fact that we all kept getting sick. Her grandparents from Norway were here for 3 weeks at Christmas, which she enjoyed immensely. Now we’ve finally settled back into a routine. She’s going to school again twice a week, and we had no problems with that, although now she’s getting more and more reluctant to leave when I come to pick her up.
Her language skills have developed in leaps and bounds. The biggest sentence that we’ve counted was 9 words. She’s become an expert at riding her tricycle, and she can count to 20 (when she wants to). She’s showing signs of being able to differentiate letters, so I’ve been picking up my efforts to teach her ABCs and letters. As with all things, she can seem a little slow in catching on to things, but when she does learn how to do something, she masters it very quickly.
She knows lots of colors and shapes already, so I’m dreading the day that I decide she has to be moved to a different school. From what I understand, her current school won’t allow her to “graduate” to a different classroom until…I don’t really know when, honestly. She’s born late in the year, which causes extra problems. In short, I don’t think I’ll be happy with her school for that much longer, but she’s become attached to her teachers and friends, so moving her will be really difficult. On the other hand, I really don’t want to continue paying a lot of money for a school that’s only going to “teach” her things she already knows.
But before a move can even be considered, she has to be potty trained. No progress there. She has zero interest in the potty, and she still won’t tell us when she needs her diaper changed. They say there’s no point in pushing it before the kid is ready. Well, we’re up to size 6 nighttime diapers now and will probably start buying that size for daytime, too. And that’s the end of the road, folks. It’s the biggest diaper size you can get at the store. So she’d better be ready soon, because I refuse to be the parent that has to order oversize diapers on the Internet because my kid still doesn’t seem like she’s ready for potty training.
So that’s where we’re at. This week’s favorite quote: Amelia accidentally knocked over a glass of water on the coffee table. She gasped, turned to me and said, “Be careful, Mia Anna!”