Random things about the life with Maylee:
*The other day I realized that it had been a couple of days and I hadn't wiped Maylee from her going poo. The girl is a poo and runner. I sometimes go in the bathroom find poo in the toilet and wonder how long Maylee has been running around without her bum being wiped. Gross, crazy girl!
*Maylee will be doing something that she absoluetly should not be doing, like for instance picking up Talli and then dropping her on her face because she is to heavy. David a few times has said, Maylee stop doing that (whatever it is she was doing at the time), Maylee replies in the most adorable, high-pitch, sing song, innocent little voice, "OK Daddy". David knows she isn't listening at all so he says it again, Maylee stop doing that. Maylee gives the same reply, "OK Daddy." and continues to do what she was doing. Doesn't even miss a beat, by saying OK, it just rolls off her tongue. So David has occasionally said, Maylee do you want a spanken, Maylee replies "Yes Daddy", at which point David and I are both trying not to laugh, even though we are beyond frustrated with her. So David has given her a spanken (not hard, doesn't hurt, just trying to get her attention.) to which she turns around and laughs at David and continues to do what he's been asking her not to do. Seriously, what do we do with this child.
*Maylee's new favorite thing to do is to pretend that she is a puppy. There are some days where she will not utter a single word for hours, she will only bark. When a puppy barks that much I think it needs to be put outside :) The other night while we were having FHE she barked the entire twinkle twinkle little star song.
*It's November it was 60 degrees outside all last week and Maylee stayed in her swimsuit all day every day. She only takes it off to change into her other swimsuit, although she calls it a swimsoup. Pretty cute, but the girl must be freezing.
*After every time Maylee goes to the bathroom she insists on getting a new pair of panties. She has about 15 pairs of panties and yet they're all "dirty" every two or three days. I started hiding them for awhile which was working pretty good and then I get lazy or forget and put them in her dresser drawer and then she has no clean panties again.
*Maylee is OBSESSED with cotton balls. I can't even begin to describe the level of obsession this girl has with cotton balls. But in Maylee's world they are not just cotton balls, they are babies. And the problem with cotton ball babies is they are very tiny and get lost easy. And when Maylee can't find her babies the entire house knows about it. She sleeps with them, pushes them in her stroller, covers them with blankets, eats with them, takes them to the store with us, they are every where. And occasionally if Maylee leaves them to close to Talli, she tries to eat them. Then we have soaking wet cotton ball babies.
*If you tell Maylee that something is a baby she instantly falls in love with it, no matter what it is. The other day Maylee and Dutch came in the house freaking out because there was a cricket on the back patio. So I went out there to look and it and it was just a little tiny one, so I said oh guys it's just a baby. For the next 1/2 hour Maylee was on her hands and knees talking to that baby cricket and falling in love with it.
*The annoying house flies that we all try to kill are referred to as "butterflies" by Maylee and she just tries to catch them, she follows them all over the house and thinks they're so beautiful. The other night after we had put the kids to bed David and I were sitting on the couch watching TV and there were three flies up on the ceiling, we joked that they were trying to get away from Maylee.
This has been a very eventful week for our family. First off, Maylee started sleeping in a big girl bed last Sunday. I was very sad to move her out of the crib/cage but she finally mastered climbing out and it was as if she wasn't even in a crib anymore with how often she was escaping, I mean climbing out. So we bumped her up and she has been doing awesome. She doesn't come out of her room anymore then she did in the crib and she is in love with her big girl bed. Plus it didn't seem fair to keep Talli in the uncomfortable orphan crib if Maylee was ready for a big girl bed. So we made the switch last Sunday, now I know Talli can't talk but if she could I think she would be saying, "Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for getting me out of that orphan crib." She sleeps so much better and longer in the more comfortable, luxurious crib.
Talli has been army crawling for awhile now, sitting up on her own when put into the sitting position but she just hasn't been able to get into the sitting position by herself. Thursday morning I heard her chatting away in her crib and when I went to get her guess who was sitting up all by herself. I was so proud of her. Now she crawls around and sits up when ever she wants. She is still army crawling, however, she is showing more interest in trying to crawl on her knees. However it takes way to long to get to where ever she wants to go and she gives up after about 10 seconds and goes right back to the army crawling, I mean why fix what isn't broken, right.
Then yesterday I had the wonderful opporunity to take Dutch and Maylee to a friends house for Dutch's preschool playgroup. So it was just Talli and I for 3 1/2 hours, so we went shopping. I forget how much easier it is to do things with one baby. We made our way over to JoAnns, where I actually got to browse and shop at my own pace. While I was waiting in line for the fabric to get cut, I put Talli down into a huge bin that I was buying for her to play in. She thought it was great and was having a blast when all of the sudden she grabbed the side and pulled herself up into standing position. Way to go Talli! She thought she was pretty hot stuff and enjoyed being cheered for because she just kept pulling herself up over and over. She's getting too big too fast.
Dutch wanted to color yesterday so I pulled out the crayons and paper and let him go to town. After a little while he came and found me and told me he wanted to show me his picture. He then described it to me, "This is the sky and the clouds and down here are the cars driving on the road and this is my name." It's his first picture that he colored that wasn't random scribbles and could actually be made to look like something. I was so proud of him. It's one of those pictures that I'll keep forever.
