blowing nose

We have all had a cold lately.  Scotland told me that the other day she walked to the toilet paper dispenser.  Turn off a piece, and blew her nose with it!   He didn't tell me the rest of the story until I asked, but then she tore the paper into little tiny pieces.   This is what reminded me of that:  (Mom told me by Skype) 

• Judith had left big broom in her kitchen. I think something spilled while Tatiana was there &  Tatiana got the big adult broom & swept that spot & did other areas of the kitchen. I wish Judith would have taken a picture of that.

Wednesday

Scotland did some work yesterday, so Tatiana was with Judith when I got home.  I could hear her playing when I walked in the door.  The first thing Judith said was, "Too bad you weren't here 5 minutes ago"  I thought I'd missed something cute.  Judith said that 5 minutes ago Tatiana was asking for me.  She knew that it was time for mommy to come home.  I got home about a half hour early because I'd left at the crack of 5pm.  Any earlier just seems wrong.  Tatiana was very happy and she really wanted to be held, but she wanted me to stand so I would move around, and she wanted something to play with.  Judith said she'd had a wonderful conversation with my mom.  Talking about Tatiana, of course.  Judith said, "I think your mom loves Tatiana as much as I do."  I think she'd started to say, "almost as much" and then she realized how silly that would be.  We talked for a little while longer, then Judith left.  After Judith left, Tatiana was willing to go into the backyard with me.  She hadn't been while Judith was there.  I sat in the swing and she played in the yard.  Then we went to the library.  She loves the library.  One nice thing about that play area is that the kids that come there are good kids with attentive parents.   Some older kids were putting on a little puppet show.  One kid had a dog and the dog said "I hate marshmellows".  The other kid had a shark and the shark contradicted everything the dog said, so the shark said he liked marshmellows.  I was wearing a peasant skirt and she loves it when I do that.  She sometimes grabs the skirt and leads me where she wants to go.  Then she looks up at me with this great big smile.  She also likes to wrap herself in the skirt and play peek-a-boo.  We got home and she played a little bit but was ready for PJ time.  She was very happy all evening, but she waited for Scotland.  When he got home we were both on the mancave floor sharing a pillow. 

sick

We have all been sick the last few days. When I got home, Tatiana seemed to be feeling better. She was active, but still a little warm. Monday night she had a temp of 100.8. She did not want to go to sleep. Then she woke up at 5:30am. I went to get her. She wanted Daddy. She even threw herself back in her crib saying "NNOOOOO" when she saw it was me. She struggled, but I changed her diaper. It was extremely wet. I got her some milk. She kept calling for her Daddy. I thought I would sit in the mancave with her like Scotland would. That was a bad idea. She squirmed out my arms and ran to Daddy. He got up with her. She was so wide awake by that point that it took her a long time to go to sleep

Comments about Easter Weekend Photos

Gram wrote : 

Comments from friends about these photos of Easter Weekend:

Gram Reading Teddy Time

Teddy Time 2

Tatiana with Duck Easter Basket at ELKS Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Tatiana  ready to find more eggs

Tatiana in stroller

Tatiana taking photo of Dallas

Tatiana & camera

Dorothy wrote: “You are so lucky to have that little girl.  Do I detect some curls in the back of her head.  Reminds me of someone.....  She's a doll.”

Marta wrote: “SHE IS REALLY GROWING!! A FEW MORE MONTHS AND SHE'S TWO. IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE.”

Marnie wrote: “She is just growing into the most beautiful young lady, and too, too fast!

I see Susie in her so much.  She is so precious.  I'll be she is so spoiled in the best of ways!!!  Love you and keep up the good work. LOL”

Mary Knight: “She is so cute and getting so big.  What a treasure.”

Jan : “ Can't wait to see her.”

Lisa Moreland: “She's a cutie!”

Carol Mansfield : “ the one where the book is down and you can see her face next to yours is perfect.  the times we live for.  what a wonderful pic.”

Ann Watson : “This will be an Easter you will always remember.
Thanks for sending the cute pictures.’

Vickie Allen : “So cute!!!!!!!”

Sweet daughter

Scotland told me a story from Friday.  They were at the playground in Central Market.  There were brothers, a boy about her age and a 4-year old.  The older brother was being a little rough with his little brother.  Not mean and not enough to require the mother to step in.  Scotland said the mother was watching.  But, enough that it bothered Tatiana.  Tatiana stepped betweent the brothers, held out her hand palm out to the big brother and said "Stop!"  My heart got all gooey and proud when Scotland told me.

Wednesday

Tatiana was at Adventure Kids yesterday.  I looked through the window and saw her playing happily.  I like to pay before she sees me, because when she sees me she realizes she misses me and cries.  She was happy to see me.  When the worker was getting her diaper bag, Tatiana pointed to her milk sippy cup.  She knew that had to go too.  She is so smart.  She didn't have a nap, so she was very tired.  She fell asleep in the car, so I ate at a drivethru to kill time so she could sleep.  We got home and she was very tired.  She really wanted to sleep, but she knew it wasn't the right time.  I had to use the restroom, so of course she went with me.  The toilet paper roll on the dispenser was empty, just the little bits that stick to the roll.  She tried to help by tearing off little bits of toilet paper and handing it to me.  The bits were about the size of a fingernail.  She is so helpful.  She also seemed to grasp that the toilet paper went in the toilet, and she couldn't get into the big people toilet, so she added little bits of toilet paper to the potty.
Then she wanted to play in the bedroom.  I laid on the bed and watched her.  She wanted to come up by me.  We sang songs.  She seemed to like doing the "falling down" part of the Red Roses song when she had something soft to land on.  Then we played in the living room.  She was really good for PJ time, and she only wanted one book.  When I turned to TV to a Pippi show she got all excited.  She pointed to the TV and said "Pippi" a few times. And she moved her hands to the intro song.  She fell asleep pretty easy. 

Easter

We had such fun over Easter.  The highlight of the weekend was the Easter Egg hunt.  We got there just in time and Tatiana had her own little area to hunt for eggs.  She 'got' the idea right away.  I think I had almost as fun as she did. 

Friday night when we'd gotten to her Grandparent's house, they were so happy to see each other.  Scotland and I were able to unload the car while Tatiana spent time with her Grandparents.  Over the weekend she spent lots of time playing on her table and chairs in the kitchen.  She really loved the magnetic standing doll.  She even knew that the crown goes on her head and the wand goes on the hand.  Since she has probably never seen a crown or a wand, I thought that was amazing. 

Sunday night she went to bed pretty early, she'd only had an hour of nap.  Last night during PJ time I was reading her books.  She decided it was time to go to the next step and walked to the mancave. 

Easter Weekend

Gram posted :


"Tatiana & Susie & Scotland were here from Friday night  April 6 till this afternoon  April 8.
We had fun & went to Easter Egg Hunt at Elks on Saturday .It was a gorgeous day.
Besides the candy in eggs that she found = she also received a big Easter basket from ELKS with toys & candy inside. Scotland blew bubbles  from bubble maker that was in basket while we were at ELKS yard for Tatiana.
Then we went home & played Shanghai & spoiled Tatiana.
We were amazed at how talkative our little granddaughter is now.
She loves to bring a book to you to read.

We gave her a Easter basket . I had fun filling it with a super soft bear & I put a new drees for Tatiana on the bear.Of course I put in a book about duckies & counting. Being that she loves peanut butter = we gave her Reeses candy bar.

A highlight of the weekend was the time that Grandpa & Tatiana & I sat on our patio. We sat in our rockers & Tatiana sat in a childs size lawn chair.
We had fun. One time I said = we are sitting here & watching the grass grow.
Immediately Tatiana pointed to the grass.

On Sunday afternoon = Tatiana & Susie & I were sitting in front computer room.
We were taking photos with our cameras & camcorder of Tatiana.
Then she took her mom’s camera & tried to take our photos. She held it up correctly & looked SO cute!
When she went to take my photo = I said CHEESE. Then after that every time that she held camera to take our photo = she said CHEESE in her sweet little voice. What sweet memories!"

weekend

I had a great weekend.  On Saturday my two favorite people brought me flowers.  In the afternoon, I was on the big people swing and Tatiana was playing in the backyard.  The sage in the herb garden was flowering.  Tatiana brought me sage flowers!  She had to make several trips to get a little pile.  I loved it.  When Scotland got home from working at Chuck's, he brought over some Roses and Azaleas that Marcia had offered from her garden.  Scotland had no way of knowing I love Azaleas. 
On Saturday evening, Tatiana and I were eating some Spree candy.  You have to limit how much she has of some things because she will fill her mouth like a chipmunk.  I wasn't giving her anymore because I thought she still had some in her mouth.  Then she said "Please".  Her first. 
She is saying so many words now.  She said her second two word combo.  "More Cheese".  That is my girl. 
Sunday afternoon she was a little cranky, and I think it was because we hadn't turned the A/C on, so I did that. 
Sunday evening, Scotland took a shower.  When he does that, he likes to get clean and shave, and then Tatiana can come in.  As soon as she heard the water.  Tatiana wanted her clothes off!  She wanted in the shower.  I slowly helped her take her clothes off.  I thought she would run to the bathroom.  But, she got distracted by a valentine's diaper cover.  She was trying to wrap the diaper around her monkey doll.  It wasn't working well because the diaper could have been a tent for the monkey.  While she was squatting there, she peed on the carpet.  That was mommies fault.  I didn't fuss because I don't want her to get the idea that peeing outside her diaper is a bad thing. 
Speaking of clothes, on Sunday afternoon I was trying to get her to take a nap.  She wanted to play in the crib.  I was laying in the bed.  She pulled some shorts off the clip on the door.  She did a really good job of the beginning part of putting them on.  She put her feet in the right legs and got it up to about mid-thigh.  Then she couldn't figure out how to get them up the rest of the way.  After naptime, I saw her try again.  I told her to bring me the shorts and we would do it together.  All I did was pull up the back while she pulled up the front.