Phone Call

Gram wrote :

" Gram & G-Daddy called Tatiana . We loved to hear her giggling & doing a lot of talking. Tatiana even held phone up to Yogi's ear to hear us! LOL!
She talked about  "my broom". We are so glad that she loves this birthday gift. Gram even sang a silly song & Tatiana wanted me to sing again !!
Gram & G-Daddy were smiling from ear to ear as we talked to our special Tatiana. "

Gram = I sing a song that I made up ." Order order in the court. .Tatiana is the Queen ."

On Sunday morning I found a little baggie of clothespins in the drawer.  I had been keeping an eye out for some because playing with them is good for her fine motor skills.  I brought them to where we were playing and then looked around for something to attach them to.  I found a paint stirring stick.  It worked really well.  I started out holding the stick for her, and then she wanted to hold it.  A little bit later she said "Mommy, Mouth!"  She was putting the clothespin in her mouth.  LOL, so much for fine motor skills.

We had a really great weekend.  She enjoyed the crafting class until about the last 10 minutes.  At the very end I was sitting on the floor and Tatiana was in my lap.  There was a little girl who just turned 2 and had cried throughout  class.  While Tatiana was in my lap, the crying girl through her arms my neck.  She totally ignored that Tatiana was there and planted her belly on Tatiana's face.  I got her moved around so that she was on my left thigh.  Tatiana was fine with it, and the little girl sat there calmly.  Scotland said that she corrects other kids when they call their Daddy "Daddy".  She points to Scotland and says "Daddy".  So, maybe it made sense to her that another kid would want to sit in my lap. 

She has started to count things!  I don't know where this comes from.  She has trouble in the transition to six.  Then she gets 8, 9, 10 right. 

I also think she is the neatest one in the family.  I had her help me clean the floor of my closet and she kept commenting on the "mess".  A bunch of hangers had fallen on the floor and I had helping put them in a bin so we could take them to the laundry room. 

State Fair

We went to the State Fair yesterday.  I took the day off work.  We all had a great time.  I think the only thing Tatiana didn't like was that there weren't many places for her to run around without being at our side.  At about nap time she started to cry and wanted one of us to carry her.  We had hoped she would nap in the stroller, but there was too much going on.  When we got to the Girl Scout building, she became happy and gave up on the nap.  Mommy got very tired that afternoon.  The last place we went was the petting zoo and she really liked that.  Particularly since she could run around on her own.  She didn't want to pet the goat at first, but when Scotland got her to do it, then she wanted to pet not only the goats but all the animals. 

She fell asleep in the stroller on the train ride home with her hand holding my index finger.  She started out sucking her thumb and then as she fell asleep we watched it slowly fall out of her mouth. 

When we got home Mommy was so tired she crawled in bed.  I didn't want to fall asleep, but it felt good to be horizontal.  She spent some time with Daddy, then I heard him ask if she needed to poop.  She said yes.  So he got her on the potty.  While she was sitting there, he went to get a book for her, and she pooped in the potty.  I came to see and cheer.  I was just leaving the bathroom when I heard her pee.  We did lots of cheering.  I think she had been holding it until then. 

I went back to bed, and she brought me some books for her to read.  She brought her red book with several Seuss type books, and the yellow book with the Seuss body parts books.  She really likes The Diggiest Dog from the red book and The Eye book from the yellow book.  I read a little bit, and she "read" some too.  Then she started The Belly game by lifting up her dress and saying "belly" and smiling at me. We were giggling and having fun and that brought Daddy.  We ended up doing what we called a "family tower"  Scotland rested her head on my back, and Tatiana crawled on top of Daddy.  Then she rolled off which meant that she had to have her belly tickled.  It was so funny, she would be on her back and Scotland would wiggle his hand above her belly saying "I am not tickling you" and she would stretch her belly up to get him to tickle her.  Then it was toothbrush time and Scotland took care of the nighttime routine.  That is the first time he has done it when I was home since we started this routine.