Leilani’s crankieness and cold symptoms are gone!!! No new teeth either. We got a book about “Cat heaven” from the library that I have to read daily, and Leilani points to all the cats in the book that are gray and says “That’s Kiko.” “Kiko sitting angel lap.” and similar things.
Potty training is going excellent. We still use night time diapers, but they stay dry almost always, and during the day there were virtually no accidents anymore. (lessons recently learned: never tell her to just squat down and pee, assuming that she doesn’t wear underwear under her beach dress, and always listen to what she is saying before she runs off towards the bathroom)
She can hold it much longer, and also urinate when the bladder is 1/2 empty (or less when it happens to be late, after bed time and she wants to get up again).
In the home improvement department I finished putting together her bed, decorated her room (with fish, turtles and rays), switched all wall decorations and pictures and moved most of our stuff (stuffed the stuff actually) into other areas of the house.
Andy was really busy and couldn’t help much, so things are slow (Thanks for getting the paint out of the garage though :-).
Saturday I took out our bathroom console table, a little shelf, and several miscellaneous screws and nails, sanded, primed and painted and prepared the area for a huge shelf (48inches wide, holds 1000 pounds or so) that I hauled home from Cosco and intend to build soon.
I filmed Aditi’s brother’s Anthony’s and Alice’s wedding last Thursday, and messed up the sound badly enough that they had to redo the ceremony (I got to remember never to link to the baby blog from my professional websites…). At least having double the footage is going to make for an awesome end product, and I spent a lot more time on finishing the sound up than I normally would because I still feel guilty. I am also still a beginner on Final Cut Pro, but it seeems so much more powerful that I can’t imagine going back to iMovie (which is what I used on all my previous movies).
Andy was busy demonstrating against the Superferry (big congrats on winning the battle), and writing about it and other interesting things on his blog – check it out!
Leilani is sleeping pretty nicely in her bed – she wakes up for nursing (briefly around 2am) falls back asleep within a few minutes, and then comes to our bed around 4 or 5 for a longer nursing. I wake her up at 7:00am.
During weekdays we leave the house around 8am, and Monday, Friday, and from now on Wednesday too we come to Joy’s preschool until 12:30. Tuesday and Thursday we usually go to Tutu and me in Anahola, it’s another preschool-like toddler activity for kids and their caregivers, it keeps us out of the house and Andy gets more work done in the mornings.
This week we didn’t go to Tutu and me, Tuesday the car was in the shop (700$ – maintenance not repairs, another 400 to go…) and Joy and her daughter Elsa visited us, today we are here at their place.
After lunch Leilani is supposed to take a nap (ideally falling asleep in the car already because she eats at Joy’s or at Papayas or Jamba Juice) I have been waking her up at 3:00pm no matter when she falls asleep, because that seems to be the only way to make her go to bed at night. Dinner is around 7:00, after a little quiet play and brushing teeth and putting on a diaper she is allowed to watch 20minutes of Heid, Pippi or Nemo (she always chooses Heidi, or switches after a few minutes to Heidi). Bedtime is between 8:00 and 9:00 (at least we try very hard to put her to bed around this time). Missing her tiredness period usually results in her being up till midnight, a while ago we babysat one of her friends until 9:30, and she had started to ask to go to bed at 8:00 – she was up until 1am, and ultra cranky for 2 days…
