Grandma Patsy...otherwise known as "Grandma Bobo"

Grandma Patsy came to visit this weekend...and Kadence decided she didn't need to sleep anymore, because Grandma Patsy was here. I'm not really sure how that was supposed to work, but her excuse every time I put her in bed was "No, want see Grandma!" or "No, need talk to Grandma!"

Kadence woke up in the middle of the night Saturday very upset...we never figured out exactly why. She was sitting on our bed with us being all weepy at 2am...keeping everyone awake. Patrick asked her "What's wrong tiny?" She indignantly responded "I NOT Tinies! I KADENCE!" and started wailing again. (She still calls Kai Lan "Tinies" sometimes.) Grandma's going to have to catch up on her sleep at home. :)

Grandma tried to teach her some Romanian while she was here...so now Kadence can add Romanian jibberish to her existing Spanish and Chinese jibberish repertoire.

Kadence showed Grandma our new potty training technique for getting her to try #2 on the potty...it hasn't worked yet, but I'm still hopeful. She's turned out quite a few works of art, and it's providing time for her to concentrate working on learning her letters, numbers and colors without being distracted though, so it's not a complete loss. :)

She was very excited to have Grandma, Ben AND Caiden all at the same time on Saturday. Grandma, Caiden and Kadence all crawled into the box house to play...thus exceeding the maximum occupancy/weight limit. :D  Lucky for them, "Uncle Daddy Ben" was on standby to pull them out after taking a picture.

Grandma left this morning, but all day yesterday and today Kadence has been asking for Ben and Caiden to come back. She gets really excited whenever she hears something outside and asks "Dat Benny? Dat Caiden??" She walked around the house looking for Grandma today, but managed to reach the conclusion without having to be told that "Grandma all gone." She can't wait for someone else to come visit her!

"I'll be wight back."

Kadence is stuck in an ABC's rut. According to her the song goes "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS Now I know my ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRS....." Caiden has tried to correct her "No Kadence! Sing like this!" and as long as someone else is singing it with her she'll go through the whole thing, but never on her own. Patrick informed her the other day that she just couldn't ignore those letters. They existed, and without them the world wouldn't exist...it would just be "orld."

She learned last week that everything that colors isn't called a "color." We moved on to crayons and pencils...washable/erasable things. :) She picked up a pen the other day and proudly announced to Patrick that it was a pencil. He told her "No, it's a pen." She gave him a 'you don't know what you're talking about' look and insisted that it was a pencil. After watching them argue and get frustrated with each other for a few minutes, I told her to put it back, and told him to let it go. The next day when Patrick was at work, she picked up the same pen, and told me it was a pencil...and when I told her it was a pen, she believed ME. I suppose it's good that she's learning early....Mommy's always right. :)

We got a new toybox, and Daddy made her a house out of the box it came in. She's been thrilled to have her very own homeless shelter...:)



They also started playing a new game...and surprisingly, no one's been injured yet.



After playing with Daddy all weekend, she's always reluctant to let him go back to work Monday. She yells "No, wait!" every time he tries to walk out the door, and begs him to stay...but he always has to go.

She frequently puts her cup, snacks, ice, etc in her play kitchen's refrigerator. The other day I watched her go over to her refrigerator, and pull Baby out...and she had no idea why I was laughing at her.


She was playing with her big Dora ball, and decided to go play on her new slide. She put the Dora ball out of the way and told it "I'll be wight back." As she let go of the ball and turned to walk to the slide, the ball started rolling behind her. She told it "No, I be wight back!" and pushed it back where she wanted it. After about the 3rd time, she was very frustrated that "Dora" kept following her, so she picked up the ball and carried it over to where I was sitting on the couch. She set it down next to me and once again emphatically stated "I'll be WIGHT BACK!" I considered telling her "Now you know how you make Mommy feel sometimes." haha

Try again Hoho!

Sunday we went out to meet Ben and Caiden for dinner. Kadence forgot Baby at home. When she realized it, I told her Baby was at home taking a nap. She started crying...and Patrick (loving father that he is) jokingly told her to "Suck it up." She wailed "No! Don't want suck it up!"

At dinner she was sitting next to Caiden, rubbing his head and telling him "I miss you!"

There's a thing on the show The Office where the guy says "That's what she said." about everything. At Patrick's office the response to everything is "Your mom."  Patrick has relayed enough of these conversations that now Kadence randomly says "Your mommy!" at the end of conversations.

I was dumping a bowel movement from her pullup into the toilet. She was watching as she always does, and saying "Ewwww! Dat nasty!" as she always does...except this time she followed it up with "I eat it!" Now, we've talked about how the body works, so I'm not entirely sure if she meant she had eaten what had then become poop, or if she was referring to eating the actual poop...either way, it was quite disturbing and unladylike...

Yesterday Kadence and I went to have dinner with Patrick. The only thing she would eat was popcorn with ketchup, but she eats about 15 times a day, so it wasn't a big deal. When we left she told me "Thank you for da popcorn, and da Daddy."

We went to Toysrus after that to get her "a better swide." She's been asking for one ever since she saw one at a consignment sale that we didn't get because it was too dirty. When we left the sale I told her we were going to find a better slide. Every where we've gone since then that has toys she's told me "Mommy, want find better swide." or asked "Mommy, we find better swide?" So after shopping around and finding nothing good used, we decided to go ahead and get a new one. Toysrus was the only place that carried them in store, so we went to get her a slide. She was quite ecstatic, and kept patting it and saying "Mommy, dis better swide!" She completely wore herself out at bedtime yesterday, and naptime today making her babies take turns sliding with her...plus I actually have time to get something else done once in awhile with her otherwise occupied, so I consider it a good investment. :)

After stopping to pick up a package from Fed Ex on the way home from Toysrus, I was about to pick her up to put her in her car seat when she started running off. I yelled "STOP!" which she immediately did. She knows better. I scolded her when I put her in her car seat telling her "No ma'am! That was very naughty! That wasn't safe." She nodded solemnly, and as I was buckling her in she said "Gotta be safe! Safe Mommy! Safe!" She even lectured her babies on it.

Kadence finally managed to sleep in her big girl bed today! I've been putting her in it for about half an hour at naptime and bedtime before putting her in her crib. Today when I went to go check on her after I put her in it for her nap she was sound asleep. Bedtime turned out to be a completely different story however...she asked to go back in her crib.

After she woke up from her nap I got dressed so we could go meet Patrick for dinner. She looked up at me, gasped, and said "Princess!" I laughed and said "So you think this looks good, huh?" She said "Yes! Dat cute!" If she were much older, I would have thought she wanted something

For the last few weeks Kadence has been watching the only episode of Ni Hao, Kai Lan that I had recorded. This particular episode is about Kai Lan and her little animal friends preparing to be acrobats in a circus show. The tiger is supposed to do a flip, but has trouble with it and keeps falling. For over a week Kadence has been running around, jumping up in the air, landing on her butt on the floor and saying "I can't do it! I can't do the flip!" like the tiger does. The little monkey (named Hoho) is supposed to run on a ball. Tonight she was playing with her big Dora ball. She bounced off of it, and then said "I can't do it! Try again Hoho! OK!" which is the conversation from the show. I about died laughing. She thought I was crying and ran over asking "What's wrong??"

She might be ever so SLIGHTLY spoiled, but at least she's very polite, caring and obedient...most of the time. :)

It's been an interesting few weeks

One of my best friends came to visit from Abilene with her 2 girls weekend before last. We had a wonderful visit...unfortunately once they got home they found out that one of her cousins (who had visited them right before they came to see us) had given her 2 year old lice. Most people would be upset...my friend certainly was. I was actually amused. Patrick and I had discussed lice just the week before...I've had them twice before as a kid, but he's never had them. 

 

So...the massive cleaning began. Washing everything in the house, vacuuming and steam cleaning carpets, spraying down furniture and beds....etc. etc. etc. Let's just say the house hasn't been this clean since we moved in. That's my silver lining...and also the other reason I find the whole thing so funny, since we've been meaning to clean like this for awhile...and I'm just going to consider this the kick in the pants we needed to do it.

 

Besides, I found a lot things while cleaning. Lots of missing crayons and toy parts were found in the couches. Clothes that had been missing for awhile magically appeared. While removing the handles from Kadence's horsie to remove and wash the cover, I found 14 Capri Sun straws inside the handles. I was always wondering why we only threw away pouches and I could never find the straws. It's amazing what you find when you have to clean EVERYTHING. :)

 

Patrick had to take the head off one of Kadence's dolls to let it drain after I washed it...and she watched him do it DESPITE the fact that I told him not to do it in front of her. After that, she brought me 2 other dolls and asked me to "open it" while trying to twist their heads off. She also pulled on her own head and said "Mommy, open Kadence."

 

Other than that, the only really bad thing was that I had to wash Kadence's special baby...this was a particular issue at bedtime when the baby wasn't dry yet. She cried and refused to go to sleep until 10pm because she didn't have Baby. I felt bad, but it had to be done. She woke up at 4am crying and looking for Baby. Thankfully, Baby was dry enough by that point. 

 

I looked up replacements online to see if I could find a backup, should Baby ever have to be washed again. The closest thing I could find right then was a baby Cinderella. Same face, same eyes...but a little smaller, different body, and this one had hair. I figured it was worth a shot, so we went and got one. Kadence loves her baby Cinderella...or as she calls her "Baby Sella." I figured we should give her a try at bedtime to see if it would really work. I hid Baby, and just gave Kadence Sella at bedtime. She cried out "No, want Baby!" once, and then we didn't hear from her again. This morning she told me "Me and Sella had good nap."  Good enough for me...but she was thrilled when I handed Baby back to her. She hugged and kissed Baby...then put Sella against the wall. I asked her why Sella was facing the wall, and she told me "Sella nauney. Sella time out." Guess Sella had to be punished for not being Baby. :) I later found the real thing, and we went to Toysrus to get one...always helps to have a backup on hand.

 

Right now Kadence has strep and some chest congestion/shortness of breath. She's on antibiotics for the strep which will cause diarrhea, and albuterol for the congestion/shortness of breath which causes MAJOR hyperactivity. If the child could bounce off walls she would. We just got back from shopping at "Mall-Nart" where she yelled "Woo-hoo!!" at some boy walking by with a soccer ball. I'm not sure if the woo-hoo was for the boy or the ball...I'm hoping it was for the ball. She's also been yelling at people to "Shake your body! Shake your body!" (it was a dance thing she learned from watching Diego.) Thankfully, she's cute, and no one's going to charge a 2 year old with sexual harassment.

 

Other cute things:

 

Grandma Patsy is learning Romanian for her trip this summer. She was on the phone with Kadence and said Good day in Romanian "Buna zewa." Kadence replied "Booya!"

 

Patrick was saying the Spanish words with Dora while watching it with Kadence. She whipped around, glared at him and yelled "Stop! Stop agreening!" (agreeing). She doesn't like having her show interupted apparently.

 

Everytime you tell Kadence something (identify numbers, letters, people etc.) she says "Yes, very Good!" Little miss smarty pants thinks she knows everything....

 

The other day Kadence was on the potty and I was changing the toilet paper roll. I handed her the empty one because she likes to hold it up to her eye and say "I see you!" This time though she slide it on her right arm, then held it up to me and said "I like Lily!" Why? Because her best friend Lily broke her right arm a few weeks ago, and apparently Kadence needed a cast too.

Kadence and I were sitting on the couch eating crackers. I picked up a piece and put it in my mouth. Apparently it was part of hers, because she said "Hey, that my cracker!" and held her hand in front of my mouth like I was supposed to spit it out.

 

For about a week Kadence periodically asked to watch "Yee-haw tinies." We had no idea what she was talking about. Ni Hao, Kai-lan came on the other day, and she pointed and yelled "Yee-haw tinies!"

 

2 year olds shouldn't have perfect aim. One of these days I'm going to have a wreck trying to duck while driving. One day she was mad, aimed for and hit my head with her toy car...the next day she tossed a chicken nugget into my cup holder when I wouldn't take it from her, and then told me "There you go." like it was perfectly normal to share like that.

 

Patrick found VeggieTales gummies at Walmart. Kadence (who calls everything having to do with VeggieTales "La La Friend") gasped with excitement when we let her pick one to eat. After she popped Bob the Tomato in her mouth, she mumbled "Dat good La La Friend."

 

Kadence climbed on my back while she was watching Dora, and told me she was my "pack pack."

 

I was putting on earrings the other morning, and Kadence was admiring them. "So piddy! I want to wear it." I told her then she had to get her ears pierced, and asked if she wanted to. She thought about it, shook her head and said "No." Then she reached out for my necklace and said "So piddy! I want to wear it." 

 

Here's to hoping next week is a lot calmer...but I'm not counting on it. :)