A Big Girl

Gem is quite the talker these days. She talks pretty much non-stop and if I don't know what she is saying she will repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and repeat it until I guess what it is.

Anyway I was very proud of her at dinnertime tonight. She said the dinner pray all by herself, without a single word of help from her mom or dad. I have translated the prayer into writing for all of her adoring fans

Hefny Fadder
tank you for dis day. tank you for church. pease bess mama, dada, gem, da new baaaaby. pease bess da mama home safey.
Jesus Kice amen!

I thought it was sweet she blessed me to get home safely even though I was at the table with her. Anyway I think two thanks and two blesses are pretty good for someone who is two years old. Now if we can only get her to be reverent in sacrament meeting.

Our Daughter is a Genius

The Saga Continues

I am pretty sure the pillow is for her head, not her left foot. Oh well at least she is on the bed this time.

A Sleepy Girl

Gem goes to sleep around 7:00 every night. At 9:00 when Tyler and I go to bed we check on her. I thought going to sleep in a nice big bed was easy. But I guess everything takes practice. Here are three separate occasions when we have gone in to check on her.

Some thoughts

Just some random thoughts for my post today.

1- My daughter is obviously part Tyler, because yesterday afternoon she was hungry, and after two-o-clock I don't usually let her have any snacks until dinner, except frozen peas. I figure that vegetables is probably better than what she eats for dinner. So when she wants a snack in the afternoon it is always frozen peas. And I let her eat as many as she wants. Well she ate 6 cupfuls of frozen peas yesterday afternoon, and then for dinner we had homemade french bread and steamed broccoli. Well there was all this beautiful white bread on her plate that any normal kid would devour, and what does she do, she eats all the broccoli. Not just once, but I refilled her plate two extra times. What kind of child am I raising that just eats vegetables. I know her grandmother will be disgusted when she reads this, because I grew up in a home where peas and broccoli were not to be found.

2- Also I know I am a bad mother because yesterday afternoon I came down the stairs and I saw that Gem had taken off her pants, I didn't really think too much of it she is two of course. So I proceeded into the kitchen, a few minutes later Gem walked in and declared "Diaper off" so I said "no we don't take off our diapers" and I turned around and there was her bare bottom just hanging out there. I have no idea how long she had been diaper-less. Which leads me to my point. She is obviously ready to be potty-trained. If she can go who-knows-how-long without peeing all over my carpet, then she is old enough to go on the potty. However the dilemma is, she doesn't want to. I have offered candy rewards (maybe I should try broccoli), and she knows that everyone does it, but she just doesn't care. Tyler thinks I should go out and get her underwear and use that as a reward. I don't know. Really I think the problem is I am just lazy. Diaper changing doesn't bug me anymore, and potty training will be a big hassle.

3- Today in the bath tub I let her play with the bar of soap, being the wise mother I am. A few minutes later I hear screaming from the bathroom. And there she is rubbing soap into her eyes. Poor Gem. It is a rough life when you have to learn the hard way that soap doesn't mix well with eyeballs. The other thing she does now is hop out of the bathtub on her own and run around the house dripping wet. I am usually next door in the bedroom and here comes a sopping wet two year old saying "all done".

4- Finally Tyler and I need some opinions we have a boy name and a girl name we like but we don't want to do anything too weird. I like short, unique names but again I don't want to condemn a child to a lifetime of a psycho name. Anyway we like the name Jet for a boy (or Jett) and Jade for a girl (mostly I like Jade and Tyler is supporting me). So if those are too weird we need to know soon.

Disneyland in the Rain!

We knew that Friday was going to be rainy, but we wanted to go to Disneyland anyway. So we bundled up and headed down in the rain. We did some inside things that we don't usually do. We watched the Aladdin show at California Adventure, it is a little less than an hour. Which was about twenty minutes too long for Gem. Oh well.

We also waited in line to see the princesses, which is typically a 2 and a half hour wait so we have never done it before, but because it was rainy, the wait was only 20 minutes. So Gem got to meet Tiana, Cinderella, and Ariel. She was so mesmerized she wouldn't say anything and she wouldn't look away from the princess. So the only picture we got with Gem looking at the camera was with Ariel. Other than that we have pictures of the princess looking at the camera and Gem looking at the princess. Maybe next time her shock and awe won't be so bad.

At the Zoo

We had a lot of fun at the zoo on Friday afternoon. We did not use a stroller, which was basically awesome. I didn't have to push something around the entire zoo, I didn't have to get her in and out and in and out, also I didn't have to struggle directing her when she wanted to push the stroller.

Anyway we had a good time, and it was nice to get out as a family after Tyler had been in Maryland and the next day was a very hectic not family-ish Saturday.

Sorry you can't hear Gem over the flamingos in the next video, but she really does count to eight. She's only off by you know 20-ish, pretty good for a two year old, right?