I feel like I've been neglecting to post and comment on others' posts. Sorry. I guess it's not obligatory, but I do care. With both girls around, my hands are full. Today Hannah is at the babysitters' until after her nap. I'm doing the laundry, tidying up, making appointments.
Was going to start calling about summer babysitters, but the course schedule for summer isn't available yet, so I don't know what hours I'm looking at. May make a few calls anyway.
I've been missing Battlestar Galactica lately. We got into it by borrowing a friend's pilot on DVD and then signed up to watch the rest on Netflix. Of course we blew threw them, at one episode a night (alright! sometimes two) after the girls went to bed, or while waiting for Clara to go to bed. Love the drama, and the characters... waiting for the season 3 dvd to come out. We don't have cable so there's no way to watch week by week. :( But I like watching an episode a night. We watched Troy over the last couple of days. Tried doing it the same way, and hour or so at a time. It was ok. Interesting, but I miss the characters I know, and it's hard to care very much about the characters in a movie because it's shortlived.
Lately, Hannah has been expressing that she wants things RIGHT NOW. I tried teaching her to say, "May I have toto puffs" (cocoa puffs) instead of "Toto Puffs! Right Now!." She had fun imitating me, but doesn't feel nearly as congenial as the polite way to ask would indicate. She is also expressing her desire to be rid of diapers, if not permanently then at least whenever I try to put one on her. I got her some underwear, and she is excited to wear them. She has a book, Big Sister, and in it the big sister wears underpants, sleeps in a regular bed, eats sandwiches and drinks from a cup. Often Hannah will quote something from the book in her daily activities. This morning I told her that the Care Bears Training Pants were Underpants. She ran to the other end of her room, looking for the book, found it and wanted me to find the page. She pointed out the big sister wearing underpants, then without a fight, stepped into her "underpants". Now, she's been wearing pull ups, and easy ons for months... but we never called them Underpants. They were the same as a diaper. But now, with the big sister book, underpants! Hoping that book comes in so handy when we switch to a big girl bed.
And Clara, in spite of feeling sick still, has slept 6-8 hours at night the last two nights. She gave Nana a run for her money Saturday night, not sleeping unless held upright. But here, with a treatment before bed, she sleeps like a rock. Not during the day, though. 15 minutes tops for most naps. I think she's outgrowing the sleep all the time phase. Maybe she just needs a morning nap and a late afternoon nap now...
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