kalia's 1st week of pre-school coloring

I just don't know if I'm going to be saving all her art work, so I'll document them on the blog. I'm trying to de-clutter my life.

So we've been using a new system for kalia's sleep. For a while now, when kalia takes a nap - then she doesn't go to sleep until really late (sometimes I hear her at 10PM or 10:15PM), but when she skips her nap, she goes to bed early, but is a wreck by night time and we can't go anywhere in the afternoon or she'll fall asleep in the car. So now we wake her up by 7AM, put her down for nap at 1PM, only let her sleep 1 hour and bed at 8:30PM. It seems to be working, she's been waking up in a good mood (not tired from going to bed too late) and she is ready to go down at 1PM and has been in a good mood after 1 hour of nap. Before it was 50/50 if she was going to be cranky after her 1 1/2 - 2 hour nap. And she seems ready and is quiet after we put her down at night, of course, she still has the sillies just before bed, but that can't be helped.

We went to the gym this morning and there was another baby about maya's age there when I came back to pick them up. This baby was happily sitting in her car seat sucking on her pacifier. Then there's maya, always refusing to sit in her car seat, refusing the pacifier and needing constant toy action. Kalia was my baby that would have happily sat sucking her pacifier, but not maya. Maya is quite content at home playing and explorer mostly on her own. But she is in constant motion, dragging her body around the living room, flipping around with blankets, taking all the dvds out of the baby einstein box (although we never watch them), tracking down paper and obsessing over plastic bags out of her reach, yelling from her exersaucer for something she sees on the coffee table. The way she does the military crawl is really funny too. She sees an object she wants, then she faces herself toward the object, then she takes both arms and throws them out in front of her at the same time, pushes off with her knees/ drags body, then throws out both arms again. It's almost like she's doing the butterfly stroke. It is efficient.