Kalia's New Responsibility Chart
Princess makes banana bread, I did miss photos from the Princess plays t-ball, Princess goes to the library and Princess goes grocery shopping.
Princess at s-turns to go fishing with daddy.
Maya before she charged out into the ocean and fought me to go into the water and fell and rolled around in the waves and loved it. I didn't bring a towel - it was cold when we left the house!
Maya and the painted coconuts.
She put them both up on the table - she's so cute!
Our much needed beach day!
Kalia is turning into the master shell finder!
Daddy lounge.
Maya cruising!
Looking for shells!
Maya
Kalia found a cave on "Kalia Beach".
Before bed tonight, the girls sitting in their strollers.Maya's language and understanding is really growing. She points to her nose and says, "nooo" and eyes, "eyyyyye". She has been saying "no" for "no" and shaking her head for yes. Today in the car Erik had a call from work and Kalia was saying, "what daddy, what, what happened?" So Maya starts saying, "wha, wha, wha," but literally about 50 times. She's a real copier, she'll say, "woah" and "baby". She is really, really into books right now. It's so cute, she'll go find a book and bring it over and then lifts her hands for you to put her on your lap to read. And she'll sit and listen to the whole book- well, if it's one that she likes. She loves the book, "I Love You Through and Through", don't know the author off the top of my head, but I'm so happy. This is a book I loved to read to Kalia and I was so sad (ask Erik) when it got too easy for Kalia. I would sneak it into our bedtime books pile and she would find it and exchange it for something more big girl. I'm glad Maya has found a love for books too, I guess they couldn't help it when they see their mommy sneaking in books whenever they look distracted. Although Maya's love of the library is mostly just pulling many, many books off the shelf. I am now running after this girl - she'll just take off!
So we started Kalia on a "Responsiblity/Chore Chart" and she is going to earn a small allowance. Her responsibilites are: Brush her teeth, Clean Up Toys, Take Dishes to the Sink and Go Potty By Myself. We don't want it all to be about money, but it's a little motivation to help out and then she can save up and buy the things that she wants, instead of mommy just always saying "no". This all started with that trip to Claire's - did I mention it earlier? Anyway, she loves Claires now, but needs to save her money. But it's definitely a hard concept to understand. Today in the store, she wanted to buy something and she didn't have her money, when I explained that I would buy it for her (it was $1) when we got home she would have to give me the money. She made her most sour face and said, "my daddy gave me that money!" She also told me earlier, "didn't you bring your money. why don't we use your money to buy things." It's a hard concept. Plus, she wanted to peak into Claire's, but didn't have enough money to buy anything and that was pretty much torture. But although she wanted to have a complete meltdown, she kept it together. Maybe she is sensing from the last few days that mommy will not put up with that behavior. Oh yes, mommy has been having little patience for that lately.
The weather has been terrible - windy/rainy and we've been at home a lot and I think it's been getting to me. Today I told Erik that we needed a beach day - we needed some vitamin D and to get sandy and go in the ocean. Erik's shoulder has been bothering him and now his back, so there were some waves and I was the one that got to surf. I even got caught inside for a really long time and it felt really good- I just needed to be "in the moment" for a while. Definitely needed that new frame of mind! Hope Erik gets to surf too - he needs it too, it had been about 2 1/2 weeks for both of us!
We really had a great day at the beach, the girls played, Kalia found shells and a little cave and we relaxed. At one point we were both laying in the sand and the girls played. We are getting to a stage where Maya can cruise the beach too, although the charging out into the water is a little scary. She loves the water and kept asking to go in today, especially when daddy and Kalia were in and it was cold today!
I know I have more, but tired. Went out with friends for a birthday two nights ago and still might be still feeling the effects! (Could I be suffering from A-G-E too?)
So we started Kalia on a "Responsiblity/Chore Chart" and she is going to earn a small allowance. Her responsibilites are: Brush her teeth, Clean Up Toys, Take Dishes to the Sink and Go Potty By Myself. We don't want it all to be about money, but it's a little motivation to help out and then she can save up and buy the things that she wants, instead of mommy just always saying "no". This all started with that trip to Claire's - did I mention it earlier? Anyway, she loves Claires now, but needs to save her money. But it's definitely a hard concept to understand. Today in the store, she wanted to buy something and she didn't have her money, when I explained that I would buy it for her (it was $1) when we got home she would have to give me the money. She made her most sour face and said, "my daddy gave me that money!" She also told me earlier, "didn't you bring your money. why don't we use your money to buy things." It's a hard concept. Plus, she wanted to peak into Claire's, but didn't have enough money to buy anything and that was pretty much torture. But although she wanted to have a complete meltdown, she kept it together. Maybe she is sensing from the last few days that mommy will not put up with that behavior. Oh yes, mommy has been having little patience for that lately.
The weather has been terrible - windy/rainy and we've been at home a lot and I think it's been getting to me. Today I told Erik that we needed a beach day - we needed some vitamin D and to get sandy and go in the ocean. Erik's shoulder has been bothering him and now his back, so there were some waves and I was the one that got to surf. I even got caught inside for a really long time and it felt really good- I just needed to be "in the moment" for a while. Definitely needed that new frame of mind! Hope Erik gets to surf too - he needs it too, it had been about 2 1/2 weeks for both of us!
We really had a great day at the beach, the girls played, Kalia found shells and a little cave and we relaxed. At one point we were both laying in the sand and the girls played. We are getting to a stage where Maya can cruise the beach too, although the charging out into the water is a little scary. She loves the water and kept asking to go in today, especially when daddy and Kalia were in and it was cold today!
I know I have more, but tired. Went out with friends for a birthday two nights ago and still might be still feeling the effects! (Could I be suffering from A-G-E too?)
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