I really am bummed every time i read about tribe being dead. Yes i am on facebook. yes i have an active account, but it is too public. My family is there , I have coworkers there, i have patients there.

I need to stay polite, i need to stay PC. I cant get all pissy and whiny. Not that i need to live in a pissy and whiny Universe, it is just that i need to go there some times.

OK, we need more than that. That would sort of be a drag. How about a little inappropriate banter. Naughty jokes??

I am still popping in. I dont post a ton, but a little, i read all the tribes that i am in. It adds a little flavor to my life. Facebook is utilitarian, but not a lotta flavor.

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SHe is identifying numbers and letters on the keyboards. it is really cute.

SHe has started using pronouns. I want my mommy, i want her.

so cute.

Unfortunately she is picking up the teenagers terms.

Go away,
Oh my god.
Oh crap
Leave me alone.

I am crazy hormonal unffortunately.
Her smile and marking her milestones are a big help. Like the tracking is the only good thing i can obsess on and be compulsive about. When you are obsessive and compulisve that is the best you can do.

The rest is a bit of a mess right now.

Trying really hard to keep the sanity hat on.

I have been telling myself i need to sit down and write down for Miss baby all of the miraculous things she has accomplished at the major milestone of 2 years on the planet, as of yesterday.

It is all pretty humdrum stuff, the norm, but i hear kids really like to know about this stuff later. i remember when i was a kid i would brag to people that i was walking, and talking, and potty trained by the time i was two. I believed this made me a prodigy. I think it made me normal, but at thie time i thought it was pretty amazing.

So here goes her amazing list of accomplishments.

She counts from 1-5, and from 5-10, but never all the way through without mixing up six and seven. She knows what letters are, and starts to sing the abc's when she sees words in a book.

She knows most of her shapes and some of her colors, and enjoys rattling off the names of her various body parts. She is especially fascinated with boobies and elbows.

Her favorite songs are ABC's, Twinkle twinkle, the wheels on the bus (ack). She sings along with many others, but those she can sing through by herself.

She has her 4 year molars in on the bottom, and they are starting on top. She was complaining about her mouth hurting tonight on her L maxilla.

her daycare provider says she talks as well as the 3 and 4 year olds in daycare, and does not let any of them push her around. Did i mention she can get kinda bossy?? They all love her though, bossy and all. We joke she is planning on taking over the world. She really thinks she is in charge of us all.

Mommy, don't sing.
Mommy lay down.
Mommy go to bed.
Mommy help.

She does not take well to being told no, the fits are pretty bad, but passing quicker and quicker.

We will ask her to do something, like get off the ladder in the grocery store, and she will reply with the most defiant nasty "NO NO NO" as she gets down. People look at me like, "Are you going to ket her talk to you that way?", but i figure if she is doing what i ask her to, i am actually winning the battle.

She says no to everything though still. "DO you want to go outside?" The answer is still, "No, I want to go outside.'

I think she is a little obsessive. Things have to be in order. You can't go outside without your jacket, even if it is 80 degrees outside (obviously i am not talking about this week). You can't wear pants without a diaper, she will not go around the house bare butt.

At day care when she takes of her shoes, sometimes she wants her socks on, and sometimes she wants them off. When she wants them off, she takes them off and goes and finds her shoes and puts one sock in each shoe. I did not think this was a big deal, but apparently it is not normal for a 19 month old (thats when they were telling me about it in daycare).

She loves to jump on the trampoline and off of anything we will allow her to.

She said the cutest thing the other night.

"i'm ok, you're ok mommie."

I love it when she says i love you.

She is always asking if we are ok, and volunteering when she is ok after a fall or something. She is very concerned when people are crying.

She likes to talk about her day.

We came home from a camping trip the other day and was telling the neighbor about the sleeping bags and the tent.

She prefers not to sit in her booster chair, she prefers to sit on a big person chair, even though it does make it harder for her to reach her food.. SHe is still pretty darn big, in the 97th percentile for growth. When we bought her her tricycle for her birthday, the 3 yr old helmets would not fit, we had to move her up to a 5 year old size. Big headed baby. (sometimes i feel like we have a girl stewey between the head and trying to take over the planet.)

She really enjoys the tricycle, but will occasionally ask to stop and walk. Or to get off the bicycle so that she can get off and climb up something that she wants to jump off of. SHe will ask to jump on the trampoline, go for a walk, go for a hike, go for a ride in her stroller (called a seatbelt), or for a walk in her backack.

She loves going fast. I think Michael has blogged about that. She loved the go carts at the park the other day, but the bumper boats were bad news. " I want off mommy, I want off."

We went to chucky cheese last night. My first time, a little overwhelming for me, but she liked it. We decided to go at the last minute. I felt bad that we had not planned anything for her birthday, so the family just went down. She was very enamoured with the mouse. SHe wanted to follow him when he left. She was looking all over the place. "where'd da mouse go?" she was using the "what" sign instead of the "where" sign with her asl, but she was trying.

She still says down mommy, when she wants me to pick her up though. "I want down, i want down." As she is standing in front of me jumping up and down with her arms raised.

She is so excited when we get home. She loves her mommy, she loves her daddy, she loves her brother, sister, cousin, neighbor, daycare people: She just loves everybody.

She has a crazy set of lungs and can really scream when she is unhappy. You can tell she really likes the sound of it.

She is not really interested in potty training yet. I think they make the new daipers too absorbant. I put her in the cloth diapers thinking that extra wet feeling would bother her, but she does not mind them though. . Darnit.

We are still getting totally spoiled by my mom who is making lots of beautiful and original clothes for her. It is very cool She has a cuspuk for every season too.

I really love the kid. She is lots of fun.


... I know there is more to ramble on about. I will when it comes to me.