Tidbits
- Sometimes Lexi approaches strangers with ease and is friendly and sometimes she throws a fit if a stranger talks to her. At her "my gym" class today, there was a substitute teacher. When the teacher came to help her with something, Lexi said, "go away, mommy help me." (I took care of that right away with a talk and an apology from Lexi) At the grocery store, one person approaches her and talks to her and she’s very receptive, the next aisle over, she cries out, "no, no no" to the person. What gives?
- She is also mercurial in her physical confidence. Sometimes she runs off to climb some huge slide without me, even saying "by myself" and other times she won’t step up a tiny step without begging me to hold her hand because she’s "scared!" Is this normal?
- Her favorite play right now is pretend, specifically, playing family. She will use anything and everything. Seriously. She’ll take her french fries at dinner, and say, "that’s the mommy and that’s the baby" and then have the french fries play. "That’s the mommy and that’s the baby" is, by far, her favorite. I hear it, oh, about 345, 344, 987 a day.
- I think the ice cream truck is trying to drive me mad. Three times now, he’s come into our neighborhood with his Pied Piper of a tinny music box playing, seducing my kid. Three times he’s circled our block, but NOT COME DOWN OUR STREET. To a two year old who is praying for God to bring the ice cream truck….this is torture. It’s also torture on the mom who has to explain it.
- I decided to hold off on going back to school right now. I want to, but we simply can not afford it now.
- All our activities have ended for the summer and I’m staring at weeks of empty days……..gulp.
- I want to take a vacation, but don’t think we can afford one this summer.
- Haven’t scrapbooked in forever, just haven’t felt creative lately, been in a slump. I just joined a local scrapbooking group on meetup and they have a crop on July 9th that I"m going to, hopefully that’ll get me going (note to Art: I’m going on a crop July 9. You are on daddy duty).
- I’m thinking I may possibly want to adopt again, but Art doesn’t, so there you are. I’m happy with our family of three, it just might be nice for Lexi to have a sib. But then again, maybe not.
- Lexi adores her daddy and it truly is a beautiful thing to watch.
- Potty training is not even in her radar yet. She knows about it, but strongly refuses to go. She clearly told me, "no pull ups, no underwear, I want diapers." Maybe we’ll try again in the fall.
- Growing my hair out from being super short. It’s in that puffy stage right now so sometimes my head looks like a Q-tip. Awesome.
- Loving summer: outside all day, flip flops, water play, warm weather, no coats.
- I like the beach. Lexi usually likes the beach. I want to go to the beach. But, for those of you who don’t know, the Jersey shore beaches are HUGE. The stretch of sand between the boardwalk and the ocean is looooooong. And Jersey shore sand is soft, you sink as you walk in it. So, it’s put foot down, it sinks in, put other foot in, sinks…walking across that long stretch of sand is exhausting and quite a work out. Lexi doesn’t like it, she won’t walk on it for that long, she gets frustrated with her sinking feet. So, carrying her, her toys, towels, snacks, drinks, sunscreen, blanket, dry clothes, diapers, hats, sunglasses all the way across the sand…ugh. The stroller is not an option, tried it, the wheels just promptly sank and stuck.
- Off to lay down, I think I’m getting an ear infection.
oh man. i’m glad we don’t have ice cream trucks here after reading that. that stuff at the beginning? NORMAL. 2 yos are WEIRD.
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A lot of beaches have wheel chairs with balloon wheels. They might let you use it to bring the stuff to the water
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my advice on #1, is never push her to talk to someone she deems a stranger. to me, that sends mixed signals. b/c when they are older, we tell them not to talk to strangers. they can be polite w/out having to actually interact w/ the person they think is a stranger. & #2 is for sure normal. :o)
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I am loving summer too, but it seems to be raining a lot in my neck of the woods. I sure wish it would stop, so I can bike ride. I can;t wait to get to the beach this year. Perhaps I will take the kids soon. It is a long walk on our beach to get to the water also. I usually bring a wagon. Although I am not so sure how it would go on your beach.
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What you need is a beach cart! Nantucket makes one with wide wheels for the sand in back. Christmas Tree Shoppes is a good place to get one if you have one nearby.
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sounds like fun…and 2 year olds are strange beings im not sure why but they are just go with it 🙂
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