Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Going to Nene and Papa's

This week was a very busy week. I had my 20th ish.... class reunion on Saturday night in Mount Airy so Matti got to visit with her nene and papa. We had a very busy Saturday. We took Matti to get her picture made in the Halloween dress I made her and also in her bee costume. They turned out great and I will post them as soon as mom gets them back. Here are a couple of pictures of her costume and the pumpkin dress I made for her.





Matti has been so into seeing pumpkins I decided to take her to across the line this weekend to Cana, VA were there is a road side stand with all kinds of fresh fruits, veggies, flowers, pumpkins, etc. I thought it would be a great field trip for us. Matti, Nene, and I went and it was freezing cold. Matti seemed to enjoy looking at the pumpkins and flowers. She was very excited, but extremely cold so our trip was short and sweet. Here are a few pictures.





I wished it had not been so cold so we could have stayed longer. I think Matti was having a great time, but she was shivering cold.
Matti loved playing with her Nene and Papa all day on Saturday. If she did not get her way with Matthew, Nene, or I she would just yell for her papa to come save her. She is really starting to know how to play us. If she does not get her way with one -she will try the other. At one point she had asked Nene and I if she could go outside. It was so cold and Matti needed to change clothes so we told her not right now. She immediately yelled "Papa" and papa came over and Matti said "Papa outside". Of course Papa took her out.
Here are some pictures of Nene, Papa, and Matti.


Matti really enjoys spending time with Nene and Papa. When we wake up at there house she always asks for papa and then she starts looking for Nene. She loves to go into Nene's bedroom and wake her up.
Matti is so into shoes and starting to enjoy dress up clothes. Here is a pictures of her new dress up shoes that Nene and Papa got her.


Matti has still been an angel here the past few weeks. Hardly any tantrums and very cooperative. She also did pee pee on the potty again last night. We were so happy for her. She was excited for herself. Still we are under no pressure to potty train just yet. Although she has been taking her diaper off by herself a lot lately. I just tell her when she learns to go pee pee and poop in the potty she can wear big girl panties and she will not have to wear a diaper anymore. We will just see how she does in the next couple of months before I really start working on the potty training.
We are planning a trip to a farm here in Raleigh this weekend weather permitting. The NC State Fair is also happening right now, but I am still not ready to expose her to all of that just yet. I am not sure which has more germs the farm or the fair, but H1N1 scares the crap out of me and I know several people who have small children that have already got it and they all attended the fair. I am sure it was just a coincidence. Oh well, next year we will definitely take her.
Matti also has really got into Thomas the Train here lately. I bought her a Thomas the Train toy and she absolutely loves it. It is a train that runs around the floor on no tracks. She follows him around and dances to the music. It is also interactive and response to commands, which is funny to watch her tell Thomas what to do and when he needs to go. Next time Thomas comes around I will have to take her to see Thomas also....

I will hopefully have some videos to post soon.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Weekend

We had a pretty uneventful weekend this weekend. Matti has been having a few, what I think are, nightmares almost every night this week. She also may be getting her two year molars. She has had several episodes of waking up in the middle of the night crying out for me. Most of the time she just needs to be tucked in and checked on.
Matti is constantly learning new words every day. Her most recent are Pumpkin and Elephant of course Elephant sounds more like El phant and Pumpkin sounds like Pukin. It is too cute.
We took her to play at the park this weekend in our neighborhood which is usually empty, but this weekend there were a lot of children there. Most of them were around Matti's age. I was worried about her getting pushed around, but found that I had a different problem. She was pushing the other kids around telling all the other children "My Slide", "My turn", MY EVERYTHING. She just jumped right in front of other kids and did her own thing pretty much pushing them to the side. I completely felt out of my element and was not sure what I should do. I first tried to tell Matti that this was Every ones playground and that she needed to take turns, pointing out to her how she must share. Of course in went in one ear and right out the other. I threatened that if she did not play nice we would have to go home. Once I told her that every time a child would come around she would look at them and say "play nice". She eventually got the idea, well sort of. I just had to hold my breath and also I caught myself giggling under my breath at how darn bossy she was. I just shook my head.
We ran into one little girl who looked similar to her cousin Emma. She followed the little girl around and kept trying to talk to her calling her Emma. I thought it was sweet.
She has been a perfect angel here lately. Tantrums right now are few and far between, but I know that this will change again probably over the next few weeks.
We have been playing with play dough, I cut out pumpkins out of construction paper for her to decorate and we put them on the refrigerator, she loves Tinker toys (only under supervision) and she loves to pretend she is cooking for us. Grandma Marion gave me a huge bag of zippers and I have found her several times sitting in the floor with the bag of zippers pulling one by one out and sorting the colors into categories. She is really getting good at recognizing her colors esp. yellow, brown, orange, red, green, purple, blue, black, and white. It was pretty cool watching her sort and match colors together.
She also loves for me to take her finger and court items in books. She likes to pretend to count using my finger. I have made a game out of it. She is starting to love certain books at night before bed. It is like a ritual.
Her bedtime routine is so routine that Saturday night we decided to let her stay up a little later than normal, but decided against a bath since it was so late. She was all out of sorts. We put on her pajamas and read books and then she took off into the bathroom and wanted to take a bath. I saw first hand how a routine is beneficial for bedtime.
I will post some pictures of the park. She is really growing up so fast I am amazed every day at the things she can do...

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Time to update

I have been VERY bad about keeping up with Matti's blog and have really missed out on posting a lot. So much that it would take me forever to update so I decided to start fresh with the things that are going on right now. I have been so caught up in sewing, work, and chasing Mattison around I completely regret I did not keep the blog going.

Matti will be 22 months old next week. It is so hard to believe that her 2nd birthday is fast approaching us.
At Matti's last check up, which was her 18 month check up, she weighed 26 pounds, 32 1/2 tall, and still has a big noggin measuring at 47.6cm which is the 70% for children her age. There is either a big brain in there or is it all that hair of hers. He he ...
Matti has really started talking a lot over the past several weeks. Words are too many to name, but Matthew and I can understand about 80% of what she is saying. She is starting to make two to three word sentances and likes to copy everything Matthew and I say. Apparently Matthew and people at daycare call Matti Honey or Honey do not do that because Matti has been saying "No Honey" to her father lately. It is absolutely hallirous. Also her daddy told her "bye Pookie" as she walked out the door to go to school this morning and she turned around, looked at him, and said "Bye Pookie" right back to him with a big grin. It is simply amazing how much toddlers can change in just a matter of a few weeks.
Matti has started singing lately. She will sing bits and pieces of the Imagination Movers theme song, nursery rhyme songs, and most recently bits and pieces of the alphabet song. She also loves to dance, draw, color, use play dough, dress up, undress (especially loves to take her diaper off these days), run, put puzzles together, play with Tinker Toys (supervised of course), play with baby dolls, etc. She is just into everything.
She is starting to understand emotions as well. If I make a sad face she will look at me all concerned and say "Mommy sad". If I make a happy face she will say "Mommy Happy" and then imitate the faces stating what faces she is making. One afternoon we were rough housing and she kicked me in the face by accident. I pretended to cry and she hugged me, patted me on the back, and said "Mommy sad" and once I looked at her and said you kicked mommy she said "Sorry" and gave me a kiss. It was the sweetest. She was patting my back and sssshhhhing me trying to comfort me. What a sweetheart.
One of the biggest things that has happen over the past couple of weeks is Potty!!! Mattison actually pee pee in the potty once (I think by accident), but got so excited. Once she first started to pee pee I think I scared her by my excitement, but once she understood it was a great thing she starting clapping and screaming to the top of her lungs. I was a proud mama even if it was just coienidentle.
For the past few weeks Matti has shown great interest in using the potty. She will come up to me and say "Potty" or "Pee Pee In Potty" and I will take her straight to the potty. She will sit there for a few minutes and sometimes look at a book and then get up. She never really uses the potty with the exception of the one time above. This morning she was all dressed for school and before I could put her shoes on she got off the couch and crouched down in the corner and started to push and then all the sudden she stood straight up and grabbed my hand and said "potty" so I took her to the bathroom, took off her pants and diaper, she sat down and pick up a magazine, then tooted really loud, stood striaght up and said "all done". Oh well, I guess this is all a start.. I had to giggle-she toots like her father he he he....
Matti still loves school and her friends at school knowing each of them by name. I think she is actully bored on the weekends because she has no one to play with, but mommy and daddy.
I will be posting some pictures later and try to get some movies, etc. I hope to keep this blog more updated. I have missed out on posting so much. Please stayed tuned.