GREAT Week

Melanie after her hair cut enjoying her first lolipop. They had all kinds of "doodads" in her hair- it was cute.

We have had a great week. Monday morning Melanie went to gymnastics and is continuing to improve. Her shining star moment occurred at the beginning. The teacher has us all sitting in a circle and was giving the adults the following directions, "since there is a small number of students today we will have each one come to the center of the circle and do a forward roll while their parents introduce them." Well the next thing I know Melanie is in the center doing a forward roll. She heard the teacher and followed the directions- WAhoo! Both of Clint's parents and my dad came to watch and Melanie was showing off for everyone. We went to get her hair cut later that day. I recommended Snip-Its on 124 for anyone in need of a kid haircut. The people were wonderful and it is the neatest little store. Melanie had a great time. She just got a trim to kind of even things out. Overall we have had a really fun week just hanging out. The cutest new thing Melanie does is "tell" stories. Her top 2 go like this....
Mom (me): Melanie what did you and Nanna see on your walk? A big...
Melanie: Mess
Me: What was in the mess?
Melanie: Box
Me: What was in the box?
Melanie: A cat, jump, jump!
Me: A cat jumped out of the box! What did you and Nanna say?
Melanie: AAAHHH!

Story #2
Me: Melanie, what was in Chris and Aileen's back yard?
Melanie: Oh, no
Me: Oh, no what was it?
Melanie: A bird, tweet, tweet
Me: A bird? What was wrong with the bird?
Melanie: Oh no, bird, nest, oh no
Me: What happened?
Melanie: Oh, no, toe
Me: Oh, no the bird hurt it's toe?
Melanie: tweet tweet
(the baby bird was no longer in the nest and had a hurt leg and couldn't fly very well)

We are having conversations!!!

Potty training is continuing to go well. For whatever reason she is doing better at initiating pooping. For peeing we are still on me taking her and hoping to catch her at the right moment. But, she understands when she needs to poop and will freeze and say "potty, potty" and we run to the bathroom and sometimes she will then go (before I pull down her pants) and sometimes she will make it to when she sits down. I was so excited last night. She stood up in the bath, pooted, and then said "potty" and made it to the potty. Thank goodness! I am tired of cleaning poop out of the tub. It seemed to happen every couple of months and I was over it!

Overall things are going quite well. We almost made it one hour at dinner last night. Clint is learning to eat much faster- he used to enjoy his food. I explained how now food is for nourishment only- eat quickly so we can finish before the behaviors begin!