Kid update

[flea]

Last night Casper finally learned how to operate the mouse, so she happily spent, um, two hours watching Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers on Youtube. I'm glad she's learned how to mouse competently, but now I have to think a little more about the web for her. I should look into filtering YouTube, for example; there was a Chip & Dale fanvid set to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun that included what I think were fanart pictures of the female rodents (are they all meant to be chipmunks?) in bikinis that I thought was a little questionable.

Parenting is hard. Thanks god she can't read yet.

She spent the weekend whiny, whiny, whiny. We decided to give up soccer, as it was causing too much stress for all of us (the coach actually suggested it, and said we could ask for a refund, which I don't think is worth bothering, since she does love the jersey, anyway.) Something's up with that child, and I'm not sure what to do about it. I guess some one-on-one time would help; mr. flea worked most of the weekend, so I was double-teamed. Things I must do: enforce reasonable bedtime, think of some way to extricate ourselves from the candy demands (we are still rewarding poop in the potty with candy.) She told me this weekend that she wants to be nocturnal when she grows up. I told her teenagers are nocturnal but she got confused and now thinks that cheerleaders are nocturnal, which makes her want to be a cheerleader even more. Heh.

Dillo, in contrast, is pretty easy. He naps easily, generally goes to bed easily, has been sleeping better (up only once in the night, fairly often now; had been twice). He loves playdoh and his trains and just going about doing little busy-ness. He's been dancing like a hilarious hoe-downing farmer to the music-making toy my father got him at Christmas lately (video to come). He's a happy, expressive little dude, not much angst. He's still quite shy in regards new places, new people or even just lots of people, and big noises (honking the car horn makes him cry), but this existential angst that Casper's got, he ain't got. It's a delightful age, with the communicating, too.

Comments

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

Heh. So, last night at my parents' house, I was going through stuff they wanted to get rid of like my elementary school report cards, and my baby book. And it had all the sorts of things you write about Casper, in it. And I thought "Wow, I looked like a TERRIBLE child! And I turned out great!" If you look at my elementary school report cards and my baby book, you would think I would (a) never quit screaming (b) never get potty trained (c) never have good handwriting and (d) never be good in math. And they're ALL WRONG!!

So, keep up the good work. Casper is gonna turn out awesome.

[casperflea.livejournal.com]

Are you SURE you're potty-trained??

[mearagrrl.livejournal.com]

AND I sleep through the night! Something my mother was apparently convinced I would never do!!

[burrell.livejournal.com]

I used to sleep through the night. Not anymore. And I can't even blame the kids for it, even the nights they sleep, I don't.