My baby is not a baby anymore. She is now officially a toddler. While I love every new stage of her adorable life, I am a little sad she is growing up so fast. I know I can't prevent her from this, and my feeble attempts at keeping her a baby are just hindering her progression and causing problems for later on, but she's my last baby. I want her to stay my lovable, cuddly, rely on mommy for everything, baby.
These are a few things I know I should do at this stage in her life & I am having a struggle wanting to do so....
1- Take away the wubby (I feel a sense of loss just at the thought of it, imagine how she's going to feel)
2- Take away the bottle (and don't replace it with a full time sippy cup)
3- Potty Train (We've been working on that)
4- Detach her some from her blankie (This is an issue that has been passed down from big brother Ben. It was his blankie that he took EVERYWHERE until he started school. Luckily he was OK to go to kindergarten without it, but it was still his security blanket. When Franny was a few days old Ben brought it to me, with tears in his eyes, and said it had kept so many nightmares away from him for so long that he wanted Francine to have it so she can be safe, She has been just as attached to it as Ben was, we've actually had to re-do the top of it after patching, mending & cropping it many times.) And while the warning label on her musical mobile says "up to 6 months" I see no issue with her continuing to fall asleep to stars and music, so I'm not going to even try to take that away. I did that once and she wouldn't sleep in her bed at all until I put it back, that was a long couple of weeks.
I don't think Francine fully grasped the concept that it was her birthday, but she was so cute as she cautiously opened her gifts and her facial expressions said how much she loved each one!
Although she loved getting new toys, I'm pretty sure her favorite part of her birthday was blowing out the candles on her cake.
Tello, Jerica, Morgan, Zac, Chelsee, Zahrah, Ben, Angelea, Birthday Girl, & Andy
She got a cool new tricycle. She can't quited reach the pedals, so she did some cool stunts while standing on it for us.
Our Family seems small in numbers these days. The only ones around were Jerica & Morgan (only because they came to stay with Nate & Chelsee while Jerry & Chris are off playing on a cruise) Marlo and her 4 kids, and us.
Franny got some hair glitter sticks. She had much more fun rubbing them all over her beautiful little face then putting it in her hair!
Tello tried to convince me he was hard at work in Belize..... It's hard work making contacts as potential buyers...... spending all day exploring the islands for property to list.....
Tello tried to convince me he was hard at work in Belize..... It's hard work making contacts as potential buyers...... spending all day exploring the islands for property to list.....
