This morning, Delaney sat on the little potty we keep in the living room and started talking about poop. So, I asked her if she needed to poop in the potty. I ask her this often when she starts to talk about poop, so, I was expecting the same answer I always get, which is “no”. Well, not this time! She said she did need to poop in the potty and started trying to take her shorts off, so I assisted with her shorts and diaper. She proceeded to sit down and attempt to poop. (ALERT!!! GRAPHIC INFO AHEAD!) She said “it’s stuck” and yep, there was a very tiny piece of poo stuck between ther butt cheeks. A tiny push later I heard the sound of a poo hitting the bottom of her potty! YAY! She said she was done, so we wiped and flushed the poo down the toiled and said “bye bye yucky!” then danced around the living room in joy and called Daddy to tell him what happened.
They're Sharing a Room Now
I’ve had a very productive day today. Brianna and Delaney are now in the same room, per Brianna’s repeated requests since before Delaney was even born. Delaney’s crib was moved into Brianna’s room and converted to a toddler bed. All toys (almost all toys anyway) were moved into Delaney’s old room and reorganized. Everything looks so much cleaner now with the reorganization.
Nap time was quite a challenge. Delaney kept getting out of bed and playing. I kept putting her back in bed. It only took a couple of times for her to get the idea to hide her pillow and blanket so I couldn’t find it (or so she thought). I guess she thought that if she didn’t have a pillow and blanket that she couldn’t take a nap. The first attempt was putting it all on Brianna’s bed – easily found. The second attempt was putting it all in the drawer in Brianna’s nightstand. Again, pretty easily found because I heard her opening and closing drawers right before I went in the room. The third attempt was hiding it all under Brianna’s bed. That one took me just a tad bit longer to find.
Finally, after just over 2 hours and JR going in to holler at her to stay in bed, she cried herself to sleep and slept for about 2 hours. She normally sleeps for about 3 hours for her nap, so she was cranky when she got up.
Tonight she didn’t even get into bed until after 10 (her bed time is 8). I thought that would mean she would fall right to sleep (she was very tired). Nope. I heard Brianna in there hollering at Delaney to be quiet and go to sleep….several times. So, I went in to see what the issue was. Brianna said Delaney was clapping and singing and just generally making noise. I told Brianna that she would just have to deal with the noises because that’s what happens when you share a room. And I told Delaney to be quiet and to go sleep. It was quiet for a while, so I just went in to check on them. Brianna is sound asleep, but Delaney is still awake. Just laying there looking at everything. I’m not going to get too freaked about it since I know she’s just trying to get used to the new surroundings and her bed looking so much different now (same bed, just without the front bars). I figure she’ll fall asleep eventually…at least she’s not trying to get out of the bed.
I swear, Brianna never gave us this much problem with sleeping and such. Totally different kids. Brianna was sleeping through the night (on her own – no “training”) at 8 weeks. Delaney was more than a year and a half old…and LOTS of effort on our part to get her there. Brianna climbed right up in it and put herself down for her nap without us having to say anything. Delaney, well, she’s been quite a handfull today. There is only 2 months difference from when we moved Brianna to a toddler bed and when we moved Delaney to one, so it’s not an issue with us moving them to toddler beds at different ages.
Also, JR decided to pull out Brianna’s old training wheeled bike to see if Delaney was big enough for it yet. We lowered the seat all the way down and she was able to reach the pedals with no problems. Making the pedals work is another subject. She completely enjoyed having us push her around the driveway on the bike though. She felt like such a big girl with just moving into a big girl bed AND riding around on a big girl bike!
Delaney & the Nintendo DS
Brianna got a Nintendo DS for her birthday back in January. JR and I bought Brain Age for ourselves to play when Brianna is at school or grounded from it (which is about half the time). One of the things on Brain Age is to say the color word and not the color OF the word (if BLUE pops upon the screen you would say “blue” not “red”). Well, Delaney has been watching us play that WAY too much apparently, because she will sit there and stare at the DS and call out colors “bwoo”, “bwack” (blue, black) over and over again – even when the Brain Age game isn’t in it. It’s so stinkin’ cute.
Delaney & farting noises
Delaney has discovered that it’s “funny” to make farting noises with her mouth. Whatever.
Spring Break is Over
Well, Spring Break is over, and things are on their way back to normal here in the house. JR is sleeping (worked last night), Brianna is at school, Shiner is napping behind the couch, and Delaney is trying her best to build something to climb up to get Brianna’s Nintendo DS off the mantel. She has pulled everything she can find that’s even remotely stable over to the fireplace to try to stand on it. She’s going through Brianna withdrawls. She’s gotten so used to having Brianna here every day. I just told her to get down off her toy horse (she’s standing on it trying to get to the game) and she looked at me and pointed to my computer and said “puter’, like she wanted me to stop looking at her and look at the computer instead…little stinker.
I made the girls be outside most of the weekend. At first Brianna was not too happy that I didn’t want her sitting in the house watching TV and playing video games. But, she did end up having a good time outside – mostly by herself of all things, oh the horror. She did find a couple of lizards and caught them…she had one of them sitting on her hand for almost a half hour.
I seriously need to post more pictures. 
