Still doing well with potty time. # 1 is still problematic. Tells you in the midst of going. Not sure how to solve this one.

Well, we’ve had a busy weekend. We’ve gone twice to the pool, moved our new King size bed in, gone to gymnastics, had two playdates and been out for dinner twice. All since Friday night!

Edzèa and her Daddy started their Saturday morning gymnastics class together this weekend. See pics. Tracey and I watched from the bleachers. It was amusing to watch the Dad’s with their kids! Tim was surprised/a bit disappointed in Edzèa’s capabilities in gymnastics or lack thereof. She is on the young end of the scale in the class and can only do so much. I’m not sure what he thought she’d be doing but obviously more than she is capable of at this time. She is good at rolling down the angled mats, walking with one foot in front of the other on the balance beams and has just started to bounce/jump on the trampolines by herself. This is a big jump from November. Literally!

On the other hand, her language skills are skyrocketing. Every day she continues to link more and more words into long sentences and complete thoughts/actions.

Swimming is a favourite and she now blows bubbles and throws her face into the water whenever she feels like it. She wanted me to take her on to the diving board on Friday night but I refused. She fixated on having a life jacket on so I would take her. Not happening until she can swim. Sorry kiddo.

Daddy and Edzèa now have a Sunday swim ritual too.  I stayed on deck today and took pics. Normally, we come to the earlier swim where there is a lane available so that I can swim while they play but we were too late for that today. Tim was having his sleep-in day in our new KING SIZE bed and we missed the noon swim!

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P.S. Potty training continues to improve. She catches # 2 most times and is at least constantly letting us know when # 1 is in process. Doesn’t have much control on that one yet though.

Potty success again today. This time with Daddy this morning. Made it for # 1 twice and her only #2 of the day. Still has problems with # 1 if the diaper is on. In case you are interested! This is more for me than for public consumption. Just trying to keep track so I can remember for the next one.

Red, Yellow, Green, Blue can discern all of these colours and I believe white too. Could probably do this a week ago but I didn’t test her. She’s very clear on all of them now just by osmosis. I didn’t spend any time focusing on this. I’m just putting these down as I’ve missed some things from earlier on.

Phrases/sentences have expanded to 5 or 6 words long from 18 mos-20 mos. Also, uses the phrase “oh my Goodness” when she is excited about something.

Added: Yellowknife, Vancouver, Okotoks, and TREATS this week. Treats was a fast one. It took one M & M and she knew the word. She can also count to 10. Understands to about #5 when she counts. Can say the whole alphabet and is learning visual recognition of the words.

Sings many many songs although loses some parts of the song. Rock-a-bye-baby, Wheels on the Bus, Happy & You know it, Humpty Dumpty, Hello Song, Zoom Zoom, Old MacDonald, Twinkle Twinkle and more. She could do these from about 18 mos on and continues to improve.

Phrases: Sit right there Mommy. Etc. Will add more as she says them. She talks so much right now that I can’t recall anything at the moment.

We missed the # 2 window this morning. It happened too fast but she peed two times in the potty today. We also went shopping for a big seat for the toilet which she liked at Georgia’s house last night. More stickers, went numerous times when she had gas but no production…so she seems to be getting the idea. We have a song we do after we do are successful too and we make a BIG deal of it even though the books say not to. Whatever. Whatever works as far as I’m concerned. Intrinsic motivation is hard enough for adults!!!

Also, we are going through visual recognition of the alphabet at the moment. Started with ABC today. Got that down already. So we’ll move on tomorrow. Can already sing the alphabet song although not super clearly yet but knows the entire song.

Bedtime, night night.

Hi there, Merry Christmas Eve. We spent the evening at Tracey & Markham’s and had Arctic Char for dinner. It was terrific! Here are some pics of the girls on Christmas Eve. Hope you all had a good one!

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