The Third Prayer

Love this!  I have not been able to get a good picture of Mary Rene with her eyes open this last week because when I say “Smile” this is what she does!  She gives me a good smile but squints her eyes so tight.  What a little ham.

Seriously.  I’m not kidding.

Mary Rene had a play date last week with Elaine and they were having so much fun playing together in her car bed.  But again, I couldn’t get a good picture.

Well, that one is pretty good.

Mary Rene has become fascinated with my wedding ring and wants to wear it.

I let her play with it for awhile but I’m so scared she will try to eat it so ‘ring playtime’ doesn’t last long.

When Mary Rene visited her new pediatrician last week, he gave me a pamphlet about what to expect at this age.  The pamphlet was very helpful and also gave a list of things to work on and skills to start building.  One thing that it mentioned was potty training.  Around this age, toddlers start to develop more independence and get set in their ways (REALLY? I thought that was six months ago?)  Even though I don’t think she is ready to potty train I went ahead and bought her a potty. 

She always follows me into the bathroom, watches me go, hands me toilet paper, helps flush the toilet and waves bye bye to my business.  So she clearly understands the process.  She was very interested in her potty but she didn’t seem to comprehend the process as much as I thought.

   

And then she took the seat off and put her crayons in the bowl.

Finally, I got her to sit down.

We moved her potty into the bathroom and placed it right across from our toilet.  Every time I go to the bathroom, I sit her on her potty (with clothes on) and say, “mommy goes pee pee, Mary goes pee pee too.”  Then she will sit there and make the peeing noise, “psssss.”  Ha!  I’ll get toilet paper and then hand her some and for some reason she wipes the toilet paper against her mouth.  I have no idea why she does that.

Yesterday was absolutely gorgeous and we walked up to the local park to play.  Mary Rene was having fun playing on the playground, going down the slides, riding the swings, playing in the sand and watching all the kids run around.  At one point she walked over to a couple of kids who were blowing bubbles.  She was mesmerized by the bubbles flying everywhere and soon the kids were blowing them towards her.  I thought it was so cute that the kids including Mary Rene in their fun because they clearly could see she liked the bubbles.  I kept talking about the bubbles as the kids were blowing and soon Mary Rene said the word “bubble.”  What a quick learner. 

On our walk back home I decided to stop for ice cream as a special treat for her….and me.

I can’t think of a better way to end a good day.

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