
Happy Fat Tuesday! Our church cancelled their Fat Tuesday celebration so we plan on over indulging on junk food and booze at our house. Bring on the beads!
Our little angel is 17 months today! I can’t say this enough but time sure does fly! In one month she will be a year and half! Oh I just can’t believe it. I want to invent that magic pill to make her stop growing already. I love to hold and kiss her all day long. These days are numbered so I am going to do it as much as I can while I can!
Mary Rene has been snorting like a pig when she laughs, trait she picked up from me, so I’ve been able to transfer her snort laugh to a pig noise. Now when she snorts, I say, “what does a pig say?” And she’ll snort again. Now she isn’t snorting when she laughs anymore but only doing it when she makes her pig noise. And this is what her face looks like when she makes the pig noise.

My brilliant friend Jamie (thanks Jamie!!!) gave me a suggestion for our crazy bedroom situation. As a quick reminder on how much Mary Rene’s sleeping arrangements have changed since she has turned one:

She slept on her mattress on the floor but ended up waking up every night crying to come in our room.

We bought her a toddler bed but were too afraid she would fall out in the middle of the night since she rolls so much so she only naps in there.

For the past two months we have had a twin size mattress on the floor next to our bed. The plan was for Mary Rene to sleep there so she would be close enough to us. But Frank didn’t want Mary Rene on the floor so he has been sleeping there and she has been sleeping with me.
But now, we have a new arrangement and I must say it is not chaotic as the picture above. Our room actually looks clean!

We put the twin mattress back downstairs and wheeled Mary Rene’s crib in our room. We adjusted the height so it was the same level as our bed, which is still off the frame. We put this together Sunday and Mary Rene was having so much fun playing in “her bed.”

Genius! Thanks Jamie! Mary Rene was having so much fun playing in her crib. She kept bringing all her covers and stuffed animals and playing in there like it was some big toy. Sunday night when we tried to get her to sleep in her crib she refused. So we let her fall asleep in our bed and a few hours later when we went to sleep we moved her over to her crib. Somewhere in the middle of the night she found her way back in our bed and was snuggled against my knee caps. Monday night she fell asleep in our bed and when we went to bed we moved her over again. Within minutes she crawled back over to snuggle with me. Frank and I were laughing so hard and nearly woke her up. It was so darn adorable. I let her snuggle with me but in the middle of the night I woke up and noticed she was back in her crib. I woke up a few hours later and felt her snuggled in my arms again. So she can’t decide where she wants to go yet but at least she has options. The best part is both nights she just moved over herself without waking up crying or screaming for help. So this is absolutely the most peaceful situation thus far. We plan on keeping the arrangements like this until June. Come June we need to start getting ready for Sweet Pea.
Sunday night we got snow so I thought it would be best if Mary Rene spent the day inside on Monday. Even though Frank was a sweet angel and cleaned off my car and the walkway, we played it safe and stayed in. Which makes for a very long day when you are cooped up in a matchbox all day. So I made sure to only have my work email open, all other browsers closed, and we played all day. What did we do?

That was only fun for a bit so I decided to pull out the washable paint. Mary Rene didn’t get the concept at first but after away she caught on.


But then she decided to paint her hands instead.



And realized that the paintbrush was just an extra step in the process so she used her fingers instead.

But why paint your hands when you can paint your clothes?

And your face.

And your legs.

Yeah, that got a little mess.
Baby girl is still nursing away and I’m still able to get her to fall asleep for her nap. She has dropped a random nursing session and is averaging only three times a day: morning, nap and night. I heard my milk is going to start changing soon, second trimester, so I’m not sure what will happen then. I plan on taking it day by day.