We are only a week late but happy Thanksgiving. Sort of last minute we invited some visitors from church over for lunch. I cooked my second turkey ever. It turned out ok but cooked a lot faster than I was planning. I then had to keep it warm until people arrived. I forgot the cranberry sauce was in the fridge until I was getting whipped cream out for the pies. But at least the pumpkin and pecan pies were good. Maya liked the pie and liked the whipped cream but didn't like it when the whipped cream touched her pie. She similarly doesn't like it when food gets on her hands, face, cup, tray, or bib right now. If you've every had a toddler, you know that this is an inevitability during mealtime. I constantly hear "I need a towel. I neeeed a towel." She has also started asking me to feed her more. I'm not sure if this is too avoid the mess or just because. She's a mama's girl right now. "mom hold you", "mom chaire (carry) you", "mom feed you", "mom do it". She's gotten a little, hmm I won't say whiny, but more demanding recently. We hear a lot of "I/Maya need" fill in the blank. Repeatedly. It must be said with increasing urgency every time you say it, totally ignoring any responses. I'm not quite sure the best way to deal with it, maybe ignore and redirect, I assume it's just the age (how can she possibly be 21 months?). In somewhat related news, she's up to eightish word sentences now such as "I need mom milk in the rocking chair." Also in related news, today she was telling her little people "what did I say? No". Really have to watch what I say now.
Friday, Maya's last canine (the bottom right) cut through. She also pooped in the potty for the first time since her first luck timing potty success. She's been wearing panties a lot when we are home. Monday She wore them all day with only one pee accident. Tuesday we were out of the house to she wore diapers. Wednesday she had two accidents, one of which was during nap time. I probably need to just bite the bullet and put her in panties all the time. She gets upset most of the time when she goes in her diaper. Today I opened a brand new large box of a different type of diapers than we usually use. First one = explosive poop everywhere, just like old times. I'm sure you've missed me discussing leaky poop diapers. Anyway, I was annoyed at the diaper and said "you've got to be kidding me". Maya was already a little upset that she'd gone in her diaper and then I think she thought I was upset at her. She burst into tears and kept saying "need to sit down". I tried to reassure her that it was okay but she wasn't convinced. Made me feel like a jerk. Another day in the life of having a sensitive toddler I guess.
We went full steam ahead on project "Christmas present" over the long weekend. We've made progress but still have too much to do. I can't wait until it's finished. Christmas should be fun with Maya this year.
We "put ormants on the tree" on Tuesday. We didn't put up a tree last year. When we pulled out our stuff we realized that all of our ornaments are breakable or choking hazards. And Maya can't keep her hands off of it. Probably bad news. We also got some Christmas window "stickers" that she is obsessed with right now, especially the "cookie bread man" and reindeer. We took them off and put them back on all afternoon.
