Tears

This morning Aidyn woke up very early, so I got up early too so that everyone else could stay asleep another few hours. Her tear ducts have been blocked since birth and still occasionally get blocked in the morning although there has been enough improvement in them that we are not too eager to have surgery to fix them. So, she will sometimes have tears running down her cheeks even if she isn't sad--people are always asking her, "Why are you crying?" I wonder if she gets as annoyed as I do about it?

Anyway, as I wiped the tears from her face this morning she said, "That's just water. It protects my eyes so I can see better." (No kidding, her exact words. Why am I even surprised by this stuff anymore?)

Just So You Know

Sometimes it is so hard to discipline Aidyn without laughing out loud at her antics or at the things she says. Yesterday gave a perfect example:

Aidyn had already been told not to squish the leftover birthday cake through the plastic wrap. I know it's tempting because it feels really cool to squish it like that with your hand, but we had already had this discussion a couple of times. In a moment of trying to get a project done with my mom while she's here neither of us were paying attention. I hear from right next to me near the cake, "Mom. Just so you know, I'm doing it." I look over to find a little hand squished down into the cake and a little girl with a guilty look on her face. I immediately sent her to the steps for a time out...so I could have a laugh!

Horseded Around

A couple days ago Aidyn was roughhousing with her daddy on the living room floor. Usually he is very careful with her and she really loves this time wrestling with him. This time there was an accident. Aidyn lost her balance and fell backward, slamming her head into the tv stand making a sickening sound as it hit. She immediately began crying and went to her daddy for comfort. He checked her head and saw just a small cut and went immediately for some Motrin and an ice pack. She ended up getting a big bump on the back of her head, but was really fine as far as head injuries go.
The next morning I asked her, "How's your head today?"
She replied, "Daddy horseded around too much with me and I hit my head and got an owie."--in other words, she was just fine :-)

My Toes Are Sick

Aidyn loves to be massaged. A couple of months ago she started a new game called "The Rub My Skin Game" that is only properly played if we massage on her skin and sometimes for as long as thirty minutes! On Tuesday she took the game to a whole new level.
While playing with my mom on the couch she lay down and asked for a back rub, on the skin of course. Then she switched gears to playing doctor and asked for Mamie to check her heart by placing her ear on Aidyn's belly. Aidyn would even say that Mamie was the doctor, Aidyn was the patient, and Mommy was the lollipop. I was just glad to be part of the game, I guess. Finally she put her feet in Mamie's lap and signalled for them to be rubbed (usually she pushes her foot not-so-gently into your hand as a signal), saying, "My toes are sick Mamie." I think Mamie medicated them well with her toe massage!

Birthday

Aidyn turned three today! Hard to believe, right? Well, it's an exciting thing for the birthday girl and this morning when she came downstairs with her sleepy eyes and bed head Daddy was already gone to work so he could take a short day and be home for birthday celebrations. My mom and I began singing "Happy Birthday" to her and her little eyes welled up with tears. She got a true sad little poochie lip and began to cry. We asked what was wrong and she said, "But we can't have my birthday without my daddy." Needless to say, she was very happy to see him home early from work!

Beautiful Day

I think we are finally getting somewhere on the potty training. Aidyn has been dry and clean the whole day in her princess undies and is pretty excited about it. She exclaimed, "Today is a beautiful day to go potty!"

I Got This

Overheard while Aidyn was brushing her teeth...
Daddy: "Want some help?"
Aidyn: "No. I got this."

Good Fixer-Guy

My mom and dad are here for a week to celebrate Aidyn's birthday. My dad is our personal handyman and always does a bunch of little repair jobs around our house when he visits. This time he successfully installed bookshelves in Aidyn's room that I had been unable to put up (despite a dozen holes in the wall!). Aidyn saw them and was very impressed. She said, "Pappy is a good fixer-guy!"

Valentine's Day

Today I bought Aidyn and Tracy a Valentine's Day rose. When I got home I explained to Aidyn every year there is a special day where everyone tells everyone they love that they love them. Then I told Aidyn I loved her and gave a longstemed (de-thorned) white rose. She looked at it with a great smile and then looked at me and said "Oh daddy that's good."

Melted my heart right out of my chest. That $4 was soooo worth it.

There's something in my leg

So we had a big breakthrough a few nights back concerning potty training. It was about 9pm and I heard Aidyn banging around upstairs. I went up to put her back to bed when I found her on her potty chair. She had, all by herself, removed her pajamas and her pull-up and was sitting on the potty. After we both shared a mini victory Aidyn started absent-mindedly feeling her leg when all of the sudden,
"Daddy! Dhere's somefing in my leg!"
"What?"
"Look I got somefing in my leg. Look!"

Then I noticed she was touching her ankle bone on the inside of her left foot. Well.....yes. Technically that is something that is in your leg.