I'm always so hungry these days. I see food and it gets scared. Luckily I have lots of fruit around and not lots of chocolate. With Anna I always wanted sweets and chocolate but with this pregnancy I always want savory foods, salt, meat, well you get the idea. This crazy hunger is a recent development and seems to have arrived in the last week or two.
I've been good though....I've been eating breakfast every morning. It usually includes some whole grain cereal with dried berries. It's almost painful to eat because of it's lack of sugar but that means it's good for me right? I then usually have either pears or apples as a snack before lunch. Then I have lunch. I must admit I'm not always so good about the lunch. Sometimes it's salads and healthy things but today, I confess, was fast food. The chicken burger was awfully good and the fries were delicious *insert devious laughter here*. For dinner I'm going to reheat some chicken pot pie I made a couple of days earlier and add some rice to it in hopes of camouflaging the vegetables from my daughter.
Today I have video conferencing for school. The whole class is just chaos and I have told the head of the program that I will not do this again. On the plus side Finlandia University has offered me an online teaching position. eCollege works beautifully and I wouldn't mind teaching for them if I get to use eCollege. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Anna is getting quite willful and it's a struggle at this point to get her to do anything we want her to. Bed time is painful and so is getting out of bed. Putting on clothing is a joke. It's all we can do to convince her that putting on underwear and clothes is a good thing and that you can't wear PJ's to daycare. Now she's constantly hungry as well. I think she's going through a growth spurt. For all of her stubbornness she so much fun and an excellent snuggler. We are her favorite climbing toys after all. I never thought I'd have to protect my belly from so many daily assaults. She climbs, and jumps and just is generally all over me most of the time. She's going through a mommy phase...meaning that only mommy can help or put her to bed, get her milk, etc etc etc. When she's upset she runs to mommy and hangs off my pants. I drag her around the kitchen while trying to get dinner done as she's hanging from my pants leg yelling, "mommy, moooooommmyyyyyy, mooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmyyyyyyy". You get the idea. I hope this is a short phase. JP tries so hard to appease her but he mostly gets...,"Daddy, go away". In Anna's defense though, JP does tease her a lot ;).
She's also getting very good at procrastinating before bed time. "Mommy I'm thirsty, hungry or have to potty" It's sometimes hard to tell when she really needs something or if she's just trying to pull the wool over my eyes. If she can't get my attention she's learned that if she says, "mommy I have to potty" I will put down whatever I'm doing and help her potty. Ah...but this mommy is a learning creature. Now I've learned that she doesn't need me in the bathroom and I just tell her to go on her own. She calls if she needs me. She does push her limits :). I wouldn't expect anything less.
She surprised me yesterday by counting to 10 in English! We were in the car and there are speed bumps on the way home from daycare. I always count down to the bumps, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, bump! She responded yesterday by starting 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...and then continued on up! It's nothing we've been consciously working on but she's caught on. Smart little thing. I talk to her about all sorts of things in the car on the way home. I ask her how her day was etc. Yesterday, my car was making a horrible squeaking noise and I said to Anna, "Mommy's car is noisy today. It's squeaky!" She responded, "terrible!". Pretty funny eh? It's amazing what little ones absorb on a daily basis.
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