Arizona trip, Gretta saying Potty, talking, virus, Gretta timeout

We are in Arizona right now, and Greta is now constantly saying the word potty, and wanting us to set her on it. It's crazy since she's just now 17 months. She seems genuinely interested and wants to be a big girl and go on the potty, but she totally doesn't understand actually going into the potty. She still has yet to actually tinkle or poop in it. It's really cute though, and sometimes almost annoying because we want to accommodate her and set her on the potty when she wants to, but she wants to so often that it gets a little repetitive. And it's not like just pulling down undies and pulling them back up, we have to take off her whole diaper let her sit on the potty and then lay her back down to put her diaper back on. Yesterday she was also trying to put Georgees undies on. It was so cute. I don't think she's really ready for potty training yet, but it's exciting that she's showing interest. Sheis also still just exploding with words and two and three word sentences. She says a sort of unrecognizable thank you now, and please and many other words. She'll say thank you daddy or thank you Paapu. Or all done mommy and things like that. She is truly a good talker for her age. She has A blister on her upper lip that appeared yesterday, that we think is a virus. She also had a small blister on her chest as well. Catherine Schnell and Dr. George really think that it's just a virus and it will go away. We're not really sure how she got it. other than that, and extreme teething and so therefore lots of grouchy Ness, she is doing good rash wise. I was so scared to come to Arizona this year in fears that she would break out and her eczema rash like last year. But she looks absolutely great so far and we've been here for over a week. She is totally at the age where she just gets hurt like literally every five minutes she's crying from tripping or barking her head etc. Dr. Price said this is totally normal, and she will push her limits because she watches Georgie and what he can do, and she's just not quite physically ready for some of the things that she tries to accomplish yet. So it's a little bit hard when she is crying so much during the day, but I know it's normal. She is also turning out to be more of a climber and Georgie. She has already tried to crawl into her pack and play from the outside a couple times now. She is definitely more of an escape he and George he ever was. It makes me nervous for when we transfer her into a toddler bed. She is as feisty as ever and Scowls at everyone she meets. almost everyone we see comments on it, and I just tell them to Scowl back at her and sometimes she'll smile. She's very expressive. She is also fairly clingy to me right now, which is hard but also very sweet. We have the kids in our room for this trip and I has been somewhat of a struggle with some very early mornings, we're making it work the best we can. we've also been starting to do more and more timeouts with her, as she will deliberately sometimes pull hair and thinks it's funny. She doesn't really hit, so that's good, but she does deliberately misbehave sometimes. And she always wants to do what we don't want her to do. We call her Greta Mary quite contrary! :) she is very independent, I think even more so than Georgie. I think George is pretty independent too, but boy is she seriously independent. I am getting quite nervous for when she turns two and three – I see some huge tantrums in our future! :( The other day I was tying my shoes, and Georgie said – mom are you doing that all by yourself? And I said yeah. And he said wow! That's incredible! So so cute. And yesterday he said mom, can you give me a hand please? It's just so cute because sometimes I don't know where he picks up these words. I'm sure it's probably all the videos let him watch. It's hard because I know we let him watch too much cartoons and videos, but sometimes it just seems so necessary. I feel guilty all the time that I don't play with my kids enough. It's hard for me and I'm trying to get better at it. I know that they both just truly love it when I play with them, especially Georgie. That's his love language :-) another Arizona development is that they have been eating us out of hotel and home! Both kids are so active here with walking and running and riding bikes around the hotel, and going to the playground, that they are just hungry all the time! I've been being more active here too, so I've been hungry or two. I feel like they're eating so so much! It's cute. Gretta is still fairly picky, although I've noticed if she's hungry enough she will eat some meat now, and she likes cucumbers which she calls 'come', which is kind of funny :) she has also started to eat tomatoes! I'm so excited! She still loves beans, cheese, Mac n cheese, and all fruit. Been giving her applesauce quite a bit, which she really likes. George is taking Georgie mountain biking for the first time right now. They and Dr. George and Janet went to south mountain while I stay at the hotel room with Gretta so she can nap. I wish I could be there to see it. It's not really going to be technically mountain biking but it will be on dirt. :-) it is all I can think of for right now, I although there's other things I think of all the time. I will try to block again when I get a chance.


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