Gretta Updates and New Pregnancy

Well, once again, I feel very overwhelmed with how long it's been since I've written here. But I still think you're better occasionally than never. I will really try to remember a lot of things, although I know I will forget. It's been several months since I've written. I'll just dive right in. We went to Arizona last month and Grant I was getting out of her pack and play daily, and we thought that it would be fine once we got home and got her in her larger crib, but nope. She started getting out of her crib every night, or rather morning I should say, so we decided it was probably time to move her into her toddler bed. So we transitioned her crib into a toddler bed. Ironically, she got sick that same day, and so it was a little bit of a rough few nights and George had to lay in there next to her for a couple nights because she was throwing up and just really not feeling good. But once she got over her sickness, she's been doing absolutely great. She never tries to get out at night, although she does get out in the morning quite a bit and come in our room, which is fine, except that it's always really really early. I was going to ease her out of her sleep suit to, but we just ended up taking it away right when we put her in the toddler bed, so that she could actually walk when she got out of bed. It didn't seem to faze her at all. And then she didn't have a sleep suit, we also had to put blankets on her bed and teacher to stay under her covers and keep her head on the right end. She's done really great with all that change at once – and she's never fallen out of bed or anything. I think she feels really grown up and it's really cute. She is just such a complete character, and we are absolutely loving this age. It is such a fun age. She has so many words and talks so well, and says the cutest things she also says the wrong words for some things like garage. It's really cute whenever we drive by the indoor soccer tennis courts on 25 1/2 Road, she often squeals there's the beach or there's the ocean! I have no idea why she calls it that, but is it is so cute and so I just haven't corrected it. Her hair is getting quite long and I'm able to do quite a bit with it although I don't really find the time to do that much with that usually. She took a really bad fall from our couch to the coffee table in early December, and had to get six or seven stitches on a very deep wound on her cheek. It was awful. And it left a really pretty decent scar, but it looks better and better every day, and the doctor told us that it will move as her face grows. I am very faithful with putting on the derma several times a day, as well as this product that Kathy Rosman gave us called Asea. It stinks that it's so prevalent on her face, but she is still beautiful despite it. She is very addicted to her Binky right now, and the time is eminent for us to start thinking about taking it from her. I am a little nervous because even though this was the age that George he was, and he did fine, she seems to be even a little bit more addicted to them than he was. We told her that when we lose all of them were going to be done, but we still have four and I'm not sure how fast we will lose them. So that's our next hurdle. She definitely has shown interest in potty training, so we will tackle that as soon as the weather gets warmer. I will try to do a separate post about this, but I am expecting our third child, which is a huge blessing and we are so excited, and so I'd really like to get her potty trained before the new baby comes in September. We have a chronic really frustrating issue in that both kids wake up early in the morning, and we have tried everything to get them to sleep later to no avail. We finally set up Georgie's alarm clock to change colors at 6 AM, and have enforced him staying in bed until it changes colors even if he wakes up sooner. He has been amazingly good at doing that. And granny used to get up before him sometimes and come in our room, but now she pretty consistently wait for her brother to get up and then comes in with him. 6 AM is actually a pretty good improvement, as they were waking up as early as 5 AM, 515, 530. It's been really hard on us with my sleep issues and with George not going to bed till a little bit later. And we do feel guilty daily but we let them watch videos and cartoons so we can go back to bed for a while. Credit is really obsessed with videos now and the iPad, because of Georgie, and of course she wants to be like him. It's frustrating because they never seem to want to watch cartoons – they just want to watch videos. And videos are harder to monitor what they're watching, and cartoons are. I finally threw my hands up in the air with the sleeping, and said we're just going to start putting them to bed late at night like everybody else does, whose kids sleep in later in the morning. And we are not even asking them to sleep super late – even like 6:30 would be very doable. Because of the early wake time, I have been having to go to bed so so early, like sometimes I go to bed as early as 730. I just get tired that early. And so it really affects our life in a pretty major way, and we don't have a lot of nights. And if I do go to something at night, I really struggle to catch up on my sleep for a few days. But I know it's a season, and it will improve so much in our new house. We are so so so so so ready for having our master bedroom downstairs so we can have some more privacy, and having our own bathroom that isn't right next to a kids bedroom. And having the kitchen be far away from their bedrooms. And having them have their own room, so they won't wake each other up. And having a garage so our car is iced over and freezing every morning in the winter, making us late everywhere. Anyway – not trying to sound negative – I am just so completely excited for our new house. We definitely would have a very difficult time having a third baby here, so God's timing is perfect in that we should be moving into our house right before we have a new baby. We know it's going to be a trying time, trying to unpack and set up a new house and having a newborn, and having Georgie be starting school, but it will be short-lived and in a couple years everything will be more routine. I really want to have a slightly larger family, and so I am so grateful to George that he is leading us to have a third baby. I am content now though, and I am simply in love with both of our children. Our life isn't easy by any means, but it is so hard and dirty and print happen our biggest blessings, other than each other and ourselves in. As far as eating, Greta is getting a little less picky, and we've noticed that if she is sad, she will eat it easier than if we expect her to feed it to herself. Which is not a good habit for us to get into having to do with her, but at least she will eat the food, so it's not so much a issue of picking us as it is that she just gets distracted and board, and I don't think she has a super big appetite. I need to go now, but I will write another post soon. One more thing to add because I copied and pasted this (issues with phone blog app) - Gretta is SOOOOOO expressive in her voice inflection - it's soooooo cute how much her inflection goes up and down! It KILLS me the cuteness! Definitely could be a little actress!!! In love! <3