Gotta love the binky. I'm desperately trying to get rid of Alex's--she only uses it for sleeping but she definitely doesn't need it anymore. Marlon could care less if she has it, which makes it tough for me to try and break her of it! But I figured that with her starting at a new school in a few weeks, there is no time better than the present!! Yesterday I cut the nipple off so there's basically nothing left to suck on. (we'd tried the "throw it in the trash" routine but that didn't work so well once she realized that it could come back out of the trash if she asked for it long enough). She spent all evening walking around showing it to me and telling me "binky is broken" (see picture below). It took her 2 hours to fall asleep last night but she tried to suck on that little nub of a binky for everything it had to give! Today she has been in her room for over an hour for her nap and is still not sleeping--I know it's all because of that binky! I guess it's to be expected that she needs to learn a new way to soothe herself since she's relied on the binky for most of her life!
Another new obsession of hers is putting on random articles of clothing...yesterday it was this hat. She has worn it to bed the past few nights. Some days it's a pair of socks, a bathing suit cover-up (that she has to have zipped up with the hood on), and for the past 24 hours it's been the soccer outfit from the previous post (see below picture from this morning!). She wore the soccer outfit to bed last night, had a bath this morning and insisted putting it back on, so we wore it to the mall then to go watch some of the women's soccer game this afternoon. I guess there could be worse obsessions, right?! Her sneaky look below was because she was digging her hands into a cup of ice (another new hobby) and making a complete mess.
This last one is a sweet picture from this morning. She likes to put her babies (or in this case baby and Elmo) to bed, sit in between them, and today she chose to sing them the wheels on the bus song, complete with the hand motions (she is using the book as her guide!). In case you are wondering, yes that's a drier sheet covering Elmo. She often takes them when I'm removing clothes from the drier and uses them as blankets.
A belated happy anniversary to Jon and Renee--sorry I didn't call!!
I've learned it's hard to capture both Alex and Nolan in a picture together since they are always on the go, sometimes in opposite directions. Below is a picture of them in their soccer outfits before we left for Marlon's game (yes, it's the soccer outfit yet again! maybe I'll try to include a picture of her in this outfit in every post, since I've basically done that already. I promise it is getting washed in betweeen!) They had fun chasing each other around the track next to the soccer fields, then walking back and forth across the bleachers.
Here is Alex and her mischievious look once again. As I was taking the picture I thought she was just giving me a rare smile. After I put the camera down I realized that she was giving me this look because she had picked a golden graham off the ground outside and was putting it into her mouth :)
This last picture is priceless! No, the kids weren't looking at a bird or a plane. Jon was shooting a foam missle into the air and the kids were waiting for it to come back down. A rare moment catching them standing still and close enough to capture together!
It was a great weekend and we're looking forward to spending next weekend with Nolan and the family for his birthday party!
