It has been a little while since I last posted but really, nothing has been all that exciting. My neice and her two daughters have moved in with us for a short time...at least we hope it is a short time. We went out last weekend and I bought $118 worth of school supplies for them! Holy Cow!
It seems to be going ok for now. It is strange to have them in the house because we are in a routine of how we take care of Lanie and it involves locking doors, putting measures in place to protect stuff and her and it is hard to teach others to do the same. Lanie has spilled 2 pounds of yeast on the floor, emptied kool aid on the floor, spilled dog food, cat food and lord knows what else! It is almost impossible to keep her out of the bathroom now, not only because they forget to lock it but also because we are trying to do the potty training thing.
The other night I took her up to bed at 8:30 but I always give her about a 1/2 hour before I come back and read to her. Her room was a mess and had toys everywhere so I told her she needed to clean it up before I got back up to read her a story. I figured she would just play and nothing would get done but when I came back up she had picked up all her toys and put them in the toy box! I was totally amazed. I praised her like crazy and told her what a good girl she was.
We read every night and recently have gone back and forth between two books, I love you forever and I'll always love you. She chose I'll love you forever last night. I cry everytime I read that book so I decided a few days back that I would leave out the part where the son rocks the mom and sings her the song. I did and did not cry at all. Lanie keeps waiting for me to cry now. She touches my eyes and says "no crying?" I tell her, "Not this time!" She loves it at the end end because I pick her up and rock her in my arms and sing the little song, "I'll love you forever, I'll like you for always, as Long as I'm living my baby you'll be." I sing it about 4 or 5 times and then she is ready to go to sleep. I put her back in bed, kiss her on the lips and on the head, she kisses me back on the lips and on the head and out goes the lights and she sleeps the rest of the night. I am so greatful that bedtime is not drama time! We are not so lucky at dinner time though!
I am always so amazed at how she is growing, how much she is learning and all the little things along the way. I always knew that I would love a child that I was able to raise but I never knew how much until Miss Lanie-loo!
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