So Tuesday loves her little sister. But sometimes she LOVES her little sister. The, “Don’t squeeze quite that hard!” variety. And I’m a wee bit nervous about having Tuesday roaming around free while Bennet is sleeping. She started loving the shower (finally) and will happily play in there with me, perfect solution! Well I started thinking if she liked being in there with me, maybe she would stay in there a little longer? Turns out she’ll pretty much stay in the shower indefinitely. The problem is the water issue. It is certainly nice to brush my teeth and blow dry my hair while she makes pretend lattes, but I feel a little guilty for the extra water just going down the drain. Enter the blue bucket.
(yes she also got my used peri bottles!). It may be silly to do a whole post about this, but I have not had such relaxing get ready periods in a long time. No one is squirting out all my lip gloss, getting who knows what on my powder brushes or trying to steal all my Q-Tips. Instead she and I are having nice conversations about all the pretend things she’s making me (soup, salad, and lots of ranch on everything). I’m sure it goes without saying that I wouldn’t recommend leaving the bathroom while you have a three year old and a bucket of water, but just in case, I’m saying it. I wondered how long it would take her to realize she fit in the bucket (2 days). Usually she fills up various containers and dumps them back out for ten minutes, gets a bit cold and gets in her bucket for the remainder.
Have any other random ideas like this to keep a three year old from loving to death her little sister?
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Oh how I have loved Tuesday’s curls. They were such a wonderful surprise from two straight haired parents! But had become a source or tears for poor Tuesday. She told me she wanted her hair SHORT. I did not really want her hair that short, and I really thought she didn’t know what she meant. She had been on a big, “I want it down to my vulva” kick. Ha! I know 🙂 But after telling me again that Nana should cut it SHORT when she visited I gave in.
So excited! Lucky girl with her personal traveling hair dresser!
Hey Tuesday, what is Bennet doing while you get your haircut?
“Bennet is sleeping like this!”
(Before)
(After) thank you Nana!
Still a little wave on her cute little head.
She loves it! And this is much easier to deal with since she does not like to put it up. I did have Nana leave it a little long so I could get it up in piggies for dance class.
In the same vein as yesterday’s post… doesn’t this make her look old?!?! -
Yesterday Bennet turned one month old!
You don’t have to tell me it’s going to go fast, oh my goodness do I know!
I’m going to attempt to take pictures all year long in this cute sleep sack from Sciarrino (like this). I can’t remember who found this cute idea for me, but I love it! Here was my initial attempt (note baby is crying). Then I got the sleepy picture I posted first. Of course she decided not to sleep so I was able to get some open eye pictures too.
Speaking of her eyes.
They are going to be blue! At least that’s what the eye doctor told me. I went to my check up and took Bennet with me. At one point I had to cuddle her while figuring out my new prescription. The doctor said she had pretty eyes and I said something like, “I can’t wait to see what color they’ll be.” He asked me my husband’s eye color (green) and said, “Oh, they’ll be blue. When they are that blue they stay blue. They might turn a little blue-green.” We’ll see if he’s right. I could have a blond, blue-eyed, straight haired girl on my hands. How funny how different kids can be!
And guess what Bennet you may be one month old but your sister is 43 MONTHS OLD. Holy moly. Sciarrino texted me that fun fact 🙂
Here is something I want to ask. If you have three (or more) children does time speed up with each one? I mean Bennet’s first month definitely seemed to have gone quicker than Tuesday’s!
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