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Updates
posted on 10/26/2007
- Today was our Fall Festival at preschool. Allana has a bunny costume, but it's still too warm for that, so we dressed her in a onesie, babylegs, and her big yellow tutu. She was the cutest ballerina there! Dan got to come for Allana's time at the festival, and my co-teacher covered for me while I joined them. We had a great time playing with her! She loved the big inflatable slide, the jump house, the basketball goal and all the little pumpkins she got to play with. The Pick Pocket lady was fun....she had pockets all over her dress with prizes inside! Allana liked to pick prizes out and put them back in. She was especially interested in the play area with bubble wrap taped on the floor. She just ran back and forth across it, listening to it pop. It was so fun being able to enjoy all the fun with her!
- Just this week, Allana has started showing an interest in the potty! She knows how to say "tee-tee" and "poo-poo." She likes to follow me into the restroom and she'll squat down beside me. She loves to flush it for me! She's also started wetting fewer diapers during the day, and soaking them at night, so much so that we've had to start putting her in overnight diapers. We sit her on the potty sometimes. She hasn't used it yet, but she likes to sit on it. It seems so early to think about potty training! We've gotten rid of the bottle and the soothie...when we get rid of diapers, she won't be my baby anymore.
 However, if she's expressing an interest in it, we'll encourage it, of course. When we get paid next, we're going to try to purchase her a seat to go on the big potty and see what happens.
- If you'll notice in some of the pictures, Allana has become super-attached to her lovey. Before we took away her soothie, she only used it at night. But we got rid of the soothie and went back to school, and she wants her lovey all the time now! She calls it "love love" and if you forget it at home, she'll ask for it endlessly. "Love love...peese! Love love...peese!" It's so sweet.
- We're officially down to one nap a day! We dropped the morning nap while we were in Gatlinburg, and she has done pretty well without it. We were getting to the place where she was only napping for an hour or 45 minutes twice a day, so now she naps in the afternoon for 2-3 hours. It's been nice for our schedule, and has allowed us to go to church in the mornings for the entire time.
- She is now saying everything that we say to her. She loves to repeat us, and is using her words to try to communicate with us. Some of our favorites are "oss" for "off," (usually used in reference to her shoes or a bow), "ello" when the phone rings, "mamada", a combination of mama and dada (used when she wants both of us at the same time), "bown bear" repeatedly (when begging us to read "Brown Bear, Brown Bear" for the thousandeth time), and "iside" for "outside" (accompanied by hanging on the doorknob, occuring about a gazillion times a day, including when it's pitch black outside).
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