The Week in Review

Dress:  

• Preferred - Diapers and warm clothes for a Midwestern winter
• Actual - Running around naked, wearing big girl panties (un-potty trained) and insisting on only wearing shirts with pockets.

Playtime:  

• Preferred - Baby dolls, coloring, Play-doh and reading books
• Actual -  Eating the Play-doh, coloring the walls, and ripping up and/or eating her books

Diet:

• Preferred - Protein, fruits and vegetables.  
• Actual - Chocolate milk for breakfast, Pink cupcakes for lunch, and Smarshmallows before dinner (yes "marshmallow" now begins with the letter "s").

Sleep:

• Preferred - In bed by 7:30 p.m., asleep by 8:00 p.m., awake at 6:30 a.m.
• Actual - In bed by 7:30 p.m., asleep by 9:00 p.m. (wearing Santa socks), awake at 5:00 a.m.  The time change will not be welcomed!

Verbal:

• "I'm not a baby. I'm a big girl".  Next sentence "Quit calling me a big girl, I'm a baby".
• "Daddy when your hair gets really long then I will put in in braids for you".
• "Momma, can I have your boobs so I can play with Opus?" (NOTE:  Boobs is actually my bra which I've instructed Lauren is NOT a cat toy)

To be continued...