Noise in Kitchen

At least we were close to home.

It finally happened. I have been fearing this situation and thankfully we were heading in the backyard as it happened....
I have noticed that when Athena gets nervous or shy she either lifts up her shirt or sticks her hands down the back of her diaper. The shirt thing, while revealing, is fine. The diaper is another story. I am always worried that one day she is going to have a poop diaper when she sticks her hands in there.
Today was the day. We had gone to the library and Harold was coming over to fix our faucets. I let her walk home. When we turned the corner, Harold was waiting for us. I was standing there talking to him with somewhat of an eye on Athena. I could tell she was being shy. We were headed inside so I looked at Athena and she had her hand out. There it was... At first I thought it might be the nut bar I had just given her on the way home. But then thought that was strange because she finished it. Then I knew what it was. I told Harold to go ahead inside... I had a mess to clean up. I didn't tell him what it was but I think he knew. It was all over her hand and the back of her pants and her shirt. I got the big stuff off her hand with the hose. Then we headed inside. I kept telling her that she can not stick her hand in her diaper. She kept saying, "Paw-pooh." She was pretty good about not touching anything (except for trying to rub her eye and putting her hand on my shoulder for balance when I was taking off her pants). I decided to strip her and put her in the bath. Bad thing was that Harold had turned off the hot water to fix the sink. She kept saying, "Cooooollllddd!" Poor girl.

A realization.

Tonight, Athena was putting something in her mouth that didn't belong there. Jason told her no but she kept doing it. Then she was touching the heater with her feet to warm them. It wasn't on but I didn't want her to do that when it was. So I told her no. She did it again when I turned my back. Jason was watching and yelled at her. She cried and I put her in her room for not listening. We were talking about her behavior lately. The "terrible twos". I told him that it seems she has forgotten everything we have taught her in the past 21 months. Then I realized the truth... she is testing everything we have taught her these past 21 months!

Where'd 4 go?

We gave Athena our old bedroom phone to play with. Today when I was making breakfast, I heard her ask a question so I turned to look. She was kneeling over her phone and asked "Where'd 4 go?" She said, "One, two, three... Where'd 4 go?" She looked at the phone a while, not knowing I was watching her and then pointed to it and said, "There it is!" I was quite impressed!!!

Such a girl!

We had a rough day today. I didn't have much patience and she didn't either. We made it through though and we had a great bath. I washed her hair and put conditioner as usual. Tonght, she discovered that she could shake her head and her hair would fly and hit her face. It was so cute. She did it then would let out the cutest giggle. She is such a girl! :)

Nightime Lovies

Athena woke up crying and calling me a little after 1am last night. (She is starting to do that often.) I was in a dead sleep. I was worried she had a bad dream or poop or something. When I went in there, she asked me to pick her up. When I did, she started asking for her bee. I said that I couldn't get it while I was holding her and to just let me snuggle her for a minute. She started crying and saying, "bed." I put her down only to have her start asking for her bee. That made me upset that she called me in there just to get her bee. There didn't seem to be anything else wrong. I got her bee, fixed her covers and said goodnight. She was fine and ready to go back to sleep. I went to bed but my mind started buzzing and I knew it would be hard to sleep. (As is most of the times she wakes up in the middle of the night.) About 20 minutes later, she started crying again. I figured she took her pajamas off so I went in there. She had dropped her orange fish and wanted me to get it for her... I think that she is too attached to her lovies! I was thinking of ways to start dealing with that but then thought that she usually fixes those attachments on her own with time. I don't know. I don't want it to be a HUGE problem later.

Jammies half off today.

This morning she had taken her jams off again. This time she only had one leg out. I asked her why she had taken them off. She said something I couldn't understand. I told her I didn't understand and she moved her hand from her belly to her chin and went, "Zip." hahaha She had taken off her pajamas because the zipper was fun to do.

No Jammies

This morning I had a hard time getting up. Athena had been calling me... probably 20 minutes. When I finally went in to get her, she was standing there in her onsies. She had taken her nice warm jammies off. I asked her why she took them off. She said, "Paw-poo." I was thankful because she did have poo-poo; out her diaper and on her sheet. It would have got all over her only pair of nice warm jammies.