Mommy big potty!!!

The time has come that I've been dreading most......potty training!!!! In a perfect world I would love to have this girl out of diapers before Baby G arrives. We have conquered 1 of the 2 things I would like to have done. I'm not going to go into to big girl bed much because there's not much to say...she did really well with the transition and loves her big girl bed and her new room!! The only thing we deal with is putting ALOT of stuff away in the morning because she feels sleeping with most the clothes in her drawers and some of her shoes in essential...and you know it works for us!!! Best of all she hasn't even figured out the freedom she has because she doesn't even leave her room, she calls for us to come and get her!!!

The potty training thing I'm dreading because it means we must stay home for a bit and get it all figured out...I'm pretty confident she's ready its' me who looks for every excuse not to do it!! My newest excuse is it's too hot outside and running from the car with a toddler and being pregnant to find a toilet just doesn't sound fun to me :( She lets' me know when she's gone and now it's gone from "mommy doo-doo" to "mommy big doo-doo" alot of times she'll tell me "doo doo" out of the blue and I''m thinking it's a ploy to get out of doing something she doesn't want to do, then 5 minutes later she went and I feel bad!! So we are going to dedicate some time to being home and getting this thing done...potty training boot camp is about to begin in our house :) cross your fingers and pray for us all!!!!

Toddler Translation

Ashlee has never been great with her talking, although noises never stop coming from her mouth it's hard to make out what she's saying. Being I'm with her a lot of the time I've come to understand what she means or at least what she's trying to say...well most of the time :) I call myself her "toddler translator"

She likes to use 1 word to describe several things...I'm not sure if that's the lazy coming out in her or it's just her way of making it easier on herself. For example when she uses the word "sigh" that word means sit, yes, and pacifier. When she uses the word "ni ni" that word means night night, banana, and Nana :) the list goes on and on. She is finally putting 2 and 3 words together, like today when we left her 2 year appointment she told the ladies in the office "bye bye and thank you" like I said before noises never stop coming out of her mouth, she talks to herself in the car all of the time and in her bed she has conversations with her dolls and bears, we just can't always make out what it is she's saying!!! Last night on our walk I asked my husband I just wish I could have some piece and quiet for a minute as Ashlee's babbling away in her stroller only to stop to take a breath...that's when I realized those days are over :( I remember the days of worrying that she didn't talk enough or people would say she's so shy and quiet....what happened to that little girl because she's gone!!!