Lately, with the Bagooz...

I have just spent the last four days at home with Laura; they have been interesting! Some new things of note:

1. She is crying all the time about everything. An exaggeration, obviously, but she has never been one to sob hysterically and lately it's happening a lot. Injuries, not liking an answer you give her, etc. Kind of feels like "being 2" is finally starting to kick in. We haven't had a lot of that.

2. Board games are slowly becoming the new "Little Blue and Little Yellow." I don't know how we got started with this, but she will stand at our game shelf and request board games to "play" with - Scrabble, Sequence, Blokus. She mostly wants to get in the box and see all the pieces, maybe set them out a bit, and then she'll say, "I'm done with this now." Ugh. It's all the worst parts of the board game with none of the fun of actual playing! We need some age-appropriate games, stat. Grandma Barb is working on digging out some from our youth.

3. She has been sleeping in her "big girl bed" at night for a little more than a week now. It's going great except it takes her a lot longer to fall asleep. She hasn't figured out that she can get out of it at night, or she's too nervous about trying it because it's dark. Naptime is a different story (light coming in the window = party time) so we've still been napping in the crib.

4. A few cute things she says: "Mom/Dad, you're my best friend ever." And not only when she wants something! Also when discussing what she wants to be when she grows up: "A 'kokker' (soccer) player or a boat driver." The boat driver thing comes from when we went on pontoon rides at Ruttger's this summer, I think. I have promised to support her by cheering at her soccer games and riding on her boat.

That's all!