NiNi had been counting down the days until her birthday. The day prior to this momentous occasion, she walked up to me and said, "Mom! This is the last day I will be four!" I think I almost cried. It seems like yesterday that she was Ethan's size and all her cousins would carry her around in a laundry basket chanting "Queen NiNi, Queen NiNi" I think this must have been the beginning of her "princess complex" as we like to call it. We joke that her birthparents must have been of royal blood and she was supposed to have been a Chinese Empress or something. She's so misunderstood! Seriously, I am very proud of her, especially for making room for a little brother. I guess we forget that our other children have no say in whether they want to share their parents with another sibling or not. It can be a very frustrating time...and it has been. No longer the baby but not a big girl either. But she is really growing and giving a little more each day. Playing with him, trying to be maternal. Of course I still hear conversations like this:
Ethan was sucking on one of NiNi's bracelets. She started screaming, "You are the most disgusting spitty brother in the world! Now you can just keep that yourself for dress-up-ing"
We had a few friends over on Saturday for a party, although she was in the beginning stages of the flu, so didn't act like she was having a tremendous amount of fun.
They're supposed to be unicorns. Everyone thought they were pigs, though. Hey, I tried!
Neither Meagan or NiNi really acknowledge that Ethan isn't just one of the girls. So far he has been victimized into dressed up in girl clothes, putting on lip gloss and had his hair in tiny pony-tails. Not to mention the daily trying on of girl shoes, and feeding bottles to the Baby Alive. I have assured Chris this is called "pretend play" and is something we can check off his developmental checklist. He's not buying it, though. He says we need to "man-up" Ethan. I suggested we get him into pee-wee soccer as soon as possible, although I don't think there are any teams quite "pee-wee" enough at this point. He did start a mommy-and-me gymnastics class and I am proud to report that he is the only toddler in the class that can do a somersault.
In other news, we seem to be making some headway on Ethan's GI issues. I have cut all dairy out of his diet for the past 2 weeks and we have had no throwing up whatsoever and much better sleeping. Although no one has confirmed it, we are going to assume he is allergic to dairy and just go with it. Neither of my girls really like meat and I could take it or leave it. No meat, no diary, we might as well go full vegan. Not sure what we'd do about Chris, the one meat-and-potato-loving member of our family.
Our little Babushka
Enjoying his soy yogurt
The extra wide baby gate...a wonderous invention. Thank you grandma Smith!
Spikey hair
Watching High School Musical...the only form of television Ethan is interested in
1 comment:
Great job on the unicorns! I knew what they were! I was into unicorns at Nini's age too! I even had a highchair for Uni.
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