I peeked into Leina’s mouth today and the tip of that old molar is through. Yeah! Light at the end of the tunnel. Of course, I now have a whole new battle to fight. For the last few days, Leina has been able to eat whatever she wanted, whenever she wanted, where ever she wanted. To put it mildly, any and all meal rules were thrown to the wind. So today, I began reigning in my child.<\/p>\n
Leina’s favorite place to eat the last few days have been our stairs. She’ll take a tub of yogurt and head for the bottom stair. She’ll sit, take one scoop of yogurt, and then move up one stair. There, she will sit, take one bite, then ascend one more stair. She’ll repeat this procedure until she reaches the top step at which point she’ll take her yogurt into the upstairs playroom and scoop away. Of course, she wants me to sit and move up the stairs with her. The whole process takes at least 30 minutes and while her teeth were hurting I was more than willing to appease her. Today, however, she opened the fridge ( a new trick I’m not so fond of), grabbed her yogurt and shouted, “come on mommy, lets go to the stairs!” It broke my heart to tell her no, we had to eat the yogurt at the table. She was so confused. What did I mean at the table? We always ate on the stairs! Poor Leina. After much wrangling and a few tears, we settled into her chair and ate in our seats. She seemed a bit perplexed but she decided to follow my rules this time. We’ll see how long it lasts.<\/p>\n
Kulia continues to grow and grow. I packed away all ther 0-3 month clothing and pulled out the 3-6 month stuff. I find I’m still having to squeeze her into 3-6 already! I can’t believe it but she might be ready for 6-9 months already. This kid is just a cubba-chubba-lova-lova baby. She still has the sweetest temperment and is content as can be so long as she has her fingers and thumbs. She loves her thumbs. I mean L-O-V-E-S. Yesterday, she had both thumbs and both index fingers in her mouth and was violently sucking away. If she could fit her whole hand in, I’m sure she would. Her favorite pastime is to lie on the ground, sucking her hands, rolling around and watching Leina. Oh yes, like her sister, she appears to enjoy football too. What a great baby!<\/p>\n
So all is returned to normal in the McLaughlin house. At least until the next tooth starts to move. The real question is going to be who gets to teeth next, Kulia or Leina? The race is on!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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