Mae is 2!!Those are my other two girls with remnants of face paint on. The redhead on the left is Gwendolyn (6 years old), and Audria is on the right (7 years old).
Gosh, I wish there was more hours in the day. I am falling behind on my favorite past time - reading the forum! When the coronavirus hit this spring, I started off really strong with healthy eating, until my husband surprised me with my favorite chocolate - Cadbury bunny eggs. Easter is a bigger problem for me than Christmas! That was the beginning of a rough patch, but thankfully I regained my footing eventually, but to be quite honest it was a solid six weeks of just plain embarrassing eating. The uncertainty about the future is really hard, even though my husband’s job was not impacted by the shutdowns.
But, enough about me, here are a couple of baby photos:
This is Mae last year when she turned one...how embarrassing that I never got this posted! Well, having little kids is definitely time consuming.
Last July 2019. Just a little static.
And, fast forward to yesterday:
This kid has quite a vocabulary. She knows all the usual words you would expect, plus odd ones like “empty” (usually kids this little would say “all gone”). And she can count to 11. But she does refer to cats as “meow.”
When she started transitioning from two naps to one I rearranged our schedule to revolve around her nap time, and she has become a really good napper. Unfortunately, I’m a bit of a sucker for bedtime snuggles, so if she wakes up at night I just bring her into bed with me, and that definitely happens a little too often.
We reached the milestone of breastfeeding for two years! Man, I contemplated throwing in the towel so many times. She’s the third kid, and nursing lost it’s magic at around the 13 month mark, but we kept at it. Nursing completely on demand was draining me, so I decided that I would nurse for naps and bedtime when she was around a year and a half, and that was the ticket to keep going. Just in the past month my husband has been putting her to bed at night regularly, so we’re down to nursing once a day at naptime. I’m not sure how much longer we’ll do this, but it’s going fine for now.
I got these plates for my two older girls, and now Mae has her own special plate, too. She’s quite possessive of it!
For her birthday cake, I made a simple WWII chocolate cake (called a wacky cake), substituting vanilla soy yogurt for the oil. It was ok, but really needs some sort of frosting (I just dusted it with powdered sugar).
That’s it for this update. Hopefully I’ll make it back sooner than later! Best to everyone.