Our daughter just turned 1 almost 2 weeks ago. I don't know who came up with the "terrible twos", saying that 2 year old children are a handful.
EXCUSE ME!!!
I want to introduce "terrible 1s!"
I LOVE my daughter unconditionally a LOTTTTT, but for the first time in 1 year, I was EXHAUSTED last weekend and she's to blame. hahaha.... AND, my parents are even here visiting, which means, I had help - still - EXHAUSTED.
She's like a non-stop little bunny, getting into everything, opening ALL little and big doors she can. She's taking a few steps, which is wonderful, because she's developing (crawling is unfortunately NOT considered a developmental stage, and not required from babies, as some babies never crawl, while others do), yet she crawls faster than the cats run (no, that's an exaggeration - but that's how I feel it is), and she has become very demanding and clever with opening doors and even sliding doors. The latches we bought for the cabinet doors are not good, as she takes them right off (it's a game for her), so we need to buy other latches...She is a very good girl, I have to say, and behaves very well in public, but at home she turns on her little energizer switch and she's non-stop for 3 or 4 hours!!! Anything she can grab and cruise around with she will take. She took a pot-pourri bowl, emptied it all out, for the dogs' amusement, and while I was cleaning it, she opened our DVD cabinet and all DVDs were on the floor. Then, she hid the remote control inside a big glass candle holder, and my poor dad was looking for that thing for a good 1/2 hour. Then, she threw about 7 golf balls on the floor and these have to be picked up real fast because the dogs can choke on them. She pooped an enormous, smelly poop (we started giving her black beans, pureed), that was all over her back legs because she turns in half a second and sat on her diaper before I could take another breath. So, we are now changing her on the floor and cleaning her on a "stand-up-big-girl" position. She swallowed 1 key of my Blackberyy phone and 1 I took out of her mouth. My phone was on my bathroom sink (!), and she reached it because I put it away from the water, close to the edge. Again, happened in 1 second...little Gabi on the floor, Mami washing her hands...bam! All this happened in one evening. To complete the adventure, she did not want ANYBODY to hold her at any point except for me.
For the first time, I felt really, really exhausted.
I told Richard we should wait a bit until we have the 2nd one, because I cannot imagine how I can run around 2 Zaldivar babies!!!
Talking about running around, I'm taking advantage that she doesn't run around yet (she cruises around), because that's when the real adventures will start, ESPECIALLY when we're out of the house. UFF!!!
More adventures, coming soon in another chapter!
EXCUSE ME!!!
I want to introduce "terrible 1s!"
I LOVE my daughter unconditionally a LOTTTTT, but for the first time in 1 year, I was EXHAUSTED last weekend and she's to blame. hahaha.... AND, my parents are even here visiting, which means, I had help - still - EXHAUSTED.
She's like a non-stop little bunny, getting into everything, opening ALL little and big doors she can. She's taking a few steps, which is wonderful, because she's developing (crawling is unfortunately NOT considered a developmental stage, and not required from babies, as some babies never crawl, while others do), yet she crawls faster than the cats run (no, that's an exaggeration - but that's how I feel it is), and she has become very demanding and clever with opening doors and even sliding doors. The latches we bought for the cabinet doors are not good, as she takes them right off (it's a game for her), so we need to buy other latches...She is a very good girl, I have to say, and behaves very well in public, but at home she turns on her little energizer switch and she's non-stop for 3 or 4 hours!!! Anything she can grab and cruise around with she will take. She took a pot-pourri bowl, emptied it all out, for the dogs' amusement, and while I was cleaning it, she opened our DVD cabinet and all DVDs were on the floor. Then, she hid the remote control inside a big glass candle holder, and my poor dad was looking for that thing for a good 1/2 hour. Then, she threw about 7 golf balls on the floor and these have to be picked up real fast because the dogs can choke on them. She pooped an enormous, smelly poop (we started giving her black beans, pureed), that was all over her back legs because she turns in half a second and sat on her diaper before I could take another breath. So, we are now changing her on the floor and cleaning her on a "stand-up-big-girl" position. She swallowed 1 key of my Blackberyy phone and 1 I took out of her mouth. My phone was on my bathroom sink (!), and she reached it because I put it away from the water, close to the edge. Again, happened in 1 second...little Gabi on the floor, Mami washing her hands...bam! All this happened in one evening. To complete the adventure, she did not want ANYBODY to hold her at any point except for me.
For the first time, I felt really, really exhausted.
I told Richard we should wait a bit until we have the 2nd one, because I cannot imagine how I can run around 2 Zaldivar babies!!!
Talking about running around, I'm taking advantage that she doesn't run around yet (she cruises around), because that's when the real adventures will start, ESPECIALLY when we're out of the house. UFF!!!
More adventures, coming soon in another chapter!
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