Trying this new digital video thing

Here's a video of one of Courtney's many performances. She's constantly "on"! Below is her rendition of "London Bridges", though it sounds more like "Wondon Bwidges fawing down, my fair wady!". Way too cute.







Also, here's a pic of her blowing bubbles outside with her daddy. She loves to play outside with her daddy!



And finally, another one of her being such a ham. That girl LOVES to get her picture taken.

When did my kid get so grown up?

It hit me last night. My kid is mature beyond her years. Not only is her vocabulary off the charts for her age (she was speaking in full sentences by like 14 months) but she's also very in tune with what everyone around her is feeling and thinking.

Example:

I got a much needed pedicure yesterday during my lunch hour. When I got home, Court was mesmerized by it (sad that she's never seen her mother's toes painted before). She wanted her toes painted and I said that she could when she got bigger. I must have put out a vibe that it's kind of sad that she's growing up so fast and she picked up on it. This morning the exchange went like this..

Court: "mommy, I still like your toes, but I don't want to paint mine right now, because I'm not bigger yet" Then she put her hand on my arm very gently, looked directly into my eyes and said "don't worry, mommy, I still your baby"

Me: (tearing up) "you will always be my baby"

Court: "Good mommy because I love you"

Could that get any cuter? It amazes me how I'm raising such a compassionate little being. I must be doing SOMETHING right.

Do 2-year-olds smell fear?

I'm convinced that mine does. She is has been so easy-going lately that caring for her has been less work and more fun for the first time in 2 1/2 years. She plays well by herself, listens to us most of the time, and is very sweet overall.

Well, my husband is out of town for the next few days and I was actually looking forward to spending some quality girl time with my little "angel". She apparently had different plans. I came home from work yesterday and picked her up from the babysitter and she proceeded to have a full-on hissy fit about not wanting to go home with me. That felt great. After 15 embarrassing minutes of "negotiating" I got her to come home. She had similar meltdowns at least every 15-20 minutes until I put her to bed for the night. I'm sure she was tired, but it was very hard to deal with for 3 hours after working all day. I swear she only does this when she knows I need her to behave while I'm doing the single mom thing.

Last week, however, we had a great time. I spent a lot of time with her after going a few weeks working crazy hours and missing her bedtime a few times. I took her to the park and we had a picnic. I enjoy watching her during these times. Man, is she bossy at the park, though!

Here's one of very few pics I have of just the two of us. (I'm always on the other side of the camera).





Wish me luck for the next couple of days!

The Best of Friends

Court met a little girl last year at gymnastics class that she just seemed to click with. Ever since then, she tells anyone who will listen that she is her best friend. Of course, she also tells us that our dog Fredrick is her best friend, so it's all relative.

As luck would have it, she lives about 2 minutes from us, so we try to get together and have play dates and do fun stuff. Last Saturday, we "played" miniature golf. Mostly, they ran down the fairway and threw the ball in the hole. Towards the end, they were hot, tired and goofy, so we got some cute pics.





I'm just happy she has a little friend. I didn't have many friends when I was little because I was so shy and preferred to stay in the house and read or play with dolls by myself. I don't want that for my little girl. I think every mother wants their daughter to be "popular" to a certain extent. I just want her to be happy and playing with other kids makes her happy, which in turn, makes me ECSTATIC.