Lovey

Maddy and Reagan love each other. Maddy loves to go up to Reagan when she's on the floor and just lean on her and give her kisses. Reagan lets her. It's cute.

Finding her motivation

Reagan's teacher found her motivation yesterday. She was asked to do some writing and just didn't want to "finish" her work. So her teacher said "well, we are going to make princess wands after writing. So if you want to do a wand, you have to finish your writing".

She told me this morning that it took Reagan 90 seconds to finish her work. He hee.

Cavities, oh no

Reagan got her cavities filled today. She doesn't like to be warned about stuff - she does much better when you just say "hey girl, this is what we are doing". If she gets too much information about something tough too early, she will sit on it and process it for way too long. Just like her mama.

So this morning I said (on the way to the dentist) "honey, we're going to the doctor to get your teeth fixed." She said "yea yea mama, just turn on the tv". Literally. I was getting ready to explain it to her. She was not at all interested. Okay...

The doctor and nurse were great with her. She was fine. They turned on Disney and put the mask and glasses on her. They numbed her up, she didn't even flinch. The only time she got frustrated was when they forced her mouth open for a period of time to fill the teeth. That hurt her, not the shot or the drilling. Wow.

Needless to say, I felt horrible. But it was kinda cool getting to see what they do to fix a tooth. She was numb for a while. I asked her if she wanted to go home or Starbucks. My girl chose Starbucks. *grin* We stopped by Kroger to get her some advil to prevent pain. She said "mama, it already hurts. but I'm okay."

Geez. Love her. She got four prizes for three cavities. I bought her four toothbrushes and promised a toy from the toy store after school. Sigh...

Maddy and books

Maddy, in the morning, sits down in the corner and reads books. She will pull them out one by one and look through them pointing at different ones. She will even talk about the things she is pointing at. Then she will, as systematically as she took them out, put them all back and get up. I guess that is her reading time.

Maddy and the battery

Maddy dug into the utility drawer in the kitchen today and pulled out two batteries - a C and a 9volt. He hee. She played with them both equally for a bit. She kept putting them in her mouth. After a while, the C battery was put down and she started walking around with just the 9volt. The best part was that she was giggling.

I started watching her. Apparently she was putting the two sides of the battery to her tongue and was getting a shock. She'd look up like - wooooo and then just giggle.  Eventually she brought it to me.

Maddy talking

Maddy just tried to say blue and purple. She held up a card with a blue triangle on it and said "boooooo" and then held up a card with a purple triangle and said "do dllllll". He heee

Giggle fest and 15-month visit

So today, I took Maddy for her 15-month appointment. She does not do well with shots. Today she was going to get shots. Uh oh. :) We got through the appointment. She's great. The doctor said she was doing well - height, weight, milestones etc... Before the shots came, she already started crying. Ugh. She had such a fit that the nurse and I couldn't help but giggle. She just got so worked up that I didn't know what else to do. I felt so horrible.

So by contrast - I picked her up today after school and she was giggling. Amber said that she had giggled all day. They didn't know why, but at times she would just burst out laughing for now apparent reason. Okay. How funny. She's continued that all night and I've laughed right along with her.