My Pregnancy Journal: Kalia 22.5 - 23.5 Months : Apartment Life in Texas

Kalia's last month before she turned two was spent in the apartment temporary living in Farmer's Branch, TX. Kalia :

got creative with lego's quite a bit...it was our main toy.
did well when we first got here sleeping wise, and then went haywire once the movers brought her toys and crib to temporary living. She was upset that not all of her toys were there, and she wanted her rocking chair, bookshelves, and ABC's on the wall. I'm pretty positive she was okay with us hanging out there, kind of like vacation, and then once her stuff arrived, she thought..."wait a second, we're living HERE?!?! Take me back to Florida NOW!!!!" Kodi thought the same :-).
drove Kodi bonkers a lot. He was her favorite play toy.
became obsessed with picking up Kodi's poop. We were on the second floor, and I had to take Kalia with me everytime Kodi had to go outside to poop, and then she had to have her own bag to pretend pick up poop while I actually picked up his poop. She even mastered the hand in the bag and flipping it out to keep the "poop" in the bag and keep her hand clean at the same time. She used rocks for poop.
decided she didn't want to keep her diaper or clothes on and took them off all.the.time. I only fixed it finally towards the end by telling her it was fine if she wanted to take them off, but she had to sit on the potty. The potty has become the death seat since the move. Boo!!
Stopped talking to anyone she doesn't know. If they look at her, she clams up and burrows her head into Chris or I. If they try to talk to her, she cries. It started after the first week in the apartment, and it's just gotten worse throughout the whole month. I tell people we just moved and she's painfully shy. Some people just don't seem to understand and keep trying, but it just makes things worse!! Painful is key in the painfully shy part...
told me to turn off the bathtub while we were eating dinner. I told her I couldn't because it was the bathtub from upstairs.
said "Mommy hit the wall!!!" about a million times over this month. We had elephants that lived above us, and they thudded quite loud. Chris and I made up a rap song to it "Mommy hit the wall, Mommy hit the wall, Mommy Mommy Mommy hit the wall wall wall!" She would say it probably 100+ times at bedtime and naptime.
not much sleep happened over this past month!
became obsessed with my new iphone. She thinks facetime is a-mazing!
put on her boots numerous times and said "we live in TEXAS!". I have no idea who told her that boots and Texas went hand in hand, but she thinks it does!
is going to be a track star one day. That girl can run. Fast!
says "beep!" everytime a horn honks. I would think she was asleep, a horn would honk, and she would yell "BEEP!!!" at the top of her lungs. Whatever she was doing, if a horn honked, she stopped and immediately yelled beep. The girl doesn't talk, she yells! (Yeah yeah yeah, I know all of my family members are going to say she comes by it honestly...)

Onto pictures!

Kalia and Daddy swimming at the pool! Towards the end of our month there were a lot more kids in there, the water was still really chilly at the beginning. She, of course, didn't care!

Chris would walk Kalia down to the pool in her diaper and then pull it out from her swim jumper. I just told her not to pee on me and carried her down there sans diaper. I never got peed on :-).

"The pool, Mommy, the pool!!! Maybe Texas isn't so terrible after all...they have pools too!!"

"Ready!"

"Set!"

"Go!!!"

"That was fun, let's do it again!"

"I'm coming Daddy!!!"

"And Again!! What if I don't even stop and just keep running. I wonder if I can walk on water, let's try!!"

Kalia and I on Mother's Day! We went shopping and to the playground. Kalia repeats and says everything now, so she got all excited saying "I'm going SHOPPING!!!" She's actually started to become pretty good while we're out shopping. She listens really well!

She's not such a huge fan of taking pictures anymore, so you've got to get creative to get her to smile. This little outfit is actually one she insisted she have when we were in Old Navy. We tried to get her to pick a million cute shirts with disney characters and flowers and dogs and she just wanted the stripes. I wear a lot of stripes...wonder if it's rubbing off on her :-).

"No Mommy, I'm not gonna smile. I'm gonna give you the whiney squint eye for the camera even though I was just laughing!!"

"Oh okay, you two are too much of goofballs, you win, I'll smile!"

"Love you Daddy!!"

"Mommy, you have lost your mind if you think I'm going to smile for one with you now. No way!!"

Kalia helping cook breakfast. It's one of her favorite things to do - sit on the countertop and help cook. She's much better behaved if I let her help and actually listens pretty well, so we just take about an hour to cook breakfast these days instead of 20 minutes :-).

Kalia going crazy in Kodi's water bowl. It was her only source of water when we were cooped up in the apartment waiting for someone to come fix something or because of the weather or whatever. She made the most of it!

"Can't you see I'm busy??"

She would hear kids and poke her head up and say "Do you hear the kids??" to me and I'd tell her that I did and ask if she wanted to go play with them, to which she'd firmly say "NO!"

"Hey Kodi, I'm playing in your water bowl!!"
"Yeah kid, I'm not amused. Mom, can't you stop this??"

The next caption is what actually happened...

"Kalia's pee-ing!" (Kodi wasn't amused again.)

Then she decided her diaper was all done and it needed to be washed out. I told her I'd just get her a new one, and she said "No, Kalia wash it!!". I did clean out Kodi's bowl and give him fresh clean water afterwards!!!