Updates

It's been way too long since I posted last, and so much has happened. More so than should every happen to anyone, but that is another story. This is a happy post about how Sarah has been progressing and what her newest trials, tribulations, and achievements have been over the past few months.

Sarah still attends the same daycare/school that she has been at for over a year now, and it loving it. All of the teachers there love her too. She is very smart, helps clean up, helps out with the infants in the nursery when she spends some time over there, and just has an all around pleasant personality. Her daily reports read like a broken record, 2-3 hour nap, east mostly everything, about the same number of diaper changes, and her disposition is always cheerful, helpful, and happy. They could just take the one from the previous day back and change the date, and we would be none the wiser. Not that it's a bad thing at all, she is very good and even tempered at school. I just wish we could say that about her at home some times.

She is now 22 months, but has been "acting two" for several months now. She will throw fits if she does not get what she wants, and it's very hard to sit there and watch her do this. Her other "twoism" is that she nows tests us, and then proceeds to laugh at us when we talk to her about it. She is really into pushing buttons, be it on the dish washer, remotes, phones, TV's, etc. If there is a button, she will push it, and then look at you waiting to be scolded. I can't help but laugh some times, and then she get's the wrong impression thinking it's funny. We're walking a thin line with this I'm sure. She knows her bounds, and is a really good kid, but she is definately testing us.

Her latest thing, which I just discovered this morning, is that she will wipe a kiss off of her face and "throw" it aside. She did this to me 4 or so times this morning, and it hurt! I know she is just doing this because it's new and "funny", and she doesn't mean to hurt me, but it still hurts. She must have picked it up at school, because I'm not sure where else she would have gotten it from. She'll grow out of it, I hope.

As far as her intelligence goes, she continues to amaze us day in and day out. She can now count to 11, without skipping any numbers. She was previously skipping 6. She can also say her ABC's, but consistently skips TUV. She even attempts to say the ending about knowing her ABC's and wanting someone to say them with her the next time. I'm impressed, she even gets the LMNOP part right and seperates them, not just one long letter. She can pick out about 5 of the letters if you ask her to get you the "W" magnet (or other letter), and can also do it with a couple of numbers, although not as many.

Yesterday, for Easter none the less, she was sick with some stomach flu. She woke up about 4:00 on Sunday morning and threw up 5 times, 4 of which were in our bed. She then slept until about 10 and threw up twice more. She was fine the rest of the day into the afternoon, when she threw up twice more. We decided that she didn't need to go out and get anyone else sick, or worsen hers, so we stayed in and had a reheated meal that our neighbors made for us. She was fine all night last night, and when I left for work, the plan was to take her to school. I have not hear otherwise, so I'm assuming she is well now.

The past several months have been very hectic, sad, and otherwise, bad for me, but Sarah has been the bright spot in all of this. She was so well behaved during the entire ordeal, she seemed to know when we just needed a hug or when we just needed her to be good, and she did all of those amicably. I'm very proud of her. For her good behavior, we got her a Dora bed, that I have yet to assemble. We'll see how she does in a toddler bed. Thsi could prove to be interesting.

Eventually I'll get around to pictures, but don't bother checking daily. I have other things that need to be done first.