Miss Thea can definitely be a sour patch kid sometimes. She is THE absolute sweetest little girl. I get so many hugs and kisses and I love yous, and she can still be a great cuddler. But my word if that child doesn't get her way be prepared to feel her wrath. She is stubborn and headstrong and knows what she wants. And can throw a tantrum like the best of them!
She is fully in size 2T clothing, which the exception of a few 18-24 month items that I still liked and couldn't quite convince myself to put away yet. She is wearing size 5 diapers and between a 5-6 shoe. Still no 2 year molars, though her hands are shoved in her mouth all the time. I'm sure there really is no connection there but I'll just keep pretending. Thea is great at going to sleep for nap and bed, and I can't remember the last time she has woken up in the night, but her definition of morning and my definition of morning are sometimes not the same. She has regularly been up in her crib around 5:30am (just like her early bird sisters, weird), but she rarely ever gets up set/calls out to us or anything. She just plays with her baby dolls and stuffed animals until someone comes in to get her. I'm sure the early morning wake ups have nothing to do with the fact that she can easily nap three hours a day. I have to wake her up at least 3 times a week, if not more.
It is funny that Thea stays in her crib so happily, because that girl can definitely climb out. I'm not sure what to do with that. The other day I put her in her crib for a time out as a last ditch effort to try and get her to cooperate with something, and she just immediately swung her legs over the top and climbed down like it was no big deal and she does it all the time. She is such a dang good little climber. We have some book ledges in the playroom, and she climbed to the top one, and then without her feet touching the shelves, came back down cliff hanger style, just walking her hands to the next shelf. I was baffled. I tried to hide some stuff she wasn't supposed to have on top of the 8 cube ikea shelf, and she just scaled the damn thing.
Thea also believes she can jump off of anything. It still baffles me, as Ryann seemed basically incapable of jumping until after she was three years old. Whereas Thea has been getting air for who knows how long, and has no fear when it comes to taking a flying leap off a random piece of furniture. I want to try and curb the habit, but I also get tired of pulling her off of stuff nine million times a day. So I guess we're going the natural life lessons route, and hoping that if she totally bites it that maybe she'll reconsider the next time. But she probably won't.
Thea's vocabulary is HUGE (enunciation can still be rough) and sometimes her conversations and phrases are just so damn funny.
Discussing going out on the boat for fireworks...
Me (to Christopher): "Maybe you should just stay here and put Thea to bed and I'll go out on the boat with the big girls."
Chris: "Yeah, not a bad plan."
Thea: "I want go on da boat. BYE! I weaving you!"
Thea: upset at lunch time "Want squeeze pouch!"
Me: "You want a squeeze pouch?"
Thea: sobbing "Yeah!"
Me: "I'm putting one on your plate for lunch, ok?"
Thea: still sniffling "Otay."
Me: "And some apple AND some chicken nuggets! Deal?"
Thea: sobbing again "No deal!"
Meal times with her pretty much suck. She likes squeeze pouches and blueberries reliably. And sweets. Definitely sweets. Everything else, well your guess is as good as mine. I mean I can almost guarantee she won't eat grilled meat or any vegetable. For some reason she also dislikes mango (what is wrong with you child?!?!?!) But these days even mac 'n cheese is hit or miss. I truly, truly thought I couldn't get a child pickier than Ryann. I was wrong. So I guess we'll just feed her a steady diet of squeeze pouches and hope for the best.
I pulled little miss I only do what I want from gymnastics after three classes. Stubborn Sally did not want to do anything that was requested of her, and I couldn't deal. One of the coaches tried to give me the 'eventually they get better at following directions' speech, but yeah, no thanks. We'll try again in a few months. Dance is also kind of an absolute disaster, but slightly less so, and I preferred it over gymnastics, so we'll keep that up for now. It's only mildly (horribly) embarrassing chasing her all over the room trying to convince her to participate when pretty much everyone else is sitting and doing what they're supposed to and managing to wait in line and take turns, etc. Come on Thea, give your mama a break! She's lucky that she is dang cute in a leotard and I enjoy seeing my friends. :)
Yellow still seems to be Thea's favorite color, followed by purple, I think. She is in love with all the Disney princesses, and thinks Belle's yellow dress is so pretty. She recently told me she wanted to have an 'Elsa, Anna, No-man' birthday party, unfortunately I've already been planning an ice cream one! Mermaids also rank high on her love list, my little girly girl. And babies, real and fake, still make her little heart happy. She hugs and kisses all the babies she sees on instagram with me.
Love you sweet girl!!
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