Catching up the last month

I like to believe I was WAY better at keeping this blog up to date when I wasn't working, but I don't think that would be quite accurate to say, but I feel like I am falling farther and farther behind. I just checked back and realized that my last post was on February 24 - our two-year gotcha day. WOW! Seems like a lifetime ago! I can't believe how quickly March has gone by, and that in just a few short days we'll already be into April!

RP continues to keep me hoppin' (no almost-Easter time pun intended!). She started ice skating lessons a few weeks ago and absolutely LOVES them! I have to say I'm a pretty proud Mommy since she was able to get up, stand, and walk around on the skates from the very first moment I put them on her feet, and she is one of only a couple kids in her class that can actually walk/march/glide on the ice in them. In addition to her absolutely loving this class, I have found this to be an effective discipline tool as well, as she would do almost anything to ensure that she can go to class on Saturday, including being an absolute angel at pre-school every single day! Her pre-school teacher actually pointed out that while RP is usually pretty good at school (well, except for the day she peed all over the floor, which is another story for another day!) that her recent behavior has been absolutely remarkable, and she laughed out loud when I told her simply that it was because I remind RP every morning that if she cannot behave in pre-school, she cannot ice skate on the weekends...

In a few short weeks RP will be turning four, and every time I look at her I marvel at just how far she has come. She is losing her chubby baby face and is looking more like a "little girl" than a toddler every day. Her vocabulary continues to increase and amaze me, and I really need to watch what I'm saying in front of her, since she especially likes to repeat the "naughty" words she hears me say (recently, "pissed" is her favorite one - go figure!). I know she is going to need speech therapy and plan on asking the doctor for the testing referral at her four-year check-up next month, but she is happy, healthy, and oh-so active, and I couldn't ask for more. Okay, I lie - sometimes, just sometimes, a few minutes of quiet would be nice - over the weekend I actually told her that she needed to stop with the questions for five minutes because Mommy's ears were bleeding, to which she responded "Why?" and proceeded to look inside my ears and say, "These aren't bleeding Mommy. Why did you think they were bleeding? Where would the bleeding come from?" You get the idea...