First dental visit!

Beanie has "decalcification" due to night breast feedings and probably also the fact that we put an ounce or so of juice in her water to keep her hydrated. So, she soldiered through her dental visit and had weird yellow flouride resin brushed onto her teeth and we got a good lesson in "how to brush a toddler's teeth" which worked wonders on my self esteem, since I feel like an abuser every time we hold her down to do the deed. We also learned a new hold. She's had some moderate success with the "water only after tooth brushing" but she doesn't believe me about the nunus. I think I'm finally drying up completely anyway, so it's mostly just for cuddle time. I figure when your daughter is old enough to forcibly attach herself to your chest, you waited too long to wean. I am guilty of this.

I think we have had good success with our potty training laissez faire-itude as well. Sure, I bought the paper to make a cute little sticker reward board, but we never implemented it. Mostly because I never made it, and also mostly because stickers are more fun to stick on everything else. Anyway, today she pulled her sick self outta bed, dragged her little step stool to the potty, inserted her little toddler toilet seat into the bowl, and took off her own dry diaper. Then she climbed up, positioned herself, yawned, and peed. All by herself. She then popped down off the pot, grabbed her TP, wiped, threw it in, said "bye bye" and flushed it. By then she was awake, and dragged her stool to the sink to "warsh hands." She also says "quawta" for quarters, by the way. She calls all coins pennies and quawtas. I have no idea why she speaks with a New England Seaboard accent on some words, but there you go. Anyway, she still pees in her pants most days, but the doodoos and the weewees have been happening in the potties of this fair city more and more often.

Beanie is rad. She makes me super happy still. I can't imagine life without her, and yet, I thought my life was full before she came! How little I knew back then...

This weekend I am hosting with a friend a "Tea party" and inviting mamas and toddlers that we like and know. I know it's short notice, but how cute is that? It's a no reason tea party, which is why it makes me so happy. Not a birthday, no obligations, just come over and make a kid craft and eat a cucumber sandwich and try some tea.

I need to tell the PF that I planned this...I forgot to tell him!

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