Felicity is two!

I don't have - well, I do have pictures of Felicity's birthday but I don't have them available, I'll post them some time soon.  SURE I will!  Can you believe I haven't even done her 52 pictures yet?  Ay yi yi, poor fourth child.  Here's a picture of the back of her curly haired head tonight, so cute.

She has been the DEVIL here lately, thank God she is so cute.  She was on Fall Break last week from preschool (DO NOT ASK, SO ANNOYING) but she marched herself back in there today, waltzed into her room and waved goodbye to me.  She had a great day, she just has decided, I guess, to just be good at going to preschool.  I am curious how she'd be if I took her to the gym daycare, maybe we will find out this winter.  We have been going for a lot of walks here recently, she is reluctantly good in the stroller but she likes when I keep her moving, I can barely re-tie my shoe before she is grousing at me to get going.

Tonight I was changing her diaper, not to be gross but it was dirty and I said "ooooh-weeee! That is some poop!" and she said, nodding, "oooooh-WEEEE!".  She is super cute and getting really chatty, which always touches and relieves me.

She had been in with the girls but Mike and I have been going crazy, just CRAZY with her.  She takes forever to fall asleep in there and she cries and cries and we are always afraid she is going to wake up the girls and then she wakes up at 4:00 in the morning, screaming and crying, and she won't go back to sleep so we have to get up for the day and ugh.  UGH.  So early this morning, at 4:00 or so, Mike moved her crib back into her old room and we said GOOD NIGHT NURSE and she cried in there for like over an hour but it didn't wake up anyone else so we are taking it for a win.  Tonight she cried for a while but only like ten minutes and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, she will sleep all night.  Maybe after the first of the year I will move her from her mini crib into a toddler bed or maybe a twin bed or maybe she will be the oldest girl in town still in her mini crib, who knows?

She's doing just fine, old Felicity, so cute, talking away, curly hair, just fine.

Three Things on Thursday

Felicity has had like three more Tuesdays at preschool, maybe four, but I haven't written anything.  Can you believe she will be TWO years old next week?  Unreal.  It hasn't gone fast, really, but man it seems like a long time ago that she was born.  I can barely remember being in the hospital with her.  Remember when Maria came to visit and she was so cute?  She wore her special dressy dress?  Memories, light the corners of my mind...Ha!

Okay, three things about Old Girl for Thursday:

• She has been doing just great at preschool - beyond great, wonderful.  I was so worried after that first day when her teacher said she wasn't falling in line and that she was NOTHING like Veronica.  I thought oh Lord, what will I do if she won't every get it?  Then of course the next Tuesday she was great, and it's been wonderful ever since.  She eats all of her lunch, she takes a nap every day, she plays with the other kids, just terrific!  I am such a Gloomy Gert, I try so hard to have low expectations, and in this case they paid off, I am thrilled and proud.  I miss her on Tuesdays but I always exercise, I go to the grocery, it is wonderful.  
• She is in with the girls now and it's going okay.  She cries a little, sometimes, but never for long.  The saddest part about all of it is that she wakes up very early now.  She used to sleep until 8:00 regularly and now she is always up with those loud and noisy sisters of hers.  She is not a great napper, still, she only napped for one hour today, but overall she is doing fine, sleep wise.  
• She is talking a lot but she still refuses to say "two" or "gonna be two" when I ask her how old she'll be on her birthday.  I'm not worried about her, which is a great relief to me.