She’s my snuggler, my girl, my sweet. She always wants Mama, will settle for Daddy and is getting better and better at branching out to a stranger here or there. I hurt my back this month and she was so sweet, telling me she “loves me SO MUCH” and insisting that she hurt her back too so that she can lay down next to me on the couch.
She loved Halloween this year, so happy to have an excuse to demand candy. I have called her Mu Shu Chicken pretty much since she was born. Sometimes on my way home from work I’ll say things like “How was your day, Chicken?” without another thought about it. So after asking her at least 100 times what she wanted to be for Halloween and getting no answer I decided she was going as a chicken. And I’m not even kidding the very next day she decided she wanted to be a frog. I tried to put the chicken costume on her and she cried and cried and cried begging to be a frog. So I sent the chicken costume back and bought her a frog costume. What Renee wants, Renee gets. Just ask her. Numerous times this month she said "I'm the boss, Mommy."
We hired a babysitter for the first time this month and she was totally cool with it. I told her that Katie was going to play with her for a while and that we’d be back and she was all like “whatevs, dudes, have fun.” When we got home I scooped her up and hugged and kissed her and asked her if she had fun and she said she did. I almost died. She had fun with someone other than us, she’s really living on the edge.
Her relationship with her brother is growing stronger. She’ll finally allow him to take a bath at the same time as her and she likes to push him in the swing and make him laugh. He’ll climb up next to her on her chair in the living room and they’ll both start giggling. Most of the time she’s swiping stuff off of him but once in a while she’ll give him something and say “Here you go, Cammon” and she smiles sweetly when we make a big deal about how good of a big sister she is. She wants us to believe she doesn’t like him but we know better.
One day out of no where when I was putting her to bed this month she asked me to leave the overhead light on in her room. I don’t know where it come from but she is pretty adamant about it. I leave it on while she reads in bed and then I go up and turn it off after she’s been in bed for a half an hour or so. Very strange. She has also woken up screaming a few times this month and she doesn’t really seem awake when I get in there to soothe her, she just seems scared. I think she must be having bad dreams or is afraid of the dark.
She had memorized quite a few of her books, reading them to us at night now before bed. She loves Cars, Trucks and Things that Go and giggles and sings a little “Goldbug, goldbug, where are you?” song when we’re looking for him. She’s a cheese ball and fake laughs when she’s trying to be funny to get a laugh out of us. The best part is that she knows when we are being sarcastic and is sarcastic back.
She calls her stuffed animals her “friends” which totally kills me. We lost her favorite Mr. Tiger this month and Ski and I both moped around for two weeks feeling like there had been a death in the family. Every single morning and every single night she’d ask where he was and our hearts would break. Then we got a replacement thanks to Nena who made a special trip to the zoo for her and she was so happy to see him. She was like "Mr. Tiger, where have you BEEN?"
She’s starting to like girly things in general, INSISTS on wearing sparkly shoes that she calls “BEAUTIFUL” every where she goes. Once in a while now she’ll let me put a barrette in her hair but most of the time she still pulls them out right away.
She’s shy and will only talk to us with a whisper when she’s in big groups of people. It makes both her dad and I laugh. Well, almost everything she does makes her dad and I laugh. I really can't imagine what we'll do for fun when she grows up and moves out. We're going to have to go back to watching comedies and sitcoms and they are not comparatively funny.
She loved Halloween this year, so happy to have an excuse to demand candy. I have called her Mu Shu Chicken pretty much since she was born. Sometimes on my way home from work I’ll say things like “How was your day, Chicken?” without another thought about it. So after asking her at least 100 times what she wanted to be for Halloween and getting no answer I decided she was going as a chicken. And I’m not even kidding the very next day she decided she wanted to be a frog. I tried to put the chicken costume on her and she cried and cried and cried begging to be a frog. So I sent the chicken costume back and bought her a frog costume. What Renee wants, Renee gets. Just ask her. Numerous times this month she said "I'm the boss, Mommy."
We hired a babysitter for the first time this month and she was totally cool with it. I told her that Katie was going to play with her for a while and that we’d be back and she was all like “whatevs, dudes, have fun.” When we got home I scooped her up and hugged and kissed her and asked her if she had fun and she said she did. I almost died. She had fun with someone other than us, she’s really living on the edge.
Her relationship with her brother is growing stronger. She’ll finally allow him to take a bath at the same time as her and she likes to push him in the swing and make him laugh. He’ll climb up next to her on her chair in the living room and they’ll both start giggling. Most of the time she’s swiping stuff off of him but once in a while she’ll give him something and say “Here you go, Cammon” and she smiles sweetly when we make a big deal about how good of a big sister she is. She wants us to believe she doesn’t like him but we know better.
One day out of no where when I was putting her to bed this month she asked me to leave the overhead light on in her room. I don’t know where it come from but she is pretty adamant about it. I leave it on while she reads in bed and then I go up and turn it off after she’s been in bed for a half an hour or so. Very strange. She has also woken up screaming a few times this month and she doesn’t really seem awake when I get in there to soothe her, she just seems scared. I think she must be having bad dreams or is afraid of the dark.
She had memorized quite a few of her books, reading them to us at night now before bed. She loves Cars, Trucks and Things that Go and giggles and sings a little “Goldbug, goldbug, where are you?” song when we’re looking for him. She’s a cheese ball and fake laughs when she’s trying to be funny to get a laugh out of us. The best part is that she knows when we are being sarcastic and is sarcastic back.
She calls her stuffed animals her “friends” which totally kills me. We lost her favorite Mr. Tiger this month and Ski and I both moped around for two weeks feeling like there had been a death in the family. Every single morning and every single night she’d ask where he was and our hearts would break. Then we got a replacement thanks to Nena who made a special trip to the zoo for her and she was so happy to see him. She was like "Mr. Tiger, where have you BEEN?"
She’s starting to like girly things in general, INSISTS on wearing sparkly shoes that she calls “BEAUTIFUL” every where she goes. Once in a while now she’ll let me put a barrette in her hair but most of the time she still pulls them out right away.
She’s shy and will only talk to us with a whisper when she’s in big groups of people. It makes both her dad and I laugh. Well, almost everything she does makes her dad and I laugh. I really can't imagine what we'll do for fun when she grows up and moves out. We're going to have to go back to watching comedies and sitcoms and they are not comparatively funny.
Great pictures - she's beautiful! And funny too :-)
Posted by: Jill | November 02, 2009 at 07:43 PM
I loved 28 months with Maren - she was so full of personality and innocence, and had not yet developed the fine art of sassing. Beautiful pictures as always - you always seem to capture so much of what is Renee!
Posted by: Nicole | November 03, 2009 at 04:16 PM
Beautiful pictures!
Posted by: Ann Marie | November 11, 2009 at 06:58 AM