Weekend update Monday #2

Saturday

Woke up early today and got ready for the day with L. She dressed herself so it was a very eccentric outfit she had a white and red sparkly sweater on with grey pants and then a green and yellow sunflower spaghetti strap dress over top of it all. Thankfully she ended up taking the dress off. I spent the day out at work. I  didn't think or realize that I was going to be sitting out in the sun all day and I should wear sunscreen so that was a fun learning experience.

Sunday

Woke up today and it is pouring rain out so all my plans have changed. Was supposed to be out with another full day of work but due to the rain everything was cancelled. I totally feel like a crispy lobster today though I hurt and am super itchy on my scalp and face. I'm hopeful that that will only last a day or two and turn into an awesome tan. That's usually hope it works for me. So since plans changed I get to spend the day with L and play and have some fun. Tomorrow is going to be totally different for us I can actually sleep in (if she actually allows me too). Have I mentioned that my child is scared of movies even the mention of a movie sends her into a panic. I just got Mary Poppins in the mail on Bluray for my mom and we decided to put it on and watch it today while we were working. Well L got so upset that she hid behind the couch crying. We told her it wasn't scary and she would love it she didn't believe us. We got her to calm down and start watching her TV show in the other room and put the movie on hoping that the singing would bring her into the room and spark her interest. Eventually we called her out to show her some of the fun stuff that happens on Mary Poppins and she ended up sitting there and watching it with us. I asked her last night if she wanted to watch it again and she excitedly said yes.

Monday Morning

We all went to bed last night fairly early. We were all very tired last night and ended up going to bed at 9:30pm. It was a great sleep last night L woke me up at 6 am asking if I remembered to charge her iPad which I hadn't. So she switched blankets with me because I was using her favourite one and she feel back to sleep. It is now 8:25am and I just woke up about 15 min ago and L is still sleeping. This is L's first day of no daycare during the week. Wish me Luck!

Giving options

I feel in my household that it's important to give my kiddo options when it comes to things like giving up toys. I don't want to just take things and give them away without her knowing I think it's good for her to make those decisions for herself. This is something that I have been doing with her for the last few years.

It all started with an overwhelming amount of stuffed animals that were taking over our room. I sat down with L and held a stuffy up and gave her the option to keep or get rid of. I was very surprised when she narrowed it down to just a few stuffed animals. We ended up getting rid of a whole garbage bag of stuffies!

Our next endeavour was to go through her toys. This one I was positive was going to be a struggle. I told her that the toys she didn't want to keep we were going to give to new babies so that they could have fun and play with them. Easy peasy lemon squeezy! another box of toys off to new babies and a less cluttered room! I can't believe how easy it really has been and even if she says she wants to keep something and I don't think its something that she will ever play with she is super easy to reason with.

Today we tackled her clothes. We went through every drawer and she said she wanted to keep or give away. There were a couple items that she was far to happy to give away because she hates them (jeans). Then there were a few things that she thought she wanted to keep but I didn't think she would need or would still fit so I would reason with her. Most of the time she will give in and give that item up because she will realize that mommy is right and that item doesn't fit with her age and what not anymore.

It makes me proud to think that L can make those decisions and she doesn't get overly upset if at all about getting rid of stuff. Basically I'm glad she's not a hoarder. I know myself I have a hard time getting rid of my own stuff. You always have that thought in the back of your head. What if I need that someday? That I am glad L doesn't have and I hope she never does.