Thank you to daddy

I absolutely love the last post by daddy. Hannah & I have lots of fun hanging out in her bed, whether just to play from her 1st waking up or trying to get her to sleep... and one of the things that mommy started doing was "hiding" under the covers. So I think it's so GREAT that she was "looking" for me in the bed! She's been catching on to a lot of things and learning so much.

Daddy watches Hannah quite often - even when mommy IS at home (so that she can do her stuff). He does a ton to help and picks up my slack all the time. Recently he's been feeding Hannah every night and enduring getting food splattered all over him. She's going through the wanting to feed herself phase and the consistently-inconsistent-eater phase. He also endured the bathing of Hannah when she was going through the I-want-to-climb-everywhere phase (including out of the tub) and the I-want-to-stand&now-I-want-to-sit (so she was constantly on the move). He helps so much when he's at home, and I totally appreciate all that he does.

Hannah's been rather attached to mommy. She's going through that phase of development now. She's very aware of my presence or lack thereof. She doesn't need to be held all the time (but when she's sick, she's super clingy), but she now just prefers my company over others. The traditional nursing to sleep doesn't work consistently anymore. Many times, when I break her latch, she wakes up and will sit straight up in bed. So then I have to just lay her back down and wave "bye bye," give her a kiss, and I leave. So there's been some CIO - but it's not bad, more of a fussing crying. She falls asleep quickly afterwards. Of course all of this is if I don't end up falling asleep with her while nursing! (which I've done more often than not this past week.)

Oh...I need to do sooo much better with E.C. I fear that I've undone a lot of good of earlier efforts by my lack of diligence in taking her to the potty during the day. We ALWAYS go in the morning & before bath time and most of the time after naps. But during the day it's been so inconsistent. With all that's been going on the past bit:the holidays, the traveling, the playdates, the errands, the inconsistent naps - falling asleep in the car, the crazy schedules, and my new projects. I don't pay attention to her signals as much, and I've not taken her to the bathroom. The past two days she's had diarrhea (I have no idea why). But it's been messy. I've caught it a few times, but missed it more often than not. Usually she's so good with only pooping on the potty. With diarrhea, it's really hard for me and probably for her. I think I've ended up "untraining" her with the pee...she used to hold it sometime ago...and now she doesn't b/c there's always pee in the diaper. But she does almost always pee when I put her on the potty too. Maybe she just has a lot more pee and poo now that she's older?