It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world

1.30.2008

Would you like pancakes with your syrup?

Hazel asked for a drink of juice right before lunch the other day. I said no because I didn't want her to ruin her appetite. I looked over a minute later and she was drinking pancake syrup! I guess it does have a sports bottle top on it. She was holding all that syrup in her mouth though. I could tell that she didn't want to swallow it. Where do they get these ideas?

1.29.2008

Milestones

I've been procrastinating this day for months. I could only think of the mangled bedtime routines and sleepless nights ahead of me. However, today was the day. I convinced Hazel that it was time to throw the binkies away. So this afternoon we very ceremoniously gathered up the last 9 binkies out of her bed and threw them away. I tried to convince her to throw them in the big can in the garage (they are truly unretrievable from the outside garbage can). But she wasn't going for that and instead settled on the recycle bin (which I emptied into the big can later). Everything was good until I tried to lay her down for her nap. It didn't happen. But my heart broke when we put her to bed tonight. She didn't get that the binkies were really gone. Hazel just cried and cried, "But I want my binkies." I guess that I am sad for her as well as for me. For Hazel this is a really big step and it is hard to give up a security blanket. For me it means that she really isn't a baby anymore and this is the last time for eveything. I love watching my kids get older and more independent. But at the same time I want them to stay where they are forever.