Now Ally is walking pretty regularly. She's gone 7 or 8 feet at once a couple times. She knows she's hot stuff too. She always has a big grin on her face especially when she's chasing the cats.
One of her new games is to put toys in the cat food. I think the logic goes like this: If I put toys in the food dish, I can't get in trouble for playing with the food, because after all, there are toys there! It doesn't work though. And when I tell her no, she smiles and tries it again. The next time, though, she knows I'm serious and it breaks her heart. If Dad says no...she knows everything is okay, becuase he never really can bring himself to discipline her. He just moves her away. It's going to be a long time before "Just wait til your Dad gets home!" has any effect.
She still is not sleeping through the night. This is a very bad thing because soon, she'll figure out how to crawl out of her bed. She climbs everything. So we have to break down and let her cry. It breaks my heart. I started Sat afternoon nap and it took a little over a half hour of crying before she went to sleep. She'd cry then give in a sit down, then cry and stand up some more, then stop and sit, then cry sitting, and lay down screaming, then stand up again. For a couple days, we only did it when she first went to sleep, but she'd still wake up quite a few times during the night, so we finally bit the bullet and stayed consistant. Last night it only took her 15 minutes to go to sleep and she only woke up once, so I hop and pray the we're on the right track and it'll be over soon. Keep your fingers crossed!
Posted by ktjrdn
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