Dressing herself

So the issue of dressing herself has been taken care of ages ago. She likes to change clothes and will ocassionally disappear and come back wearing something totally different- usually pajamas b/c it's what she can reach. (in the bottom drawer of her dresser)
I recently moved the too big/too small things to the top drawer so she could more easily acces the things that fit i the bottom. Good plan, except she knew the top drawer existed and wanted to know what was in there. So she's forever dragging her stool in there and climbing up, rumaging around in there.

I also put her two pair of tights in there so she wouldn't shred them or play with them.

Too bad for me, she found them. A bit ago, she comes downstairs wearing her training pants (from the top drawer), a pair of tights (which she got on all by herself!!!) and a pajama top. She exclaims "Mommy! I put my leotard on!"

Tights? Really? All by herself?? I was shocked. Shocked I say.

Trucks

Natalya picked out a book the last time we were at Target that she wanted- it's a book about trucks. She is obsessed with them now that her daddy drives a "big truck".
The book is simply called "Trucks", and the cover has four different trucks and the word trucks across the front.
Natalya was eating lunch and looking at the front of the book. She started pointing to the letters and said "S-k-c-u.....t" I said "and 'r'" (the lowercase r threw her off) She said "r... that says 'trucks'!"
I thoght it was cute she read the letters backwards. :) But was thoroughly impressed she connected those letters spelling to the word trucks. !!!

She is so smart. I am in so much trouble.

Natalya

Today Natalya had her stuffed doggie and she said "awwwww, look at the baby doggie" in her little sweet baby voice. She then said "where's her mommy?"
I said "I don't know honey"
She thought about it for a minute, looked up, thinking then said, "maybe at the store" and nodded.

Natalya's obsessed with Mommies and Daddies and babies. If there's a Mommy Elephant, there's going to be a daddy elephant or a baby elephant. :) her animals have to have whole families. If there's only one cheetah, she asks me "where her mama is".

She's also reading some words. She knows the word baby and will read it when she sees it. She says, "Mommy, that says baby. B-A-B-Y, baby!" She also will usually recognize her name and "Daddy".

Officially Potty-Learned

Officially: Natalya is potty learned!! She's been doing very well the last 4-5 months, but I'd say as of a few weeks ago she's doing great! We're going to get a plastic sheet to put on her bed and go for nighttimes in a month or so, but for now, she's having very few to no accidents and waking up dry from naps and nights. We let her sleep with her panties on for naps, but still in a diaper at night.
:)

Yay for no more diapers!!!

Detox day 3

Ok, so last night I had the tinglies, but not nearly as much as before. Weird! It was more gooey. blech. I feel really good today. Not as tired and sluggish as I normally am, and I haven't had all that much sleep in the last couple of days, but also not as much caffeine. COOL!

They don't look as bad b/c I didn't take them right away, so they faded a bunch, so imagine them a lot darker in the white areas.



Just in case you think you might want to try this- I ordered my pads through a friend- they are Avon brand. I have another friend who tried Avon's and Kinoki's and she said the Avon were better, Kinoki were gel-like and really, really disgusting in the morning. YUK! Also, if you buy another brand, make sure they don't have an aluminum backing. Aluminum is not good for your body and would certainly not help if you are trying to detoxify.

To order from Avon, contact your local Avon representative, or mine, if you want her name/email info, let me know. :)

Detox for last night

Night 2: I had more tingling last night but no throbbing. I have had a migraine on and off for the last three days but it's gone today and I actually am in a pretty good mood, comparatively speaking. The pads don't seem as disgusting today as yesterday, despite the fact I had some Chianti at dinner last night. So, pulling less toxins? My thoughts, hey, these things may actually do something. NEAT!

Here's the results from last night:

Detox your body...through your feet?

There's a new product out, well, fairly new, called detox foot pads. The idea is using old Chinese remedies and thought of the feet being the release of the toxins and things such as that, (think accupressure and the points in your feet), these pads are supposed to draw out toxins from your body while you sleep. You wear them three nights in a row and it's supposed to help cleanse you.

I wasn't sure if it was a total crock, or if it really did something, but I figured I'd give them a go. Got some for Doug too. (Happy Valentine's Day honey! You're toxic. Here, go cleanse. :D )

So I tried them out. Doug too. Ewww! GROSS!!! The pads start out white, and there's a little pocket of green tea and vinegar and who knows what else in there. I didn't expect much. To be honest, I figured it wouldn't do anything and it would be an interesting experiment. I put them on and laid down to go to sleep. As soon as I put them on, they felt warm, basically I figured the warmth was because I had something stuck to the bottom of my feet, which was strange, to say the least.

Then, while not expecting to feel anything, a few minutes later my feet started tingling and throbbing a little. It sort of felt like when you put a bandaid on a cut and you put it on too tight- that sort of throbbing. It was really weird. It sort of kept me up and I wanted to take them off because it was an odd, and slightly uncomfortable sensation. Luckily, I was really tired and fell asleep anyway.

Doug say he didn't notice anything, a little tingling, but nothing very noticeable...but he also is sick- has a bit of a head cold, and was sooo stopped up he couldn't breathe, but he didn't snore at all. Also weird (and very nice!).

So we woke up yesterday morning and pulled them off. GROSS!! Pics below if you want to see the results of the toxin dump.

Also, I wasn't hot and don't normally have sweaty feet so the result wasn't from sweaty foot syndrome.

Here's the really disgusting results... (smallest size possible so as not to be toooooo gross!)