Toni's new stuff

Well I have no clue if I've blogged about some of this stuff before or not. So apparent my memory has gone to crap. Oh well. But if I have, then it's not new and if I haven't.. yay!

So first week of school Toni found her thumb. She is a thumb sucker. People ask me if that's a good thing or a bad thing. There are even article's out there where some say it's bad ans some say it's good. Well I think it all depends in each individual situation. In my opinion I think it's a good thing. I was kind of always hoping she's be a thumb sucker over a pacifier anyway. At least she won't have that dependency on a pacifier and I won't have to break her of that habit. On the other hand, I may have to break her of the habit of thumb sucking although most kids break that habit themselves over time. As I'm sure pacifier babies as well. But she never did take to a pacifier too well anyway. That was tough when I'd try to help her go back to sleep by giving her a pacifier to comfort suck on and she wouldn't hold on to it. So the fact that she now thumb sucks to comfort herself means she isn't depending on anyone or anything to help her out. She can put herself to sleep. Again, nothing against pacifier babies. If Iever have one that ends up being one, so be it. I'm just proud that she can put herself back to sleep at this age.

OK... so that's one "new" thing. She grabs at her feet sometimes when you have her sitting up. It's pretty damn cute I have to say! She's still really interested in her hands and fingers and whatever goes into her hands too. But now when she's sitting up it's easier for her to grab her feet and she does.

She is such a babbler too! Oh my goodness it's so cute. She'll just sit there and go, "ahhhhhhh. (take a big breath) ahhhhhhhhhhhhh..." hehehehe... and you have to see her face. She puts so much passion into it. Almost as if she's singing and wants to hit that note and puts her all into it. Maybe she will be a singer!

So we've been staying at my brother Mark's house while our apartment is being put back in order after Ike. My neice Madeline has this sing along care bear called share bear. Well one day my sis in law Lisa was showing it to Toni and Toni really enjoyed it. Madeline, only being two years old, didn't exactly want to share... share bear. So she took it from Toni and Toni cried. hehehe.. poor thing. So Junior and I bought her one. HAHA! OK... now we were at the toy store and showing her all sorts of toys, other singing toys and they got her attention, but not like the care bear did. That just put a huge smile on her face that just brightened up her face. So we got her one... but we got cheer bear so they are different. Here's the cool part. They are interactive!!! We didn't know that! So when you put the two together, they "talk" to each other and sing songs together taking turns on diff parts. oh my goodness!!! Not only was Toni and Madeline so excited, but so was Lisa and I! hahaha! It's pretty damn cool. There's another care bear called funshine bear that can join in to. I'm thinking about it... hahaha! It just makes her so happy.

Toni has also really adapted to school. She's almost always really smily and laughing AND she drinks from the bottle, NO PROBLEM! In fact if she's hungry, she's excited to see the bottle. And fortunately, she still likes to nurse too! awww... I think my little girl is just growing up. :( I'm happy and sad! hahaha! Before I know it she'll be 18 and off to college. haha!Oh no... I'm going to be one of those mom's??? haha!