Journal, Justin visit

Today while on their journey cross country to Philadelphia, Uncle Justin, Ayde, and Malone (the dog) came to visit.  Jayda loved seeing Uncle Justin and Ayde, but she was very uneasy about a large German shepherd taking over her balcony. We had a wonderful, but short visit.

Jayda, Justin, and Ayde at Zingerman's

Journal for August 8th

Today I learned that Jayda likes to dress up.  She went through my underwear drawer, found all the lacy panties, looped them over her head one at a time, and wore them around as necklaces for a good portion of the afternoon.

I don't have a picture of the lacy panties around her neck, but she also likes to wear my sports bras.

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I think Jayda was trying to subtly hint that she is sick of one of the books I usually read to her at night.  When we sat down to read, she reached for the basket of books and grabbed one we read almost every night.  I thought that meant she wanted to read it, but instead she turned and threw it across the room and turned around and stared me in the face, as though saying "What are you going to do about it?"

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Today we went to Bed, Bath and Beyond.  Jayda was playing in the curtain section, and she went to run through one of the curtains, not realizing that there was a solid wall behind it.  After a solid thud, she just looked around a bit confused, but went right back to playing.  She's a quick learner though, because she approached all the others much more cautiously.

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Today Jayda pretended that my shoe was a purse.  Whenever she picks up a bag she puts the straps over her shoulder, walks towards the door, and says "bye bye, see ya".  So this time she grabbed my shoe put the foot strap over her shoulder and said "bye bye, see ya"

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Jayda showed me today that she can match things up.  In one of her books she pointed to a picture of a strawberry on the left page, then I asked her to find it on the right side and she did.  We did this over and over again with pictures of trains, balls, trucks, shoes and more.  It is fun to watch her brain develop.

One Sentence Journal

So I had a great plan of starting a goal on August 1st.  Stupid me got sick, so I'm already behind.  I have wanted to make a record of some of the big and small special moments in Jayda's life, but I'm terrible at keeping a journal.  Well I got a great idea from a book titled "The Happiness Project".  I'm starting a one sentence journal where each day I will write one sentence about what happened with Jayda that day.  I will be keeping this journal on our blog, because it will be easy to keep track of the days.  I have a list of sentences from the last three days.

August 1st: Jayda helped me put her clothes away today. She brought me one piece of laundry at a time and I put it in her closet- it took forever!

August 2nd: She finally said "moo" for the first time, when she found a cow magnet on the floor.

August 3rd: We were in a hurry to get out of the house and down the stairs, but Jayda wanted to climb down the stairs by herself with her dish of pretzels.  She had one problem she needs her hands to go downstairs.  It took her 10 minutes of shifting the pretzels around before she finally shoved two hand-fulls in her month, so she could climb down without my help.