Libby Lately

Lately, Libby has begun her summer swimming lessons, with the first one last Wednesday. She was great about getting ready and letting me put sunscreen on her (so she must have been excited)! We started talking the lessons up with her a few days before and reminding her about the lessons from last year. She cried through most of the lessons but would practice with us on her own what she learned and was doing great at getting to the side and pulling herself out of the pool by the end of the summer. Her first entrance into the pool for this year was at her lesson with no "warm-up" time, so considering that, I thought she did quite well. She cried a tad bit and had to get out once to tee-tee (but then used it again at the end to try to quit the lesson early - by the way, they're only 15 minutes anyway.) But overall, a win. I hope this week is even better since she'll know what to expect. I think it would help if I was in the pool with her, but it would also be a distraction, so I'm not doing that. (Also, her teacher won't let the parents get in during lessons.)

So this was her before (notice the pigtails - she not only didn't put up a fight... she stayed quite still for me!)

She's also talking up a STORM! And I didn't mention how, when we picked her up at Mi and Diddy's, that we thought she might like to try some of the ice cream that Mi had made for dessert (she's never been a big fan in the past) but she didn't. When we tried and she was forced to put a bit on her tongue, she started BAWLING... poor thing.

This weekend, we went to the Marietta Farmers Market for the first time and I could have spend a bunch of money. I mostly got produce, but there was mainly more than just produce. However, it was also "May-retta Daze," and arts and crafts festival and "Go Girl, Marietta," a kid fundraiser event. Well, that event had the bouncy house and there was great music, so we were set!

Oh, she also had a bit of fun with the fountain!

And the train on the square!

What else...? She's saying lots of cute words and tends to drop the first letter or two of words, like, "'unnin" for "running," "atur" for "water," or sometimes, she drops the last letter, like "peekin'" and "sneakin.'" Oh I love listening to her and being able to communicate with actual words better! She's also, when she feels like it, saying the names of all of her grandparents, "Mi," "Diddy," "Papa" and "GeeGee."

And she says, "Ibby!"

I love her.

Now, we have had a bit of a setback on the potty, and you can imagine that I'm a bit frustrated. She keeps wetting the bed first thing in the morning, rather than calling us to get her up. We even tried getting her up around 10:30 last night to get her to go again so it might not be quite so urgent in the morning and it still didn't work. And then she wet the bed during her nap time. So, we put her in pull-ups tonight because the last several mornings we've had to get up and immediately bathe her and her linens. She's great during the day and we can't figure it out, but it doesn't do to let her keep doing it when it doesn't seem to bother her enough to stop. So we're talking about it some, and working on some other options to deter it from happening, but if you have any ideas, please share!