145 + 41 Weeks

This week Carmie graduated to a 'big girl' bed, and she is very proud of herself.  It hasn't stopped her calling out at night, and she loves to climb in and out of it herself, but she is yet to realise that she can get in and out of it during the night and in the morning.  She still waits until I come in and get her.  I wonder when the realisation will set in that she doesn't have to wait for me?  She is still being a pain in the butt about going to bed.  Last night I put her down at 7:45, and she called out periodically until 10:10.  Then she woke up crying at midnight, and up for the day at 5:50am.  Tonight I told her if she called out, I would come in and take a toy.  I guess she didn't believe me, so I took away one of her bed toys (she has about 20!), and all hell broke loose!!  Full blown tantrum.  I calmed her down, but she didn't get her toy back.  She better believe me from now on!

Carmie had her last swimming lesson for the season.  She is miles ahead of the other kids in her class.  The parents joke to me about how she must have been a water birth, and that she really is a fish.  She spends so long under water that I get scared.  She is the only one who can float, and she literally spends most of the lesson with her head under water.  Carmie has had a fairly good week, until today when she was at school and they asked me to come and pick her up because she had tummy pains.  The Easter bunny was supposed to visit, and they were going to have a tea party and a hat parade, but she came home instead.  I think I am more disappointed than her!  We did decorate Easter eggs at Aunty Georgia's house, and Carmie also got to help with some Easter cookies.  

Arley loves to bang on everything.  If you leave the drums out, he will crawl up to them and start beating on them.  All but two of Carmen's white board markers have disappeared, because Arley likes to take them around the house to bang on things.  He is still ball-obsessed, and today he was waving like it's old hat.  He eats like a horse (tonight at dinner he literally ate half of my lasagna, after eating his own serving).  And he absolutely adores his sister.  He would follow her to the end of the Earth and back.  If only she paid any attention to him!

Here are two videos of Carmie.

This one is her singing one of her planets songs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LYABdP3YWU&list=UU21-zydO1IYNApoXHx_P8LQ

This is one of her briefly floating at swimming.  She can actually float as long as she wants to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVnYHjo4TQk&list=UU21-zydO1IYNApoXHx_P8LQ

Swimming lesson

 She is becoming so proficient with a mouse!

 Big girl bed

 Cutting cookies

 Matching hats.  Thanks Lolo :)