This post is long overdue. I can't believe it's been a month since my last real post. I haven't really had much time to blog. I have spent much needed time with my daughter and the time that I don't spend with her, I spend it doing homework. Occasionally, I will surf the web, play video games,and maybe watch TV.
I used to spend a lot of time on the computer. Several hours a day. I really had to cut back on how much time I spent on here. It was a little difficult for me to have to cut back as much as I needed to, but it has become quite easy. Because I cut back, I have been able to do a lot more. I used to wonder where my day went. I don't wonder so much anymore :)
School
School is going well so far. I am really enjoying it! My professors are super nice and my classes are fairly easy. Oddly enough, I think my math class is easier than my English class. Either way, I am doing well in both classes.
I had a math test on September 15th. I scored really well :) I got 97 percent! I only missed one question. Mrs. Jones was nice enough to give me partial credit. If she hadn't my test score wouldn't be as high. It would probably have only gone down a percentage or two though.
I have had to write two essays so far. They were fairly easy to write. The first essay, I was able to choose whatever I wanted to write about and however I wanted to write. The topic I chose was Kairi and how much I enjoy/love being a parent. The second essay was a descriptive essay. We had to use all five sense to write the essay. The topics I chose for this one was labor and delivery.
I think I did pretty well on them. We got our second essays back on Monday. She said I did well on it :) I am curious as to what she thinks of my first essay. I am not sure when she is going to give our first essays back. Hrmmm.
Even though I am taking classes on campus, most of our homework is online. We used what is called MySkillsLab for English and MathXL for Math. MySkillsLab is alright. I don't really like MathXL though. The programming behind it is terrible!
Case in point: I was answering one of the questions for one of my homework assignments and when I submitted my answer it told me it was wrong. It wasn't wrong though! After trying to submit the answer several times, it finally showed me the 'correct' answer a.k.a the answer that I had tried submitting. I was soooo frustrated!
Kairi
Kairi's vocabulary has sky-rocketed! She can say so many words now. She can even say some phrases. It's amazing! What's even more amazing is her weight gain. She weighed 16 pounds 10 ounces at our WIC appointment that was on August 9th. On Sunday, September 13th, we took her to Wee Care Pediatrics because she had cough, runny nose, fever, a loss of appetite, and was throwing up. When they weighed her, the scaled said 17 pounds 6 ounces!
Can you believe that? She gained 12 ounces in less than a week! That's record-breaking! She has NEVER gained that much weight in such a short amount of time. Pediasure definitely did the trick! I didn't think the Pediasure would work so quickly!
I recently converted her crib into a toddler bed. It has been an exciting transition. She loves her 'new' bed! She really enjoys climbing jumping on it. She has been sleeping in it for the past one and a half nights. It would have been two full nights had there not been a thunderstorm. Tyler and I were afraid the thunderstorm would wake her up and scare her. To be on the safe side we put her in our bed.
It was nice having her next to me, again. I love co-sleeping! We have been co-sleeping since Kairi was born. Co-sleeping has given me this sense of security and comfort. As much as I have enjoyed having Kairi next to me, I think I will enjoy just sleeping with Tyler. Kairi is a major bed hog!
I am so glad that the transition from our bed to her bed has been so seamless. I was so afraid that she might not take well to sleeping on her own, but in fact, she doesn't mind it at all. I sometimes have to wait until she falls asleep elsewhere before putting her in her bed though.
After doing a lot of research and asking people what their opinions were, I finally decided on a potty chair; a pink BabyBjorn potty chair. I ordered it on Amazon.com a few nights ago and just received it today :) Kairi and I were out and about all day today so we didn't get a chance to try it out until about two and a half hours ago.
She took to it better than I had thought she would. I started off by showing her the potty then telling her what it was. I then had her sit down with all of her clothes on to try and help her get used to sitting on it. I was curious as to how she would react to sitting on it with her bare butt so after letting her sitting on it fully clothes for a minute or so, I took her leggings and diaper off and sat her down.
She really enjoyed sitting there. She was even leaning back for awhile. Not even a minute had passed before she peed in her chair! It was funny watching her watch herself pee. She just had this blank expression as she watched her the little tray attached to her chair fill up with pee. Now granted, there was only a little bit of pee. But still. It seemed to interest her. After all was said and done, I wiped her, flushed her pee down the toilet, and then we celebrated by letting her eating some Cheetos (one of her new favorite snacks) while I called/texted/tweeted to tell my friends about family about the exciting news.
Looking back, I wish I would have taken a picture of her pee as memorabilia. As weird as that may sound. *sigh* Oh well. I will definitely take a picture tomorrow, if/when she pees in her potty again.
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