Busy Day begins early...

Today we actually got up and out of bed at 7:45am. It was hard, there was no coffee and no time to make it, but we had a dr's appointment at 8:35 and we had to get going. When we have early mornings like this I like to make things as simple as possible by preparing the night before. I lay out clothes, I bathe with Laylah so I don't have to shower in the morning, I put together a good snack to take with us. We got up, got out, and made it there only to wait half an hour to be seen. Isn't that just always the case? anyway, she's healthy, so we then went to Chick-fil-a for breakfast (coffee finally!) and then on to Webb Bridge Park for our weekly API (Attached Parenting International) playgroup. We played a bit at the Chick-fil-a play area and it was hard getting her to leave, but with the promise of outside wee, it was achieved. It's a great park with lots for the little ones to do, thought it is hard keeping up conversations with other adults while chasing a two-year-old. Laylah stayed on the swings for a very long time, wanting to do 1-2-3! This means I hold the swing while pushing it back and forth for the count of three then go under her on the last push, you may also know it as underdog. She loves it. She also played in the wet sandbox, it has been raining all week, but surprisingly did not get as sandy/muddy as she could have. Her latest behavior is to tell me to "Go AWAY!" when she wants to play, not too far away, but she wants to do things herself, Miss Independent. Today she started counting to ten before she went down the slide, pretty patient for a toddler I'd say. I didn't ask her to, she just decided to do it. We finally got ready to leave about 1pm, by which time we were both exhausted, her unwilling to admit it though, and fussing to "do again!" any kind of slide we passed. But with a promise of going to the "other wee" after nap she accepted my invitation to depart in the beep-beep and promptly fell asleep in her car-seat. The concept of "other wee" works well, or actually any kind of wee. Target-wee, bookstore-wee, library-wee, market-wee, these are all places I can get her to go to as long as some kind of wee is in the name, wee meaning anything playground or fun-like. Other wee can mean anything and doesn't commit me to any specific place after nap, the plan can come later but the promise of wee can get busy baby going. I think today might be home-wee, though, and maybe Mommy nap-wee, while Laylah watches Elmo-wee. See it works for anything! looking forward to the weekend and Daddy-Laylah party time, meaning Mommy break time! Now to nap...zzzzzzzzzzz