Curie June 2013. June was quite the month for Curie, she seems to have exploded in her development; it seems there is always something new that she does or says. One of our favorite things that she says recently are “Mama, wheAREyooo? Dada, wheAREy000?” Around the house she has become very family focused with a need to have both Mama and Dada in one place “Dada, sit. Mama, sit;” or if we are sitting too close together she says, “ma sheet! (my seat)” and she squeezes between the two of us.
A lot happened this month too, we saw Emilie and Livi with their parents at the Delaware Children’s Museum, there she got a new baby doll. We went to the pool and two water parks. The Hoaglands went with us to Six Flags for Father’s Day where we spent the day at Hurricane Harbor. With season passes we’ve been two weeks in a row – “waa pak (water park), Curie watched the commercial this morning instead of Elmo.
We learned from last year and she wears a rash guard instead of a swim suit so doesn’t get as cold. She loves to play in the splash park and step on bubblers. Erin holds her in the lazy river and bumps the people around us. Albert’s favorite shirt for her is the Superman shirt with a cape. She doesn’t know who Superman is, so it is really for Albert. If they ever post it, you can watch Albert and Curie doing the waltz with her in that shirt at National Harbor. Someone from the organizers recorded it and said they would put it up on their Facebook page. We saw Vanessa at La Tasca, celebrated Candace’s birthday and saw her parents the Baleys.
Only some rabbits are “Hop” now, other rabbits are “wabbits (yes, a la Elmer). She loves eating turkey off the bone, in fact Albert would keep attaching meat to the bone and Curie would eat it. She still loves noodles, soup and edamame. At the water park, she kept eating ice and has wanted ice ever since in her meals. She got a little tricycle -“ma bike!” which she pushes around; she will ride it but hasn’t gotten steering yet.
She is still a little kid. She sucks her thumb, which we need to change according to her dentist. We tried a bandaid, but she took it off. We will probably buy a thumb guard, but for now, we tell her that her “ow” on her thumb will just get worse and Erin tells her to stick it in her ear. And she does! She is growing though, 30 inches, over 20 pounds now, still a peanut, but she likes to sit on her potty, likes to wipe her bum, is cognizant of peeing and pooping, but we haven’t potty trained her yet but it will happen soon.
When you first have your child you think, wow, it can’t get better than this, they are so cute, and what happens when they grow up (okay ignoring lack of sleep, when they don’t interact that first month etc…)? Experienced parents tell you it is great at every age, different, but great. We miss when Curie was small enough to sleep on our shoulder and when she first sat up, or first said something, or all of that. She runs around now saying “ma ca! (my car), “ma hone! (my phone)” “Abert! (no Curie, he’s Dada to you), she is just so cute that I believe it, every age is amazing. But what about next year…?