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Baby!!! He can't move on the popper toy rather I thought he might like to watch the balls pop around. He didn't care. He doesn't care about much or care about much for long. He doesn't stay in one place or play with a toy for longer than 30 seconds. It's exhausting at times. 

Miss M enjoys playing with play-doh. I think it's fun to play with play-doh but I don't like watching the play-doh colors get mixed up. Miss M doesn't care/notice that the colors don't come back apart after you smash them together.

We were playing in the basement and I asked her to make different faces based on how she was feeling:

Here's her Happy face

 Here's her Sad face

And here's her Thinking face. I laughed so hard when she did this. At first she clicked her tongue as though she were pondering life and then she looked up and off to the side. She can be so serious.

We also worked on the presidents on some of the bills. She knows three presidents. The first one which to her is Washing-George-Ing-Ton. Grandma Delores' favorite president which is Lincoln-Lincoln to her. The current president is Barack Obama. We don't really talk about the current president b/c he's not on any money or license plates! I contemplate having her learn more president names but I think I should probably stay focused on the alphabet and getting her to count without skipping 5 and 6.

We have had some issues with Miss M's sleeping lately. She doesn't nap anymore which is fine. I can't deal with it. When she does take a nap then it's really difficult to get her in bed (and to stay in bed) before 10:30 or 11:00pm. It's awful b/c I am so tired by 10:30pm. The other day she hadn't napped and I tired to put her to bed early (7:30pm instead of 8:00pm) and she was out of her room and in the basement with me by 8:05pm. I was sad. I just wanted to eat my dinner and watch junk tv without a toddler who talks nonstop. She insisted we watch shows. She ended up getting her way and watching a show. I took her upstairs to shower while she watched one last show. I told her it was time to go to bed and she then went on to tell me how she wanted to sleep with me. NO. Then she wanted me to sleep on her floor. NO. She told me I was so special to her and she needed me to sleep on her floor. I would have been flattered but everything is so special to her. She tells me things are so special to her when she wants something. When I need to cut her fingernails she tells me they are so special to her and I shouldn't cut them. When I ask her to clean up the mess in the kitchen that she's made she tells me she can't because it's so special to her.

This little guy can eat a lot of food. If he sees you eating and you're not sharing he will squeal like a pig until you share or give him something of his own. Babies are supposed to be able to regulate their intake and not consume more than they are hungry for. I am not sure if he doesn't have the ability to regulate or if he's really just that hungry. As long as you feed him he's so happy.