Alexandra- 5/oct

Alexandra e Valéria brincando na estante. 

Alexandra - eu gosto de ler as histórias da Bíblia pra aprender a fazer as coisas q Deus manda.

Alexandra e Valéria- porco e galinha

Hj o almoço foi carne de porco. 

Valéria: mamãe, vc matou o porco pra gente comer?

Vika: não, meu amor. Eu comprei ele já morto na loja. Alguém matou pra gente comer. 

Valéria: pq a gente do tem galinha? Eu queria um porquinho. 

Alexandra: a gente vai orar e Deus vai dar um porquinho pra gente. Daddy, aí vc vai matar ele pra gente comer?

Dean: não Alexandra, a gente paga pra alguém fazer isso. E depois compramos outro porco. 

Alexandra: então Deus vai ficar dando porcos pra gente? Legal!!!!!

Valéria em Orlando

Estamos em Orlando. Valéria ficou impressionada com os carros sem teto.

Urso folgado- Valéria

Eu estava cantando Ursinho Pimpão. “Urso folgado não tem lição”. Valéria saiu com essa:

Mãe, pq o urso queimado com fogo não tem lição e brincar?

Alexandra - mais uma comparação.

Alexandra ontem de noite - mamãe, o leite é o café dos bebês. 

Lá fora de brincadeira.

Ligamos o ar condicionado hj aqui  casa e Alexandra perguntou o q era esse vento. Eu expliquei e ela disse “é lá fora de brincadeira”

Memória

Existem coisas q eu penso q não entendemos até termos a oportunidade de observar uma criança crescer e se desenvolver. Vc começa a ver certas atitudes surgirem e não tem como não se perguntar “Por que?” “De onde veio?” Por que Alexandra tem uma memória tão grande? O ventilador de teto gigante da IKEA, que ela não via há meses. Assim q entrou na parte do depósito, foi a primeira coisa que procurou. A sereia e casa de gesso q tem no meio de um canteiro de flores no meu trabalho. Qdo passou por ele (talvez pela segunda vez) ao vê-lo coberto de neve, perguntou se a sereia estava embaixo da neve. Detalhes tão pequenos q as vezes adultos não se lembram? Como uma criança tão nova pode ter a perspicácia de ver esses detalhes. Imagino q a vida está diante delas de forma tão intensa, tão profunda, q todos esses detalhes, esse turbilhão de formas, cores, sons e sensações fazem uma imagem bem vívida. Td é novo e td impressiona. Me lembra os “olhos de menina inteligente e sagaz” de Leonor. Quatro anos, diz a poesia, e já sabia apreciar a beleza das pétalas caindo. Eu ouvia essa poesia e achava q era pura licença poética. Mas não é. Aos quatro anos o mundo é mais intenso. Td aquilo a q nós já nos acostumamos por ter visto e experimentado por pouco mais de 21 anos... td isso elas estão absorvendo fervorosamente  e alucinadamente em seus 2, 3, 4 anos de vida. Não é à toa q detalhes sejam lembrados e mencionados com tanta paixão. Não é à toa q essa é a resposta das crianças: “É a vida, é bonita e é bonita.”

Laundry laundry laundry

Alexandra was at her sisters dance when they started playing Disney’s Rapunzel first song. The one in which she describes her daily chores. Alexandra turns to everyone and says,

“Look mommy, they’re play that song - laundry! Laundry! Laundry! Laundry!”

Alexandra estava na aula de dança da irmã quando começaram a tocar a primeira música do desenho da Disney Rapunzel. Aquela em que ela descreve suas tarefas diárias. Alexandra se vira para todos e diz:

“Olha mamãe, eles tocam essa música - lavanderia! Lavanderia! Lavanderia! Lavanderia!"

Fogo ou água

Valéria estava jogando água de faz de conta na gente. Então  minha mãe falou - socorro! Vc vai me afogar. 

E Valéria - isso não é fogo, é água. 

Palavras - Março 2019

Klebou, mamãe. (Valéria e Alexandra)

Chocarrinho - Valeria 

Caixa girestradora - Alexandra. 

Adeviso - Alexandra 

Civido (vestido) - Alexandra 

Degavarinho - Alexandra 

Colidos (lápis de cor) - Alexandra e Valéria 

Do you nember? - Alexandra 

Ma help you - Alexandra e Valeria

Valéria’s turn to potty train

Valeria, Alexandra doesn’t use diapers anymore. You should do the same thing. Go pee in the potty. 

And Valeria, without skipping a beat, “and get lolis!”

Valéria remembers where things are

She remembers where she left toys. You ask her - where’s the white dog that belongs in the castle? 

She’ll tell you exactly where it is. 

And if you say - can you get it? 

She’ll go and get it at the exact place she told you. 

Some day this week I asked Valeria where the white dog was. She said, “in the bedroom”. 

“No. I was in the bedroom. Where is it?”

“In the bedroom.”

So I went to the bedroom to proof her wrong, just to find the white dog where she told me it was. 

And that’s why I felt so bad when I asked her about her toy cell phone and she said “Eu quesceu.”

Alexandra’s blue dress memory

Alexandra remembers things. 

This past Christmas, on the way to Ohio, we bought her a blue dress that she immediately fell in love with. 

Well, she got it dirty while in Ohio and I told her she had to take it off for bed bc it had to be washed. I’d wash it and dry it that night and she could wear it when she woke up in the morning. 

Ok. She took it off and went to sleep. And fell asleep shortly after, and didn’t do laundry. 

So the next day, as soon as she opened her eyes the first words out of her mouth were:

I’ll wear my blue dress. My mom washed it last night. 

Ouch. 

Valeria’s words

Valéria 

Gogo guffins - doc mcstuffins 

Oimoit - Walmart 

Her R sou s like EE

Roar - rói 

More - mói

Breath, Valeria

Valeria cries. That’s what she does.

Everything makes her cry. And once she starts getting td hard to stop her and reason, which is why I asked her to do. 

This weekend I came up with an idea. 

I ask her to breath in and breath out deeply. 

I showed her how it’s done. She did it with me. 

It made her stop crying 

It is very cute to see her trying to do the deep breaths to calm down. But she is working on them. Everytime I say stop and breath, she does it and tries to calm herself down. Then she listens. 

Potty trained

So Saturday she went potty on her own at the open house for the condo we bought. 

Yesterday, all day she either went without being asked or asked to go. 

I was driving in back roads when I made a turn to get back on main road to get into family dollar. 

Left poor Valeria sleeping in the car and ran inside, asked for a bathroom, and ran. 

Ding ding dong

Yesterday Alexandra pointed at a fast food restaurant and said :

I want to eat at ding ding dong. 

It was Taco Bell. 

Potty head

Do I’ve always heard this and it’s true that when you’re trying to get your child to potty train your whole life becomes about pee and poop. 

Truly the majority of my thinking time was occupied by those things. You kind of wonder what did life used to be like before you spent 95% of your time wondering whether or not the child has gone potty. 

I had also been told to be ready for accidents and not to get upset at the child when those happened, but simply remind them of the right thing to do. Now that is s patience exercise. 

Alexandra seemed to know exactly what to do. And she seemed to know it from day one back in August when we seriously started the process of practicing the potty use. 

Late August to late January. Five months - that’s what it took for this child to learn to go on her own or to not go in her pants (ie do that peepee dance til she’s prompted to go). If I could I’d have thrown in the towel long before this day. Back when she seemed to just not get it. 

But just a few weeks ago, I caught her doing the peepee dance. “Let’s go! Can you hold it!” She did. 

Then a few days ago she jumped off her chair and said - “do you know we’re supposed to do this when we feel like peeing?”

“No, no. You’re supposed to go! Go now!”

She did. 

Next day, “I need a diaper!” 

“No, you need to go!”

She did. 

Then yesterday she just went. Without being asked. 

And Valeria noticing all the commotion has begun to ask to sit on the potty (a few days ago), and today she sat there and peed! We were so excited!!!

Well, as I said, your life becomes about pee and poop. 

Alexandra Paying for her own groceries

Alexandra had previously asked me to pay for groceries. I handed her the credit card and walked her through the process. I’ve explained to her that every time we used a credit card a little bit of our money was taken from our bank and given to Walmart. 

I have also been telling them them that whenever we want something from a store we must pay for it. 

A few days after Christmas, we were at Walmart shopping their Christmas sale, and as usual, I let them play in the toy section. Alexandra grabbed a toy shopping cart and, after checking the price, I figured I’d buy it for her. 

However she did the shopping. 

When it was time to go, She pushed her little cart all the way to the register, stood in line and put her groceries (the whole toy cart) on the belt. She paid for it with my credit card and then bid the cashier farewell.