Word Evolution

Blake has changed up how he says some of his common words. Perhaps not interesting to who ever is reading this (except for grandparents), but I'm feeling the need to document.

• Nana is now "Nanny"
• Da (Papa) is now "Da-da"
• Dada (Dad)  is now "Daddy"
• Dada (Campbell) is now "Dow-dowww" with a drawn out emphasis on the "dowww"

The closer Blake gets to 20 months, I'm realizing what a baby Campbell still was when she became a big sister. Granted, she was way more verbal, but I expected, perhaps, too much out of her. For example, moving her into a toddler bed at 20 months was a torturous transition. Looking back I don't know what I was thinking. Scratch that, I knew what I was thinking: I needed the crib for Blake and I didn't want to get another crib. And the whole 9 month potty training fiasco. She could tell me ALL about her bodily functions and we had countless two-way conversations/ in depth discussions where she totally understood what she was supposed to do, so it was so had for me to comprehend/understand/accept that she didn't have the muscle control and/or desire to use the potty. No matter how badly I wanted her to be potty trained and no matter what strategy I tried to get her to do it, she was potty trained when she wanted to. So now that I have this firm stand that I'm waiting until Blake is 3 to even think about potty training, he keeps wanting to take off his pants/diaper and hang out on the potty. He thinks it's a blast to use the toilet paper to "wipe." HA! I guess this is what the child development 'experts' mean when they say you have to parent each kid differently. 

But anyway, I guess my point is that it's easy to have 20/20 vision in the rear view mirror. I was doing what I thought was right at the time. Live & learn!  Or maybe in this case it should be "parent & learn."