Everyday updates

9pm at night and Cadence refuses to sit still long enough to fall asleep and I'm too tired to fight her on it. She went down for a nap late and woke up late as a result. So I expected a fight with bedtime. I should really just got off the computer and go hold her down and let her scream until she gives up and falls asleep. She's tired. She just won't admit it right now. Luckily Megan is far more cooperative.

Anyway, Megan is 4 weeks old today. Tomorrow we go in for a quick check-up. Kaiser likes to see newborns at 3 days and 2 weeks old, then again at 2 months for vaccinations. However, since insurance wasn't sorted out until she was past 2 weeks old, they decided to do a 1-month check up instead. So, we should be able to get some nice stats to see how much she's grown over the past 4 weeks. I think she's gotten bigger. At the very least, she doesn't look so silly in newborn sized clothes and the preemie sizes are getting too small (they were always just a touch too short, but now they're tight all around). I just wish the newborn sizes would fit properly. This in between stage kind of sucks.

Cadence has mastered a few new things. Most importantly, she's mastered the word "Uh-oh". It was cute... until she got smart alecky with it. It is no longer uncommon for her to drop something on purpose and cheerfully chirp "uh-oh". It's making bathtime messy. And dinner time.

Her love of books is proving helpful as well with other words, not that she has any of them mastered. She says "puppy" and "fish", but not when looking at the picture. Unfortunately, I think she thinks the words go with books in general, since "puppy" and "fish" are what show up most often in her favorite books. We took her to the pound to introduce her to some real puppies. She was fascinated. Oddly enough, she could have cared less about the small dogs. She was thrilled with the bigger ones and I had to fight to keep her fingers out of the cages. Of course, when she saw the cats, she was quick to meow at them, something she doesn't do half as often as she used to.

Speaking of cats, our household is one cat smaller now. Sadly, after a lot of talk, James and I agreed to find Conan a new home. He went to a new family who were thrilled to get him. We miss him, but our other two cats have really come out of their shells with the bully gone. Plus, without that 20lb monster under foot at all times, the apartment feels less cramped. Funny how that is. Now the only 20lb monster under foot is the one on two feet.

Oh yes, Cadence has also mostly mastered cups. She's still very talented at spilling them when she's bored with them, so she still gets sippy cups, but if you're drinking from a cup and she sees it, she demands her fair share. And as we learned at my mom's ward's Christmas party, if she sees two cups, well... she wants both of them (she attempted a third, but when every attempt failed, she settled for two). This was, of course, after she stole bites off of everyone's plate (she's also gotten really good at wielding a fork):