Dear Keira,: Long, Busy Weekend...

Listen little miss...I know you are in that independent stage and all but we need to have a chat. Lets start with a recap of the weekend starting with Friday night. Yes, I know that your nap time was a little shorter than normal, but still about an hour. I've seen you on less sleep and acting a much better. Yes, I do realize that we chose to a restaurant with a bit of a wait, but you were having so much fun waiting! Walking all around and talking to all the others who were waiting as well. You made friends with the cute baby beside us and you were making everyone laugh with your cute personality and dance moves. But then, they called Dwyer, two and a highchair. You were fine up until we got our drinks. Then it started...the screaming at the top of your lungs. We tried the "whisper Keira", which has been working pretty good, we tried the crayons...the drink, and rolls, but you did not want anything to do with Cotton Patch. You only wanted to ride the mechanical pony outside of Cotton Patch, in the 40 degree cold. That or to climb up the highchair, which is a big "No!". So, after getting our food to go, we left in a hurry and headed home. I know we don't eat out that often, and when we do you are normally really good. So lets make a deal that you will try and be your adorable self more often, and I will allow you to ride the pony in the cold. Shake on it!

I got you the cutest book at target on one of our many trips..."No More Pacifiers". So cute and you love it so much. It has babies with pacifiers that disappear throughout the book. There is a cute repetition of "Who needs a paci, No not me" which we have been singing all weekend. It is so funny because when we sing it, you find a paci and throw it across the room. while saying, "No, not me!" So Daddy and I asked you if you wanted to throw your pacies away and you said yea! So you took all three of them that you could find and threw them in the kitchen trash can under the sink. First...

And then......And finally....It was very funny, and yes we gave them back after washing them. Believe it or not, you still throw them when we read that book to you.

Sunday was so fun. We took you to the Dallas World Aquarium. You loved it, even more than the last time we went. We saw the baby penguins...

Baby birds, A very sleepy sloth,

A not-so itsy bitsy spider,Lots of fish and turtles and a whole lot more. You were in heaven and wanted to run wild with all the animals. We really had fun and can't wait to go back.

Last night we decided that we may try and make your bed into the day bed crib, which means take the front rails off. We talked about this because you can basically climb out and we would rather you fall the short distance rather than the longer. And also, since you are wanting to do everything on your own by saying "I do, I do", (eat, brush teeth, read books, wash hair, brush hair, put on socks/shoes/clothes/jacket, buckle your own seat belt,feed the cats, set the table, empty the dishwasher and the dryer, and everything else) we would give the bed thing a try. Lets just say, we put it back up at around 10:30. You kept popping out in the living room with the little smirk on your face which said... "I'm back!" You were very mad at us for putting it back up.