Tuesday, May 5, 2009

What's GG Up to Now?

This is GG, exploring the green pastures, at Maryland Day 2009 two weeks ago.

GG is a happy climber. She climbs everything and loves climbing on top of high rockers and chairs and going for a ride. I can't wait to get the opportunity to design and decorate her own baby girl princess room. Right now, she shares a room with the boys, but since none of them sleep in that room, this entire portion of this post is pretty pointless and I digress.

She is still a pretty good eater. Thank Goodness, although she is not always interested in sitting down in one spot and consuming a meal. Well, I'm not good at that. I believe the women at her new day care center do a much better job. I am a push over.

Which brings me to the next update. I finally ditched her old child care provider who wasn't too great at stimulating the baby much or getting her outside or abiding by any of my wishes. She was bitter about the job, didn't feel I paid her enough and was too demanding and didn't care about inconveniencing me. In the end, she said I abruptly pulled GG out of her care, which is so not the case because she urged me to find another provider many times. Eventually, she offered to watch GG in the day and to find a night time job, but I don't think I like the idea of having to rush to come pick up the baby so she could rush to her next job. Also, what kind of care would I expect her to give my child if she exhausted from working all evening and night at a second job?

She is thriving and doing well in her new child care setting. This is her third week there and for two days in a row she went with her primary teacher willingly and waved bye bye to me, so I think it's a good fit for now. It's still a little out of the way and we have her on the waitlist for the premiere recently accredited day care where her older brother went from age 2-4.

She's great at following basic instructions and knows how to communicate her likes and dislikes in verbal grunts and intonations of speech.

I'm still struggling to figure out how to do her hair. One of my twitter friends, Curlista recommended Kinky-Kurl. I'm going to order a bottle and see how it works out.

She still has just one earring in her ear because homegirl is a fighter and I am always forgetting to try to refasten the other earring in her ear while sleeping. When awake, its an all out work out to get her to stay still long enough for me to put in her earring. She's gone through 10 pairs already and the tiny hoops we picked up during our Christmas vacation to Trinidad last year are the only things that have stayed put for longer than TWO DAYS!!

I think that's it for now...until next time!