Via girl was 21 months yesterday. Here's the happenings.....
After we returned from our California trip Via was excessively moody and whiny. It was terrible. Like, she wanted to be held all the time and would scream and cry if we weren't "nuggling" her. As I mentioned in my previous post, when we were out of town, and especially on the airplane, we allowed her to watch a lot of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. It occurred to us that perhaps the excessive amount of media had gotten to her. When we first introduced TV we did one show a day while I got dinner ready and Justin picked up the house. After Soren was born we went to two shows a day. One to keep her quiet when she first woke up and then the pre-dinner show as well. In an effort to try to reclaim our sweet girl we decided to give Daniel Tiger a little break. I can't tell you what a difference it has made! Like seriously. TV is the devil and Via can never watch it ever ever ever again. Yes, I'm being a little dramatic, but I'm incredibly blown away by how her behaviour returned to "normal" and is perhaps better than it has ever been! Except yesterday in the nursery at church....oh well, sometimes you really do just want to snuggle with mama. :)
So what else has she been up to recently? She's in a tutu phase which is pretty adorable. Her favorite song to sing is "Holy, Holy, Holy," and she is always asking us to sing it with her. For a while we have been teaching her to pray at the dinner table. We say a short sentence and have her repeat it. Something to the effect of, "Thank you, Jesus. For this food. I love you. Amen." A week or two ago she took the driver wheel mid-prayer and said some words we recognized and some words we didn't and then, "Amen." It was pretty cute. I pray that she is always eager to pray, sing hymns, and read the Bible (one of her favorite books).
After we returned from our California trip Via was excessively moody and whiny. It was terrible. Like, she wanted to be held all the time and would scream and cry if we weren't "nuggling" her. As I mentioned in my previous post, when we were out of town, and especially on the airplane, we allowed her to watch a lot of Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood. It occurred to us that perhaps the excessive amount of media had gotten to her. When we first introduced TV we did one show a day while I got dinner ready and Justin picked up the house. After Soren was born we went to two shows a day. One to keep her quiet when she first woke up and then the pre-dinner show as well. In an effort to try to reclaim our sweet girl we decided to give Daniel Tiger a little break. I can't tell you what a difference it has made! Like seriously. TV is the devil and Via can never watch it ever ever ever again. Yes, I'm being a little dramatic, but I'm incredibly blown away by how her behaviour returned to "normal" and is perhaps better than it has ever been! Except yesterday in the nursery at church....oh well, sometimes you really do just want to snuggle with mama. :)
So what else has she been up to recently? She's in a tutu phase which is pretty adorable. Her favorite song to sing is "Holy, Holy, Holy," and she is always asking us to sing it with her. For a while we have been teaching her to pray at the dinner table. We say a short sentence and have her repeat it. Something to the effect of, "Thank you, Jesus. For this food. I love you. Amen." A week or two ago she took the driver wheel mid-prayer and said some words we recognized and some words we didn't and then, "Amen." It was pretty cute. I pray that she is always eager to pray, sing hymns, and read the Bible (one of her favorite books).
Her newest trick? Grandpa Rich taught her how to somersault. Action shot!
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