What have I been doing?

This little girl has been BUSY!!  She has acquired a few new words:

• nit nown (sit down)
• bootball (football)
• off/on
• ot (hot)
• and (hand)
• ock (sock)

We started using the association method right after the Christmas Holidays.  It is going very well!  She has 3 sounds now (o,m,b).  She still loves her homework and all of her therapy. 

She has finally entered into the "Terrible Twos."  We can't complain, Kinson hit them at 12 months and it was 18months of terror after that.  So we are blessed that she has been so good for almost 2 and 1/2 years!  And even her little fits are easily redirectable.  Most involve leaving school (she loves that place!!), food, or a typical fight with Kinson.  Speaking of that, I am pretty certain that my kids will never like each other :(  When we returned from Disney and went and picked Cohen up from my mom's, we were expecting to see her running up to us all excited.  Well she took one look at Kinson and ran away from us!!  I think she enjoyed 5 days of non-stop, undivided attention.

She loves anything and everything involved with being outside. She is still very shy and will bury her head if she doesn't want to see you.  She interacts very well with other children now and gives hugs to the kids in afterschool with her.  She loves her Papa more than anybody in the world (something about girls and their daddys.)  She is till very Independent and can play with her toys for a long time unless Kinson disturbs her.  She really doesn't care for t.v. at all, not sure if it has to do with what she can hear or not.  She LOVES to "shake her booty."  Her B.B. couldn't be more proud :)

Maybe they do like each other sometimes!

Now for the boring stuff.  We did get into to see a new Ped Endo at UMC.  She was recruited about 6 months ago and has come very highly recommended.  She doesn't meet her until March 24, but she has reviewed her case and has assisted our ped with medicine adjustments until then.  We are seeing our favorite ENT on Wednesday to establish the need for sinus surgery.  We have put it off for awhile now and we are not sure we can wait much longer.  She had a terrible crud for about 4 weeks and now her nose is bleeding on a pretty regular basis.  This past week she has been getting pretty irritated with her hearing aids and the Audiologist says there might be pressure building behind her tubes.  She has always loved wearing her ears so we hate that she doesn't want them in.  She has become very Independent with her "ears."  She takes them off before bedtime/naptime and places them on her table and looks for them when it is time to get up.  She will let us know if the batteries are dead by thumping on her ears!!  We have no idea if she has grown by a measurement but some of her 12month pants are getting short on her!! Something is happening!!

 I have a few questions for moms of girls out there:

When do you get their haircut?  Cohen's hair goes to her rear end when wet and it is easier for us when it is longer as far as ponytails and such.  I don't want her to have bangs and her hair is naturally wavy so it really doesn't have a shape.  Can she go years without getting it cut?

Anybody else out there have a little (I mean size, not age) girl that they were potty training.  Cohen is showing every sign and has been for awhile now.  I have been scowering stores for panties small enough for her.  The smallest I have seen is 2T in panties and pullups, so we are not sure what to do.  I have some bloomers from outfits that are the appropriate size but they seem kind of thick to go under pants.  Any suggestions?

Along with that, anybody ever potty trained a limited verbal child?  I don't want her to point to a picture to indicate it (she will get lazy and NEVER say the word!!) but I need to figure out a way for her to communicate she needs to go.  Right now she grabs her crotch and walks kind of weird and well, it's just not very lady like.  And when she attempts to say "potty" it comes out ba-ba.  Well 50% of what she says is "ba-ba" and the other 50% is "ma-ma."  I can't really rely on that.............