weekend update

It's officially Tuesday now, but post a short update. The weather nearly defeated me four times in terms of driving this weekend...but with Mark's help and Grandpa and Grandma watching Esme for a few minutes (notably late at night) we got through the worst of it.

Today Mark braved the roads again to get donuts from Ne Ne's donuts in Paris, TN. They are excellent and this is the third time in three weeks we have been back. We also stopped at the meat store and the grocery store for a few items. Esme got a 'big' lollipop (thanks Daddy...) at the meat store. At home we have 'small' lollipops she can have once in a while if she is good. Usually all of these lollipops end up in the trash as soon as she tries to put it down on the floor, bed etc... but she is a good girl about throwing it away once I tell her it has become 'ew.' I don't know how we lucked out with that - but she believes me and reluctantly tosses it, cries for a minute and then bops on to the next thing.

Once we were home Mark brought donuts on a paper plate to my desk. There were two donut holes for Esme and two halves of larger donuts for Mom and Dad. Esme grabs a large piece immediately and says 'I get BIG one.' She took my idle discussion of the size of the lollipop to heart - and she didn't want to settle for two 'small' donut holes or even a piece of a large donut half... silly.

She is applying lots of adjectives better now - calling her cars by the right color name, saying things are empty, heavy, cute, wet, hot, hard, on 'tight', ew or mm etc... Lights are on or off, doors are open or closed. She identifies food on tables, in the fridge and asks for us a 'refill' or 'drinks downstairs' which means all of us to get our cups and go to the kitchen. For a while now she has made commentary on what she sees out windows and on tv.. but now it is more detailed and understandable. She tries to warn characters on her DVDs what is coming next - (fall down, something hit them) because they never seem to see it coming no matter how many times it happens (hehehe).

She's also picked up a new dislike. She doesn't want to be held by her shirt or jacket - and has started telling us so very definitely. 'HEY! Let go my shirt!'

Esme is napping now, and we are watching a movie. I should be working on her 4T size dress that was cut out last week. I haven't done much on it since. A few more pairs of pants are going to be in order again, too. She is starting to grow into the longer pants she has and her 3T dresses I made in November are showing a noticeable gap between the sleeve and her wrist that wasn't there before!