I need a bigger bowl

Tonight Cami wanted to watch a movie and have popcorn for dinner. Aiden had fallen asleep early and as a good friend pointed out it wasn't like she asked for a box of See's Candy. So, I made her popcorn and put it in a small bowl. She looked at me and said "I want a bigger bowl" to which I replied "Eat that first and then I will give you more." Then Camryn thought for a second and responded very seriously "Mom, I am gonna watch a movie and I need a bigger bowl so I can have more popcorn for the movie." I gave in and she got a bigger bowl, because after all who likes getting up in the middle of their movie for more popcorn.

My Grand Idea

So I thought....that Cami and potty training would be a breeze.... She never wanted a paci, gave the bottle up with no fuss, even transitioned from her crib to her bed with no hoopla.....So, when her second birthday came around and Gma wanted to know what she could use I thought a potty seat would be perfect!

She got a potty seat fit for a princess...literally..it is pink, it has jewels, it plays ceremonial princess music if you pee.... On her birthday we opened the box and sat her down on her princess seat and she promptly peed... YAY! Success.

Ha! She then promptly declared I don't like it, I want my diaper. Since then I have tried everything I can think of. One conversation went like this:

Mommy: "You're a big girl, big girls go pee in the potty."

Cami: "I not a big girl, I little girl."

Mommy: "Would you like pretty panties? If you use the potty you can wear pretty panties."

Cami: "I like pretty panties, I will wear them over my diaper, I LOVE my diaper."

Mommy: "Cami, you are almost all out of diapers and they are getting too small for you."

Cami: "You can go to the store and buy me new diapers."

I took her to "Babies R Us" and let her pick out the potty she wanted and a "potty watch" that sings a pretty song to her every twenty minutes to remind her to go. This lasted two hours and then she brought me the watch and said " I don't like it, it is noisy, take it away!"

I have also tried letting her be naked, wet, even dirty, and she stands her ground. If she is naked she pees EVERYWHERE!!!! or she holds it. Once, while wearing underwear she waited for FOUR hours and two minutes after the diaper was on she was soaked. If she is wet she takes the panties or diaper off and tells me to change her and well if she is dirty you can use your imagination.

Obviously this is a control thing. Which fits her perfectly.

Then I thought I struck gold. I would her BRIBE her. The day after Christmas we went on Disney's website and looked at all the goodies. They have a Repunzel toddler doll that Cam went crazy for. I told her if she started going pee in the potty Daddy and I would get her the doll. She quickly agreed that she would.... I ordered It and every day I would tell her your doll is almost her are you ready to go on the potty? "Oh no, not yet" she would reply.

Finally, the doll got here and I made a big deal about it...She was so excited she LOVED it..."Oh, Mommy I LOVE her, open her up!" "Well, Cam you need to go on the potty first." To this she said "I don't want to" and not one to back down put the doll (still in the box) in the bathroom.

The next day when her Daddy came home she met him at the door. "Daddy, come see my doll! Isn't she beautiful...you open her for me?" To which Daddy said. " Sure, if you go potty first." I wasn't in the bathroom...but I was told he got one of Cami's famous scowls and she stomped out of the bathroom. The doll is still sitting in our bathroom in the box...

Grandma

My Jon went on a little trip this week, he had a blast and we got a special treat...Grandma came to stay with us...The kiddo's had so much fun..Camryn only got out of her pajamas twice the whole week. She opted to stay home with Grandma and have five hour tea parties....a happy little girl for sure. Breaking the news that we would have to give her back to Grandpa was not well received. Camryn responded "No, I am not done playing with her yet!" and our sweet Aiden just crumpled..we let him stay up way late on the last night she was here and have some "Aiden only" time and then he woke up super early the next morning to cuddle on the couch with her and that seemed to make it okay....

How does she do that?

My little girl is perfect...she is also clumsy...I am assured that this is perfectly normal for her age and she will out grow it, but it still makes me wince. Cam can literally fall down at any time, even if all she is doing is standing there. It is like a spark of energy goes through her and she gets overwhelmed and falls.

Just this week she was standing in the bathroom, just standing there. Out of the corner of my eye I see her.....she spins around and smacks her head right on the door jam! Nice line bruise down the center of her face...

Just last night she was laying on her Auntie J's couch and all of a sudden I hear a thud and she is on the floor screaming. She is facing the opposite direction and is upside down from where she was on the couch. How did she do that? Always, 0-60 and what is really funny is that she rarely falls from tripping over her own two feet....oh she does do that, but rarely compared to all the other ways she falls... I even asked the doctor, he said she is fine...and Auntie J, who is very wise especially when it comes to Cami...says "It is normal for Cami."

My arms are little....

An overheard conversation from the other day:

Cami: "Daddy get my blankie" (She is sitting on the couch and the blanket is on the floor next to the couch.)

Jon: "Cami, Daddy just sat down." (He is sitting across the room.)

Cami: "Please Daddy, my arms are short." She begins to wildly waves her arms toward the blanket showing that she couldn't possibly reach it.

Jon: Laughing so hard he starts to choke.

I swoop in and grab her blanket off the floor for her, fearing that she would fall off the couch from waiving her arms around so wildly.

Clouds

Camryn has a thing about clouds...One day as we are leaving for school Cami declares "I don't like dark clouds!" Which I respond well what about the white ones? She ponders it for a minute and says "They are okay." I made the mistake of posting this on my Facebook and a couple of people really found double meaning in that one.

About two weeks later we were driving to the store and I hear her from the backseat mutter "Dumb clouds." I ask why are they dumb? She matter o' fact tells me "They are not doing their job, the sun is still in my eyes!"

Are all kids THIS funny?

Cam has an imagination...A BIG off the chart imagination...... so as suggested by a friend it seemed like a good idea to start writing all this stuff down....

A little background first I suppose...Camryn is my 2 and half year old little girl....and she is simply hilarious.... She has the biggest eyes and long thick curly brown hair....She is small for her age and quite clumsy....and she can talk.....boy can she talk! I don't remember a time when Cam didn't have something to say... I think that is why she may be so accident prone, she is so busy thinking she isn't paying attention to her surroundings.

So that is the long and short of my inspiration...my daughter