She goes to bed every night between 8-8:30. She wakes up at one of the following times: A) 4:30 a.m. B) 5:30 a.m. or C) 6:30 a.m. At A & B, Joe tries to get her right back to sleep- he is successful 90% of the time whereas I am successful 10% of the time. She clearly sees me in the morning and just wants to hang out with me (who can blame her?). So, she is a "good" sleeper - depending upon when she wakes up!
She is quite the boss of all of us. As Maddox told my mom, "She's the Queen Bee around here." She loves taking our hand and pulling us wherever she wants us to go. When we get to our destination, she pulls our hand down and that is to indicate that we are supposed to sit down. There, she says to us "Pay, Pay" which means "Play." And, we are supposed to play with her as long as she wants us to. Or, she will go get a book and say "Ook, Ook" which means "Read to me." Sometimes she says "eat, eat" and wants something to eat or "cook, cook" which means she wants a cookie. If we do something she doesn't like, she's quick to say "No, No Mommy" and shakes her finger at us (Papa Mark taught her that).
Supper time remains a challenge for us. She still sits in a high chair but wants out as soon as she is done eating. She is not a great eater but is not terrible either. But, if she doesn't want to eat- she will not eat so it is simply wasted energy for us to keep trying. And, if she wants to eat - she eats fast and when she's done, she says "out, out". She then moves on to my lap while I try to eat, and then she moves on to Maddox's chair and she eats off of his plate and gets mad if he keeps eating. She doesn't do this to anyone else but Maddox so we all get a kick out of that. The dining experience at our house leaves little to be desired.
She loves to play with little figurines. She played baseball with me for 15 minutes yesterday- she put on the glove, chased my balls, and threw my ball back to me. And, she says "hoop, hoop" when she wants to shoot baskets. She loves to have Joe hold her up to dunk it but she shoots on her own, too. She will also play football with the boys, which mainly involves her taking the football and running whatever way she chooses. She loves to read book after book, and she loves playing with her babies. She also loves to do our hair and spent quite some time doing Joey and Maddox's hair with the blowdryer and the curling iron.
Her favorite words are "okayyyy" and "uh-huhhhh" and "yep!" and "cuz"....she loves answering with those words. "Do you want to go outside?" and she'll shake her head up and down multiple times going "uh huh, uh huh" and if I say, "Saylor, why did you do that?", she'll turn her head to the side and go "Cuzzz....". It's impossible to get mad at her.
She is in love with Elmo and loves Sesame Street - sometimes if she gets cranky, we have to put her in our bedroom with Sesame Street on to calm her down. She loves music and likes to dance and pretends to sing. She loves being outside and she often gets her coat, hands it to me and says "Coat, Coat" which means she wants to go outside. Sadly, this weather has made it impossible for us to be outside much.
Her morning nap is becoming more of an afternoon nap and one nap is all she needs. Her schedule revolves around the boys' schedules- school pickups and dropoffs and all of their sporting events. She and I seem to spend the most time together as Joe is off coaching the other two boys quite often at practices and games.
Having 3 kids is starting to get easier and harder for different reasons. The boys are getting older and into many more activities, so that makes it harder. But, Saylor is getting older and it's starting to get easier to communicate with her, so that makes it easier.
Last night, Joe said "I'm so glad we had a girl" and I couldn't agree more. She does bring a little different attitude into our house, and a little different atmosphere. We notice we are gentler with her, we ease up on her more than her brothers, we give in to her demands more, and I see how she has Joe right where she wants him...she gives him this little look and she knows that the world is all hers for the taking. Hopefully, we'll get our feelings in check a little more before she becomes a teenager because saying "no" is going to be very difficult, I think!
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