Bridget Coloring

This is Bridget's new favorite thing to do and she insists that it has to be Mommy's planning calendar. I guess she wants to add her own activities to the family calendar. But she's messing up my system! ;)

I have been trying to limit this activity because of the inevitable mess but she fell off my aerobics step and kept crying "color, color, color". As soon as she saw the markers, the tears stopped.

In other news, we have been binky free for four days now! I didn't want to do "cry it out" and it was just so easy to pop the binky in and have her sleeping quietly in minutes. But now that she is 18 months and I found an alternative method in "Parenting" magazine, I bit the bullet. It has been a relatively smooth transition and when I talked to her daycare they told me that she gave up her binky there a while ago. So I guess it was just Mom and Dad who were relying on it. I mean, she did cry the first night and it took 45 minutes to get her to sleep but now she's back to normal and is actually sleeping better since she can put herself to sleep.