A Morning with Eliza

Teething

I always go into Eliza's room and get her out of bed the same way. When I hear her talking through the monitor, I reluctantly get out of bed, put on my glasses, put on a happy 'mom' face and start the day. I walk in, turn off her white noise machine, open her blinds and say "Good morning, Love Bug!" Based on her reaction to that statement, I can usually tell how the day is going to go. This morning, she rolled over, hopped up and started jumping on her mattress. She'd never done that one before, so I just laughed and was ready for an adventure!

I should have known right off the bat that she was going to be wired all morning. After getting out of PJs and eating breakfast, she began her mischief of the day. When I sat her down in her toy corner, she crawled full-throttle to her toy bin, and climbed inside.

 She got stuck for a minute, but after some heavy grunting was able to right herself (mostly). In a typical Eliza fashion, she started tossing all of her toys out of her toy bin. At this point, you just have to sit back and watch because there is absolutely no use trying to put them back in.

After she emptied her toy bin and tried to (unsuccessfully) crawl out, she moved on to terrorizing some other part of the house. I quietly put everything back in her bin because if she sees that it is all put back, sometimes she does round 2.

We are trying to teach her how to play with her toys. I have been sitting her on top of her horse and she can rock it, as long as I am supporting her. Apparently, she wanted to play with her horse in a different way!

This little one definitely kept me on my toes today and reminded me of how lucky I am to stay at home with her. I laughed all day at her silliness!