"no no no" + poo-poohing poo + sleeping through the night

during and after her illness, most of the Bean's latest words have been double syllabic. E.g. "purple", her current favourite colour; i think because she can pronounce it. she doesn't say "red" or "green" or "yellow". she can say "blue" though, calling red and green "blue" too!

then for the past 2-3 days she has finally begun uttering the dreaded 2-letter word: N-O. it is sort of every parent's nightmare: will this usher in the era of the Terrible Twos? does this mean she is going to assert her prerogative through denials of everything?

so far though, it has been helping her help me make decisions, which means i can offer her other options, narrowing the field.
to wit:
do you want to read this book? "no."
do you want to wear this pair of socks? "no."
do you want to eat your cruskit? "no no no."

we shall see if her newfound 'negativity' will lead to actual pitched battles (albeit of limited vocabulary).

with the illness behind us, the Bean is back on her potty, pooping properly, although she tends to be pooping in the evenings right before falling asleep.

and here's another happy matter to report: the Bean is sleeping through the night! yippee kai yeee!

two mondays ago i weaned her off night feeds* by pretending to be asleep and ignoring her snuffling and whimpering and crying for about half an hour. she got tired after a while and fell back asleep again, to wake only at around 7-ish a.m. for her morning milk feed.

she does sometimes still wake up suddenly (either fully or half-wake) in the middle of the night, but it is usually just the one time, then she goes back to sleep again after some patting and if i let her hold my hand. however, this too is occurring less and less now.

it is fabulous as it means that there is now continuous sleep for me at night.

* i still let her feed to sleep. this means that overall, we've cut down our bf to around 3-4 feeds on a 24 hr cycle: a pre-breakfast feed, post-lunch nap feed, sometimes another afternoon feed before tea, and a good night feed.