The counter top win....

Despite being told numerous times to not play around on her step stool, Arya did not listen and was dancing on her step still in the kitchen while mommy and daddy were cooking dinner. You can guess what happens next - the step stool tipped and Arya hit her teeth on the counter top. Tears and blood and a piece of ice later Arya is back to playing around and not listening again.

Each time something like this happens we'd hope she has learned her lesson. But I guess we are some time away from that happening.

Luckily this time only her gum was busted and no damage to her teeth a far as we can tell.

Arya Fell Asleep on her own

Yesterday Arya had a first...  The first time she has fallen asleep on her own withouth being in a car!  I know, lots of qualifiers for this one and seems a little late, but up till now she has never fallen asleep without some coaxing from mommy/daddy/baby sitter when not in a moving car.  Yesterday, she went to the couch, cuddled up on her own, and went to sleep.

Of course there is a catch...  She had skipped her nap since she was too excited playing with her baby sitter, nanny MacPhee.  By 6 PM she was crying when I asked her a simple question like which tv show she wanted to watch.  So she sat on the couch and went to sleep...  3 year old taking a nap 2 hours before bed time, that is never good.

I had to wake her up at 7 pm to have dinner.  Plan was to get her to eat then sit around and watch a movie till about 9, then get her to sleep again.  Nope, no go...  She could not stop crying.  Even a Skype with mommy (who was in DC at the time) didn't help.  She watched maybe 5 minutes of the movie before crying again.  I decided to get some food in her and get her back to sleep, but even then she wouldn't stop crying long enough to chew food.  I actually believe she was trying to stop crying since she was listening to me and seemed like she wanted to eat.  I eventually gave up and picked her up, took her to her room, put on her night time diaper, and said goodnight.  Almost instantly she was drifitng off to sleep.  So tired even after having a 45 minute nap and having been awake for about an hour.

So another first...  She went to sleep without dinner.  :-(  At least it wasn't because she was in trouble.