Stubborn is her middle name

I am not going to lie, Danielle and I have had a few rough weeks. We starting potty training a few weeks ago. This little girl has massive holding skills. She would not go on the potty. I tried it all, panties all day with lots of fluid, every ten minutes on the potty, singing, reading dancing in the bathroom while she sat there, ran water, put her feet in warm water. NOTHING worked, except one thing. After 6 days of no luck my patience ran out. I finally put her on the potty and said you cannot move til you go. I then put her favorite movie on the portable DVD player and walked away. It took half of the movie before she couldn't hold it anymore. Even though we had a couple of small successes, my patience ran out. So maybe we shall try again in a few weeks.

Besides that here are a few fun and new things she is doing:

• She still loves her baby. She has to go everywhere with us, but she had to stay in the car.
• She also loves to dance like Lexi. She got a dancing wand for Christmas and she and Lexi fight over it all of the time.

• She loves chocolate milk and cheesesticks.
• One day I saw her playing picnic with her baby. It is fun to see her start doing imaginary play.

• She loves gum. She sneaks it all of the time. I told her she can't have it unless she goes potty but she can't keep her hands out of my purse.
• All she wants to do is watch movies all day. Don't worry I don't let her, but she is very persistent. Her favorites are Tangled and 101 Dalmations
• Recently everything is "I do it"
• All day long I hear, "Mom, what you doing?"
• She is now in a big girl bed. But part of the problem with that is she hasn't been sleeping that great. She comes into our room anywhere from 4-5am and to wake you up, she will come and honk your nose. Trust me, it is not that fun getting woken up that way. Honking noses is like her ice breaker. If there is a silent moment or she is just looking at you she will give her a nice big honk.
• Danielle loves to give funny faces and she gives great kisses.
• She loves her Daddy. She cries for him all day long and always asks where he is. Which right now is either work or soccer. One day she was throwing a fit and wouldn't get out of her car seat until she called daddy. Stinker!
• She is a hitter. She hits Lexi all the time, who then just cries. Then Danielle when come tell me Lexi hit her, which I know is a lie. One day she got mad at me and as my back was turned she came and spanked me. It was funny but I knew she was doing it because she was mad.
• She loves balloons. She got one for Valentine's day from her nursery leader and she carried it around for 3 days straight.
• She has long beautiful curly hair!
• She is very random. You just never really know what exactly she is going to do.

Miss Danielle, you can always make me laugh. We do spend a lot of days going back and forth right now but at the end of the day, when you give me 15 kisses before bed all the bad moments just melts away.