My Fair Lady

Here is my fair lady, Lill Leeza Grace Serra, decked out in new dress to go to Dolce Vita for a night out. :)
And, who says they don't have cute kid clothes in Kaz?



One of the other CAI families was back in town for their court date to adopt their ADORABLE 17 month old son, Joseph Damir, and they wanted to meet Leeza. Since it was her "debut", I had to dress her up in something cute!!!





She looked VERY ADORABLE, but it was VERY difficult to get a cute picture of her. Most of them are big blurry "action shots."I took my camera to Dolce Vita, but that was a "bit ambitious" to even TRY to get a picture there since there are NO highchairs and I was way too busy making sure she didn't break anything to worry about taking my camera out. :)
She did really well, I even managed to eat my salad for dinner.

I was being quite risky taking her out, since she decided to "skip" her afternoon nap. She did sleep for about an hour and 15 minutes in the morning, so we waited until after lunch (and potty, of course) before we made the trek to Gros to get mommy more Coke Light and coffee creamer. I figured she'd fall asleep in the ergo, since we went about naptime. She finally did fall asleep, but waited until we were almost home. I took her out of the ergo, and tried to put her down, but she just cried. That is very unlike her typical behavior, so, I set her on the potty.
Wouldn't you know it..she had to go. That is why she didn't want to sleep-amazing.

So, we skipped the afternoon nap and ventured out to Dolce Vita to meet Joel and Lori, and Eugene and Tatiana. I was hoping that perhaps Leeza's "cuteness" in her dress would negate any negative whiny behavior resulting from no nap. However, she was really pretty good and was anxious to leave after about an hour, but besides shredding some puffs all over the seat cushion (I am sure they will LOVE me at Dolce Vita), she was really good and her charming self. She was engaging,and giving "high 5's", and friendly to all, as long as Mommy was right beside her. :)

I was talking to my Aunt Jane, who said that my grandma is quite tickled to hear about how Leeza is pretty much potty trained. She said that's the way they did it when she raised her children. However, when people got washing machines, and disposable diapers made their debut, many people gave it up, and were told it was "damaging to the kids psyche's" to make them sit on the potty. It makes sense that they do it here, in Kaz, because in many ways, it's like living back in the 50's. Leeza doesn't seem to have a damaged psyche, she sits on the potty without a problem. It's a great babysitter-she is on the potty while Mommy makes breakfast, and takes a shower. When Mommy isn't busy, I sit there with her and we play. We have learned how to blow kisses, and where is our belly button, all during potty time. We play catch with ball, pass the stacking cups to each other,and read books. I'm simply amazed how trained she is. I'm not sure why us mom's are compelled to talk about poop,BUT, she poops A LOT! She seemed constipated at the baby house, but not at home. I must be doing something right with her diet!!