Oy vey. Somehow Stella must have known that if she'd have taken her afternoon nap per usual, we would have been late to Summer's (she's in the tutu in the first photo) birthday party. She went down at 1:30pm (nap time) and talked to her Duckie blanket until 2pm...that's normal lately but the sleep lady said it's ok. I think she's sleeping too long in the morning, as she sleeps 2 hours and we have to actually go in and wake her up. Anyway, she was wide awake when she went down for her afternoon nap. Then, at 2pm, she started screaming her head off, which she hasn't done since we left CA in Jan. She's been an excellent nap-taker. So, I went in to see if she had a dirty diaper or had climbed out of her crib...she hasn't done the latter yet but it's coming any day now, I'm sure. Nothing. She just straight up didn't want to sleep and by this time was totally hysterical in that way that I even couldn't soothe her. So, I put on her favorite American Idol video (see previous post about Renaldo Lapuz) and that finally calmed her down--instantaneously, I might add. It was 2:30pm by then and since Summer's party started at 3pm, I just said ok, well, we'll just get ready and go.
Note to self--no-nap Stella is very unpleasant. She loves her friends and was very happy for the first hour. Though she's got this habit now of wanting to climb up on anything. She'll use me as a stepstool to get up on to the couch or bed. She does what Dan calls "climbing the alps" by throwing herself head first from the sofa into our adjacent club chair and then back again, and again. It's a really terrible game for parents as it's super boring and labor-intensive. Though today, Dan and I watched her make her own stepstool by pushing a box right underneath the club chair. She then climbed on top of the box and made it on to the seat of the chair. It was very calculated and she was clearly very proud of herself. She giggled like crazy. Anyway, she tried to use her friends as stepstools to get on to this coffee table you see above. One time, her friend Natalie (who is almost 2 months younger), was crawling next to the table and Stella stuck her foot on Natalie's back to try to propel herself on to the table to get the tube of Puffs. It was totally exhausting. Then she started "doing the fussy" because she was so, so tired. Lily (Summer's mom) baked a special cake that the babies could eat. Stella loved it and ate a whole piece. But, she was a handful and by the time we got home I was wiped. I rarely get this tired but I told Dan that I just needed 5 minutes of personal time, which is his standard line.
She also has become very attached to her "babies" in the last week. Her babies are her "Teddy" which is a Four Seasons Hotel bear that the staff gave us when she was born, a Shanghai Tang doll, and another doll that was a gift called "Stella" (really, that was the name on the box). It's a crack up because we'll say, "Where are your babies?" She'll chirp and round them up. She was fussy getting into her stroller the other day and I handed her Teddy to hold. All of a sudden eveything was fine and she was all smiles. She'll play by herself for extended periods of time if she has her babies near by.
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