Malena Therese Marchetti

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• Wed, Jul 26, 2006 10:04 AM

  Here are some funny things Mimi has been saying and doing lately...
  
  She loves eating her English muffins into shapes. Today she took bites out of it to shape a car and was zooming it around the table. I don't know where she learned this, but she gets pretty creative. Yesterday it was a dinosaur, and the day before it was a donkey. Hee-haw!
  
  There is usually at least one moment during the day when both kids are melting down at the same time, so I scoop both of them up and rock them in the chair. I usually say something like, "My two babies!" Well, now if I'm holding Thomas, and Mimi wants to be held also, then she yells, "Mama! Two babies! Two babies!"
  
  Sometimes, Malena looks really concerned when Thomas is screaming at the top of his lungs. I'll tell her, "Mommy needs to pick him up. He's very sad." So, last night, she didn't want to go to sleep, so she was yelling from the crib, "I'm sad!"
  
  The other night T.J. and I were eating dinner. Malena picked up a big beach bag and said, "Bye-bye! My go on vacation!" We asked her where she was going and she said "beach!" She left the room and came back a few seconds later. "Need the keys," she said, so I gave her the keys. "Drive a car!" She left the room again. A minute later she came back and said, "No gas. Need money." Then she walked back towards the front door and tried opening it. (She doesn't know how to turn the knob all the way yet.) She kept jiggling the knob and decided it was "boken" and "needs batteries." Priceless.

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• Sun, Jul 16, 2006 3:16 PM

  Malena is becoming fearless in the pool. We really need to get her in swimming lessons. She goes underwater and loves jumping in from the side of the pool by herself. She wears her little floatie swimsuit, which allows her to swim "by self!" all around the pool (of course, I am right by her the whole time).
  
  She also knows her full name! You can ask her to name either her first, middle or last name, and she'll tell you! She's not sure how to pronouce Therese, so it usually comes out "Reesa Reesa."
  
  Finally, Malena is learning her colors. Most of the time she'll tell you the right color, but every now and then she likes to joke around and tell you green is brown, etc. She has quite the sense of humor.
  
  Mostly, Mimi is very proud of herself lately and loves to let you know it, so you can show that you're proud of her, too. She is constantly bugging Daddy to tell him the lastest achievement she's made...especially if she did it by herself.
  
  All of these things (and more) made me realize this kid is ready for pre-school. So, I signed her up! She starts on Sept. 5th and will go two days a week for half a day.

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• Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:36 PM

  Where should I begin? It's been too long since I've written some news.
  
  Malena is doing pretty well, considering how much her little life has changed in the past month. She absolutely LOVES her little brother. She always wants to hold him ("old 'em?") and kiss him. She loves helping me change his diaper and giving him a bath. I even let her feed him his very first bottle on July 4th when he was just about 4 weeks old.
  
  It was really difficult being away from Mimi for the two days that I was in the hospital. When I finally spoke with her on the phone the night before I came home, it broke my heart to hear her little voice say, "Love you, Mommy. Miss you, Mommy." I will never forget it. It is burned into my memory. When she walked into the hospital room to meet Thomas when we were checking out, she seemed like a giant to me! I was so happy to see her.
  
  Now that I've been home a month, however, I wished I could have stayed in the hospital for longer! ;-)
  
  Mimi is 23 months old now and is hitting the so-called Terrible Two's. Yikes. It sucks. She throws tantrums over just about everything from getting her diaper changed to the color of her plate to the songs you choose to sing at bedtime. It is so frustrating at times.
  
  One good/bad thing is that now she'll actually watch TV. Up until about 2 weeks before Thomas was born, she had no interest in TV. Now she would be a TV junkie/couch potato if I let her. It only took her about 3 days of watching the Sprout Network to memorize the shows and characters. She loves Cailou, Sagwa, Berenstain Bears, just about everything that comes on that channel. So far, I've been consistent with allowing her only 1 hour of TV per day...30 minutes in the morning and 30 minutes before dinner time.
  
  One of T.J.'s friends gave Malena a toy teaset the other day. She was so excited to receive a gift, but it was obvious she wasn't quite sure what to do with the teaset. To our amazement, she grabbed the box the teaset was packaged in and studied the photos of the little girl pouring tea. She then walked back over to her teaset and imitated the girl and started offering T.J. and me a drink. So cute!
  
  Malena is getting really brave in the pool, and I think this is from watching older friends who know how to swim. She now swims "by self!" by floating around the pool in her pink floatie swimsuit. She is so proud, and so am I.

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