The Eye Doctor, One Foot, and a few others

I've started several blog drafts but didn't publish any of them because I am woefully behind in my photo downloading and editing.  Trying to catch up a little bit, so here goes!

August 8

Yesterday Ally went to the eye doctor. She went a year ago too, and they just did some basic tests with lights and stuff. This time she did well enough that they had her look through all of the machines. She did great! Good news is that she sees 20/20 and everything looks good. Bad news is that she sees 20/20. Dr. Spruyt said that most kids her age are still slightly farsighted, and that it equals out over the next year or two. Sometimes they peak early and then stay there, but she said that since my myopia (nearsightedness) is so severe, she expects Ally to start to slide the other way and to need glasses in the next year or two. Poor girl! I hope not. She also did a quick check on Jacob, and he is perfect right now. She said he's slightly ahead of his age in tracking things with his eyes and head, but that isn't bad at all.

All the way to the eye doctor Ally kept looking out the windows and pointing to the clouds (it had rained earlier in the morning) and singing, "Rain cloud, go away!" with the "away" a higher note and all drawn out. So cute. And she was pointing out animal shapes in the clouds. This included alligators, bunnies, puppies, and surprisingly enough, Daddy.

She's starting to say Daddy and Mommy now instead of just Dada and Mama. I really like Mama though.
She tried to put me to bed last night because Ernest told her she needed to help me go to bed. He meant that she needed to cooperate and go to bed herself that then I could sleep. She took it to mean get herself ready for bed, then to make my bed and fluff my pillow, and told me to lay down. So cute. She got upset that I was laying on Daddy's side (I was reading while waiting for her to go to sleep in her room - but she popped in to see me) and then went to climb on to my side saying "I sleep here."

She's says "Not yet!" a lot, especially when it's something she doesn't want to do, like get out of bed in the morning or help me clean up her toys.

She told me that she needed real water for her dishes because her pretend water was gone. I asked her why her pretend water was gone, and she told me it was because she drank it all.

She grabs her boots and coat out of the "too small" box in her closet and puts them on. Correction - she puts one boot on, because her other foot "is not cold, Mama."

She loves suckers. For the past few weeks she keeps telling me she needs a blue sucker. I finally picked up some dumdums at the store last week. On Sunday I told her she could have a sucker if she went poo in the potty "a blue sucker, Mama? At Walmart!" She knows her store. So, after she got her blue sucker, she's been asking for a yellow one. After the doctor visit yesterday I gave her a sucker while they were looking at Jacob, since she had done such a good job. However, I don't have any yellow suckers so I gave her an orange one. "Orange sucker, Mama!" I told her we didn't have any yellow, so now she has been asking for a red sucker. Hmm..what color next?

JJ pulled up for the first time on his own on Friday (8/5). He also started clapping his hands. He is so fun, and really starting to move around. He adores Ally, sitting and laughing at her and smiling at her. He loves to watch whatever it is she is doing and loves for her to come give him attention.