Whats in my head...Round 2

A while back I posted the goings on in my head. Here goes round two.

• Two is terrible AND terrific all at the same time. A toddler can go from "Mommy, I love you" to hysterical crying, throwing herself down on the floor in the snap of a finger. No Joke. I never know what I am going to get. It is so wonderful to me that I can carry on a conversation with Ela, she can tell me what she wants and needs and just is learning the world. All in all it is much more terrific than terrible.  90% of the time it is absolutely hilarious. The innocence in all of her statements is just so basic and funny. The best ever is hearing her say "I love you" 10 times a day.
• Law of Averages: First day you start a new job/position your child gets sick?! How does this always happen? As soon as Tomasz leaves after the weekend to go to work Ela gets sick... Im telling you it has to be planned!
• The other morning I was on the phone with my Dad while walking to work, telling him that it had snowed the previous evening. I reminisced that as a kid growing up in NY even if we knew it was going to snow it was such a great feeling to wake up and run to the window and look out and say "Its snowing". I then told my dad the only thing better than waking up to snow myself was to seeing Ela wake up and run to her little window in the bedroom and say so exited "Its schnowing(snow) Mommy". It really made me feel like a kid all over again and her pure joy made me so happy. As I was explaining that to my Dad he said. " Jessi, that's how it makes me feel when I see you happy". I stopped and thought about it and although I know I am my Dad's daughter it kind of clicked. I am someones daughter and I make them feel like Ela makes me feel. Thats the circle of life.
• You are what you preach: Being two is a period of learning and stating everything that you learn. I mean EVERYTHING! I might as well have a little tape recorder follow me around all the time. I stubbed my toe the other day and I said "Crap" ( I have greatly refrained from saying other more appropriate words in this situation) So what does Ela do? Walk around the house saying CRAP for the next 20 minutes until I convinced her that was a bad word that needed to be washed(with soap). But at the same time, if you follow me on Facebook you probably read the story about how Ela tried to share her umbrella with me when I was getting wet. Moral is kindness is underrated and hard to teach. In reality she had to have learned it from somewhere. Good or bad we inadvertently teach our children who to become. I am going to add that to my resume which should trump all the other Qualifications I have!
• I Love the Food Processor. I swear that I have processed everything possible lately ... Its a great way to hide all the yucky stuff Ela never wants to eat.
• I HATE food allergies.(This is a two part thought..err rant) Ela was tested again in January. She tested positive for peanuts and sesame and negative for tree nuts this time...Big Progress! So I was tasked with feeding her the tree nuts to help her outgrow her allergens slowly. Last Friday with the husband and Dad(aka Ela's grandpa) for moral support, we tried Honey Nut Cheerios as suggested by the allergist. No severe anaphalitc attack but red cheeks  DAMIT! Now off for some blood testing to figure things out....That's just the normal rant of a mother with a kid with food allergies but now to the annoying part. We were at a birthday party today and they had several items that Ela could have been allergic to. One of which was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. A fellow toddler was walking around toting a PBJ sandwich in hand.(and all over the face and then on the toys) We pulled Ela away from the child and immediately picked up the toy to wash it. The parents asked if something was wrong? We politely explained that Ela had a severe food allergies and we did not want her to accidentally get peanut butter on herself.A few minutes later I heard the mother saying " Why come to parties like this  like this if their child has an allergy". OUCH!  Seriously! Not sure what to say on this one... What do you think? I guess ignorance is bliss.