Some of Syntia’s tell-tale teething signs: sweating and holding her ear during naps. She’s got 3 teeth out with number 4 on the way. Hang in there lady!!! When Syntia gets tired and cries or flings her body around not knowing what to do with herself, I still have to be very diligent in my …
After gaining a lot of weight during her pregnancy, the road to health awaited Maite after giving birth. In this video, she shares her experience of trying to exercise in her new, overweight body and how her redefinition of the word Value supported her to change her approach to exercising completely. Here is the link …
Maite continues to share how she actively investigated her understanding and definition of the word VALUE and how this one word had led her into multiple compromising relationships and situations in the past. But not only that: she realized how she would compromise her relationship with her daughter in the long run if she did …
I am so grateful to see Syntia grow up amongst all kinds of different animals, something I didn’t experience as a young child. So far she’s had the most interaction wtih Snowy, a pyrenean mountan dog who has always had a strong maternal instinct. While Snowy will never have babies of her own, she plays …
Even on your roughest days you can create a gem of a moment. This went on for half an hour straight – LOL – a welcome moment of FUN for both Syntia and Maite at the end of a long and RUFF day!!
Not long after the birth of my daughter I was given the opportunity to enjoy myself at a Luxury Spa for a whole day – for FREE! You would think I jumped at the opportunity, right? Because who doesn’t want to be pampered all day?? Truth is, I started making up all kinds of reasons …
Another joy of motherhood… A few months after giving birth, my hair started getting very brittle, and much of it is falling out as well,as you can see from the brush. The other pic shows a frikkin dreadlock that started forming at the back of my head. Granted, I hadn’t showered in about a week …
![Cesar gave Syntia his train tracks about a year ago, and before they were hers, she would play with them together with Cesar. She's had a ton of time to learn the different pieces, how to put them together and build a track, but for some reason, she DID NOT want to build a track by herself and most of all preferred to just watch as someone else built the track for her.
Lj and I knew she was perfectly capable of building a track for herself and we tried to support her to start small and show herself that she can do it. Or that we'd be here if she gets stuck, but she can at least try on her own. Any such attempts, however, were met with an absolute and firm refusal. So, we did it with her, or for her.
We started wondering, is this little girl really just taking advantage of us at this point? Are we entertaining this too much? Should we push harder? We knew she could do it, she knew she could do it, but for some reason she just didn't want to do it, at least, not yet.
And then one day, out of the blue, she takes out her blocks and starts building a track... by herself. Lj quietly waived me over, pointing at her, then signing 'shhht', lol - didn't want to disturb the moment. The track you see in the pic is the first one she built by herself. It wasn't a "beginner's" track like a simple circle or a straight line, it was a more intricate design laid out exactly and precisely how she wanted it to be, including all the elements she wanted to have as a part of it. Kabam, out of the blue.
There are other things where Syntia 'took her sweet time', like learning how to walk and potty training, where it was clear at some point that she was able to do it, but for some reason, pulled back or didn't want to do it all by herself just yet. It's so easy as parents to freak out over that, to think that children should develop skills in a particular way, like 'starting small' or doing something by yourself as soon as you're able to. But not all kids are the same in this. [Continued in comments..]](https://scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.29350-15/135216034_868657797266702_107582540258970761_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=c4dd86&_nc_ohc=Z1V8WJUUqosAX-4LmjA&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&oh=00_AfCJjAXVxtNiIi6gvUUl0MZd6cdkXtaHW6r2JeZgYPVE-A&oe=64DB2E92)
