when your 3 month olds are awake

nikinikinine

what do you do with them?

I've been doing tummy time, playing on their activity mat, reading them books and singing.

I'm frankly bored to tears with my "activities".

We broke out the jumperoo and DD loves just standing in there.

Sometimes they just swing in their swings and I feel like a degenerate mommy. They aren't quite interacting with stuff yet, so I feel like I'm just stabbing in the dark at ways to play with them right now. 

atc282

I think all that you're already doing with them is great!!

the only other thing I can think to mention is taking them out to "observe"--my girls loved going on walks (or at least I think they liked them?!) either outside when the weather permitted or in the mall, grocery store, etc. It was a win-win for us...they took everything in as I enjoyed being out of the house and being mobile with them, too!

I just remember lots of swing time, bouncer time, tummy time, etc. They loved the baby einstein star that hung down from their play mat (they loved anything that lit up/changed colors).

 

vlahop

There is not much more to do with them right now.  I cannot wait until they are in the jumperoo!  It is hard because they are awake more often, but it is so hard to entertain 2.  If it was one you could hold them and walk around the house, which is what I did with DD1, but it is just so different with 2!

kafunder

You're doing all the same things we did except we also had bouncy seats that they loved to play with. When the weather was nice, we also took a walk once a day for about an hour. We also took lots of trips to Target. Sometimes, I just took them to different parts of the house to play. They loved when I took them to our bedroom and let them lay on the bed, especially b/c there was a ceiling fan in there to look at.

I got pretty bored too, and would often be unable to think of new things to do on the fly. So, at the start of each day, I mapped out the day. Knowing that I always fed them at 8, 11, 2, and 5, I jotted down a few activities to do between each feeding and before they napped. Or, we did a circuit around the house b/w the various activity areas.

ProwdMommy

nikinikinine:

what do you do with them?

I've been doing tummy time, playing on their activity mat, reading them books and singing.

I'm frankly bored to tears with my "activities".

We broke out the jumperoo and DD loves just standing in there.

Sometimes they just swing in their swings and I feel like a degenerate mommy. They aren't quite interacting with stuff yet, so I feel like I'm just stabbing in the dark at ways to play with them right now. 

I could have written the same exact post.  I was just thinking today how they seem to be getting bored with the same old same old.  I wish that we could get out more but it is so difficult with a 2 year old in tow.

GSwans

Something that I used to do that they loved was tracking objects.  They loved to watch me roll colorful balls across the floor, or wave a colorful scarf in the air.  Not the most exciting, but I think it's a great developmental thing for them to be doing!  Also, I used to lie them on their backs and do bicycle legs while singing/talking, walk around the house and talk about the different things/colors/objects.

Really, anything is stimulating for them!

MrsLnt

That's pretty much what we did.  It's probably why at 5 months they can take like 5 minutes of the play mat before getting bored.

On particularly cold and nasty, rainy days, I'd put on a Jimmy Buffett concert DVD or the Gulf Coast show I have saved on the TiVo (I was there when I was 20 wks PG!) and we'd sing along to that while on the play mat (mommy can only sing Old MacDonald so many times before losing her mind).  The day I dressed them up in sunglasses and leis and took pictures was probably a low point in my life.  But it made for some HILARIOUS pictures. 

Some days, I'd skip the activity mat, put down a white blanket and take 40000 pictures of them.  

nikinikinine

MrsLnt:

That's pretty much what we did.  It's probably why at 5 months they can take like 5 minutes of the play mat before getting bored.

On particularly cold and nasty, rainy days, I'd put on a Jimmy Buffett concert DVD or the Gulf Coast show I have saved on the TiVo (I was there when I was 20 wks PG!) and we'd sing along to that while on the play mat (mommy can only sing Old MacDonald so many times before losing her mind).  The day I dressed them up in sunglasses and leis and took pictures was probably a low point in my life.  But it made for some HILARIOUS pictures. 

Some days, I'd skip the activity mat, put down a white blanket and take 40000 pictures of them.  

nikinikinine

MrsLnt:

That's pretty much what we did.  It's probably why at 5 months they can take like 5 minutes of the play mat before getting bored.

On particularly cold and nasty, rainy days, I'd put on a Jimmy Buffett concert DVD or the Gulf Coast show I have saved on the TiVo (I was there when I was 20 wks PG!) and we'd sing along to that while on the play mat (mommy can only sing Old MacDonald so many times before losing her mind).  The day I dressed them up in sunglasses and leis and took pictures was probably a low point in my life.  But it made for some HILARIOUS pictures. 

Some days, I'd skip the activity mat, put down a white blanket and take 40000 pictures of them.  

OMG LnT you crack my shiit up. I literally LOL'd at this! Probably because this is *exactly* my life right now. My kids get the rainforest playmat but they're stuck listening to DMB and Train. I can't take another second of the rainforest music!

And I seriously dress them some days just to take pictures - kills at least two hours.

Thank goodness the winter is finally over - I am going crazy and running out of outfits to take pics of them in.

MrsLnt

nikinikinine:

MrsLnt:

That's pretty much what we did.  It's probably why at 5 months they can take like 5 minutes of the play mat before getting bored.

On particularly cold and nasty, rainy days, I'd put on a Jimmy Buffett concert DVD or the Gulf Coast show I have saved on the TiVo (I was there when I was 20 wks PG!) and we'd sing along to that while on the play mat (mommy can only sing Old MacDonald so many times before losing her mind).  The day I dressed them up in sunglasses and leis and took pictures was probably a low point in my life.  But it made for some HILARIOUS pictures. 

Some days, I'd skip the activity mat, put down a white blanket and take 40000 pictures of them.  

OMG LnT you crack my shiit up. I literally LOL'd at this! Probably because this is *exactly* my life right now. My kids get the rainforest playmat but they're stuck listening to DMB and Train. I can't take another second of the rainforest music!

And I seriously dress them some days just to take pictures - kills at least two hours.

Thank goodness the winter is finally over - I am going crazy and running out of outfits to take pics of them in.

I'm glad my insanity can provide entertainment.  It was a looooong winter.  And I live in Louisiana where it's not really that cold, but I'm a wuss and hated all the work it took to get babies out in the weather. Also, their pedi basically scared the crap out of us regarding RSV so we stayed home a lot. 

Once they hit 3 months or so, I dressed the babies every day, in their fancy matching stuff.  I realized if we waited until we went out that would never happen.  They don't care but it's my entertainment to have them dressed to the nines every day.  

I recently discovered that people have posted Baby Einstein clips on YouTube and, if you use the "play all" button, it's like having a real DVD.  I'm lazy about the DVD player, but I can pull up YouTube on the Wii and buy a few more minutes of entertainment.  The fact that I show my kids both Jimmy Buffett and Baby Einstein makes me even more of a degenerate mother than you, who lets her kids swing. 

erinruns

My girls loved to sit in their bouncy seats and look out the window at the trees.  They also loved a black and white print that hangs behind my couch.

babya2010

I just wanted to say I *love* your new siggy pic of them. Their outfits are so cute!! Ditto PP who said anything at this stage is stimulating to them (even swinging in a swing!) Mine also loved their bouncy seats as well as their Baby Einstein playmat. I was (and kind of still am..) another MoM who would to dress them up and take pics and that's fun and stimulating for them too, at least for a little while. Anything with movement they seemed to enjoy, including the ceiling fan - which always made them calm down if they were fussing. Sometimes I'd even lay them in their cribs and turn their mobiles on just so they could watch them move around and hear the music play. I think you're doing a great job with the things you've already listed, too!