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Time for a check-in?
I always love reading everyone's updates! My LO is 6 w 2d today and slept last night! Not STTN, of course, but he actually slept for 4 hours, woke up for 45 minutes, slept for 2 hours, woke up for 1 hour, then slept for 3.5 hours. I couldn't sleep during the last stretch because he was grunting at the top of his lungs, but I got a solid 3 hours during the first stretch. He also is gaining weight really well and has averaged over 1 oz a day over the last 4 weeks. We've gotten a couple of smiles here and there and he even laughed once. He is awesome!
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Re: Time for a check-in?
We are doing well here. We are in the middle of registering Kenzie for K next year
Ian is doing well, he has been receiving speech therapy since December and he is saying more and more words every day.
Rhys is doing great as well. I had to cut dairy out of my diet about a month ago and I have seen a huge difference. He has gone from a whiny, gassy, upset, bad sleeper to the dream baby my other kids were. I feel so bad that he was hurting for so many months. At least he is great now and finally sleeping 13 hours at night. I feel like a new person
Mackenzie Beth 10.26.05 Ian James 08.09.08 Rhys Edward 07.05.10 William Brendan 04.17.12
M is almost 7 months old now. I can't believe it. He can sit up unassisted, but he has very little interest in sitting in one place. He's very active and can get all the way across a room by rolling, scooting, and throwing himself around. We can't leave him alone for a second anymore. He wants to crawl, but hasn't figured out that he needs to get his torso off the ground first.
He loves food, especially fruits and orange veggies. When we put him in his highchair, he starts to bang on the tray because he wants food. Clearly, he goes after his parents in this regard.
His sleep at night still isn't great, but we're working on it. He doesn't eat at night anymore, but sometimes he wakes up and wants to play at 2 am. It's a work in progress.
Aw...excellent! I'm glad to hear your LO is doing so well :-)
Warner is all talking and eating at our house these days. He is still eating us out of house and home. But he is mostly refusing to eat anything green except pureed green beans--which he loves-- and the spinach and other veggies that I sneak into his food that he has no idea about. It's really frustrating, because he sees us eating veggies, but he has NO interest in them.
And the talking--good lord my son in a chatter box. I can't get over how much he talks and his sentences get longer everyday. He's been saying really funny stuff...basically anything on his mind. ("Mommy and Daddy have nipples?" he asked this rather loudly at the grocery store the other day...seriously, wtf?!)
And we think that he thinks that the more specific he is with his requests the more likely we are to comply. The other day after we put him down for a nap we heard him say "Mommy come back in white door. Rock Warner in brown chair, please!" Lol :-)
And as I said in my post below, he is really testing us theses days and is SO stubborn (no idea where he might get that personality trait!). But he is usually just a lot of fun and so playful...when he is not making me insane, he is so fun to hang out with :-)
Great idea! This weekend is DD's second birthday, which is unbelievable. She is really excited, declaring "I'm going to be TWO!" and talking about the pink balloons and cupcakes she must have at the party. She is doing really well and parenting has become so much fun recently. We've always enjoyed her, of course, but feel like this is a totally different level. Having conversations, hearing what's on her mind, and watching her love life is really amazing.
I'm still working on DH for number 2 and recently DD has announced a number of times, "Want baby sister!" and tells us that she would name a baby brother "B-I-N-G-O!"
Vaughn is 7 weeks. He seems to be over his 6 week growth spurt and fussiness and constant eating. We also pinpointed that he was not napping enough at home (he does great in the car or when out) and so I am prioritizing helping him nap, which means either holding or wearing him for 20 minutes after he sleeps and then gets limp, then carefully putting him down and then soothing him through any stirring. It is intense, but he is so much happier. Though I am losing busy time while he sleeps, I am now able to do more while he is awake. He loves to smile and blow spit bubbles and has just started showing a vague interest in toys.
I go back to work very PT next week and am feeling apprehensive about my new lifestyle of working with LO (no daycare). We've been envisioning this for years, but now it is time to see how doable it actually is. Also, I still am dealing with daily, almost constant, pain related to the pregnancy so that is messing with my outlook. DS is so worth it, but I am ready to feel like myself again and move onto being a mommy who can just delight in every second rather than having pain hanging over these precious moments.
More Green For Less Green
C has been walking a fine line between Awesome and Exasperating the past few days. I'm blaming the four teeth I can see under his gums, but they won't be up any time soon, so we may have a bumpy few weeks ahead.
I am relishing that fact that (when he isn't throwing himself on the ground in a tantrum) that he remains a pretty cuddly kid. He loves to sit in my lap on the floor, gives hugs and kisses by request and still snuggles up on my shoulder before I put him in his crib at night. So sweet.
We are still trying to figure out the extent of his egg allergy. He goes back to the allergist in a few weeks for a "baked egg" challenge to see if he can have baked goods. Avoiding egg is other foods has been relatively easy, especially since he never cared for scrambled/hard boiled eggs to begin with. He's starting to show some pickiness with other foods and we are trying to just be flexible and not make a big deal out of it. He had brussel sprouts (for like the 100th time) the other night and just kept spitting them out. So cliche, kid!
I love to hear how all the LOs are doing! We are doing pretty well. You may remember I'm always anxious about the talking (or lack thereof) situation. Well, DS now has 5 signs, and a few words too! This is big for us. His expressive language has really taken off in the past 3 months. We may still need to do EI at 18 months, but I am so pleased with his progress and not worrying quite as much. Since he is trying, making progress, I am feeling a bit better!
He is still loving books SO much. He loves to dance and is starting to really like blocks too. He has been waving for a long time, but is now a waving machine. I think he waved to every single person who we saw at Target yesterday. And I especially love all the older men who humor him and wave back! He is also saying "beep beep" every time he hears a horn. He is in a MAJOR mommy phase, which is hard for DH...
Sleep still isn't great - he is a champion napper, but nighttime sleep still is up and down. We were so spoiled with a perfect month in January, STTN (for us that's about 10 - 11 hours), 6am wakeups...now he's got 4 teeth coming in at once and has done some 4am wakeups...however, I've had 2 friends have late losses the past few weeks and I try to treasure every single second, even at 4am.
Jeremy is just over 7 months. He's a mover and a shaker! He's rolling, inching and army crawling everywhere. He's fascinated by the tv, remote control, the computer and especially my cell phone. It's gotten to the point where I have to turn off the tv when I'm nursing him sometimes because he's so distracted. I'm still EBF with a few solids mixed in. He really hasn't taken to too many solids except for oatmeal. We're introducing new things every week.
He's sleeping pretty poorly but it has gotten better. We've been doing the No-cry sleep solution after our pedi suggested CIO. I just couldn't do it. We've made progress since we started implementing our sleep plan and I'm content that we have a plan and our moving forward.
Despite the lack of sleep, I'm really enjoying this time because he loves playing with me and DH and is always laughing and smiling at us. I'm excited about the warm weather and being able to take him out and about. I want to sign up for swimming lessons in a few weeks so we can go to the pool in the summer.
Off to the beach
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DS will be 14 months next week..holy cow!!! he is doing great, though he is actually going for his first sick visit to the ped today....not bad for making it 14 months if i may so myself, and even though I SAH, he goes to gym daycare, toddlin time and all over hte place with me....he is miserable today...
overall he is fantastic and full of personality, he has about 5 words and 5 or so signs...its great. HE IS STILL NOT WALKING THOUGH!!!! GRRRR He has no interest in it and gets around just fine crawling super fast or crusising along the furniture...oh and his molars are coming in too..ouch!!! I absolutely love this age and watching him grow and figure out new things every day!!
I love reading all the updates too:-)
I've been MIA while getting adjusted to having a LO, so this is my first check in! We've had a lot of visitors (MIL, my parents, BIL's family, aunts, uncles, friends) and the thundersnow power outage put us out of commission for 4 days.
C is 5 weeks today! He has been truely awesome. He's a sleeper, and I've been getting 4 hour stretches at night - I'm enjoying it while it lasts. We are starting to introduce the bottle, so DH took the late feeding on Sunday night and I got a whole 8 hours of sleep - it felt amazing.
C is so much fun when he's awake. He hasn't given us a smile yet, but I think he's working on it - he's giving us more facial expressions every day. For the past week he's been rolling over from tummy to back when we do tummy time. He's eating like a champ and although I haven't weighed him, he's definitely grown in length since his 2w appt.
I am still not confident enough to take him out to run errands yet. That might be a goal for next week - just to Target or the grocery store.
Yay for longer sleeping stretches! J is doing great. We counted last night and he has about 50 words (if you include animal sounds and names) - it's crazy. He is running, and walking up stairs (holding a rail), and even starting to handle zippers and whatnot. So independent already.
I just got back from six days away from him and DH. They both did really well, and the ILs came in to "help." We also Skyped for the first time, which freaked J out at first; now he keeps pointing at the computer and saying "mama."
Also, I posted a while ago about wanting to CIO/Ferberize. We got the book out of the library and started implementing the night-weaning techniques right away, then moved on to CIO. My only question is: why did we wait so long?! It probably took a week from normally scheduled wake-ups to sleeping from 7-7. Dude.
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Conrad is 2 years and 10 months old (well, next week) and lately everything is frustrating all over again. A month ago, we were doing great. The number of meltdowns per day had significantly dropped from when Maggie arrived and he started showing a real interest in her. But, in the past week, while he is still loving on her like crazy, everything else is just one fight after another. He is extremely resistant to everything. No, he will not attempt to put on or take off any article of clothing. No, he will not have his poopy diaper changed, but no, he does not want to do anything until it is changed. No, he doesn't want to try sitting on the potty. No, he doesn't want to eat, he wants to play. I know it's not true, but I feel like he's never going to progress beyond this point. Maybe he's finally regressing now that he knows Maggie is here to stay, but things that he used to be capable of doing he now completely refuses to do. Things he used to be proud of doing (the occasional pee on the potty or putting on his own shoes) he doesn't even want to hear about.
Maggie will be 4 months next week. She is finally getting a napping schedule and sleeping a ton at night (not STTN, but having only one wake up instead of 3+) and instead of making me happy it just frustrates me even more. She refuses to sleep anywhere but her crib, so we are stuck here for the three naps a day that she is taking. My goal was always to make her portable since DS never was, but apparently she had other plans.
Sorry for the vent of an update. I feel like I've hit some sort of breaking point today.
These are always fun to read!
DD is doing really well- just very stubborn :-) We are still having an issue with the toddler bed and after many nights of no sleep- we put her back in the crib and she slept peacefully all night. She really dislikes any kind of change so we are going to try again in a few weeks. We have a lot going on in the next month with travel, DH having surgery and out of town visitors that the changing bed thing is just too much. DH was very funny explaining to her that she could not climb out but it seemed to work.
We have been really worried about her language development and then she started to really have a word explosion. We both started to notice she was saying the same words for things like milk, cheese, bread, cereal, etc... but they were not understandable and she was looking at us like we were complete morons when we could not figure out what she wanted. Well, our DCP speaks Farsi and she had asked us when we first started taking DD there if it would bother us if she used both English and Farsi (and French). Since DH and I both would love to be bi-lingual- we told her it did not bother us at all. We just did not realize how much she was absorbing! So, she was never behind in language development- just processing two/almost three. We were at the grocery store over the weekend and a woman in front of us was speaking to her 3ish year old in Farsi and DD answered the question. I guess DH and I both need to take a class now
DD is going to be two in a few weeks and I can't believe how fast time has flown by! However, after the last 5 nights of no sleep- I am so happy to be out of that phase.
Wow. I wrote a lot today.
I loive reading everyone's updates. Thank you for starting this session mssaint.
Gtown, we went through that night playing phase a few times, it's completely normal abnd usually lasted just a week or two. They're rough.
DS is doing great. I weighed him the other day and at 6 weeks he is about 3 lbs heavier than his birth weight. I don't remember DD growing this quickly. He is so adorable when he is awake, he smiles and mimics us. He's beena great night sleeper from day 1. Waking only to nurse and falling immediately back to sleep. I think he is ready to drop one middle of the night feeding since I woke him up the last few days. Napping is still unscheduled and he prefers to nap on me, something we really need to work on.
DD is 3 weeks shy of her 2nd birthday. She's adjusted fairly well to DS and really loves him. She's also been a trooper the last few weeks as I've taken her on two 8 hour roadtrips to visit family and the in laws. Toddlers are amazing and its been so much fun to see her blossom and grow. We're slowly learning our letters and numbers and she is fascinated by so much. I just love getting to know the person that she is becoming.
DS will be 17 months next week and this past month has been really fun. Like mommyz's LO, DS was "talking" up a storm but didn't have a lot of words or use them consistently. Like victoria1212, DS also hears another language at daycare and I think that's part of it. I wish he could be bilingual but I don't know how to maintain it! That's changed in the past few weeks - he started using the phrase "thank you" consistently and in context. How awesome it is to give the little guy a cup of milk or something he wants and hear "thank you"!
He also added "ball" to his vocabulary. He's into books and stacking blocks, can work zippers, and unfortunately is into hitting and throwing. 1-2-3 Magic is in our future - I'm glad to see that others started using it around 18 months since we need a system.
The increased communication has also helped with the tantrums. DS has dialed them down from an 11 to a 9. He's easily frustrated (oh how it hurts to see your weak traits come out in your kid) and the moment he didn't get what he wanted, he'd throw himself backwards without regard for his safety. That was scary for all of us and I had to get into position to catch him before telling him no. Now, if he doesn't get what he wants he only collapses to his knees, then checks out his environment and the severity of the emotion, and doesn't always throw himself backwards. Progress!
DS continues to be a good night sleeper and a crap napper. If we get 90 minutes mid-day we're thrilled. Since he's in the 10th percentile for weight we try to give him 5 smaller meals a day.
I hope the g-d groundhog was right and we'll have an early spring. I am so sick of being sick every 4 weeks like clockwork, and DS loves to be outside.
Now if only I could update my ticker with a new photo of DS...I am so overdue.
Hooray for updates! So nice to read about all the different ages and various stages of parenting.
DS is now 2- we had a wonderful birthday celebration for him on his actual birthday and then a great party on Saturday. Thanks for all the decorating ideas BTW. I was not very motivated to get creative so I spend most of my energy on the cupcakes and the cake. Pics are on my blog. 
Everything came out well and all the kids had a good time. DS was so cute trying to blow out his candles and checking out all his new toys. My MIL was in town for the long weekend as well, so we were actually able to go out for a date movies and dinner- first one since July. It was so nice to have a night out even though I was exhausted from the party.
I still can't believe DS is two now. He had a very easy transition to a twin bed and seems to be sleeping much better in it than he was in his crib. We still haven't started sleep training and need to get on it soon. This weekend DH will finally take the crib completly out of his room and put up his headboard. Hopefully we get a few things up on the walls too. We had a wonderful 2 year check up with our new doctor (until DH gets out of the military in a few months). She thought his weight was tracking along well which is the first time I have heard this since he was a newborn. It made me feel so much better about his inconsistent eating. He still LOVES any type of fruit and vegetable and could care less about meat most of the time.
I am only 8 weeks away from my scheduled C-section, which I can't believe. This pregnancy has gone by soooo quickly! We have yet to start on the nursery but we do have a new crib (since DS was a drop side rail crib) and a new bookshelf. I hope to get started on painting a mural this weekend. We are STILL in the process of unpacking boxes 2 months later. We have arranged for my dad and his better half to come and stay with DS while I have my c-section and then DH will take the following week off. Fingers crossed the little guy doesn't have other plans to come earlier but if that's the case we will figure it out! Oh, we have also decided on a name.
As far as shopping for the new little one I have a short list of things I still need to buy and figure I'll start working on that slowly.
It seems like half the time DD is throwing a fit about something anymore. It's usually related to food - she wants some and we either won't give it to her or don't do it fast enough. I'm seriously looking forward to the time change in a few weeks (March 13, for those of you who haven't started thinking about that), because I want to move her bedtime forward from 6:30/45 (now) to 7:30. If we can keep her up later, we'll be able to give her food when she gets home from daycare without bringing on reflux all night, and I'm really hoping that will cut down some of the tantrums from going 14/15 hours between meals. Plus, it wouldn't hurt if she went from waking up at 5:15 (crying out once or twice, then going back to sleep or playing quietly 'til 6:45 or 7) and waking ME up, to waking up at 6:15 when I'm already in the shower. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
I think the lightbulb just clicked in her head that she could say "mom" and I'd respond. She hasn't ever referred to be by name or called out for me (other than general crying), but in the last week she's testing out saying "mom" a few times in a row to see what I'll do. She's really focused on words and numbers (she can sort of do 1-10 with some coaching - thanks to daycare for teaching her that one), and keeps noticing new objects in the posters on our walls at home that she can name (train!, elephant!, flower!). She's definitely hitting those exasperating to awesome toddler extremes.
Hooray for progress!!!
90 minutes is crap napping?? I would seriously bow down if T did that. She gives us 30 minutes. Period. (But then her tantrums never ratchet up quite to 11, so I guess it all evens out.)
Maybe it's my sources, but it seems like a lot of people get 11-12 hours of sleep at night and 2-3 hour naps during the day. I'm not going to knock what I have since I think it's pretty good, but I am envious.
Have a 6 week respite, DS is sick again this week. I took him to the ped today and strep, ear infection and flu were ruled out, so we're hoping it's just a stomach virus. He has never been so miserable, and it's so hard to watch and not be able to do much to make him feel better.
He's been in preschool since Nov. and loves it--he doesn't want to stop playing when we pick him up in the evenings!
DD just turned 8 mos. on Monday, and on Monday she slept through the night for the first time. The good news is that she followed up the last two nights with more of the same. The bad news is that DS's illness has kept him up all night every night since Monday, so I'm still not getting any sleep.
She is a happy happy baby and is rarely fussy about anything. She is not crawling yet, but for the past couple of weeks has been trying to figure out how to get her rear in the air so that she can get moving. Still no teeth (DS had his bottom 2 by 5.5 mos.)!
I love these check-ins!
Liam is doing well. He's 16 months and of course we think he is a total genius. He has maybe 150 words, which is amazing because he's a boy, and his mother (me) didn't talk until past 2. I wonder if my parents considered taking me for speech therapy... he's also great at stacking, organizing, emptying and loading the dishwasher with me, and he loooooooves to read. Seriously. He will sit in his crib quietly for an hour and read books and point to things and say them outloud. Proof? If you're FB friends with me, I posted a video this morning that DH took with our video monitor.
Liam remains a good sleeper, though he has started waking up an hour or so earlier than usual, but still, we can count on him to go at least 7:30pm-6:30am, and he usually takes a 2 hour nap (sometimes longer!) from about 1-3. I think I am looking forward to the time change... so maybe he'll sleep from 8pm-7/8am. That would be a lot better!
DS is working on the last of his molars. My kid does not teeth well. He gets a runny nose, red cheeks, poor appetite. I start to wonder if he's sick and then bam, tooth comes in and all is fine.
He does throw an occasional tantrum, which is tough. I mean, it's textbook lying on the ground and pounding fists. Sometimes, this makes DH and I laugh, so we try to hide our laughter from DS so as to not encourage him.
Sprout does this too! We call it Pig-poleon (piggy Napoleon), the dictator full of hunger!
a) I first read this as "nap crapper" and actually thought "so is Warner!" because he often poops in the middle of his nap and then won't go back to sleep. we say that he poops himself awake. but, uh, yeah, that's not actually what you wrote...lol.
b) I agree with pp, if Warner consistently napped for 90 minutes each day, I'd be doing cartwheels. He does sleep for 12 glorious uninterrupted hours every night without fail, but napping has been touch and go since he was itty bitty.
But on the days when he decides not to nap, I still leave him in his crib for those two hours and he just plays and talks to himself. It's still quiet time and more often than not he still has a good afternoon. So we just roll with it.
I have this dream that DS is one day just all the sudden going to be a great night sleeper. I'm hoping maybe come spring with less colds/teething, etc...if I could get 11 - 12 hours at night I might just faint from happiness. On the other hand, he does take a 2 - 3 hour nap...so he still ends up with about 12.5 hours a day total, which the pedi said is okay. But, I also figure if the hopeful next lo is a bad sleeper at least I'll be prepared (or, pleasantly surprised!).
J is a nap crapper too! It's quite the joke at daycare - apparently if he goes before his nap, he's golden for two hours, but sometimes he poops himself awake after an hour and there's no going back to sleep after that. (Also then he runs around trying to wake the other kids up, or sings to himself, which apparently is frowned upon.)
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Lol at "nap crapper" and "crap napper."
DS started daycare on Tuesday - he has been coming home and sleeping for three hours - so yeah, he's not napping well at daycare yet. It's fine - it's only been three days. I'm going to stay optimistic that he'll settle into a routine there. Also I'm fairly certain his RSV has returned, which sucks - and that makes for short naps.
The girls are, well, OK - the 4 year old is a real pisser lately and I'm not really sure why. She's getting into a lot of trouble lately. A delayed reaction to the new baby maybe? Add the fact that the 2 year old, well, is 2 (crying for no reason, tantrums here and there) - and our house is pretty chaotic right now. The 2 year old has gone to the pedi and the ER twice in the past two weeks with injuries caused by the 4 year old while "playing."
It's not all sunshine and rainbows, but we haven't put an ad on Craigs List to get rid of any one of them yet, so I'm going to call that progress.
LO is finally settling down from a month of crabbiness. I think now that she is walking and talking (uh oh, up, out, eat) is she much more happy. So hopefully the trend continues.
I am learning to appreciate her great little sleeping habits after reading the above posts. She is a champ at napping and sleeping 12 hours at night!
Even her feeding is improving-- still small amounts but a bigger variety, including veggies!
I had DD's parent-teacher conference today and she's doing great; she's very social and has friends; when DH picks her up, she runs up and gives him a hug and a few of her friends follow and do the same. The other day she said a cute thing "Excuse me , Daddy, did you know bugs fly in the sky with birds?" DH turned to me and said "did she just say EXCUSE ME, DADDY?" LOL better, than "Hey, Mommy!"
DS is still a crappy sleeper, and sometimes he's a sleep crapper too. He'll be 9mo old at the end of next week and he's practically walking! He crawls to a toy, pulls up and starts waving one arm while holding on w/ the other. Then he finds something (it was a huge bag of DD's pull-ups the other day) and stands up and starts pushing on it while walking FWD.
This is how I've been feeling the last few weeks, mostly related to DD. After she got over her hellish baby stage, she's been a pretty easy kid. The only big issue we've had was potty training, which was an epic 10 month battle (if you don't even count when we first introduced the potty around 18 months). I thought we were finally in the clear, but lately she's been having serious regression with peeing in her pants. Maybe I'm being stubborn, but I'm not going back to "you get an M&M for peeing on the potty" and a sticker chart. She's a smart girl who's pushing four years old, and she never has accidents at preschool. So I've tried discipline, which is totally what the experts say not to do. I tried being "zen" about it and not turning it into a big deal. Still accident after accident. She lies about whether she went in her underwear (knowing full well I'm going to check), throws a fit, apologizies, etc...it's a tiring cycle. I'm at my wit's end, and I feel awful for getting so frustrated, but I have zero patience for this (not helped by her simultaneously going through a whiny "Why?" phase). If anyone has suggestions, I'm desperate.
DS is more of a handful as a toddler than DD was. His mood can change on a dime, and if you tell him "no" about something he wants, he has an immediate, short-lived tantrum (almost like he feels obligated to do it out of principle). If you tell him "no" about something he shouldn't be doing, he laughs and continues to do it. He actually bullies DD a bit, being very physical with her and thinking it's just a game. Communication has gotten easier now that he's taken to nodding and shaking his head and using sign language. But he barely has any words, which I'm shocked at...he's definitely behind in language. DD was a chatterbox with a huge vocabulary well before this age, and I thought having an older sibling would help his verbal skills.
Now that I've made my children out to be "those" kids who everyone secretly is thankful aren't theirs, I have to say that most of the time, things are great. I love listening to how they play together now (such little buddies) and they're both at stages when they're gaining a lot of independence and exploring their worlds (like DD is very interested in spelling and trying to read, and her artwork is amazing). DS makes me laugh, gives dozens of hugs a day, and loves "singing" (he actually carries a tune) and dancing - quite an entertainer. And DD is all about having real conversations with me. I can take her anywhere and be confident she'll listen to me, behave, and be polite. Both continue to be awesome eaters and sleepers, and overall we're very lucky with their dispositions. I just feel like they've gotten together and purposely ganged up on me lately. As with everything in childhood, both good and bad, "this, too, shall pass" so I'm keeping that perspective. I think we're just done with winter and things will improve once we can get outside and have a chance of scenery. In the meantime, I'm glad I'm not pregnant yet because my nightly glass of wine is a godsend.
Ben is teething like crazy right now - two have broken through and I can see others that are close to doing so. We are using baby orajel and distraction to get through it - but it has been no where near as bad as colic!
Ben is a real joy these days - very lively, inquisitive, and happy. A lot of people have told me how he is just such a different child now that his acid reflux is under control - makes me glad I pushed for the prevacid.
He is a crappy sleeper - but slowly getting better.
Basically, all is well here:)
J does the exact same thing, he went from 7p-7a to getting up around 615-630 these last few weeks...not sure why but I can't really complain...he does take a good afternoon nap of about 2 hours or so.
WOW 150 words...this leads me to ask, when does it count as a word? If you can understand it, or if the outside world can understand it...haha:-)
My DD #1 had probably 10 words when she was one year old. My DD #2 didn't start to say anything coherent until she was about 18 months. To this day (she just turned 2) she is waaaay behind where DD #1 was with language. She is just now saying sentences. I refuse to freak out about it. At her 18 month appt. I was all worried and the pedi told me not to worry. I'll ask again at her 24 mo. appt., but I just wanted to tell you that not only are we going through this "the second child is way behind the first child in language" but my neighbors - same exact thing. They have to kids almost exactly my girls' age and their second, a boy, is way behind where their first was. I have to think that it's natural. I think it's because with the first kid we had more time to work on words with her, and with the second kid, they're having to pick more up by osmosis. DH jokes that our DS is just going to point at things and not say any words until he's in Kindergarten!
Audrey is getting so big...at 5.5 months, she's weighing in at a hefty 19lbs! I was 20lbs at 12 months old! She's sitting for short periods, but then she sees something she wants and falls over. She's allegedly scooting around, so says her DCP, but I haven't seen it at home. She's a jolly little girl and loves to LOL at her big brother.
We recently moved her into her crib in Tomas' room at night. Hit or miss with sleeping. Most nights since, she sleeps her usual 9-12 and goes right back down after nursing, but then she's up hourly or every 90 minutes until 7. She's also started pooping at night. I finally gave up and started bringing her back in the bed with us after a few times of hourly wake ups...couldn't hang! But last night she slept through (aside from her normal wake ups at 12, 3 and 5) in her crib! Big win for parents!
She sprouted her first two teeth - the first on Valentine's Day, the second a week later. Like my first child, they are both bottom teeth. She hasn't figured out how to use them yet (and my nips thank her!).?
Tomas is so big and grown...it's just crazy to think that he was once as tiny as Audrey. He is being promoted to green belt in Tae Kwon Do this afternoon...he's so excited! He is learning to read and write by sounding out the letters.?
I feel so blessed to have these kids in my life!
This has been a busy week at work and I just now have time to respond. It's great reading about everyone's LOs...the good and the bad, the craps and the naps;)
Both of our girls are doing well overall...DD#2 turned 13 months yesterday...she has been walking for a few weeks now and every day she seems to get faster and faster. She has also started to say some words--a combo of English and Spanish since her DCP speaks Spanish. Every animal right now is a "gato"... Her sleeping pattern overnight has been kind of weird...it used to be that she would wake up between 4 and 6am, I would nurse her and then she would go back to sleep for another couple of hours. Her wake up time has creeped earlier and earlier and the last few nights it has been 1:30/2am when she wakes up and then wakes up at 5 (no nursing) and will only go back to sleep (very soundly) if I bring her into our bed. I think part of the issue is that she gets incredibly wet diapers over night and I am wondering if that wakes her up...I'm thinking we might need to get a different, bigger, more adsorbant diaper for overnight and see if that keeps her from waking.
The other big news with DD#2 is that her tear ducts are still blocked and so she'll have to have a procedure in early march to open up the ducts, which means that she'll be under anethesia...not for very long...but I was really hoping to avoid this. The good news is that her eyes otherwise are totally healthy.
With DD#1, we are gearing up for kindergarten next year...she got into our parish school and we have decided to bite the bullet financially and send her there. When we factored in the costs of before and after school care at our local public school, the difference between Catholic school and public school wasn't insanely huge and we like the smaller environment that she'll be in...since she is a September birthday, she will be one of the youngest kids in the class and while I know she is ready for kindergarten, I like knowing she'll be in a smaller setting.
We have had some discipline issues with DD#1 lately, not really sure why--just tantrumy stuff...but I feel like we are starting to get over the hump. All in all she's a pretty great big sister...the girls' latest game is to play "parade"...DD#1 leads with a ribbon or a dress up necklace that DD#2 holds onto and they go all over the condo like that, with both of them giggling. Funny stuff.
Love the check-in! Everyone's LO's are getting so big!
My baby B is almost 14 weeks old. She has a lot of problems with reflux, which (crossing fingers) we have finally figured out a system of meds, feeding, and routines that help to control it for the most part.
She is really a smiley, sunny, happy baby. She wakes with a big smile on her face, and laughs and coos. Makes it VERY hard to go to work. Then in the evening when I can actually spend time with her, she is crabby and fussy, and spends most of the evening bouncing back and forth between ravenous hunger and pushing the bottle away. I can't wait for her to outgrow that phase.
She is most definitely the sweetest thing.
If it's the same sound for the same thing every time, then it's a word. Even if it's "bladeeblu" for "orange". They definitely don't need to be understood by the outside world! In fact, the rule of thumb is that a kid should be mostly understood by a stranger at three years old.
I've heard that #2 doesn't develop language skills as rapidly as #1 b/c #1 does more of the talking on #2's behalf!
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