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Naps. We've had a HELL of a time recently. Romeo went through a "faze" where he wouldn't nap at all. zero. This lasted one week and then the extreme strung-out tired hit and he went back to having only one nap a day. In the morning...for only 1 hour. YES. You read that correctly. I have a 14 month old, who only naps for one hour in the morning (and I'm pregnant). FML. He goes to bed at 7pm every night and wakes up at 6am. Clockwork. I don't know WHY he can go all day (from 11am to bedtime) without a nap...but he does. It's hell and I don't think that it's good for him or "normal" for his age. But, that is what's happening now. It's been this way for 2 weeks and he seems to be doing fine. Urgh.

China - I'm terrified about having #2 and honestly not that jazzed about it. I'm hoping I'll start getting excited about it soon. Unlike O, Romo is NOT an angel toddler. He is quiet but STRONG. He's determined, focused, and stubborn. He is NOT a happy-go-lucky easy child. He WAS as a baby....but not so anymore. I'm hoping my next child will be more easy going like me. I don't know what I'll do if #2 is as "challenging" as Romeo has turned out to be. Kinda dreading it, not going to lie.

SO excited to throw around new names. Naming is the only part I'm excited about :oops:
 
mela, you gotta let go. What if #2 is as difficult or *gasp* worse than Romeo? You WILL get through it. You will manage and things will get easier. Don't forget #2 may be an angel. It's just as likely. Worrying will not help a bit. Just enjoy the sweet moments because they do help you get through the tough ones. T has NEVER been easy. NEVER. BFing, sleeping, disciplining, everything has been a struggle. But it is what it is. She is an amazing little girl but very "spirited." I just focus on the positives like she is unlikely to be pushed around in life. Point is, you are a great mom and I know you can handle two kids, even if you don't think you can. We are all cheering you on!!!
 
mela- Aw, hon, I can't imagine how tired you must be. I think it's perfectly normal to be stressed about bringing another baby into the home- I'm stressed about it and I'm not even pregnant. Going from one child to two is an adjustment for all parents! You're going to do great. I bet Romeo will be a great big brother. I'm excited for name discussions- SO much fun last time. :bigsmile:

Re: Naps, sometimes Henry's ONE nap will be only 45 minutes or so, which sucks because by dinner time, he's cranky and getting him to eat is a challenge. And his bed/wake times are the same as Romeo's too. So I feel your pain, minus the pregnancy. Big hugs to you.

Snlee- Are you home? I hope so. Keep baking, baby girl!

Blen and China- Possible TTC #2 buddies, eh? Yay! Part of me thinks we should get started earlier (Jan) because of my preg. history, but another part of me thinks June-ish sounds reeeeally nice because Henry qualifies for 'half day' 2s preschool not too soon after. Preschool means work time and more importantly, nap time for mom. So who knows.
 
mela, just wanted to congratulate you on #2 and chime in on what you're feeling since I've been through it myself! When I found myself surprisingly pregnant and Lily was only 8 months old, I didn't know what I was going to do. It was probably one of the worst moments of my life and I'm not proud of myself at all for feeling that way. I was just devastated at a time when I should have been overjoyed. As the shock wore off and I began to accept my fate (haha!), I realized that the 2nd pregnancy is probably never going to be as exciting as the first. I had a very easy, uneventful pregnancy again but it was never the way it was with the first one. Of course it was thrilling to see the baby on the ultrasounds and feel her move and kick but honestly, I was kind of hoping she would be a very late arrival because I couldn't imagine having 2 children merely 17 months apart. Plus, the fact that everyone on earth was telling me how godawful difficult it was going to be with 2 under 2 was enough to drive me to the crazy house. I could manage to keep it all together while she was on the inside but what would I do when she was on the outside??? What if she was colicky? What if she didn't sleep? How was I going to make my first one feel ok about this situation when I could barely handle it myself? I kept most of it to myself although I'm sure I vented a bit here but I hated the way I was feeling.

And then one day before my due date, my water broke and I met my 2nd daughter about 4 hours later. Did I bond and fall in love with her instantly? No. Did I feel like a stranger had invaded my happy home? Yes. Was the guilt I was feeling at turning my other daughter's life upside down ever going to go away? I had no idea at the time. All I knew was that I now had a 2nd baby to take care of, feed, nurture, protect, etc. and I was going to do the best job I could. I had no choice.

Here I am 22 months later and I have to say that Lucy is the best thing that ever happened to me (and DH and Lily). She is an absolute angel, one of the most amazing, beautiful children I have ever laid eyes on. I adore everything about her and get constant joy from her. When I look back and think about how horrible I was feeling about the whole situation, I don't have remorse--I just know better now and I'm so happy with what I got!

While it was definitely tough in the beginning, it was nowhere near as difficult as everyone had made it out to be. It was not an easy adjustment for any of us but it was a necessity to adjust so we did. She was awake ALL DAY, a horrible napper, but was so laid back that it didn't matter. Lily didn't want to have anything to do with her for about a week and that was rough on me but when she finally accepted the fact that this baby was here to stay, she was fine with it. Somehow we managed and now when I watch my two girls playing together, laughing, hugging and even fighting, I can't help but smile. There have been and will be struggles along with way with siblings who are so close in age but rather than worry about the "what ifs" we'll deal with them as they come up and enjoy every moment as much as possible.

So although it's hard for many moms to think that they can handle more than one child and they can find the love inside themselves for a 2nd (or 3rd or 4th child), I'm here to tell you that it's possible! And it's not worth stressing out over what type of child you may end up with. Regardless of the characteristics, you will love and care for that child and figure out how to integrate him into your family because you have to. It all falls into place somehow. We are all stronger than we give ourselves credit for and when you have no choice but to make it work, you will find a way.

OK, getting off my soapbox now! Congrats to all the new 2nd time preggos. If you have any fears or questions, I'm happy to share my experiences with you.
 
MMMEEEELLLLLAAAAA :appl: :appl: :appl: :appl:

I love when people pull Ebrees. Congrats to you and your family! I can't wait to do the name game again with you. You had an awesome list for Romy. This will be fun!!

Jas-sorry to hear about the situation with your mom and I hope everything resolves itself.

Eb-8 is a lot :eek: Sophia's cutting 4 right now. No molars yet. And yes, I feel the same way. Everyone is either getting pregnant or trying to get pregnant. But I won't be joining at all :sun:

China-Sophia is already on a one nap schedule. We didn't do anything to change it. She just did it herself. She wakes up now at 8am, naps at 11:30/noonish until 2:30/3 and then bed at 7:30/8. I've been trying to get her back to two naps because she seems a bit overtired when bedtime comes around but so far no luck. I am having more luck with moving her nap from noon to 11am though. Yesterday we were able to put her down at 11:15. I think if she takes an earlier nap, she'll be ok with sleeping once more throughout the day.

Well, Sophia's party went well but I am beat up today. Every part of my body aches. I never knew how much work it takes to throw a b-day party. I told FI that we're going to do very small parties from now on :snore:
 
Curly- THANK YOU for that moving and honest post. Your love for your kiddos is obvious.

Mels- We love ya. It's ok to be scared, but you will make it through and someday you'll look back, and like Curly, not be able to imagine your life any other way. We're here for you no matter how you feel. Another thing to think about, Ro is going to change so much in the next 6 or 7 months, so it isn't like you will have a newborn and Ro like he is now. Not saying he will get "easier" but that he will be able to understand more and do more things on his own by then. As for the stubbornness, well, weren't you the one who wanted a Taurus? :naughty:

Thanks for everyone's comments on the naps. Blen, I did think he was too young to be dropping naps, so hopefully it's just a phase. This weekend he took 2 but they were both super short. I am going to keep trying for the two naps. We'll see.

Ok well now I see both Henry & Sophia are down to one nap. :nono: I'm going to pretend like I didn't see that and keep trying the two naps for awhile. That is a great thing about having a nanny! :bigsmile:

Eb- Teething. 8 at once is CRAZY. O only has 4, but I think he's teething now, but seems like it might be molars b/c he keeps chewing on his hands and shoving back into the back corners of his mouth. Btw, saw that pic of his face. ;( Poor Henry! He's such a big boy now.

Jas- Sorry about your mom. How are your monkeys doing?
 
Mela, real quick...

Amelia did that transition around 15 months. If you can, push it back a half hour to an hour at a time, getting him to about 12-1pm for a nap (whatever fits in best with your schedule. Amelia's nap ended up being at 1 pm because generally toddlers can go go go better in the morning hours, so it's easiest to stretch that. Hopefully, the idea is that once you push it back, he'll be tired enough to conk out for 1-2 (sometimes even longer) hours at a time. Then it's only T-3 or 4 hours to bedtime.

I liked having Amelia go down at 1 because it meant I could take her out for early lunches at 11:30 and have her back in time for a nap. But her preschool has naptime at 12:30, so you might want to consider that kind of stuff into account. Amelia does not nap at school (I only put her in half days) so it wasn't an issue for us.

Anyway, sounds like your kid is doing the normal things when it comes to sleep!

Doh, such a fly by that I actually forgot to say congrats on #2!
 
Hi all! I guess I'm officially joining you now, Jackson just turned one yesterday! We had a great time with my mom and ils and dh's bro and sis who all came into town to help us celebrate...it was a wonderful couple of days and Jacks adored all the attention, he's such a ham!

China, we've been having some nap issues as well. He went through a phase of not napping well no matter what around 10 months, and I tried playing with his naps a bit, but ended up back at a 9 and 1 schedule. Then a few weeks ago he started fighting his naps again, so I tried just one, and it didn't work well, so I played around again and now he's been napping at 9:30 and 2/2:30 and doing better, although one of them is still often short, but he's in a good mood and seems well-rested most days. It's weird because now that he naps at 2:30 some days, he wakes as late as 4, but he's still ready to go to bed at 6:30 when before he'd often be up from 2-6:30.

Mela, congrats! I've been wondering about you! Has Romeo continued to climb out of his crib, or was it a one-time thing? If he's been keeping it up, I'd definitely think of switching him to a toddler bed.

EB, I can't get a good look in Jackson's mouth for the life of me. He's been teething pretty bad for a while, but still only has 4 teeth. Poor Henry though with the black eye! I really struggle with worry about Jacks, he is SO adventurous and loves to climb on EVERYTHING, and he does often fall even when I'm watching him and trying to keep him safe. He currently has 3 small bruises on his face. He's usually unphased when it happens, but sometimes, when it surprises him, he looks at the thing he fell off of, like "how DARE you hurt me?!?"

Re: #2, I think within the next 6 months to a year we're going to really feel ready, but due to dh being in the Navy and being deployable for the next 3.5 years, we might wait. I don't know if we can wait that long though...we'll have to see. But definitely hearing about everyone who has LO's Jacks's age ttc makes me want to start sooner...it's like a virus!

Hi :wavey: everyone else! I'm going to have to read back the past few pages to see what everyone else is up to.
 
hi mommies....

man, i am way behind. just wanted to pop in and say....

many many congrats MELA!!!

sabine- poor poor jacks!! that sounds really bad with all those teeth!!

things are CRAZY here!! my 7 month old son is pulling himself up on anything and everything. i thought B pulled himself up early....things are flying by with N. we're moved and settled into the new house and B loves it. i like it only because there is so much more to do and so little time to do it.

all this baby talk is really making me want another little baby right now. my 7 month old is not a baby anymore but things are so fun right now but exhausting at the same time not sure i can handle 3 kids. DH and i are seriously considering it though. but ultimately i think i want to wait another year just so i can really enjoy N more when B goes to preschool.

hope everyone is doing well!!! take care mommies!
 
I don't remember who said what, so I'll just comment on the topics that were brought up.

One nap
Meena started the one nap schedule at around 15 months also. It was spotty at first where she would do two naps some days and one nap the others. Eventually it became consistently one nap around 16 months or so. For Meena, the one nap needs to be 3 hours long for her to be well rested.

Newborn and Toddler
My kids are 18 months apart. When I was pregnant, I was really worried about Meena being jealous of the newborn and acting up. But it didn't happen that way at all. Yeah there are some times when she'll want to be the one that get carried, but overall she does very well with her baby brother. She'll do little things to play with him, like making faces and lying next to him. And Jaron just adores her. A lot of time he just watches her play with joy. It's really adorable. It is hard when both kids need/want you, but those moments will pass.

Transfer to Bed
Meena climbed out of her crib at 15 months. Twice on the same time. We decided it's not safe for her to be in a crib anymore, so we got her a full size bed. We could've convert her crib to a toddler bed, but didn't since we were going to use the crib for Jaron. Meena loved the BIG bed, but she no longer went to sleep by herself. We have to lie with her until she falls asleep. At first, we were trying to get her to fall asleep by herself, but now I am ok with lying down with her. MrsS puts it in perspective for me; she won't want to sleep with me forever, so it's nice to get some cuddle time when she is still young.

Birthday Party
Yeah I aggree that party is tiring. We just had Meena's 2nd birthday party last Sat. We had it at a place where they do all the set-up, clean up and even puts everything in our cars, and I was still really tired afterward. Fiery, where's the birthday party pictures?
 
Puffy
You are having baby fever again, huh? MIL had been saying to us that we should have one more kid. She said two is not enough, three is perfect. DH just shaked his head. haha.
 
Just had to tell you all I walked into T's room this morning and she was laying on her changing table ::) She is such a strange kid.
 
Congrats Mela! I am not on this thread much (I assumed it wasn't getting much activity) so missed out on the back story--I assume this wasn't planned. The other ladies gave great advice. We are not TTC'ing or trying but I often wonder how I'd handle 2 and my daughter is almost 2! I do worry about temperment, and about missing that one on one time with my little girl, but to be honest, one of my biggest worries is me. As in do I have the temperament?...sometimes I wonder if I'm a natural mom who could handle multiple young ones at a time. I guess my point is we all have doubts, concerns, fears, but at least in your case the decision is done, so trust your abilities and things will be just fine. Just look at curly :). Congrats again.

Re: sleeping...I'm glad this has been brought up. I have really been struggling with C. No flames since I think I might have created my own monster, but like qtiekiki, C wants to be in my bed and she freaks if I leave. I usually lay with her until she sleeps and move her to her crib. She does not do this with other people (ie for naps with my mom,etc). Now I do treasure the bonding moments since I work all day, but C is also a restless sleeper and sometimes it takes hrs! I need to fix this but don't know where to start. Sometmes I wonder if this means she is ready for a real bed and I can just stay in her room like Qtiekiki or if it's an attachment thing or if it's bad sleeping habits which will be hard to break.
 
haha Tacori, wonder if she was having flashbacks. Did she have a paci, too? P was IN LOVE with her paci (only allowed it for night time of course) and didn't give it up til a little after she turned 3. I often think if I hadn't initiated getting rid of it (although she was ready) that she'd still be using it today.
 
PenelopeJane said:
haha Tacori, wonder if she was having flashbacks. Did she have a paci, too? P was IN LOVE with her paci (only allowed it for night time of course) and didn't give it up til a little after she turned 3. I often think if I hadn't initiated getting rid of it (although she was ready) that she'd still be using it today.
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She *may* have been asleep. Her head was down. She is a binkcoholic. I am in BIG trouble.
 
Oh geez wow. Thanks for all the responses. Why did I go on hiatus from this great place again? lol.

ROMEO IS NAPPING!!! Right now. in the afternoon. HALEJULAH! He hasn't napped in the afternoon since July 15th - so I'm overjoyed. I had to hold him down in his crib kicking and screaming until he ran out of steam to do so....but this is a step in the right direction. The thing is, he's been SO over tired since dropping his afternoon nap, so I KNOW he needs more nap time. urgh.

Okay quickly,

CURLY! Thank you SO much for sharing your experience. I feel terrible inside that I'm so ambivalent about this pregnancy. I too felt like I'd been handed a sentence when I got my BFP. I know that sounds terrible, but I couldn't help it!!
***I don't in anyway take my healthy fertility for granted, and I don't want to come off sounding ungrateful for having good reproductive luck*** It's just that I'm so zapped of energy (iron deficient??) and Romeo's antics have used up any patience I have left. So, as Janine said (well said), the decision has been made for me and I KNOW that in the end I'll be grateful and thankful that it worked out the way it has. If I hadn't got KTFU, I probably would've put off TTC indefinitely. Sounds terrible, but true. I just keep waiting to turn that emotional corner where I start to feel physically better and hope that emotionally I'll start feeling happier too. I spoke to my middie about depression (!?) or some dietary deficiencies that could be causing these dark feelings.

Anyways, I so really appreciate everyone's responses. Thanks for rooting me on when I need it most ::)

Going to lie down now while the boy is sleeping. OMG THE BOY IS SLEEPING! :appl: :appl: :appl:
 
Hi Mommy's! :wavey:

I just had to pop in and say CONGRATULATIONS to one of my faves from the TTC thread!! ::) Mela - wishing you a happy and healthy 9 months!!! So glad to see you back and preggo (we need to spread the Croat love around)!!!

I'm sure it all seems very daunting right now (I'm having twins and although we are THRILLED beyond words for these two precious gifts, sometimes the thought of two babies at the same time makes me a nervous wreck! :errrr: :o ;)) ), but take it day by day and you'll be able to manage both. My sister and I are 15 months apart and my mom has always said she wouldn't have it any other way!

Are you going to come over to the preggo thread anytime soon...no pressure! :Up_to_something: :naughty:
 
Sabine - happy b-day to Jacks!

Mela - It's gotta be so hard being preggo tired and running around after a 14-month old. I feel like you've talked in the past about how you believe mind over matter, right? We all know that you're a great mom and that you CAN do this. Now you need to conince yourself as well. Big hugs.
My mom swears that everytime she felt like she was at her breaking point, the problem-causing stage would get better the next day. It's often been true for me too: just after I feel like I couldn't take sleep issues any more, he started sleeping better at night; when I got to the point where I couldn't deal with cranky teething baby any more, the teething pain finally got better for him and he chippered on up. I really hope that the good nap day continues into the coming days for you.

Ebree - Yay TTC buddies! I'm not sure exactly when we're going to start again, but it will probably be next summer. Or maybe spring? We're thinking of spacing about 3 years apart and it took 3 months last time. I know it's not a great predictor of how long it will take this time (I feel like there was someone on here who had problems the first time and got pregnant the first try the next time, and we have close friends who are struggling with secondary infertility), but it's a starting point I guess. We're buying a house and will want to accomplish some renovation projects and savings goals before paying for full-time daycare for two, so I guess the timeline is also going to depend on how well we're meeting those goals.
 
Janine
You reminded me why we went with a full size bed over a toddler bed. Our nephew has a toddler bed, and he always wants SIL to lie down with him at bedtime. SIL always complains about how the toddler bed is too small for her and how uncomfortable it is, and she is only 4'11". So our choice of a full size bed was for us to be able to lie down comfortably with Meena. It's a good thing we went that route because we have to do that every night. One other thing to consider with transitioning out of a crib to a bed is that they can get down and walk around in the middle of the night. Meena usually walks right over to our room if she wakes up in the middle of the night. Right now, we just let her sleep with us if she comes over. It's not every nights, but it's quite often.

Mela
I don't think you sound terrible at all. Your feelings are normal. Hope you feel better soon, both physically and emotionally. Don't worry, it'll be great.
 
We locked T in her room :Up_to_something: For me, it is all about safety. All the furniture in her room is attached to the wall and I don't want her wondering around at night. She has never freaked out and just calls my name when she is ready to be released.
 
Janine, does she wake up in the middle of the night after you've moved her to the crib? And what is it that you want to accomplish? For C to be able to fall asleep/sleep on her own without you or finding a way to put her to sleep that is more comfortable for you? If it's the latter, then get her a full size bed that you can lie with her in until she falls asleep. If the former, then some hardcore sleep training will need to be done. An attachment habit has been formed--she can't fall asleep at night without you, and moving her out of a crib and into a bed won't solve that problem, but it will make it easier since you'd be able to take the "moving to crib/bed after falling asleep" part out of the equation. Getting rid of the crib and into a big girl bed sounds like a first step though. Or you could bypass all of that and do CIO in the crib, although I don't even know if CIO works for 2 year olds.... maybe some other moms on here can chime in and bounce some ideas around.

Tacori, hahaha! even funnier if she was actually asleep on the changing table. Thought you found her awake and playing on it. After we moved P to her bed, she kept coming to our room at night and we kept bringing her back. Even tried sleeping in the bed with her, but she of course wouldn't stay in the bed and instead played with toys, ran around the room, left the room, bounced on the bed. This went on for over a week so we put a child knob lock thing on the door so that she couldn't get out when she woke up and that fixed everything. No crying or anything, she was like "oh, I can't get out and do anything fun or go see mom and dad,....I'm goin to sleep" We got rid of the lock a while ago since she started going to the bathroom at night.

Qt, I would've been open to doing that with P (or A) but she's a no holds bar kinda girl. Would play/run around and not stay still if I was in the room. I secretly wished that my kids would need me in that way...but so far no go. :wacko:

Mommies TTC #2...exciting!!!
 
Tacori
I don't trust M to be locked inside her room. She is going to raid the closet, and take out all her and J's clothes. Plus she'll probably bangs on the door and yells for us. Last thing I need is two awake kids. hehe.

Penelope
M wants to get down and play too, but I turn off all the lights and tell her that I'll leave the room if she gets down. That's enough to get her to stay in bed. Oh and it was weird but M had been falling asleep by herself since 6 months old, then all of sudden she stopped at 15 months. We did CIO to try to get her back to falling asleep by herself, and it was a total failure that let her to climb out of the crib twice in the same night. We saw her falling onto the floor, and it was enough for us to get her a big bed. Once we got the big bed, there was no way of containing her and getting her to fall asleep by herself. It's definitely not by choice that we have to lie down with her, but we accepted it.
 
qtiekiki said:
Tacori
I don't trust M to be locked inside her room. She is going to raid the closet, and take out all her and J's clothes. Plus she'll probably bangs on the door and yells for us. Last thing I need is two awake kids. hehe.

Penelope
M wants to get down and play too, but I turn off all the lights and tell her that I'll leave the room if she gets down. That's enough to get her to stay in bed. Oh and it was weird but M had been falling asleep by herself since 6 months old, then all of sudden she stopped at 15 months. We did CIO to try to get her back to falling asleep by herself, and it was a total failure that let her to climb out of the crib twice in the same night. We saw her falling onto the floor, and it was enough for us to get her a big bed. Once we got the big bed, there was no way of containing her and getting her to fall asleep by herself. It's definitely not by choice that we have to lie down with her, but we accepted it.
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LOL....that's what J did.
I locked her in the room one afternoon in an attempt to get her to sleep, but only to walk into the room 10 minutes later w/ all the lights (bedroom, bathroom, closet) and fan on, drawers opened w/ her clothes scattered all over the place, and her in a different diaper that she had on earlier :rolleyes: No banging on the doors though :)
 
Mela--
:appl: :appl: congrats on baby #2.
How sweet that it's going to be a valentine baby!
I take it that you'll be surprised w/ this one as well?
Sorry to hear about the nausea and exhaustion.
Hope they lift up soon.

So exciting to see so many of you newly toddler moms TTC for #2 or already baking #2 ^.^
 
Happy Friday Story:

Logan had a stinky diaper -- I told him I was going to go to the bathroom myself and then change his diaper. I walk out of the bathroom, what, a minute or 90 seconds later and Logan is buck nekkid, except for his socks

His tushie is slightly dirty. I see his clothes on the floor next to him, but no diaper.

I clean Logan up and begin searching for the dirty diaper. I pointlessly ask L and Jackson where it is. They both did their "I dunno" shrug hands. (Their father taught them that for giggles.)

I look at J.'s hands -- there's poop on them.

"Jackson, did you help Logan change his diaper?"
He nods.

I look in the diaper pail where we put wet-only diapers...and there is the missing evidence.

Jackson changed Logan's diaper. Well, not completely. He got about 60% of the job done.

That, my friends, is the bonus of twins.

Also, someone in my house may have taught them to refer to themselves as "Two stinky dudes." (Which comes out as "toooo stakky doooods."
 
Jas
LOL. I also have a pair of poopy hands today. I'll spare you the details. It's really gross yet so funny.
 
jas said:
Happy Friday Story:

Logan had a stinky diaper -- I told him I was going to go to the bathroom myself and then change his diaper. I walk out of the bathroom, what, a minute or 90 seconds later and Logan is buck nekkid, except for his socks

His tushie is slightly dirty. I see his clothes on the floor next to him, but no diaper.

I clean Logan up and begin searching for the dirty diaper. I pointlessly ask L and Jackson where it is. They both did their "I dunno" shrug hands. (Their father taught them that for giggles.)

I look at J.'s hands -- there's poop on them.

"Jackson, did you help Logan change his diaper?"
He nods.

I look in the diaper pail where we put wet-only diapers...and there is the missing evidence.

Jackson changed Logan's diaper. Well, not completely. He got about 60% of the job done.

That, my friends, is the bonus of twins.

Also, someone in my house may have taught them to refer to themselves as "Two stinky dudes." (Which comes out as "toooo stakky doooods."
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OMG....ROFLMAO!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

so glad i decidded to peek in on the toddler thread today. you just made my day :lol:
 
Hi all!

I have one final week of house renovations and then... I will have time to be back here rather than researching lighting and blooming taps! I've missed you all :twirl:

Still waiting to hear if DH got the job he's been interviewing for - grrr, but one piece of good news... I passed the Gemmology Foundation - got the results this morning. 93% which is an A, but just missed the distinction by 2% - I hate it when it's so close, I'd rather have missed by a lot more as I just kick myself over the silly errors I made that would have made the difference. Not that it really matters, I only needed a pass to do the next part of the course, but it would have been nice to put on the CV.

Anyway, I'm really happy - and can't wait to start back in September and shake off the 'mommy brain' that is descending again!

Went out last night for my birthday leaving Daisy with FIL's wife's youngest daughter (if that makes sense) who D has only met once before. Was a bit nervous as she's normally awful, but the separation anxiety has been SO much better the last 5 weeks or so that I was hoping we'd maybe turned the corner.

Well, got home to find that she'd cried for a couple of minutes after I left and then settled down to playing, ate most of her supper (which she rarely does for me), then after she'd had her pyjamas put on she walked into our bedroom, climbed up the little set of steps and got into bed and went straight to sleep! Now why can't she do that for me???

She's a mixture of great fun and mad-making at the moment. The tantrums are something else, she's very determined and very independent - wants to do everything herself. Talking is coming on, but she gets furious if I don't understand (which is a lot of the time). She's learnt to say 'eyes' but points to both eyes and nose and won't agree that nose is a different word. Also says socks, nice, chocat (chocolate). ssssss (snake), teddy, dee dee (baby), wow looka dat, what is, what dat, dut (duck) and a load more.

Here's a recent pic... those of you on FB will have seen it already. Anyway, the expression should show exactly what madam is like! She's still tiny - bought some new pyjamas on Thursday aged 9 months and they are HUGE on her!

Daisy August 10.jpg
 
Have read back over the last few pages...

Congratulations Mela! I hope you feel better about it all soon, you're a great mother and I'm sure you'll be fine. Romy is just gorgeous!

For myself, the baby bug isn't biting at all - probably because D is so demanding and I'm constantly exhausted. She almost never naps during the day and if she does it'll be for 30 minutes at 5pm or something which just means she's up all evening!

For those worried about verbal skills - my sister is a speech therapist and neither of her kids spoke at all till they were over the age of two, my brother didn't speak till he was three and neither did my BIL. DH and I both spoke very early - about 7 months - so as far as I can see it all just depends on the child. Although D has a good range of real words and never stops talking gobblydegook, she won't be 'taught' a new word so I just leave her to do things at her own pace.

A couple of questions...

Eating:

For those who are/did breastfeed past one year, how did your kids get on with real food? Daisy is still not overly interested unless it's curry or prawn sandwiches which I can't give her every meal. If I'm lucky she'll eat one meal a day and she won't be fed, she has to do it all herself.

I offer things all the time and they're rejected point blank bar the odd biscuit, I cook her things like scrambled egg and cheese on toast and she just wants to feed them to me! I did give her some cows milk, but she seems to have come out in an eczema type rash on her face and now won't touch it (even chocolate flavoured and she will kill for chocolate) so I'm wondering if she's sensitive to it - most of my family have dairy allergies except me and I've always hated milk and never drunk it.

However she's very keen on mummy milk still - pretty much every 3-4 hours day and night. I don't mind and wouldn't want to see the trauma if I was to suggest stopping - the tantrums if I say she has to wait ever are impressive. She also still sleeps with us and shows no interest in doing anything other than sitting in her crib to read books. We've had such problems with the separation anxiety that I'm not going to push anything now we seem to be coming out of that VERY long phase.

So, long-term bfing moms, did you have similar issues with solids?

Potty training:

When should you start? Is it an idea to move to cloth nappies rather than disposables so that they are more aware?
 
Jas, haha...ha!!

qt, I would've totally done what you did if either of the kids climbed/fell out of the crib like that. Glad it's working out for you.

Hi lili! :wavey: How are you and J these days?

Pandora, D is absolutely adorable. So much personality coming through in that one pic. She is a fiery one, huh. I didn't breastfeed past 1 year so no advice there. As for potty training, I started when P showed interest which for her meant following me to the bathroom, watch me do my business and proceed to take off her diaper and get on the pot herself. I can't remember EXACTLY when that happened, but it was closer to 2...maybe 20 months. She also would tell me that she was peeing/about to pee in her diaper, or just take off her diaper. You'll know.

Enjoying some wine and DH is picking out a movie for us to watch on Netflix....aren't we so adventurous. :cheeky:
 
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