Young Toddler Check in 2/11

[turquoisequeen]

This is a bi-weekly check in for the young toddlers (12-24 mo). Please feel free to jump right in and just let me know the birth month and year of your young toddler (then I won't have to update the ages every month)! We would love to have you join us!


jlincoln and gratefulandthankful – there’s a 2-3 year old check in now!


March 2015
luvboston
mrswillie
wibblywobbly

April 2015
gsancho
jszy10
@professorchaos

May 2015
jessimi06
sunshinedaisies
turquoisequeen

June 2015
katemonster

July 2015
mnj05
ampaints
nutmeg8484

August 2015
richzep

Sept 2015
ruthie
Smootiepie
SweetieShellie

Oct 2015
aves0708
bluefairy5
bostongirl617
@buttmonkey
@ketchup
snd1231

Nov 2015
firstbbq
kensie5226
k1111k
mrspotatohead91

Dec 2015
rainbowbridge14
kate61487

Jan 2016
nikiswimr
MellyKnu
shytimes


1. Accomplishments/fun stuff?
2. Challenges?
3. How are the adults?
QOTW: If you could magically acquire a skill without putting time or effort into it, what would it be?
Oh and always feel free to include a pic of your LO(s) if you want!

[kate61487]

Fun stuff: we got first haircuts today! Pics below, they were super chill and while they didn't exactly sit still there was no fussing so I'm counting it as a win.

Challenges: little guys are sick again. Another cold /congestion /coughing. I just want them to be healthy and be able to breathe

Adults are good

QOTW: hmmm I'd say maybe speaking a foreign language? I used to be semi fluent in Spanish but I haven't used it in quite some time. That or maybe mad cooking skills would be nice.

PDQ- before and after haircuts

[turquoisequeen]

I think I have everyone updated but let me know if I missed ya.

1. DS has been so fun to play with lately. The words he knows and learns amaze me and he can follow directions well when he wants to. He's gotten good at "helping" me with diaper laundry.

2. Had his first full on throw self on the floor tantrum. For over 20 minutes. Thankfully it was at home. The only thing that stopped it was me going to hide so he couldn't see me. Also the climbing... ugh. He doesn't seem to understand getting hurt or have any fear of falling. Makes me so nervous we will end up with a broken bone or something soon.

3. We are all finally over sickness thank goodness. Knock on all the wood. We have been getting ready for baby girl arrival next week. It flew by. We had a nice date night which I'm sure we won't do again for a long time.

QOTW: toss up between fluent in another language or musical skill.. like great singer or playing the guitar.

[rainbowbridge14]

She has been using a spoon for awhile but seems to have gotten super good at it recently. I can hand her one and she will happily eat a bowl full of yogurt alone. She also has learned the words cold, poop, and bubbles lately. Bubbles might be my favorite!

We were a little too free with letting her watch videos on our phones last weekend while at social events and it led to insane tantruming this week. My kid apparently has an addictive personality for muppets videos.

Adults are better today. The week was tough and I was feeling resentful towards H but it is getting better. Currently dying my hair and rinking wine while he puts the baby down.

QOTW: I would love to be able to do n extreme sport with cool tricks, like snow boarding or skateboarding.

[MellyKnu]

turquoisequeen, next week?! How is that possible?! So exciting! Do you need somebody to cover the next check in or two while you're in the fresh newborn haze?

AFM, Ro is doing great! Her vocabulary keeps expanding. Her favorite word right now is 'more.' She's said it quite a few times when we ask if she wants more. Then today DH closed the bag of snacks and moved to put it on the table and she screamed 'MORE!' Which really sounds like 'mah.' It was adorable and frightening. She's acting way more toddlery this week. In every way, except for actually toddling.

Challenges... really they're mine, not hers. I had surgery last week so spending more than 20 minutes at a time with her is exhausting, even as limited as our interaction is right now. I feel like there's distance between us, which has me down, but it's definitely getting better!

QOTW: Um. If I'm being honest, sex. I'm not all that into it so I don't have any confidence or sense of adventure really. I pretty much just let him take the lead. I just want to be a sex goddess without having to go through the awkward trials and errors to see what really works.

[turquoisequeen]

MellyKnu if you wanted to cover the next check in or 2 that would be awesome!! Let me know if you need anything from me but usually I just copy and paste from the past one and re-add all the @ before the names so that it tags everyone.

Hope your surgery recovery goes well!

[richzep]

I LOVE this age. Super playful. Saying more words. Communicating. Hugging.

My challenge has been danny recently. His tantrums and drama are out of control. He throws himself on the ground for any random reason and then stays there crying and screaming for the longest time. Cant figure out if he's teething and needs comfort, or if he's testing me.

Adults are tired. Three toddlers is super tiring. There's nothing crazy going on but it's always non stop.

Qotw: id love to be someone who has more patience. Or is more calm. I'm not calm by nature.

[mnj05]

1. Sign language is going well! G is learning signs at daycare and using them at home more often.

2. G has two words and isn't trying to imitate us for any other words, at least it doesn't seem like it. I don't want to call EI just yet, DS1 didn't talk until 2+, but I also feel like DS1 started imitating a little more at this age. I need to go look in his baby book to see.

3. Adults are running ragged. DH is still super busy at work and the busy season will hit in about a month. I've been given the cheer coach position at school and tryouts are around the corner. I'm very overwhelmed with trying to fit practices into our schedule along with pre tee-ball that DS1 just started this weekend. We'll figure out a balance though, it'll take time.

QOTW - fluency in Spanish. I remember some, but I can't pick up on it near as well as I used to.

[MellyKnu]

Feb 12, 2017 8:38:46 GMT -5 turquoisequeen said:

MellyKnu if you wanted to cover the next check in or 2 that would be awesome!! Let me know if you need anything from me but usually I just copy and paste from the past one and re-add all the @ before the names so that it tags everyone.

Hope your surgery recovery goes well!

You got it! I'll plan on doing the next two. I'm going to add them to my calendar now so I don't forget. Haha!

[aves0708]

I think I've missed this check in for the last month! K is in the last week of 15 months.

1. Accomplishments/fun stuff?
She is currently very into waving. She's been waving for awhile but she just started doing to EVERYBODY. It's so cute and everybody loves waving back to her. When I put her down for a nap she waves to me as a I walk out the door. She melts my heart.

2. Challenges?
DH and I both had a nasty cold and K ended up catching it but it wreaked a lot more havoc on her little body. She ended up having bad diarrhea, she was pooping about 6-8 times a day for about four days. She was happily eating and drinking so pedi wasn't worried but she ended up with a terrible diaper rash. Everytime she pooped we had to dunk her in the sink or bathtub to clean her up, she was running around the house diaperless as much as possible but that led to a few incidents of pooping and peeing on the floor and lots of clean up. It's been a long week. She is finally do so much better and her bottom is still red but improving daily.

3. How are the adults?
Exhausted from cleaning up so much poop lol

QOTW: If you could magically acquire a skill without putting time or effort into it, what would it be?
Language for sure. I continually try to keep up my Spanish but without having anyone to really speak it with I don't know if I'll ever really be fluent.

[ampaints]

Hi all! M is only 18 months for 10 more days!

He's really doing great catching up on his gross motor skills. He doing everything the physical therapist has asked stop far, much of it he just naturally started doing 2 days after his last appointment. He's also still just so happy all of the time and charms everyone with his smile.

He isn't picking up new words. He's still chatting, but very few words. The plan is to move to speech therapy once we're done with physical therapy, so I'm eager to have that transition happen.

Adults are good. H has been great about ensuring I take me time, I've actually gone out a night for the past three weekends. It's H's birthday today as well and we had a fun weekend together.

I would love to play the trumpet or violin.

PDQ


Playing at the park this weekend.

[kensie5226]

Hey ya'll E is just over 15 months. She's a tiny tornado. I swear to you this child never stops moving. This weekend I scored a used indoor slide, a big girl wagon, and a trike for 65 bucks. I'm so jazzed. She's talking a lot she just added apple, moo (for cow), up, down, yes, and oddly octopus to her repertoire. She's babbling up a storm and my little chatty cathy clearly has a ton to say, I just wish I could understand her.

She does the big kid playground by herself, I just sit back (close by) and let her do it. She's also started using the big kids swing. She uses utensils which is nice because I can sit her down with breakfast while I get ready in the morning. She's also started peeling her own oranges and insists on eating an apple like a grown up. She's so much fun.

She finally hit 18lbs and she's up to 18 months in some shirts.

[kensie5226]

QOTW: math. I wanted to go into science, but despite all of my diligent efforts (not joking) I'm just not a math-brained person.

[nikiswimr]

Hi ladies!

E is 12.5 months.

Fun stuff: I was home with her for the last week (amazing!) so really got to see how fun she is these days! She is constantly moving, running, doing well on uneven ground, and now spins in circles. We're working on a spoon. It only works with Greek yogurt which sticks to it, everything else is still getting dumped. She has a lot of words. This week she added "shoes" and "more". She knows her body parts and some animals. I swear everyday I realize something new she knows. Such a fun age!

Challenges: she's been sick again, and every time she gets sick, sleep goes completely to hell. So we're all tired. Also I was super sad to go to work and leave her today.

Adults: ok, working on prioritizing our relationship. Going on vacation in early March (without little E, sob) which will be good for us.

QOTW: I would love to be able to acquire languages. Particularly Spanish would be so helpful for my job! But it would be cool to be able to understand/speak Vietnamese as well with MH's family.

My busy bee, always in motion!

[gsancho]

Hello! Camila is doing OK...frekin' ear infection came back last week, so several sleepless nights later, we were back at the doctor's. We're just about done with the antibiotics she can take, so they have to give her antibiotic shots 3 days in a row and we see Thursday if that seemed to have kicked the ear infection for good. If not, we'll have to do ear tubes.

So the adults were not so great this week, as we were only getting 2-3 hours of sleep each night. This weekend we played a little catch up, but her sleep schedule is still out of wack. At least the weather was nice, so we got some good outside play time in.

QOTW:I always wanted to do some form of gymnastics or tumbling. But I didn't want to actually commit the time to it.

This is about 2 weeks old, but I love it. Playing at the park!

[shytimes]

rainbowbridge14 and nikiswimr spoons are currently projectile devices. I give her one though, and she loves it. She holds it while she eats with the other hand.

MellyKnu wishing you a speedy recovery!

turquoisequeen helping is the best! hope all goes well!

kensie5226 she sounds like someone I'd like to hang with. Will she peel my oranges?

gsancho hope she's on the mend for real!

[shytimes]

12.75 months ish.

I'm waiting for all the fun the 15 month olds are having... those kids seem awesome.

Accomplishments: she is getting very good at "strolling" and even has a bit of a turbo walk/skip/run.

Challenges: had a cold / teething spell last week. I think she's poking out 3 teeth this time. Yikes.

Adults: I'm exhausted, just exhausted. And we need to prioritize our relationship as per some of the others here. Oh, and we're talking about a home renovation / potential build. Because that's definitely a great idea.

QOTW: Is the ability to effortlessly clean without it taking time / always keeping things neat and tidy a skill? No? Ok, then I'd like to learn 4-5 languages in one shot. Spanish, Mandarin, Hindi, French, aaaaand I'm stumped, maybe German.

[bluefairy5]

1. Accomplishments/fun stuff?
She started STTN while she was sick a couple weeks ago... and has kept it up ever since! (She'll probably wake at 11:00 tonight, now that I wrote that.) She's doing Itsy Bitsy motions and stacking cups/blocks as high as she can (and then applauding for herself) and the climbing and twirling and dancing is getting pretty adorable. Also, she wants to walk around our building hallways now, rather than be carried. She gets so excited when she walks back through our front door.

2. Challenges?
She was a pretty open-minded eater as a baby. Then around 11 months she started spitting out vegetables mid-chew. Then more recently she's apparently over anything she can tell is meat. I have to go crack open some info about picky eater toddlers. When I mentioned the vegetable thing at the pedi/15 months, the doc was pretty *shrug* about it, so I figure it's a variety of normal. (As opposed to, say, a SPD thing.)

3. How are the adults?
Too much work. So much tired, even with the STTN.

QOTW: It's a tossup between getting my French or my piano skills back. Probably the French.

[kensie5226]

bluefairy5, E won't eat most meat. I can get her to eat some white meat chicken and some salmon, but she's pretty meh on the rest of it.

[turquoisequeen]

It's so interesting many of us would like to easily know another language or 2... I really wish the US took it as seriously as other countries where kids in preschool and school there are learning 2-3 languages.

[luvboston]

1. Ds was an angel in Minnesota. And we graduated from Neurosurgery this week!
We will only go back if the neurologists thinks it is ever necessary.
2. Hitting DS2 all of a sudden he does everything even across the room to piss ds1 off.
3. We got very unpleasant news in Minnesota. I've been trying to dig myself out of a ditch all weekend about it. DS needs shoulder reconstruction surgery and they think the damage on the right is permanent this is as good as we are going to get. Also they have no clue what's wrong with him in terms of his current problems and the neurosurgeon agrees that no one will know so to start living like this is it. So I sit here trying to contemplate stopping here for a while or continuing on to find someone anywhere on the planet that could help.
Q: sewing, knitting and handyman type stuff.

[turquoisequeen]

luvboston glad he was great in Minnesota but that is such tough news to get. I'm sure that is a hard decision too as I know you feel like this has been so consuming. Hugs!

[dp21]

Yo,

I'd like to be added!

My DD is January 2015!!!

1. Accomplishments/fun stuff? She is able to name pictures when we are reading and it impresses me how she knows every time!!!!
2. Challenges? She loves television and I'm good about limits but hubby is not so it's always a battle.
3. How are the adults? I'm going crazy right now, hubby is out of town and G woke up yesterday at 3am vomiting all over the place. Having to do two middle of night baths, 4 loads of vomit laundry, and miss my clinical day for school has increased my stress levels. Luckily Gram is coming today because I have my endometrial scratch today.
QOTW: If you could magically acquire a skill without putting time or effort into it, what would it be? I'd love to be a mom who could knit or crochet and enjoy it. I don't think I have the patience to actually learn it.
Oh and always feel free to include a pic of your LO(s) if you want!

[luvboston]

dp21 sorry things are so rough! I don't know how DH lets her watch tv but YouTube kids has a timer where it will shit off.

[dp21]

luvboston , omg love youtube kids! Huge fan of it. I'm fine with her watching tv everyday but I like to keep it to no more than 1.5 hours. Usually 10 minutes in morning on youtube kids to brush her hair and movie or sesame street at night. But the hubby will let her watch two disney movies because it's "easy" or when she is upset his response is putting on a movie because she will calm right down and sit for him lol. Maybe I should encourage him when he has to urge to put on a movie to give her 15 minutes of Youtube kids. I'd rather have that.