Toddler Check-in (1/19)

[threetexans]

Age: 16.5 months


Milestones: M is starting to crawl! She still prefers her butt scoot though. Her PT honestly did not think she would learn to crawl until well after she learned to walk.


Challenges: The molar from hell is still not in. 2 months and counting. It's getting close though. She has become the pickiest eater. It's making meal times a real challenge.


Funny/cute stories: She has a small stuffed baby doll in her bed, along with a Wubbanub. Every time we get her out of her crib, she wants you to pick up her baby ant hug and pat it. She might offer her Wubbanub to you too.


How are you? Pretty good. Feeling a little overwhelmed with the big baby item purge that I'm doing. Boy we have a lot of crap! It also makes me sad that we won't be having another.


QOTW: How did you choose your SN? On TB I was twotexans, when we were TTC. Now there are 3 Texans living under our roof.

[ksyknelvr73]

Age: He will be FOUR on Valentine's Day - how did that happen?


Milestones: The biggest thing at the moment is writing letters/words. He isn't able to read anything really yet, but he can recognize some words just by sight (like his name, my name, his brother's name, etc).


Challenges: Mostly just attitude/behavior stuff. He talks back a lot. He's a great kid but only recently has been telling me "no" or completely ignoring me when I tell him to do something. It frustrates me to no end, but I'm trying to stop it as best I can. This kind of goes hand in hand with this time of year, b/c DH is a baseball coach and so he won't be around much, at least during the week, until May. I'll be on my own with both boys and when DS1 has his "difficult" days, those are rough.


Funny/cute stories: Well, while it's not cute that he was/is sick (he has strep throat), he keeps telling me "Mommy, I think I have a FEBER." He says it in the most pitiful, sweet way. I mean, he really did have a fever the first couple times, but not anymore...he is trying to milk it though


How are you? Good. I started exercising again. I told myself once DH started baseball I was going to do it, b/c he won't be home to bother me or make (haha) me lounge around on the couch watching TV all evening (after the boys go to bed). I've walked in our neighborhood two days in a row and I did 30 Day Shred last night.


QOTW: How did you choose your SN? I already answered this on the Infant Check-In, but it's b/c I liked the Nascar driver Kasey Kahne. Stupid.

[lilmizsunshine68]

Age: 13.5 months


Milestones: She now says "Pipuh" which is supposed to be Piper which is our dog's name. So in other words, she gained a new word. It's adorbs.


Challenges: I feel like a broken record. My kid has never and it feels like will never sleep through the night.


Funny/cute stories: She tried to get me to play like a dog this morning, by shoving her toys in my mouth like she does with our dog and her toys. It was pretty comical


How are you? Ummmmmmmmm...pretty good. The weather here has been pretty the last few days and that is totally a mood booster.


QOTW: How did you choose your SN? Umm I took sunshine from TB took off the last two 88s from my sn and then added the lilmiz bc i have used that before other places. I wanted to be sunnydaysarehereagain but that was too long and didnt think about sunnydaysrhereagain until pink mentioned it. Oh well.

[puglife5869]

Age: 22 months


Milestones: we are going to try potty training this weekend. I'm scared! I think she is ready and I feel like we are in this weird limbo where she uses the potty but knows she doesn't have to so it's becoming a power struggle. So the diapers are going in the trash. ?


Challenges: she is just now getting over croup which was fun. The doctor gave her steroids which helped a lot but that meant that she hasn't been sleeping well and that means tantrums. Lots and lots of tantrums. Also balancing my time between her and the new babe has been tricky.

Funny/cute stories: My DH was watching football this last weekend and M decided she didn't want to watch that. She took the remote to him and said "no ball. Mickey tv". Although tv sounds more like "vv". I died laughing.

How are you? I'm doing ok. Had a little bout with PPA but I think we have it under control now. I'm feeling better every day.


QOTW: how did you choose your screen name?
I actually did a poll back on tb PAL to change it from my email and this is the one that was picked. That was probably over a year ago. I love pugs and gave had several although we currently only have one.

[muirmaid]

Can I pull up a chair? I love my BMB to death, but some days I've wished I had a different space to talk about my loss (and newfound TTC stress) so I don't feel like I'm the board Eeyore over there! I had a surprise BFP when my son was 13 months, and my husband and I were just wrapping our heads around it when I miscarried at nine weeks. We're coming up on the one year anniversary of that pregnancy and subsequent loss, and it's harder for me than I thought it would be. @enchanted suggested I come hang out here, so I figure you must be good people.

Age: Sebastian is almost 19 months. (Is it time to drop that level of accuracy and just say 1.5 yo?)


Milestones: He's a big talker and seems to acquire new words all the time--it's so fun! Tonight I asked if he could say pistachio, and it was one of the best things I've ever heard in my life. He cracks me up.


Challenges: We have really, really struggled with BF since day 1, and I finally threw in the towel last week. Sebastian hasn't ever been the sort of kid who just lays down and goes to sleep, so removing the only reliable sleep aid has been pretty rough. Thank goodness my husband is patient!


Funny/cute stories: He started in the toddler room at DC this week, and has added the phrase, "No! Nein!" to his vocabulary. I'm not sure if one of the DC workers has a sense of humor about German or if he's actually saying "mine," but it's been pretty entertaining lately.


How are you? I'm okay. I really, really wish I were pregnant, I'm having a tough time with all the announcements on my BMB, and the late pregnancy talk is somehow even harder. My whole body just aches to be pregnant again. My little Goldfish would be
almost three months old now.

QOTW: How did you choose your SN? My original name on TB had parts of my actual name, so I asked to switch to something less personal. I'm a crunchy hippie at heart, so John Muir seemed like a good namesake!