Bree - After my first the urge to have a second was really strong just after he turned one - and at 15 months old, I was pregnant again with Sophie!!! Must be a hormonal thing...but this time no urges at all!!!!!! Two is hard work - three seems too daunting!
Cass - How's Robert's asthma? My son has asthma in winter when he gets sick - hard to get used to! My Sophie is a biter - she has learnt it is the only way she can get back at her older brother as he cries. She is worse when she is teething. We do the time out thing and make her sorry (solly is her words).
Deedles - I hope your boys are better. My two were sick for the first three weeks on june and it is exhausting!!! You just battle through!
Fiejola Mum - I love the fast walk action - so cute. Soph's 4 molars were all moving at once too. The top two are through and the bottom two are nearly right through.
Roxie - breakfast ideas are baked beans, poached or scrambled eggs, sausages, cheese on toast....these are favourites in my house. I find this age is where they start the battle re food as well as sitting to eat. Soph is out of the high chair - has been since 11 months and sit at a little table she gets up and down out of the seat but is improving. I read some great advice (can't remember where) that said think about your child's eating balance over a week - not a day or a meal. Some days they eat more and others less. Some days great food variety and others not but over that week if it seems pretty good then great! I thought this advice was great as then you don't get into battles over a meal and this is the age for trying any strategy to get attention!!! Damn them for working that out!!!!
It has been super busy here - with balancing work and home and sick kids for nearly all of june. But we made it through, as always.
I went to this horrible paed in May about Sophie's constant waking at night as I was worried she may have food intolerances and he told how it was all my fault because I don't control cry that she doesn't sleep. He was so condescending trying to show me sleep cycles as through I was an uneducated twit - little did he know that I have studies development psych at uni!
Anyway I have her on lactose free formula at the moment and she is beginning to sleep (at times) for blocks of 5 hours. My son is lactose intolerant and I thought I would give it a go.
I have also stopped breastfeeding. Whilst she was sick she just stopped and now its been three weeks, so I guess it's all done! It has been a long breastfeeding history for me. 18mths with my son who stopped when I was 5 mths pregnant with Soph - a couple of months off while pregnant - then 15 months with Sophie! So I am happy to have my body back and glad she just stopped of her own accord and I was starting to wish she would finish up!!!
In the last week or so I have found Sophie becoming more and more independent and just that little bit easier - which is great! I remember loving 18mths - 2yrs with Will and am hoping Sophie hits that beautiful phase soon - they just love exploring the world and have some skills to do so but the massive tanties haven't started!!!
The development is so rapid at this age too isn't it...a couple of weeks go by and you look at them and think - how did you get to be like this so quickly!!! Every day more and more words are used and they interact as a part of the family....so cute!!!!
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