Toddler Fun

That’s life

April 10, 2012

Oh hey look! A blog post. Actually this was just a test to see if I even remembered my password to get into this site. Turns out I do. I guess that’s the upside to using one of the same three passwords for every. single. thing. I’d like to say I’ve recommitted myself to writing [...]

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Grounded.

February 23, 2012

I’m rocking him back and forth in the white glider and softly singing my favorite James Taylor song.  A short afternoon nap and full bottle has made him sleepy and he looks at me with that same milk drunk look that he had when he was an infant and was half of his current size.  I smile at [...]

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Reorganization

February 21, 2012

Tonight, over a dinner of sloppy joes and macaroni and cheese, Chessa announces, “I’m the mommy, I’m the mommy, I’m the mommy!”  “What?!” I answer with a laugh. “Chessa, I AM the Mommy.” “No. You can be the doggie.”  Well, ok then.    and for the record, we don’t even have a dog. 

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Two

February 2, 2012

Sometimes I think she’s going to be two forever.  Or two going on 13, as it is.  Tonight, Chessa looked at me square in the face, right after I told her I was not going to be banished to my bedroom while she and Craig and Cole played in the living room.  “Mommy is going [...]

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{Let’s Discuss} Toddler Sleep Schedules

January 4, 2012

Can we talk about how much your kiddo  sleeps? Or more specifically what time your child goes to bed and then falls asleep.  Since about the time I had Cole, Chessa started taking a long time – sometimes up to an hour – to wind down after we put her to bed. She wasn’t crying or fussing or yelling, [...]

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Delay of game

January 3, 2012

“But I CAN’T take a bath because I have to go downstairs!” she insisted with tears streaming down her face and a voice at a level that was dangerously close to waking up her I just got him to sleep little brother. I handed her the doll she got for Christmas, the one made for [...]

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The Grinch Clearly Didn’t Have A Two Year Old

December 21, 2011

Christmas has always been a magical but crazed time. Before there were babies in my life there was juggling multiple dinners and making sure every last aunt and uncle were hugged and kissed. There was shopping for the perfect present for Craig and getting frustrated because he’s so damn hard to buy for. This year, [...]

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No, YOU be the patient parent

December 19, 2011

When people ask me what it’s like to have two kids so close together and so young, I usually laugh and say that it’s wonderful.  Hard. But wonderful.  Then I tell them that someone is usually crying. I tell them I didn’t know children so young could fight so much.  I tell them that one [...]

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Weekends were made for this

November 30, 2011

A Sunday afternoon earlier this month.   Finding joy and happiness in the simplest of things.  Like a game of hopscotch.  And learning to jump.  When the weather was cool but not cold. When the leaves had fallen off the trees and the calendar said we should be pulling out mittens and heating chocolate, but the [...]

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So this is what my wit’s end looks like.

November 27, 2011

“We had a rough day today, didn’t we, buddy?” I said to my youngest.  He’s teething, fighting a cold and getting pushed around by his big sister.  The day wasn’t much better for Chessa.  She spent it fighting the same cold, getting put in time out more times than I have fingers on one hand [...]

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