Oh how I love you! You are so funny and cute and spirited! You still love puzzles and playing pretend! Recently you have been all about your princess dresses and "glass slippers" (really just white. Toddler dress shoes or hot pink water shoes). In fact, two nights ago you insisted in sleeping with your dress over your pjs! You have also gotten a little to brave when climbing lately. We have thus had to rearrange the living room a bit but you still try to climb up on the arm of her couch and jump down onto the cushions. We have been trying to channel this energy in a safer way by making a mountain of cushions on he floor which is working pretty well so far but we might have to introduce time outs in the near future.
You speak just like a little adult now. Everything is in sentences, sometimes quite impressive ones. In fact, you have progressed from using "no" frequently (and event went through an 'ow' phase), to using the word "not" when disagreeing with us. :P It is very cute especially when used like "I think not".
Temper tantrums have crept up in number, but they don't really last that long, so we haven't had anything too traumatic yet. Usually I just offer a hug but you don't usually want one, so I wait until you are ready and then you will calm down a bit and I will hold you until you are relaxed. It can be hard sometimes, when you get mad about things that are pointless to adults, or something that I can't do anything about (or when you get so frustrated you can't decide what you want). But you are so funny and fun and sweet most of the time that it makes up for all of the crankiness anyway! We have been very busy lately and it's been hard to keep up with these monthly updates but I will continue them as long as I can!!
***Updated to add that a favorite past time lately has been taking on and off your Velcro sneakers, again and again and again! :p
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Things I always want to remember....
When Kylie is Alvin, Daddy is Dave and I am "Theodawrf"
Today you made up a song that said "Dr. Suess you have to brush your teeth. Brush brush your teeth."
Today you made up a song that said "Dr. Suess you have to brush your teeth. Brush brush your teeth."
Thursday, August 20, 2015
Ages and Stages: 2 Years!!
Forgive me for being a few days late but I wanted to wait until after your doctors appointment so I would have accurate stats for weight and height. Which are, 21lbs (1% at our doctors office) and 34 inches (55%). And your head is at
Kylie you are so incredible! I want to remember everything, because you say about a dozen hilarious things a day, but sadly, I often don't even remember them long enough to tell Daddy at the end of the day. At this exact moment I am sitting on the floor beside you attempting to type this and remember what I want to say, while you are looking at a Sesame Street calendar from 1990 that Memere kept for Daddy haha. Wow, talk about coming full circle! You find the pictures very interesting.
Okay, so you still absolutely love puzzles and really like the body puzzle I got you for your birthday. You also are very into dinosaurs right now and Daddy found you a nice play set for your birthday as well. You still LOVE to play pretend and most recently you have been pretending that you are Fozzie, I am Miss Piggy and Daddy is Kermit OR that you are "D.W.", I am Binky, and Daddy is Mr. Ratburn LOL!!! Another thing that cracks me up is this new game that you just started where you force me to look into my closet, Daddy to look into his closet and then you run into your room too look in your closet and then say "I have books in my closet" and name anything else you see. We have also played a pretty fun game where I pretend to be Santa and you tell me what you want for Christmas and so do all your toys. You will make up your own songs by singing gibberish to the melody of songs you know. You can count up to 18! You are a great little helper and love to do things "all by myself" as you would put it. :)
You have been eating really well lately! And since we weaned a few weeks ago you have been sleeping through the night more than ever! Sometimes you still wake up once though and ask for a snack.
Kylie you are so incredible! I want to remember everything, because you say about a dozen hilarious things a day, but sadly, I often don't even remember them long enough to tell Daddy at the end of the day. At this exact moment I am sitting on the floor beside you attempting to type this and remember what I want to say, while you are looking at a Sesame Street calendar from 1990 that Memere kept for Daddy haha. Wow, talk about coming full circle! You find the pictures very interesting.
Okay, so you still absolutely love puzzles and really like the body puzzle I got you for your birthday. You also are very into dinosaurs right now and Daddy found you a nice play set for your birthday as well. You still LOVE to play pretend and most recently you have been pretending that you are Fozzie, I am Miss Piggy and Daddy is Kermit OR that you are "D.W.", I am Binky, and Daddy is Mr. Ratburn LOL!!! Another thing that cracks me up is this new game that you just started where you force me to look into my closet, Daddy to look into his closet and then you run into your room too look in your closet and then say "I have books in my closet" and name anything else you see. We have also played a pretty fun game where I pretend to be Santa and you tell me what you want for Christmas and so do all your toys. You will make up your own songs by singing gibberish to the melody of songs you know. You can count up to 18! You are a great little helper and love to do things "all by myself" as you would put it. :)
You have been eating really well lately! And since we weaned a few weeks ago you have been sleeping through the night more than ever! Sometimes you still wake up once though and ask for a snack.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Weaning During World Breastfeeding Week
It's been a week with no breastfeeding and I think it's safe to say we have officially weaned. I was afraid to post anything before in case I might jinx it, and maybe somehow I still will. But so far everything has been going really well. I ended up putting band aids over my nipples and telling Kylie they needed a rest. She cried for about ten minutes the first night but then let me bounce her to sleep, although this did take a really long time because she was being extras fidgety trying to fight sleep (and boy can she when she tries). Then when she woke up around four the next morning she just let me rock her in the chair. The next night it was easier to put her to sleep but when she woke up she was more sad. Since then most nights have been pretty easy (some really easy) but there were two that she was extra tired and a little more cranky. But I think that is more just the regular patterns of a two year old than anything to do with breastfeeding. She doesn't even ask to nurse anymore. Now instead of telling me "it's time to nurse", she says "mommy's boobies are alllllll gone".
I'm a little sad, ideally she would have let go on her own, but I think I would have had more luck with that had I stopped nursing her to sleep when she was younger. But really I'm mostly happy and relieved it is going so well. I'm actually surprised I'm not more sad and in some ways it just feels normal. Since it has been so gradual and I have been working up to this point for basically the last six months, taking out this last step of nursing at bedtime and night hasn't really changed our routine that much. I'm also super happy to find that because we had nursed so rarely, my boobs have been adjusting really really well. It hasn't even been as bad as when I would just skip a feeding back when we were nursing regularly. The first day was no problem, the second day was pretty full, and the third day was quite full but still I hadn't felt like I really need to express anything out to be comfortable. And by the fourth day they had started to get soft again! I didn't even need to use those cabbage leaves I bought!
I think another surprise of weaning has been how proud I feel. I was expecting to feel guilty because I'm usually feeling mom guilt of some sort, but I really just feel very proud that we made it to two years! There were definitely times when I doubted myself, and especially during this second year I wondered if I was making a bad habit that I would never be able to stop. But now I just feel more confident that I did exactly what I wanted to do and everything worked out fine!!
Weaning during this week has meant many breastfeeding articles and pictures on my Facebook newsfeed to remind me that we are no longer nursing. I thought great, this is just going to make me sad, but really it has again just made me feel really proud and appreciative of our breastfeeding journey.
I'm a little sad, ideally she would have let go on her own, but I think I would have had more luck with that had I stopped nursing her to sleep when she was younger. But really I'm mostly happy and relieved it is going so well. I'm actually surprised I'm not more sad and in some ways it just feels normal. Since it has been so gradual and I have been working up to this point for basically the last six months, taking out this last step of nursing at bedtime and night hasn't really changed our routine that much. I'm also super happy to find that because we had nursed so rarely, my boobs have been adjusting really really well. It hasn't even been as bad as when I would just skip a feeding back when we were nursing regularly. The first day was no problem, the second day was pretty full, and the third day was quite full but still I hadn't felt like I really need to express anything out to be comfortable. And by the fourth day they had started to get soft again! I didn't even need to use those cabbage leaves I bought!
I think another surprise of weaning has been how proud I feel. I was expecting to feel guilty because I'm usually feeling mom guilt of some sort, but I really just feel very proud that we made it to two years! There were definitely times when I doubted myself, and especially during this second year I wondered if I was making a bad habit that I would never be able to stop. But now I just feel more confident that I did exactly what I wanted to do and everything worked out fine!!
Weaning during this week has meant many breastfeeding articles and pictures on my Facebook newsfeed to remind me that we are no longer nursing. I thought great, this is just going to make me sad, but really it has again just made me feel really proud and appreciative of our breastfeeding journey.
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Weaning III
Still having so many mixed feelings around weaning. Part of me is really feeling the pressure and doubting myself a bit for even deciding to breastfeed this long. I really thought it would be easier if I waited until she was older, and it was relatively easy the time I tried last week. I mean she didn't really want to go to sleep, she kept fidgeting but there weren't really any tears. But the next day she pinched her finger in the door and I couldn't wean my baby while she was in pain! Fast forward to this week and she has been having a pretty rough time even going down for naps without nursing (we haven't used to sleep for nap but she has been crying for it). Which hasn't happened in over a month! Yesterday was the first day all week she fell asleep at nap happy, and so at bedtime I decided to try again, and it actually worked again with little fuss. She fell asleep after like 45 min of rocking/bouncing (oh yes I am aware I'm just replacing one bad habit with another but that is how I roll) but then she woke up when I laid her down and it was the end of that! And I gave in again! Gah! Why!? I just feel like I am failing major on this one. And now I have to decide if I just try it again and this time don't give in, or maybe let her nurse but not to sleep. That way I can get rid of the nursing to sleep before I actually take away the nursing all together. But then I really feel like the only thing that is keeping the nursing around is as a way to fall asleep, and its not really necessary to keep it. But maybe it would be gentler. I guess I could try it. Yet, I'm really over all of this and would love for it to just be behind us and trying the second way will just prolong it. Now that we are approaching two years, I feel like we are probably making some people start to wonder. And I hate that I care! I hate that I am letting them make me doubt myself! So I'm trying to figure out what part of my feelings are coming from a feeling like I have to wean because that's what everyone expects, or my own feelings that I really want to wean. Of course there are times when I feel like breastfeeding is inconvenient and I would love a little more freedom, but there are other times when I think about how I will be sad when it's over. While rocking her to sleep these past few days for nap and at night I keep thinking about her as a baby, and how she is so big now, but still my baby. How fast it all went and how there is so much letting go little by little in parenting, and how this will just be the beginning of many years ahead. I used to think I could only do it till two, and then as it gets closer I think I could probably go longer if I really wanted too. I totally understand why people let there kids self wean and I sometimes wish I could trust myself enough to go that path. But I also want to get pregnant. Which thus makes me feel very guilty about not wanting to nurse while I'm pregnant. I know it's doable so I feel like I should do it, but I really don't want to tandem nurse (even though I think there are definitely benefits, I know I would be too overwhelmed) and I'm afraid KyKy wouldn't self wean. Yet a part of me is still holding on to hope that possibility could somehow play out.
So I'm kind of lost on what to do next, or even what I want to do next.
So I'm kind of lost on what to do next, or even what I want to do next.
Thursday, July 23, 2015
Ages and Stages: 23 Months
Another quick little monthly update while you take a monster nap (over three hours now-should I wake you up, are you still over tired from the long weekend, is this why you have been a little cranky at naptime and bedtime this week). ANYWAY, you love to play with your stuffed animals and any type of little figure (the wooden melissa and doug people, the fisher price little people and animals, your baby dolls, Tinkerbell, Cinderella, your minions, and we can't for get Georgie, or the Jerry and Ryan puppets! etc. etc. ) It's so funny because you will play with them with each other really well, but then you will be very lovey with them too, giving them hugs and saying I love you. In fact you have been very liberal with your "I love you's" recently. You even said " I love you big girl" to one of the mannequins at old navy the other day. lol You also love and are A pro at puzzles!!
You will do at least 6 in a row and we even have some 8 and 12 piece ones you can do yourself!!
You know most of your letters by sight now but sometimes you say K is X and I is T and P is R. But you can usually get that last one right if I ask you to try again. You can count to 13 and then will say random letters like "16,19, 22, 28..". You say the cutest things all the time! I love that you can tell me what you want to eat now. Recently I have been really loving it when you say "hmmmm" and just throw out "someday" into the conversations. I hope I never forget your expressions and the way your little voice sounds when you say those things! You also say things are your "favorite" sometimes even though it might be debatable in some situations. And a few times when you have been trying to tell me what you want, you say "the thing I like to do" lol. I love that! You are just the best and are so funny!
You will do at least 6 in a row and we even have some 8 and 12 piece ones you can do yourself!!
You know most of your letters by sight now but sometimes you say K is X and I is T and P is R. But you can usually get that last one right if I ask you to try again. You can count to 13 and then will say random letters like "16,19, 22, 28..". You say the cutest things all the time! I love that you can tell me what you want to eat now. Recently I have been really loving it when you say "hmmmm" and just throw out "someday" into the conversations. I hope I never forget your expressions and the way your little voice sounds when you say those things! You also say things are your "favorite" sometimes even though it might be debatable in some situations. And a few times when you have been trying to tell me what you want, you say "the thing I like to do" lol. I love that! You are just the best and are so funny!
Friday, July 10, 2015
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