Happy Spring or should I say Wintery Spring! Is it sad that yesterday O turned 9 months old and it has been soooo Crazy around here that I just noticed after seeing the date on my phone at one point and my monthly update from a babycenter website.
A month brings a whole bunch of change that happens in a infants life. Especially when they are 8-9 months old. O is now starting to transition from my pumped breast milk to mixing in Homo. Currently we are down to half/half mixed bottles which I will do for a while since my supply was so ahead. I would have to say that he is doing pretty well with the switch so far. He has not seemed to have any issues with the homo..but we have had him eating yogurt for quite awhile.
Just recently we have started to give O mashed food instead of pureed which is quite funny to watch. We went from inhaling our food at meals to having to chew and taking anywhere from 1/2 hour to 1hr. Mimicking chewing to a 9 month old trying to get him to not gag and swallow the food whole can be quite a entertaining task.
Recently we have had some seperation anxiety. When leaving the room he will army crawl to find me or just to have me insight. It is more so when his sister is not in the room with him also. It happens a lot more often at night when we put him to bed. He used to just go to sleep but now if we do not go and stay for a bit he freaks out. Currently he will hold daddy's finger until he is ready to drift off and then let go. So now we have a routine where O gets to join in on storey time in his sisters room before he goes down for the night. One day I had a pee party with both kids and the dogs in the room with me.
He is quite a character. He knows when he is up to no good. He will get a cheeky grin or look across his face. For example he will army crawl like mad to the dogs water dish to splash it all over the floor. Sounds like a fun mess right! Well if you tell him to stop or turn around you are wasting your breathe. He will have this look on his face the entire time like as if to tell you to try and stop him. Makes for a fun game...not so much for the dog who has to ask for her food to be set back down.
Teething like crazy. I can still see and feel his 2nd top front tooth coming through. I also noticed his 4 eye teeth are felt right underneath the gums. Leave it to my children to get a whole bunch of teeth in all at the same time. And when O is grumpy he is grumpy. He is normally a really happy little guy. Teeth are currently no match for him. He is someone I have to give prunes to every day in one of his meals. Well not as of this week..he is pooping like crazy and he is STINKY!!!
Crawling is starting to slowly become more than a army crawl. My DH and I believe that it is a mind game more than anything now. He rocks back and forth and moves his legs forward but not his hands. He will however pull himself up places and wants to stand and sit up. Sitting up with little help is getting better every day. His balance is improving greatly. Sooner than we know we will be running around everywhere and O likes to explore!
News on E:
E is 2 and lately it shows. Somedays are a roller coaster and are full of ups and downs. Other days we are just silly and explore the world around us. Each day is amazing and new. We are continuously learning as a mom and toddler. Today was a long day...well this week is but that has a lot of factors.
We wake up early to start each day. Up with the birds as you say. We laugh a great deal and sometimes have tears. Today is a long hard day! Just the normal set of toddler tantrums. I am really trying to work on E to use more words so that she does not get so frustrated and explode.
A couple of E's new favourite things are Dora Books, Sorting Blocks, Singing "Let it Go" from FROZEN!!! We are always building towers, dancing and colouring.
Each day brings new words. We have been working on speech with Potato heads, singing songs repeatedly and labelling things in the house and really pronouncing words when we use them. E will tell you if we are going outside we need her sunglasses, shoes, coat and hat on. If I ask her " Do you hear that?" she will cup her hand to her ear to listen.
She really loves her brother a lot. Sometimes with a little too much aggression when showing affection. We are constantly reminding her to be gentle...as well as her brother. The Hair pulling and O really need to stop..I am afraid soon I am going to be bald.
A couple weeks ago when my parents were up E was having a toddler tantrum due to she did not want to pick up the mega blocks. Well I ended up with a swollen bruised face due to my lovely toddler swinging a block straight into my nose. Needless to say after the immediate pain had calmed down I put her in a timeout. Well a couple weeks later and I still am being hit there somehow from one or the other of them..and I swear I am going to have a permanent bruise/scar. Sooo if someone ever asks you on a scale from 1-lego how bad does it hurts...it is definitely the LEGO! Usually in that case they are talking about stepping on the tiny lego..but in my it was a massive megablock brick in the face. We are big on TIME OUTS lately and TIME INS! Toddlers hate either so much you mention in and she cries thinking about it. We give a lot of choices and chances for her to make the right choice before taking action.
We love, play and grow all together. Sometimes very loudly. Today is a day where I need to keep thinking about the good moments we share..so I will not trade my toddler tot he gypsies. HAHA. If I was not so tired I would write more about E..She is sprouting up like crazy and we love her to pieces even if sometimes it is trying. Right now I am off to tell her to stop jumping in her bed!!!!
XOXOXO The Brants!
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