Size 3 diapers
size 12-18 month clothing
14 teeth
Well our Mr. Magoo may still be sleeping pretty awful, but we did have a big milestone this month.... I can now take him to the gym. I had tried taking him to the gym a few times here and there but always with a bad outcome, but finally the week before Christmas he decided that it was a fun place to be (well as long as sister is there with him). The first few times we went he would cry when I dropped him off but would calm down eventually, but now I will drop him off and he will wave goodbye to me and grab his sisters hand and take off for the toys. Brooklyn really has been the one that has made it possible, she is so good to him when they are in there. So we now go to the gym the days that she doesn't have school, T/TH/SAT. It really has been amazing. This month I also started taking the kids to the grocery store again. He used to do fine when he fit in the front pack, but since he got too big for that it was just a disaster waiting to happen. I was that mom walking through the store trying to carry a screaming child and push her cart all at the same time. So I decided that I was tired of going after bed time and we went during the day and as long as I have enough fruit snacks for him then we are normally good to go. We still have the occasional meltdown, but it is at least manageable. Our night might still be bad, but our days have gotten a lot better.
All of his one year molars are through and 2 of his K9's are through and luckily his K9's haven't seemed to bother him a whole lot. He is absolutely obsessed with garbage cans, garbage trucks, throwing garbage away, etc. He says "wawa" anytime he is referring to something garbage related. Anywhere we go to he scopes out the garbage's and will find any trash that he can throw away. He learned another animal sound, quack, which is the sound he thinks all birds make, but at least birds don't roar anymore. He has started to fold his arms for prayer and if we ever forget to say a prayer before a meal he will fold his arms and grunt until we remember to pray. He loves to watch football with his Daddy and anytime the TV gets turned on he says, "boopball" hoping that we are turning a game on. he will be sorely disappointed once football season is over soon. His new trick this month is somersaults, he can actually do them by himself and most of the time they are pretty straight. He has really started to love actually playing with his sister. They interact so well together, well except for when he is pulling her hair. Brooklyn does a pretty good job of being able to calm him down when I'm not there and he loves to give her really big hugs, way better hugs then he ever gives me.
I'm not going to lie, I am pretty excited for him to go into nursery at church in a month and I am even more excited that there is hope that he might go without me. Once we get this kid to start sleeping better at night and I catch up on my sleep, I feel like I will be a whole new person, like a regular mom that runs errands, goes to the gym, and does regular things with her kids instead of doing them all early in the morning or late at night. all I know is that we are certainly moving in the right direction. He really is a happy kid for the most part and has the best giggle in the whole world and I love him to pieces.
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| After our first successful trip to the grocery store with no meltdowns |
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| He loves to help set the table |
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