One Year Old
Crib Climbing - a week
It’s now been five days since the boys realized they can climb in and out of their beds at will. We had one super great night, Wednesday, and a couple more difficult ones. Last night it again took them about an hour and a half to settle down and fall asleep. Not [...]
Toddler Transition - The Bed Part 2
Yesterday after his nap, Forest climbed out of his crib while wearing his sleep sac. This scared me so I completely dismantled their cribs and put the mattresses on the floor surrounded by pillows, stuffed animals and blankets. I had hoped that we’d have a temporary solution until at least the weekend when [...]
Toddler Transitions
Last year it seemed like every time we thought we had things down, a new transition would occur and we’d have to figure it all out again. Swaddling to sleep sacks, cosleeping to cribs, pacifiers to only when in bed, breastfeeding to bottles to sippy cups, it seemed endless. So this year has [...]
Concepts
Logan and Forest are starting to get into what I would call communication concepts. Although I’m sure there is specific word for it, I just have no clue what it’s called so I’m saying “concepts.” Such as up and down. Logan is all about showing that he understands this as he pushes a toy under [...]
Communication Advances
The boys have begun the transfer of learning. Forest is starting to pick up colors and Logan is starting to get some letters. But it’s irregular and still in the very early stages. On the other hand, Forest knows almost the entire alphabet now and Logan has added “purple” to his color [...]
Butterflies
On several occasions this summer I’ve had the opportunity to witness a most magical exchange. The boys playing with a butterfly. Or maybe the butterfly is playing with them. Yes, it’s more like the butterfly is playing with them. It amazes me how often a butterfly who is innocently passing through [...]
Art with Toddlers
If you haven’t tried Crayola’s “Color Wonder” products with your toddlers yet, I highly recommend them! We’ve used the finger paints and the markers with huge success. For some reason, Logan is not a fan of coloring with crayons, he wants to draw. So we use the Crayola sidewalk chalk and sidewalk [...]
Ball Pit!
One of my favorite things as a kid was playing in the ball pit at places like Chuck-E-Cheese and Showbiz Pizza, so when I saw a bag of 100 colored balls at Wal-Mart, I had to buy it to turn one of the portable cribs into a ball pit. The boys loved it too!
I think [...]
Tid Bits
Logan knows these colors: blue, red, green, yellow, pink and white. He knows orange but calls it “gune”, it’s consistent so I consider it known. He also knows grey, black and brown but sometimes gets those confused. He’s starting to try and figure out the letters thing since brother is so [...]
Wow!
Logan loves his new vocabulary of exclamation words. “Wow!”, “uh oh!”, “Big!” He says them all with such cuteness that I find myself trying to create situations to get him to say them. He’s starting to put words together. Drink, Mommas. Car, red. Truck, big. It’s really exciting [...]
