Funny Pre-two Lily Annecdotes

A funny conversation with Lily the other day:
(in the car, on the way home from daycare....)

Lily:  I did it!  Booger out. 
Me:  Booger out?
Lily:  Yeah, booger out.
Me:  Where did you put that booger?
Lily: In ear.
Me (while trying not to wreck the car):  SNORT SNORT LAUGH!

As I got to thinking about it, maybe she said "In here" and not "In ear" but I really don't know.  Either way, when I turned around to look at her after she said it, her finger was in her ear.  So, regardless of what she said, it seems to me that she likely stuck a booger in her ear.  At least she didn't eat it!!  Haha!!

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The other day, I dropped Lily off at daycare and two of the little boys were in the middle of a heated discussion.  This is how it went:

Boy #1:  My Daddy.
Boy #2:  MY Daddy.
Boy #1:  My DADdy!
Boy #2:  My DADDY!
Lily:  MY DADDY!!  (she had to get in on the action)

I guess this was the 2-year-old version of "My Daddy is better than your Daddy"  - haha!  Ms Stina said they do this all the time. 

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Lily has a new favorite word: Okay!

Only it comes out like "OH kay!" Like it's two separate words. She's replaced about 50% of her "yeah" responses with Oh-kay. It's unbelievably cute.

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She says "mecidine" instead of "medicine" - we've corrected her a hundred times but it's like her brain doesn't realize that what she's saying is different than what we're saying. It's actually kind of catching....I accidentally said it a few times. Ha!

6 weeks old!

Today Tyler is 6 weeks old!

Eating Habits:  Still eating about 8 times/day but the distribution is changing.  He is starting to have a little bit longer intervals at night but he's making up for it by having short intervals in the late afternoon/evening.  Also, he's only having a dirty diaper every 2.5- 3 days.  So the farther we get from a dirty diaper, the harder it is for me to get Tyler to stay interested in taking a full feeding.  So he ends up taking more frequent, smaller feeds.  I hate that for the poor guy cause by late day 2 or day 3, he's clearly uncomfortable and straining and farting like a middle aged man!

Sleeping Habits:  Still having a lot of success with Eat - Awake - Sleep.  I did get two nights in a row with two four hour intervals and not much trouble getting Tyler back to sleep after feeds.  So that made for a couple good nights' sleep for Mama!  Hopefully we are starting a new trend!

Awake Time:  awake time is getting a little weary for us.  Tyler's been really fussy during awake time for the past couple weeks (may be tied to the bowel issues??).  His fussiness increases as the day wears on.  In the mornings, he's pretty content to sit or lay by himself.  However, as the day wears on, he wants to be held, bounced, vibrated, walked, left alone, picked up, rocked, talked to, etc etc.  Sometimes, I feel like I'm just working my way through a checklist to figure out what it is that will make him happy or at least not cry until he eventually he wears himself out and falls asleep.  I handle this part ok but Joel gets really frustrated.  He gets upset when he can't "fix it" and he thinks I have the magic touch.....I don't, I am just being more patient until I find the right button to push! 

But Joel truly does have magic abilities...he's the Lily whisperer!  Over the last month, Joel has been successful at getting Lily to return to her previous bedtime routine where she goes to sleep on her own without needing someone to sit in the room with her!  Yay!!  Way to go Daddy!

Just for fun....here's the two kiddos both at 6 weeks old:



In case it's not obvious:
Lily - Left
Tyler - Right

And now the sad part of 6 weeks old....it marks the halfway point of my maternity leave.  BOO!

Like Father Like Son

Of all the things for my son to inherit from his Daddy, he gets Joel's....

FARTS!

Super smelly, ridiculously loud and unbelievably frequent.

If it weren't so sick, it would be impressive!  He even hikes his leg up just like Joel.  He also manages to ruin a perfectly nice moment - just like his Daddy.  We'll be nursing (me and Tyler, not me and Joel - haha) and everything is peaceful and quiet and I'm enjoying this moment with my baby boy and then RRRIIIIPPPPPP!  Funny.  But only until the odor hits my nose.  Then, not so funny!

$20 says his first words are "Hey, Lily, pull my finger!"

Love him!

5 Weeks Old!

Tyler's 5 weeks old today!  He's doing great!

Go Boilers!

 

Eating Habits:  Sigh...still eating every 3 hours with some 2 hour intervals thrown in for good measure.  The one 5 hour interval we had late last week seems to have been a one time thing.  :(  I think by now, Lily was doing 5 hour intervals at night regularly.  I'm trying not to get myself too panicked about how well he'll be sleeping when I have to go back to work....that's still 7 weeks away.  A lot will change in that time (right?!?!).

Sleeping Habits:  We're doing pretty good at the Eat - Awake - Sleep pattern.  It works well unless I'm on the go during the day.  In that case, Tyler sleeps a lot.  We still struggle sometimes getting Tyler to go to sleep directly after the ~10pm feeding.  That can be frustrating but if he's going to give me trouble after one of the night time feedings, I'd rather it be that one than the 1am feeding!

Awake Time:  Tyler's pretty good at staying awake for about an hour after he eats during the day time.  We've starting putting him on the play mat and he seems to like looking at the lights and listening to the music. Big sister Lily seems to think she needs to lay down there with Tyler though which sometimes makes my nerves raw.  She can be so rough with him that we really have to watch every second.  We're also starting to see some improvements in head control.  Not too much longer and I think he'll be ready for the Bumbo!

I made my first visit to Evansville with both kids and survived the drive to and from!  I was able to schedule my departure times around feedings and nap time so both kids slept the whole way there and back which made for a nice peaceful drive.  The trip to Evansville is about as far as I can go without having to stop to feed Tyler so really it's a perfect distance for solo travel.  Any further and it would a lot more difficult.

While in Evansville, we went to the Fall Festival - four times.  Yep.  Four times.  I only gained 3 pounds!  Not too shabby given that I'm pretty sure I ate my way up and down Franklin Street every time we went!  Ha!  Tyler went with me each time (he's easy to take along!) and we took Lily for the pet parade which she really enjoyed (mas doggies?!). 

Latest Lily-isms

Lily has really increased her talking in the last couple weeks and it's so fun and entertaining to listen to her (although also hard to see my little baby girl get replaced by this grown up baby girl!).  She's growing up before my very eyes.  I just wanted to take a minute to write down some of the fun things she's up to.

• Lily calls Tyler "brud-her" most all of the time.  It's brud-her this and brud-her that.  Sometimes she calls him by name but mostly it's brud-her.
• She's completely obsessed with holding Tyler's hand in the car.  If she can't get to his hand, she yells "Hand!  HAND!!  HAAANNNDDDDD!!!" until I make Tyler's hand accessible to her.  I just hope that she isn't back there squeezing it too hard!
• She's also remembering things for longer periods of time. Like if she saw a "boo boo" on Mommy's leg three days ago, she'll point to it today and say "Mommy boo boo all better."  Also, I told her we were going to Grams house and she asked "Swimming?  Water?" So she remembered that at Grams' house she gets to go swimming.  Then I had to explain that it was too cold to go swimming.  She was not happy about that.
• "Yeah"  - this is Lily's FAVORITE new word.  Everything is "yeah."  She'll ask a question and answer it herself with "yeah."
• Watch-a Dora?  Yeah.
• Lily eat?  Yeah.
• Pizza time?  Yeah.
• Potty.  Yeah.  (That's a statement not a question - although she rarely goes even though we make a mad dash for the bathroom - which is sometimes every 5 minutes)
• Bye-bye?  Yeah.
• Stay here?  Yeah.
• Lily's couch.  Yeah.  (why she thinks it has to be HER couch, I'll never know)
• She puts herself in Time Out.  Any time we say something to Lily in even a slightly stern voice, she'll look at us and say "Time Out."  Sometimes, she then goes and takes herself to Time Out.  When we were at Grams house (where she had never been put in time out), she invented the Time Out location all on her own.  Hilarious!

Potty training is going ok.  She's starting to get the concept and is going more often on the potty.  However we have A LOT more false alarms than we have actual pottying going on.  She has recently just started taking off for the bathroom at a full run and pulls her pants down and then yells for someone.  MAMA!!  DADDY!!  We race back there and put her on the potty and 2 seconds later she's wants to get down - with no potty event having taken place (and then five minutes later we repeat the whole thing).  Then it's "Wash Hands!" I have gotten to the point to where I don't let her wash her hands unless she actually goes to the bathroom because she was basically faking the need to potty just so she could wash her hands.  Sigh.

Happy One Month Birthday Tyler!!

 

 

Stats:

Weight (10/2/12):  11 lbs 13 oz (98th percentile)

Height (10/4/12):  23 inches (98th percentile)

As if there was any doubt, my baby is huge!  The breastfeeding is clearly going well!  We had a sleep victory last night.  He went 5 hours between feedings which means I got FOUR HOURS STRAIGHT of sleep!  Hallelujah!

Here's the proud big sister!

What? 4 Weeks Old Already?

I really can't believe Tyler's already four weeks old!!  The time is really flying by!

Eating habits:  Still eating about 8 times a day, roughly every 3 hours.  Sometimes 3.5 hours and usually at least one 2 hour interval each day (although Monday, he cluster fed all afternoon - every 2 hours:  3 - 5- 7 - 9).  At night, he's like a little alarm clock and it's almost 3 hours to the minute that he wakes up to eat!  The spit up has officially started in earnest now.  Yuck. 

Sleeping habits:  Per my post earlier this week, we had a rough time over the weekend with lots of daytime sleeping and not enough night time sleeping.  So far this week, it's been a little better but I've been working hard to keep him awake quite a bit during the day.