So here is what they are up to:
Sleeping
- Maisie is sleeping like a champ. She still takes two naps, but is perfectly fine missing her morning nap if we have something going on. I would say probably 4 days a week she takes her morning nap. I don't think she is ready to drop it anytime soon though since I usually have to wake her up each day. Maisie cracks me up when I wake her up. I lightly touch her back to stir her and she sits straight up and looks at me like she is saying "I'm up, I'm up, I'm up." And sometimes she even claps. Makes me love her even more. She is sleeping great through the night. Bedtime is usually 7:30 and she is usually down within 10 minutes despite all the noise her brother is making.
- Calan takes about a 2.5 hour nap each afternoon. While lately he has been protesting going down for a nap, usually within 15 minutes of being put down, he is out like a light. Night time sleep is a whole other story. The kids bedtime is 7:30, but he usually does not fall asleep till about 8:30. He is still rocking and our doctor has decided we should see a neurologist just to make sure nothing else is going on causing him to rock. Bob and I still believe that it is just a soothing thing, but it will be nice to hear from doctors that there isn't anything else going on.
- Except on vacation, the kids are still napping in separate rooms. No plans right now to change that. Calan climbed out of his crib for the first and only time last week. Unless he does it again, we won't move him to a real bed for another couple of months. I am hoping by Christmas to have him a normal bed, but we shall see.
Eating
- I really need to start working on table manners with Calan. I swear he has ants in his pants every time he sits in his chair to eat. Always moving and wiggling. Dinner is just our worst meal. He is so all over the place.
- Calan is some what eating a little better, but not much. Veggies are still a bit impossible, but I can usually get him to take a bite or two. I choose my battles when it comes to food.
- Maisie is start to show some signs of pickiness. When there is something that she doesn't like she takes it and reaches out to the side and drops it very purposefully to the dog. To say she is a stinker, is a bit of an understatement. But she gobbles down everything that she likes. She out eats Calan at most meals. Maisie has transitioned easy to milk, but is not transitioning well to a sippy cup. I am working out, but the girl is pretty stubborn. I know I will win, but it might be a long battle.
- We ate out a lot this summer with so many vacations. The kids do pretty well out and about, but we tend to eat quickly. They are not perfect, but it isn't horrible taking them out. I just wish there were better children menu options. Enough with the fried food already.
Milestones
- The kids had their 2-year/1-year well visits. Calan is 37 inches tall and weighs 34 pounds. Maisie is 32 inches and 25 pounds, which puts Maisie in the 97th percentile for height. She is a long little girl.
- All of Maisie's front 8 teeth are in as well as her 2 top one-year-old molars have poked through.
- Calan's vocabulary continues to expand. He is still singing a ton and can sing the full alphabet. He counts to ten and knows his basic colors (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, white, and black). The other day he sat down with a stuffed dog and read him one of his favorite books and new some of the right words to the right pages from memory. That was pretty cute.
- Maisie is still not walking, but getting closer every day. She takes one to three steps and then falls. I know that she is close, I just thought she would have figured it out by now. But I swear she is close.
- Maisie is saying a Dada and Mama and I swear she says Daisy after I call her Maisie Daisy.
Schedule
- 7/7:30 - wake up
- 8 - breakfast
- 8:30 - Pack-and-play time for Maisie and room time for Calan
- 9 - Maisie nap; Calan TV time
- 9:30 - Chores; Calan and mommy time
- 10:30 - Maisie up; play time or errands
- 11:30/12 - lunch
- 12:30 - nap
- 3:00- wake up / snack
- 6 - Dinner
- 6:30 - Bath and dad time
- 7:15 - stories
- 7:30 - Bedtime. (Calan usually falls asleep closer to 8 or 8:30, but Maisie is out like a light at 7:30)
Overall
- Calan is still the overly excited toddler. He just beams happiness. He loves to play, sing, run, jump, you name it. However, we have had some issues with him hitting. It seems to be because of a lack of communication skills and letting older children know what he would like or to wait for a turn. We are working on it.
- Maisie is still just an easy going happy baby, but pretty determined. She knows what she wants when she wants it and complains (whines) till we figure it out. She loves hearing music. She is just overall a pretty content little 1-year-old.
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