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@travellingbee: I am dreading this day!! I still carry R to the car. I will sometimes let her walk but I always hold her hand cause I don't want her falling on the stone walkway. Especially when DH isn't home. I couldn't handle the blood by myself.
So glad that he is ok!!
What are you doing to encourage signing? I don't think that we do it enough and probably not day care. I want her to get it but she doesn't seem to be.
That is great he is following directions and throwing the ball. R needs to work on these still.
How is sleep going? Nanny? Sickness?
@Adira: Is Xander's party this weekend?

@Adira: That is why we are doing her's the weekend after too. DH and I are going to spend the Sat before with her. Going to take her to Catch Air for the first time and let her play.

I still can't believe our babies are turning 1. Last year at this time we were still getting her nursery set up and I was almost to the point of being OVER pregnancy.

@Adira: One of those indoor playhouse facilities. Hopefully she will like it!

@Smurfette: Nanny is going well! No more sickness!! Hooray! He has been sleeping through the night for the past week with increasingly later wake times. This morning we had to wake him at 7 to eat before I left. And putting him down is a breeze. I kiss him and lay him down and that's it! He plays for a minute then goes to sleep. Soooooo glad we are finally at this point. Can't wait for naps to get there too. Nanny is working on getting him to nap in the crib regularly which is a big first step!
We haven't really encouraged it much. I haven't even been consistent showing him the signs. He just decided he was ready to communicate, I guess. I'm sad that he learned the sign for milk just as I'm weaning him! Yesterday, a half hour after he nursed, he was sitting on my lap and he popped out his Pacie and did the sign for milk. I said what?, You just ate, and he started laughing and put his pacie back in. Silly boy.
@Adira: I can't believe Xander'll be one already so soon!! I'm still in denial.

@silver1: Yes, we are moving to the suburbs north of NYC. We had been using my parents' old Subaru for infrequent car rides this year but it's thirteen years old and has become very unreliable. I love the idea of a new car but not the price tag!

@Adira: Pete's birthday is 3/21. Same as Isaac and the first day of spring!

@Smurfette: I totally wish we could stay at our current daycare but unfortunately it will be way too far out of the way from our new home. It would add about one hour of driving in the morning and another hour in the evening.

A day with Mom and Dad at Catch Air sounds like it will be a perfect birthday treat for R! What a great idea!

@travellingbee: Wow, sounds like he has made so much progress with sleep and well, everything! I'm glad that he was okay after his fall. That sounds so scary. I get super dizzy with a lot of blood and I'm so nervous about how I will react with Pete's first bloody injury. I just hope i don't pass out!

@Adira: Music class sounds fun! Since he isn't walking, I don't think a Catch Air place would be good. Save it for his reward for walking!
@travellingbee: Yay!! I am so glad that sleeping is good again. And the little guy is finally not sick. Too funny about the milk sign. How is weaning going?
@QueensBee: An hour is way too much for sure. Bummer. I hope you find a place that works.

@Smurfette: All my worry about switching to WCM was for not. We gave the boys some in a sippy cup at dinner last night, and Elliot would not eat at all--he just wanted to drink his milk! We decided we're going to have to give him his milk at non-meal times or after he eats his solid food because he wanted nothing to do with anything but his sippy! Finn thought it was fine, but nothing worth giving up his cheesy eggs for.

@Adira: Maybe if you just slowly mix more and more hemp milk into the BM over time, he'll slowly get used to it. That's what I was planning to do, but apparently that won't be necessary.

@Mrs. Blue: YAY!! That is great news. R will drink it but lately is loving her bottles. So I am scared it is going to be hard to break. A friend told me the other night that since we use Similac Sensitive, there isn't lactose in it. So that is probably why she has been pooping SO much since we started giving her milk. But it is solid so I think her tummy just has to get use to it.
@Adira: I would mix them too. 75%BM 25%HM, then 50/50, etc.

@Adira: Wow, I'm so impressed - how did you remember that his bday was this weekend?! Good memory! Most everything is done, but I'm still finishing up one of his yarn letters, and I need to bake a few small treats the night before. I went to Party City yesterday to pick up tablecloths and utensils.

I think I'm more stressed thinking about the day of since I have to get to the location early to set up. Good thing J recently dropped his two middle of the day feedings so I don't have to worry about nursing him after he wakes up from his morning nap. He usually takes his first nap of the day from 10-11:30... his party is at noon. We'll probably have to wake J up from his nap a little earlier that day. So what we'll do is I'll get to the park at 11 to do the set up, and DH will stay with the kids and get them to the park when the party starts.

@Adira: @Mrs. High Heels: OMG!!!! I can't believe it's a matter of DAYS. Eep! I'm just going to hang on to every single day of my 3 more weeks.
@Smurfette: That's what I've been thinking about the Baby Dudes. Now that they are toddling around more and more, they just look older.

@Mrs. Blue: How much are they walking?
@Adira: Probably so....He isn't going to know what to do in pants and a top

@Adira: aww! Poor guy! Were they too small/tight? Baby steps, do pants and socks first.

@Smurfette: They usually don't take more than 4 or 5 steps at a time, before sitting or switching to crawling, but they're doing that really frequently. A week ago, Elliot never took more than one or two steps and rarely did so, and Finn only took his first step a week and half ago. Considering how much they've increased in just a week, I think they'll probably be full on toddling everywhere by their birthday. R is pretty much just full on toddling everywhere, right??

@Adira: Haha! R didn't like them on when she was just crawling too. I think they slowed her down.
@Mrs. Blue: She took her first step Jan 3rd and then it was exactly a month later she started taking 7-10 steps at a time. Now she walks 90% of the time at home. Day care said she doesn't crawl at all there. I think she crawls at home cause she is tired!