And so it would appear that the early stages of the terrible two’s have begun. I love my son but man has he become more and more defiant in the last little while. It seems that with anything you want him to do that he is not in the mood to do, he fights it. He kicks, cries, screams, gets mad, you name it. Even changing a diaper has become harder and harder because of all of his flailing. Man. What gives?
I know it’s all normal but sometimes it is a little hard on the head to deal with.
Regardless, he has gotten somewhat better with Megan and has definitely become attached to her. The other day when we picked him up from the sitter’s and Megan was at her grandmother’s, Dylan kept pointing to her carseat and saying her name wondering where she is. He’s definitely doing an awesome job as a big brother.
With his new sister here, Dylan is now learning that he has to share both his mom and dad with his baby sister. Sharing with dad is not such a problem. However, sharing his mommy is beginning to be a problem.
Dylan’s been a bit cranky lately and today we think we figured out what it is. Everytime he sees Tamara with Megan, he tends to get a little cranky. I think he has finally clued in that mommy is no longer just HIS mommy and that he has to share her. That being said, he’s not happy about it and has been getting a little bit more cranky about it. Cranky enough that it’s been troublesome to me as well.
The good news is that apparently this is normal and that it will pass. Let’s just hope I don’t lose my mind first
I just have to say that I really am blown away by our little boy. He is quite a daredevil and he is so very entertaining. Friday night at swimming, I watched him do something new. Scared me, but I let him do it anyways. He’s now tall enough that he can walk in the pool without our help. Well, he’s walking along and sure enough, under the water his whole head goes. By the time I reached for him, he had popped back up, all on his own with a big smile on his face. It just amazes me that he will do stuff like that without us really showing him how to do it. He proceeded to do it several more times while we were there. It really freaks me out, but it’s good that he’s comfortable enought to do it. I just don’t want him getting over cocky in the water. He really doesn’t realize what the consequences of his actions could be.
He likes to climb and jump on anything he can. He likes to get on top of the empty upside down clothes basket when it’s on our bed and jump on it. Oh, an now that he can get on the chairs, well standing on top of the table is going to be his next favourite thing I’m sure. I just have to try and not let him see my fears, and let him enjoy being a little boy.
Well, fact is, he’s still waking up in the middle of the night, but now we seem to be handling the whole “ignoring” him thing a bit better. It still wakes us up mind you, but we are trying our best to just let him self-soothe.
I think one of the bigger problems is that Dylan has had a few colds throughout the winter so he would do real well for awhile then he would get sick, and then when he’s sick, you want to try and soothe him and help him because he’s down. That of course makes it harder for when he is feeling well and you need him to self-soothe.
Anyways, it seems he is doing somewhat better. Plus, he’s been in a great mood the last few days so I’m glad to see things looking up.
It started out as my computer room. I was supposed to get all of the CD’s up on the ceiling shortly after moving all of my stuff in there, but alas, it never got finished.
Baby #2 comes along and it’s time to rearrange some things. Well, sure enough, I decided that I wanted to finish what I had started back in 2004. Well folks, it is done. Tamara helped me put the last few up tonite and after countless tubes of No More Nails, and I don’t even know how many CD’s, the ceiling is done. Looks kinda funky.
You may or may not have known that when me and Tamara first moved into the house (2004) I started working on my ceiling. I was putting up old CD’s on the ceiling with the intention of having a complete ceiling covered. Well, it never happened. I started and put a few up here and there but never did finish it.
Since Dylan will be moving into this room shortly, it was either tear them all down (leaving goop marks everywhere) or finish putting the CD’s up. Well, I chose the latter.
So, it actually looks like it is going to take less time than I thought. It doesn’t take a lot of time to put them up but it is a little sore on the body as you push into the ceiling like 100 times: once for every CD.
In the last few weeks, Dylan has reverted back to his younger months. It seems like he sleeps for a few hours, wakes up, needs put back to bed, then sleeps for a little while, wakes up, and the cycle continues. Tamara has been an incredible source of patience as she keeps getting up and putting him back to bed.
We’re both exhausted and could use about a weeks worth of sleep. At 17 months, I would have thought this would have been over.
May is coming soon. Think it will be done before then?
Well let me tell you, there must be something going on in his head because in the last week or so, the amount of “talking” Dylan has been doing has tripled. He pretty much babbles non-stop now. He’s getting to learn more and more words. Just the other day we were having tacos and I told him we were having tacos and he turned to me and said “taco”. Very cool.
I find it fascinating to see him start to talk more and more. He may not be fully speaking and most of it is babble, but it is nice to see him saying more. I am sure as time goes by, the pronounciation will be better and by the time his little sister comes along, he should be able to tell her “no, that’s mine!”. Heh.
