One thing I find that can be difficult when you have two kids is nap time. Miles has 3 naps a day right now so I try to put them both down for a nap for his 2nd nap of the day because Cody still needs one nap or he's a zombie. So I put Miles down, make sure he's settled and not crying (sometimes I have to go put the soother in once or twice after he annoyingly spits it out) and then I put Cody down. Except sometimes Cody resists his nap and cries in his crib and I'm thinking omg please don't wake your brother up! He usually doesn't but it's stressful with the same kind of thing occurring at night because Cody sometimes doesn't want to stop playing and go to bed. During the afternoon when they're napping I usually do something quiet like play bingo on my tablet or have lunch because I need silence sometimes and I want them to nap as long as possible. Then one of them will wake up before the other and I dash upstairs and grab them before they wake the other one up. It's a bit ridiculous but I want them both to have restful naps so I do what I have to do.
Cody had a follow up appointment with a pediatrician yesterday. 3 months ago he assessed him and told me there's nothing physically wrong with him in terms of his speech delay but he'd see where we were at in 3 months. Cody hasn't said much since then. One day he was saying "wow" about everything but in general he barely says anything ever. The word he uses the most is "yeah" and he recently started shaking his head no sometimes. The pediatrician told me to make appointments with an audiologist to make sure his hearing is perfect and also to get some blood taken just to rule anything else out. THAT should be fun. Getting a 2 year olds blood taken. Omg :( That will definitely be something I do when my husband is around so I can focus on Cody while he holds the baby. Oh and out of the blue Cody said a new word last night. He said "ball". It's like he knew we were waiting for him to talk and wanted to offer us a little gem lol.
Thinking about my husbands job the other day (I mentioned that he only finished high school so he works at a factory) I read a ton of stuff and thought it would be a great idea for him to be an apprentice so he could make money as he was learning a trade. I spent so much time that day looking into it and he comes home and says "but I wouldn't have my 4 weeks vacation time if I left this job" and "I couldn't leave this company. My boss is such a nice guy" and "I'm not smart enough to do something like that" and "we've survived on my income this long, we can make it work." So that's that I guess. It occurred to me that I did something very male. I tried to "fix" his problem when I guess all he wanted when he complained about his job was someone to listen to him vent. That's totally something guys usually do lol. Whoops!
Last night my husband told me it's supposed to be minus 20 out today and feel like minus 30 so I decided today is a stay at home day. I'm tidying/cleaning, putting laundry away, making more baby purees and returning about 100 various items to their proper places in the house. I usually am up with Miles at 6:30 in the morning these days and my husband gets home for the day at 5pm so when he gets home it feels like he has been gone FOREVER.
When Cody was the age that Miles is right now (6 months 18 days) he was about 10 days away from the point where he started to roll. And when he did he would roll over and over across the room to get things. Then he progressed to doing the one armed army crawl, then a regular knee crawl, then pulling up, cruising and walking at 14.5 months. Miles is soooo not going to be rolling in 10 days that's for sure. He still hates being on his tummy even though he can lift his head up fairly well. That seems crazy to me but I'm in no rush to be chasing him so that's fine with me lol.
And now I will go enjoy my cup of tea while the kids continue to nap (they've been down for an hour now). Maybe this will be one of those days where they nap for 2.5 hours. That would be so blissful :)
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