Hudson Month 3

There is not much to say about the boy this month other than he found his hands and began stabilizing his neck. He's still pretty wobbly but he's trying to keep his head up, somewhat. He has a voracious appetite and he occasionally still chokes during feedings. This month I have been exclusively breastfeeding him with the sporadic formula bottles here and there.  I started him on a schedule this month as well because I wasn't getting much sleep (yes, selfish me). So I'm trying to get up and start the day at 8am and follow the eat-play-nap model so he goes down roughly at 10am, 1pm, 4pm, and night-night at 7pm. At first this was rough and he did his share of crying but it didn't pain me as much as Lily's cry when she was a newborn. Chalk it up to experience and knowing that he's not dying lol. I wanted to do things differently from how we did things with Lily. With her we fed her to go to sleep every time and to this day she needs her milk sippy to go to sleep. I want Hudson to not be dependent on a bottle or sippy for sleep.  I want him to learn how to soothe himself to sleep so everyone can get good rest.

Stats to note:

Weighs in at 14lbs 14 oz.  Lily weighed 11lbs 8 oz.

He is 24 inches. Lily was 23 inches.

Lily Turns Three: The Interview

Now that Lily can reason a bit more, I thought it would be cool to give this interview business a shot and see what her responses are to the questions below. I'm going to try to do it every year and see how her answers change and add more questions.

Nicknames: Beans, Beanie, Beanie Pie, Jeanie Pie

What is your favorite...

color? Blue

animal? Elephant 

book? Ten little fingers and ten little toes

TV show? Magic school bus

song? Abc song

fruit? Grapes

vegetable? Tomatoes 

food? Peanut butter and jelly sandwich 

drink? Water

breakfast food? Breakfast papitas (tater tots)

snack? Fruit snacks

game? Soccer

toy? Balloons

sport? Baseball

holiday? Fireworks

number? 1

store? Supermarket 

Where do you like to go? To the park

What do you like to do with your family? Play

What do you like to take with you at night? Stories 

What do you love to learn about? Planets 

What makes you happy? Following directions 

What makes you sad? Going to my room

Who is your best friend? Ensley
What do you want to be when you grow up? Mom

The 2 Year Rundown

Items worth sharing:

• Potty training (unsuccessful may I add) beginning 6/27 due to a skin yeast infection in her no no area after several blowouts. Got meds Monday 6/23 and saw no improvement. Hopefully keeping her out of diapers during awake time will make it better. I tried to get her potty trained before I went to work but it was a no go. As soon as I started work (8/14), Ed handled business and she finally got it. It was rough at the beginning (by that I mean that she needed to go pee like every ten minutes) but as the year progressed she has gotten better.
• Her vocabulary has flourished and we are able to have conversations with her. Her sentence structure has gotten progressively better as well. She knows her alphabet, numbers, colors, shapes, days of the week, months of the year, and planets. She understands a lot of the Spanish I throw at her but she cannot "converse" back with me. She mimics my Spanish but into gibberish, which is funny to hear.
• She can READ! Like actually get a book and read it! She started doing this at approximately two and a half.  We really haven't "pushed" her to learn to read but there is print while she's watching her shows (we leave the subtitles on ALL the time) and she navigates through many YouTube educational videos that have lots of print too. And she watches a lot of SuperWhy and LeapFrog. I read to her almost every night, mostly the same books over and over to the point where now she has taken over and reads them to me. It's pretty awesome.
• She has been good at sharing time with her little brother, Hudson. It was a rough couple weeks with me not being able to do the night routines we had in place prior to D-day, but once I got back on the band wagon, she has been great. (she was making herself throw up nightly! yikes!)
• She plays better with others (by that I mean with Ensley and Aubrey). She still thinks all kids are "friends."
• We're still pretty pleased with the food choices she makes.  She still enjoys broccoli, peas, edamame, tomatoes and corn. She'll eat a bowl of cherry tomatoes almost everyday! She loves her some tomatoes! As a toddler she obviously eats the "bad" stuff like pizza, fries, nuggets, cookies and ice cream but knowing that she will devour a bowl of those vegetables puts our minds at ease.