Day: August 24, 2012

    How to Ween My One Year Old

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    Remember the camping trip where we couldn’t survive without WARM milk well… we decided to take away the warm milk and the bottle. And it is not going well. Rose has stopped drinking milk. Instead she walks around all day looking for food. Milk is what an almost 2 year old needs – especially a shorty one that needs to grow as much as possible 🙂 She has 5 different types of sippies and she knows how to use a cup but she won’t drink milk out of any of them. She’ll take some sips of juice if she is really thirsty and she likes water the best.

    do I look like i need a bottle?

    Day 1 I was ruthless and she survived with no milk and no bottle and no nap. Day 2 by the time nap time came and an hour into it the crying hadn’t stopped I tried giving her a bottle with cold milk, which she chucked on the ground so I gave all the way in and used the beep beep and she slept soundly. Day 3 I again gave in for nap time. Day 4 she drank the bottle after it had sat out long enough to reach room temperature. And Day 5 – today she got another bottle slightly warmed for nap time. She only drank part of it though. She is going to the baby sitter tonight so I really needed her to nap.

    mom, what can I eat?

    Bag of chips for breakfast on Day 1

    I am torn because I want Rose to drink milk. My kids usually live on milk. Rose used to have 3 or 4 bottles in the morning and at least 6 in a day. No Bottle or no milk? I am trying to find a happy medium – Milk in a sippy was the perfect solution but she is still fighting so we will see what the weekend brings. Dad will be home to help and dads are tough! 🙂

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    Cali’s First Day of Preschool!

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    This girl was so ready for preschool. She loves the friends and interaction and attention from the teachers. She is my social girl so I signed her up! We waited all summer to see if she could get the potty thing down and then I signed her up last week. When Benji turned 4 I had a big debate with myself about preschool. I never went. It costs money. I don’t think kids need it… BUT a lot of people here do preschool and it is very affordable compared to other states. And the kicker was that Benji was such a mama’s boy that he really needed it socially. He loved preschool. I loved preschool. Packer did Joy school and preschool. So here we are putting Cali in a year early. I just know that she will LOVE it and we will butt heads less and 2 kids is such a nicer break than 3 and her cousins were both going and the teachers said she could be in the big kid class with them even though she’s still 3 until December and we fit it into our budget and there are lots of friends to carpool with…. so….

    Rose wanted to be in the doorknob picture with Cali.

    I don't know where she got the mouth sore but it's a bad one.

    Ready with her new PRINCESS backpack!

    Waiting on her bike for Anna to come pick her up for school.

    With my boys I had to hold their hands and walk them to the school and all the way in and give them lots of encouragement and comfort and then they would be comfortable. With Cali I asked if she wanted to ride with Anna – YES! and at the last minute I gave her another chance for me to take her but she saw no need. She was just ready to go. She was all excitement for her first day of real school. LOVE IT.

    She Loved her first day!

    Categories: Cali