Hi everyone,
Sorry for the long hiatus, I have so much to share and so little time to do it. So much has happened since March. For one I did the Covenant House Sleep Out, James turned 2, celebrated my birthday in April, and went to Hawaii in May. June is also turning out to be a busy month with multiple family and friend events on the weekends. I'll do some flashback posts to fill you in the past events.
We are all doing great and I have no complaints, well maybe one for this crummy weather. James is fully settled in his daycare. He started this new one in Feb and loves it. He often talks about it friends and teachers. He liked some teachers so much he was talking about them in Hawaii! James is changing everyday and developing his personality, some good and some bad. He loves trucks and cars and now sleeps with them. I end up tip-toeing into him room at night to remove them from his grip. Lol! He talks non-stop now, most of which we can understand. James is a happy kid that enjoys playing and jumping, he never sits still. The only way he calms down is when watching his favorite movie Cars and Cars II. However like may others I assume he gets frustrated sometimes and we get to see some meltdowns. Usually these are pretty quick as distraction is the best cure for it.
As for his diet he is still giving us a difficult time when it comes to eating veggies and fruits. All he wants is meat, fish, rice, corn, etc for dinner. He used to love broccoli, but refuses it now. I'm attempting to bribe him with TV and dessert to eat food and sometimes it works. Many other parents just say that he'll come around and just start eating everything, I'm still waiting for that day. I started baking for James. With the help of my mom we made him a banana bread that had mango and blueberries inside. He loved it! I'm looking for a new recipe to try a carrot cake next. With regard to his dairy allergy, it's pretty much all gone. I'm not sure how he does with yogurt because he doesn't want to try it, but that's the only one that's iffy for him. Believe it or not I'm still nursing him a little, only in the mornings. We bring him to our bed and he nurses and sleeps a little longer with us. The only other time he nurses is when we are putting him to bed when he's not at home. Otherwise he doesn't fall asleep, we are still working on an alternative to this as it's difficult for me. Today we didn't bring him into bed and instead gave him milk which he drank. I think that if we continue doing this he will wean naturally without any trauma for him. Hopefully he'll just forget about it.
Otherwise we have been living in NJ for about 7 months now, I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by. However we are still not settled as we are living in a rental community. We are house hunting and hope to find something in the near future. Work is going really well. I enjoy being here and like my co-workers. It's a fun place to work and great learning environment too. No other big trips planned for the summer. We are just planning to take James to see Thomas the Train and visit Sesame Place at some point. Hope we get good weather for both.
Well I'll try to fill you in as I go and hope you all are doing well too.
Happy reading!
Rachel
Sorry for the long hiatus, I have so much to share and so little time to do it. So much has happened since March. For one I did the Covenant House Sleep Out, James turned 2, celebrated my birthday in April, and went to Hawaii in May. June is also turning out to be a busy month with multiple family and friend events on the weekends. I'll do some flashback posts to fill you in the past events.
We are all doing great and I have no complaints, well maybe one for this crummy weather. James is fully settled in his daycare. He started this new one in Feb and loves it. He often talks about it friends and teachers. He liked some teachers so much he was talking about them in Hawaii! James is changing everyday and developing his personality, some good and some bad. He loves trucks and cars and now sleeps with them. I end up tip-toeing into him room at night to remove them from his grip. Lol! He talks non-stop now, most of which we can understand. James is a happy kid that enjoys playing and jumping, he never sits still. The only way he calms down is when watching his favorite movie Cars and Cars II. However like may others I assume he gets frustrated sometimes and we get to see some meltdowns. Usually these are pretty quick as distraction is the best cure for it.
As for his diet he is still giving us a difficult time when it comes to eating veggies and fruits. All he wants is meat, fish, rice, corn, etc for dinner. He used to love broccoli, but refuses it now. I'm attempting to bribe him with TV and dessert to eat food and sometimes it works. Many other parents just say that he'll come around and just start eating everything, I'm still waiting for that day. I started baking for James. With the help of my mom we made him a banana bread that had mango and blueberries inside. He loved it! I'm looking for a new recipe to try a carrot cake next. With regard to his dairy allergy, it's pretty much all gone. I'm not sure how he does with yogurt because he doesn't want to try it, but that's the only one that's iffy for him. Believe it or not I'm still nursing him a little, only in the mornings. We bring him to our bed and he nurses and sleeps a little longer with us. The only other time he nurses is when we are putting him to bed when he's not at home. Otherwise he doesn't fall asleep, we are still working on an alternative to this as it's difficult for me. Today we didn't bring him into bed and instead gave him milk which he drank. I think that if we continue doing this he will wean naturally without any trauma for him. Hopefully he'll just forget about it.
Otherwise we have been living in NJ for about 7 months now, I can't believe how quickly the time has flown by. However we are still not settled as we are living in a rental community. We are house hunting and hope to find something in the near future. Work is going really well. I enjoy being here and like my co-workers. It's a fun place to work and great learning environment too. No other big trips planned for the summer. We are just planning to take James to see Thomas the Train and visit Sesame Place at some point. Hope we get good weather for both.
Well I'll try to fill you in as I go and hope you all are doing well too.
Happy reading!
Rachel
