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Todd the Two Year Old (Month 1)
October 23, 2016 in MINIVEGAN, Vegan Toddler (Year 3) | Tags: 2 years old, 2nd Birthday, Apple Capital Loop Trail, Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother, Castle Rock, Dry Gulch, Globber, Horse Lake, La Fuente, Mission Ridge, Pybus Market, Saddle Rock Brewery, swimming, The Hunter's Wife Health Bar, Vegan, Wenatchee | Leave a comment
YEAR 3, MONTH 1
AUG 21 – SEPT 20 (2016)
2ND BIRTHDAY
- my parents had been visiting from Oregon since 8/17 (see last month’s post)
- Todd’s birthday (August 21) was on the last day of their visit before going back home on 8/22
- I took a video of me singing “Happy Birthday” to him just after he woke up in the morning, just like I did last year
- we all went swimming then Todd had his nap, then we had dinner at my parent’s campsite
COMMUNICATION & COGNITION
- he says “two” when we ask him how old he is
- he says “two” when we ask him pretty much any question that has a number for an answer
- he said “baby” while holding his baby (8/22)
- he makes a sign for kiss (like blowing a kiss)
- he said “garbage” (sounds like “cap-odge”)
- he says “mama, outside” (outside sounds like “oss eye”)
- he says “oof” for dogs
- when he backs up he says “beep, beep”
- he said “wow”
- he gave me a big wrap around hug when I got home from work
- he frequently asks “help, please” (“ah-p, pease”)
- he says “more” when swinging (sounds like “mo”)
- he said “no way” (9/9)
- he says “shoe”
- he stopped needing to sign “more” because he says “mo”
- he repeated “skinny cat” (it’s what we say when we ask him to put his arms overhead to take off his shirts) (9/15)
- he said “me” & “you” (9/17)
A FEW OF HIS FAVORITE THINGS
- playing on our outside deck
- trying to drop toys off the deck
- jumping on my bed
- holding my hand during walks
- having me get his “formula milk” for him (i.e. he insists “mama”)
- doing somersaults onto stacked up pillows in the living room
- taking baths
- swinging at parks
- laying down on grass
- playing with Lego Duplos
- playing with Lego apps on iPhone/iPad
- “reading” books in the glider chair
- watching Formula 1 car racing on TV
- sitting in the driver’s seat of the car
- snuggling & dancing with “Pillow Bear”
DAY TIME ACTIVITIES WITH ERIC
“Stay-At-Home-Dada” (SAHD)
- painting with watercolors (8/22)
- riding a public bus (8/22)
- riding his Globber
- watching the “diggers” & heavy equipment trucks at Washington Elementary
- walking at Mission Ridge (8/31)
- scenic drive, Wenatchee National Forest (Entiat) (9/2)
- trying out his bike on the pedestrian bridge over the train tracks
- checking out model airplanes in East Wenatchee (9/8)
- walking at Horse Lake Rd (9/14)
- walking at Dry Gulch (9/19)
- fossil finding at Old Blewitt Pass (9/20)
FAMILY ACTIVITIES & DINING OUT
- stroller walks on the Canal Trail (8/27 & 8/28) and picking/eating grapes
- neighborhood bike ride with Todd riding in the bike trailer, then play at Washington Park (slide, swing, playing with other kids with soccer ball) (9/5)
- afternoon/evening walk over the train tracks, then stopped into Saddle Rock Brewery for a beer (Eric, Elisa) & apple juice (Todd) (9/6)
- afternoon/evening play at Pioneer Park; he climbed up rails to the top of the play equipment (9/7)
- 15 mile bike ride (using bike trailer) to the Apple Capital Loop Trail & (vegan) pizza at Saddle Rock Brewery (9/10)
- morning walk over the train tracks, then had (delicious!) vegan waffles at The Hunter’s Wife Health Bar (our first time there) (9/11)
- 9.68 mile bike ride (using bike trailer) to the Apple Capital Loop Trail & walk around at Pybus Market (9/17); we had (dairy free) sorbetto at Ice; later that day we had dinner at La Fuente
- 4.30 mile hike (with & without stroller) toward Castle Rock (9/19); Todd did some hiking and trail running!
- afternoon/evening play at Methow Park; he met new friends & went down a big slide by himself (9/19)
- evening pub trivia at Saddle Rock Brewery (9/20)
SWIMMING SKILLS PROGRESSION
(see the post “Todd’s Swim Videos (~2 years old)“)
- he flipped from tummy to back (8/23)
- he let me put him on his back to go in circles (8/25)
- he tried to flip over onto his back (8/26)
- he pushed off from steps, went onto his back briefly, then back to tummy (8/28)
- he pushed off backward from the ladder in the deep end (8/28)
- he did a full flip (i.e. feet over head) underwater (8/29)
- he floats prone with his back/butt right up to the surface (8/31)
- he did 5 full linked arm swimming strokes (9/3)
- he put his head back while on the steps (9/9)
- he kicked while holding on to the steps (9/9)
- when jumping in from the side of the pool, I let him go under, then bob up before I grabbed him (9/15)
- last swim in the condo pool this year (9/15)
SECOND YEAR MOLARS
- his first second year molar started coming in (bottom, right)
- that’s his 16th tooth
FOOD NOTES
- he’s lost interest in eating pancake & drinking green smoothie for breakfast
- new favorite breakfast food = plain pasta (twists)
- he loves cashew pieces, roasted pumpkin seeds
- favorite fruit = grapes; he also starting eating orange slices
- he still drinks his “formula milk” upon waking, before nap, afternoon, and evening/before bed…he loves it!
- he has this funny habit of hanging upside down off the papasan chair to drink it
DAY TIME NAPS
- Starting this month I’m NO longer tracking nap start/end times & nap durations!
- Todd did just fine with having Eric put him to bed for naps instead of me (weekdays)
- his nap time starts in early afternoon, let’s say “1:00 ish” (+/-)
- sleep duration is unchanged (~2-3 hrs)
- he wakes up from his nap when I get home from work or just before (i.e. in the 3 or 4 o’clock hour)
- he’ll say “mama” when he hears me come in the door
- if he’s already awake & out of bed when I come home, he runs over to me with a big smile and gives me a hug & kiss 🙂
NIGHT TIME SLEEP
- he woke up crying in the night 4x this month
- on 3 of those 4 nights he woke up at either 4 AM (once) or 4:30 AM (twice)…unusual times for him to wake up!
- all 4 times he quickly went back to sleep after having a “formula milk”
- starting this month, I’m NO longer tracking bed times & morning wake-up times!
- he still sleeps roughly ~9-10 hours per night (same as it’s been for a looong time)
- when he goes to bed at night, I lie down with a pillow on the floor next to his crib & I hold his hand through the crib rails until he falls asleep
- he likes to turn on his Baby Einstein Sea Dreams Soother (aquarium lights & music) before he falls asleep
A NEW MORNING WAKE-UP ROUTINE
AKA…where did my snuggly baby go? (sniff, sniff)
- so…in past months Todd’s morning wake-up routine was that he’d sit & snuggle with me in my glider chair for a long time, while he drank his first “formula milk” of the day & I read books to him
- well…that started to change during his 24th month because we had to stay in our house without furniture in it for the 2 weeks before our official moving day of August 6th
- then…once we moved, we had a week when family was staying with us, so Todd liked getting right out of bed to play instead of snuggle with his mama
Which brings us to the current month–
- early on I recalled at least a few days when he did sit with me & read/snuggle
- then there were some days when he wanted to just hang out in his bed while drinking his formula milk
- on 8/27 I sat in the glider chair (next to his crib) while Todd stayed in his crib; I held his stuffed frog like a baby & rocked him. Then, the next day when I sat in the glider chair while Todd stayed in his crib, Todd handed me his frog and his baby to rock…how sweet!
- he asks to get out of bed by saying something like “es-chew”
- when he gets out of bed, he pretty much goes straight out to the living room with his pillow blankets
POTTY TALK
- starting this month, I’m NO longer tracking every poop in the potty vs. every poop that didn’t make it there!
- I’d say he generally does more poops in the toilet than not in the toilet
- the vast majority of pee-pees are going in his diaper (size 6)
- on 9/6 he seemed like he needed to go poo-poo, so I asked him about sitting on the toilet, but he motioned to his baby potty, then he did one there instead (a first!)
- 1st poop in the bathtub 😀 (never did that before!) (9/20)