Toddler Check-In! 6/6

[mellyknu]

Alright, ladies! This is our first, informal, information gathering toddler check in! If you have a kid between the ages of 1 and 3, jump right in!

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname
2. Birth month/year

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh!
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!)
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!)
4. Share a pic from the week, if you please!

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years?

[mellyknu]

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname
Rowan AKA Ro
2. Birth month/year
January, 2016

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh!
Her tummy rules our lives these days. Yesterday I went into her room to get her up from her nap. As soon as the door opened she yelled "Nuh nuh!" (hungry) and signed more, which is how she tells us she wants to eat. I asked if she's hungry and she shook her head no and cracked up laughing.

2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!)
Um, most things. She's so much fun most of the time and so quick with a smile or laugh. She's getting much better with a spoon. Now she gets through half her bowl of yogurt or oatmeal before she resorts to her hands. 🙄 Her favorite game right now is chasing us or the dogs with her push walker.

3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!)
Hitting. And sometimes biting, but she hasn't figured out to put pressure with her teeth yet. How do you stop the hitting?! She's still not walking. We went to PT today and they didn't observe anything concerning. She is developmentally on track, she just isn't confident/daring enough to let go and do it on her own. We got some ideas to try and encourage her along.

4. Share a pic from the week, if you please!
My little explorer. 😍


QOTW: What song best represents your high school years?
I'm going with Lady Marmalade by a Christina Aguilera, Missy Elliot, Mya, Lik Kim, and Pink. The song doesn't haven't significant meaning to me, but I loved those girls and it was my jam.

[ketchup]

Thanks for taking the wheel on this, mellyknu !

1. Name/nickname
Lets stick with Tiny Tomato (TT)
2. Birth month/year
October 2015


1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh! She's really into baby dolls, like .. really really into them. Her newest thing when she's playing is to undo their clothes and she says "poop?" "you poop?" over and over again. Yes, I find poop talk to be funny. No, I'm not secretly 8.

2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!)

** PG TALK **

She has been extra lovey towards my belly. She always wants to rub it and refers to it as her little sister's name.

3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) She's been sick. Again. Repeat for the FB people, but yesterday pedi dx'd her with another EI, a sinus infection, and then sent us straight from the appt to the hospital for chest x-rays. Luckily she doesn't have pneumonia (originally suspected), but she does have bronchiolitis again. So, we're on abx for the infections, and albuterol every 4-6hrs for the bronchiolitis. DC won't administer meds other than epipens and inhalers, so I had to run up there today to give her a neb treatment, but I'll have an inhaler for her by tomorrow.

I'm just.. tired. Need the husband to return stat.

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years? "Wonderwall" by Oasis? I don't know that it specifically represents my high school years, but we played it a lot while we garaged.. and I was pretty into garaging in HS, so it sticks out as one of the few things songs I remember.

[LED]

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname. Ridley
2. Birth month/year. May '16

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh! Well, I have a horrible memory, so I'll go with the only thing I can think of from today. Lol I'm trying to teach her to not hit and be gentle. So when she hits I show her that we're gentle by essentially petting the person instead. This morning she was playing with F (5) and hitting him when she got excited. I reminded her don't hit, be gentle, so she switched to like, slapping him and then rubbing her hand on his face. Lol Luckily F is a good sport and thought it was funny.
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!) She was really tired yesterday but having a hard time winding down for a nap. She kept going back and forth from F to B (16), cuddling with them because she was too tired to play but wanted to be close to them.
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) More like just never get up. Ugh. Teething is killing any semblance of sleep. I've been living on energy drinks and anxiety.
4. Share a pic from the week, if you please! Cuddling with B this morning because they both got up early. 😍

[mnj05]

1. Name/nickname - Graham/G
2. Birth month/year - July 2015

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week?
He grabbed DH's boots and stood in them eating his supper.

2. What made you go aww?
He has been randomly running up to me for hugs/kisses. He's also starting to use a few more words regularly so we're up to 5-8 words. I feel like he's on the edge of this word thing.

3. What made you want to crawl back into bed?
He decided to jump from the table to the couch and bit through his little lip. (More scary than challenging.) He's also going to be seeing a neurologist soon for the way he holds his head/arms when he walks/runs.

QOTW - I don't even remember. Lots of Nelly/50 Cent but I listened to country. Dixie Chicks was a big one for me.

[sharebear]

Info: DS is a July 15 toddler!
Check-in:
1) He now enjoys diaper changes. Only because, as I swipe on butt cream, he likes to do a little wiggle and yell, "'mm mama feels so good! More butt cream on my butt right now!" I'm also 90% sure he yells "feels so good" part twice as loud when I'm trying to do a diaper change in a public restroom where everyone can hear.
2) He has started to ask me for a snuggle! When I got home from work today, he ran up to me and hugged my legs and said "mama stay here."
3) Pretty much every time he is hungry or tired. That is when he typically has tantrums and I want to give up. He's usually a good eater, but dinner has been a struggle lately. Between the mess and the toddler-ing, I'm actually happy that some nights I get home too late to handle his dinnertime.
4) I don't do face pics here, but it wouldn't matter because this is how he is posing lately. Hat in front of face. Any hat. Or, if I take the hat away and ask him to smile, he grimaces with a weird Joker grin. *poof!*

[dyork]

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname - Gabe
2. Birth month/year - October 2015

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? His little friend (who's 2) took him for a ride in his power wheels and his face was priceless. I wish I got a video of it. But he has a love/hate of it.

2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!) he's been so sweet with his sister. He tries to feed her, give her toys, rub her head.

3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) the tantrums are so so so bad. I need to come up with distractions.


QOTW: What song best represents your high school years? Ugh the only thing I can think of is Dream On by Aerosmith, and that's just because it was my class song.

[nutmeg]

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname Molly
2. Birth month/year July 2015

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh! My kid is nuts. Her new favorite thing is to jump, but she can't get off the ground very far on her own. So we end up holding her arms and lifting her up to jump which she thinks is the best. 20lbs gets heavy pretty quickly while you are "jumping" with a toddler. She has started saying "nope" when she doesn't want anything. The toddler attitude is strong in this one.
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!) We took her to a petting zoo/farm this weekend and she lost her mind with all the animals. It was so adorable. She would get really low so she was eye level with them and wave and yell "Hi, baby goat" or "Hi, chicken".
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) Honestly, she is pretty chill for the most part. Things are getting so much better with her growing vocabulary and ability to communicate what she wants. So we have about 2 months before we hit the terrible 2s so I'm sure I will have many many things to put here.
4. Share a pic from the week, if you please!



QOTW: What song best represents your high school years?
Umm. I was all over the place as far as music goes in high school. I listened to a lot of rap and country mostly.

[westiemom]

Thanks mellyknu!

1. Olivia
2. April/ 2016

Check-in:
1. OMG it's been a week! We went to library today and every time the teacher would point to something in the book, she'd turn to me and yell "oh wow!" All the moms were cracking up.
2. She is getting so sweet. Daddy asked her for a kiss today and she pushed him away and said "mama" and planted one on me!
3. I wanted to crawl back in bed Friday-Monday. The tantrums are out of control! We were trying one nap and she just couldn't cope with life. Things were better yesterday with two naps and today though she just had 1. Nap transition is for the birds!

QOTW: it would have to be anything by Chingy. I loved him. 😂

[mellyknu]

Jun 7, 2017 13:20:38 GMT -6 westiemom said:

Thanks mellyknu!

1. Olivia
2. April/ 2016

Check-in:
1. OMG it's been a week! We went to library today and every time the teacher would point to something in the book, she'd turn to me and yell "oh wow!" All the moms were cracking up.
2. She is getting so sweet. Daddy asked her for a kiss today and she pushed him away and said "mama" and planted one on me!
3. I wanted to crawl back in bed Friday-Monday. The tantrums are out of control! We were trying one nap and she just couldn't cope with life. Things were better yesterday with two naps and today though she just had 1. Nap transition is for the birds!

QOTW: it would have to be anything by Chingy. I loved him. 😂

I love her!! So hilarious!

[nutmeg]

mellyknu, Molly was the same way in regards to walking/ standing without holding onto us. Then one day she decided she could do it and was walking like a pro. Ro will do it when she's good and ready.

ketchup , Molly makes us get her diapers and wipes for her babies because "baby poop, stinky." We also have to give them baths and put on lotion.

[mellyknu]

Jun 7, 2017 13:43:56 GMT -6 nutmeg said:

mellyknu, Molly was the same way in regards to walking/ standing without holding onto us. Then one day she decided she could do it and was walking like a pro. Ro will do it when she's good and ready.

Was she a butt-scooter, by chance? PT said that a big motivator for most babies is the desire to travel while still having free hands to hold things. Since butt-scooters have free hands, walking doesn't seem worth the risk of falling.

[nutmeg]

Jun 7, 2017 14:09:56 GMT -6 mellyknu said:

Jun 7, 2017 13:43:56 GMT -6 nutmeg said:

mellyknu , Molly was the same way in regards to walking/ standing without holding onto us. Then one day she decided she could do it and was walking like a pro. Ro will do it when she's good and ready.

Was she a butt-scooter, by chance? PT said that a big motivator for most babies is the desire to travel while still having free hands to hold things. Since butt-scooters have free hands, walking doesn't seem worth the risk of falling.

No, She is just incredibly risk averse and timid with new gross motor skills. She was the same way with crawling and climbing. We don't even close the gate at the bottom of our stairs because she refuses to go up them without us standing right behind her at almost 2. 

[shananagins]

1. Name/nickname: Meatball, Bubba/Bubbs (this came from the NICU staff and totally stuck.)
2. Birth month/year: April 2016

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh!: He asked for more Cheerios and promptly grabbed two fistfuls and threw them in the air like confetti for the dogs, and then laughed like a maniac.
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!): He got his first pair of Stride Rites and when he wears them he grins and rocks back and forth from heel to toe. I love it.
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) He has started to use the "more" sign for anything he wants. He seems to have boycotted "milk", "water", "done", and "food". Which, you know, has resulted in lots of tantrums and sort of defeats the purpose of baby sign language 😉
4. Share a pic from the week, if you please!

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years?

Anything Blink 182. Read more: aplacetomeet.freeforums.net/thread/1301/toddler-check-6#ixzz4jPdUvOgk

[shananagins]

mellyknu Thanks for the check in! I love that pic of your girl 😍 The hitting is so frustrating, man. We have just told him no firmly and then we tell him to use "soft hands" and then demonstrate it (I usually gently put my hand on his cheek, and then take his hand and show him how to do it back.)

ketchup Love that she's so into your belly and talks to TT2. Really sorry that you're having to run all over to give her neb treatments.

LED Love the snuggle pic! Hoping that the teeth break through soon, because lack of sleep is for the birds.

mnj05 Random hugs and kisses are the best! Holy crap to the scare with his lip! I hope he's doing better now, and that your blood pressure has decreased 😳

sharebear I actually LOLd over the cream and yelling in public!

dyork 😍 Love that he's being so sweet to his sister!

nutmeg, I bet she loves the "jumping" and just think of how strong your shoulders and biceps will be! Winning!

westiemom, She is the best! Too cute!!

[mellyknu]

Paging nelzie, megrae12, and nikiswims because you said you wanted in!  

[megrae12]

I'm sorry! I'm way late!

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname
William/Superman
2. Birth month/year
February/2016

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh!
His sense of humor is great! He jokes around with me. His favorite thing is to take the remote and run so I can chase him.

2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!)
I've had a rough few months with my mom, my bestie's gran, and our good friend dying, he's picked up that I'm sad and he comes and hugs me.

3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) One word: molars.

4. Share a pic from the week, if you please!

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years? I dunno. There are a lot. I think our class song was Stairway to Heaven.

[nelzie]

Thanks for the tag! I meant to post in here yesterday but forgot to come back to it.

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname: C
2. Birth month/year: May 2016

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh! She refuses to say dada. Every time you try to get her to say it she says no or mama.
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!) she's starting to dance every time she hears music. It's adorable.
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here!) she's really been fighting sleep. She's already down to only one nap and today she took an hour to go down. She also has a mild cold so I feel like there is snot everywhere.
4. Share a pic from the week, if you please! I don't know how to post pics from my phone

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years? Oh man, I have no idea. Probably something embarrassing.

[nikiswims]

Well I'm quite late. I forget to check here

Info gathering things:
1. Name/nickname: E/little goose
2. Birth month/year: January 2016

Check-in things:
1. What hilarious thing(s) did your tot do this week? Give us a laugh! She is having a hide and seek moment where she barely hides then covers her eyes and says "here I am!" which means she wants you to find her. Over and over. She just loves it. Goose!
2. What made you go aww? (Happy things here!) the language explosion has been crazy. She's using 2-3 word sentences and refers to herself as "I" (i.e. "I sit down"). She's also so loving lately.
3. What made you want to crawl back into bed? (Challenges go here) We're having a real separation anxiety moment. She freaks out every time I leave her.

QOTW: What song best represents your high school years? RHCP Californication was released when I was in HS and we loved it. We used to drive around with it on repeat and even skipped junior prom to see them play.