So much is going on, and I keep meaning to dedicate a post to each of these things, but for the time being, here’s the short clip version:
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With the big number two birthdays heading on down the line, I finally bit the bullet and nightweaned. FINALLY, I know! I could have done it sooner but for many reasons I did not. They still wake and need a cuddle in the night a fair bit, so we’re not 100% there yet but for the first time IN MORE THAN 4 YEARS, there are nights when I am sleeping for longer than 3 hours at a time without interruption. And its oh, so delightful.
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Also, the waking in the wee hours of the morning is gradually getting better again. Thanks in part to EARLIER bedtimes, woo hoo (and a few other changes to the bedtime routine, for all three girls)! Thank you all who gave me advice on this. I’ll try to write a bit more about this soonish…
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We are also in the midst of potty training! Delia pretty much figured it out on her own and is doing great if I remind her often enough. I had high hopes of going for it as full-time as I could (during the hours we were home) this week, but OMG, if we go without diapers its pretty much a constant job helping one of them use the potty, dealing with someone else’s accident, one or the other wanting to wanting to sit on the big potty or dump the little potty, flush, needing my help to wash hands, needing to wash the sister’s hands who just touched the potty/pee/whatever too, another accident over there, rinse, repeat. Potty Insanity. I gave up on the jump-into-it-whole-hog approach for the time being, but we may reassess and try again soon.
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All in all things here are both joyous and crazymaking. Two year olds are BUSY! E & D are talking up a storm and surprise me daily with the amazing things they say to me and each other, and their sense of humor, too. They are seriously funny kids, both of them. But then there is the bickering, the fighting, the defiance and destruction that literally has me running the other direction (or losing my cool) more than a few times a day, as well. Two and four years old is HARD! For all involved! They are generally much better behaved when we are out and about, so I’ve been doing that more and more often. Which is nice (and so different from our first year plus, ha ha!) but when I do that my house turns into a giant wreck. Ah well. Tradeoffs, tradeoffs…
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Congrats!! Sounds like a lot of stuff at once, but great changes! You inspire me with the 3 little ones every day.
I am constantly (as I read your blog) SO impressed with how you juggle it all…..and keep YOUR sense of humor (in some cases it appears that you get it from your kids), and write such informative, up-keeping, warm, smart, interesting, colorful comments complete with pictures that make me want to climb into the computer and find those cherubs. Looking forward to a post where you say, “I have now had 7-8 hours of sleep each night for the past 2 weeks” ….that sounds like a bodacious goal, huh?