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Sarah is eighteen months old
This month Sarah has been way into being read to, playing with water, singing, and Dinosaur Train. She is full on obsessed with Dinosaur Train (a PBS cartoon about dinosaurs who travel on a train through time to meet other dinosaurs.) It is her favorite show, her favorite toys, and her favorite book. She sings the theme song and shouts “Dinosaur Train” at anything even remotely train or dinosaur-related (she sometimes just shouts it for fun too.)
She is saying too many words to list them all here. Her favorite words that she says the most often include Dinosaur Train (obviously,) applesauce, ABC, no, Tiny (from Dinosaur Train,) Mama, nap, tv, milk, up, and swing.
As soon as Ted’s graduation ceremony was over and the kids went to join their families, Sarah ran up to the front and stood where the kids had been lined up. Preschool graduating class of 2017 (high school class of 2030!)
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Ted is sixty-two months old
This past month was Ted’s last month of preschool. We got to enjoy his end of year festivities and Preschool Graduation. I am so proud of Ted. Not because he graduated preschool, because really all he had to do was show up to accomplish that, but because of his character.
He is loving and kind. He cares about the feelings of others. He tries to cheer people up when they are sad. He is awesome at sharing, even sharing his favorite toys and books with his little sister. He makes sure we all know that he loves us A LOT.
He is quick to make friends and include people. He goes with the flow and is flexible, which is a remarkable skill in a five year-old.
He is funny and silly. He has a great sense of humor. He gets us all laughing and smiling throughout the day. He even taught Sarah to say knock knock jokes.
He has great focus and patience. He reads on his own every day. His teachers told me he is an outstanding student. He knew all his kindergarten sight words, and other pre-kindergarten skills, but the most important part of his review, to me, was that they said he was respectful. He loves art projects, water play, play doh, and playing in the dirt.
To sum up, he is an AMAZING kid!
Picking strawberries with his best friend on the last day of preschool.
Did I mention silly? Spiderman has got him in a nose-lock!
Posted in Accomplishments, Friends, Months Old, Outdoors, Ted
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Day in the Life
Just looking through our archives to see what Ted was like at 18 months and I saw that I had written a day-in-the-life post then. We were really good at keeping to a routine. So much harder to do that with two children! It is still my goal though! Good routines are awesome!
It is a little hard to write a general routine post right now because we are transitioning from the school year to summer. Also I had tried to cut Sarah down to one nap a day every day and that backfired big time as Sarah decided if she couldn’t nap at her usual time she would not nap AT ALL EVER. So on days we are home in the morning she naps twice and if we are out and about she sometimes squeezes in a car nap or will just take one nap those days.
Here is what an average day looks like this week:
Sarah wakes up around 5-5:30am and yells a bit, but falls back asleep pretty quickly. She wakes up again around 6:25 and I go and get her up. We come downstairs and she watches Dinosaur Train while I clean up the kitchen. Ted comes down around 7:30. He joins us for a little tv and then we all eat breakfast. Ted eats apple cinnamon oatmeal with peanut butter mixed in almost every single morning. Sometimes he has fruit too. Sarah eats different things every day. She sometimes has oatmeal, bagel, cheerios, cheese. She frequently has applesauce and/or another fruit.
Then we head upstairs to get ready. There is a lot of me telling Ted to hurry up and asking him if he would rather hang out on my bed rather than play with his friends. He is a big time lollygagger. “Do you want to stay here and play with that toy or finish getting dressed at get to go to the playground?” ”All your friends are getting to playgroup now!” And so on… Getting out of the house is hard. Of course we are usually late. The only things we are regularly on time for are preschool and music class. Music class takes special effort to be showered before leaving. On preschool days I usually showered after I got home from taking Ted. I have a feeling that I will be doing Kindergarten drop off unshowered as well. Yes I realize this is my own fault and not Ted’s. I could manage our time better in the mornings.
Now that it is summer, our plans include fun trips with Pat on Mondays, playgroup on Tuesdays, Lisa and Mackenzie’s on Wednesdays, music classes for both kids on Thursdays, and invite friends over on Fridays. Although Pat’s schedule may change soon and our Mondays and Fridays would switch.
We get home for lunch around 12:30. Ted is happy to eat pb&j almost every single day. He has yogurt and fruit with it. Sarah eats different things every day. Sometimes lunch meat, pb&j, mac & cheese, leftover pasta, cheese, yogurt, etc. Always fruit.
Then we play together. Frequently with the water table… sometimes with the kiddie pool. Sometimes we read or play with toys or paint or color. Then Sarah takes a nap. Then Ted and I will either play legos or do an art project or play in the dirt in the backyard, or something else that we don’t really want Sarah to get into. Sometimes Ted will watch some Phineas and Ferb during this time. Sometimes he and I will clean together. He is great at washing the glass doors, cabinets, and the table.
Sarah generally wakes up ANGRY! Something about afternoon naps are hard for Sarah to recover from. Of course when she skips that nap she is angry too. So most days Sarah gets to watch a little more Dinosaur Train then too. It is the only thing that stops the screaming, don’t judge… Then depending on what time Sarah woke up from her nap we will play after tv until Pat gets home.
Most nights Pat makes us dinner. Thank goodness. By 5:30 cooking dinner is the absolute last thing I want to do. I know how lucky I am that he works a full (extra long) day and then comes home and cooks. Extremely lucky and grateful. By the time dinner is done and Ted is done eating (he is the slowest eater I ever met.) It is usually time for bed.
Pat takes them up and gives them a tub if it is a tub day. He gets them in their pj’s and brushes their teeth. I come up and read Sarah stories and get her to bed. Pat reads with Ted. Again super thankful that Pat does the bulk of the bedtime routine.
Then I usually watch tv on Hulu or read or surf the internet.
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