Hello there everyone! I'm sorry we haven't posted in a while--life gets busy!! You'll have to check it out this weekend because I'm going to be taking the kids to a petting farm tomorrow, so it should make a pretty great blog entry.
Today Evelyn went to the Doctor's for her 4 month check up and immunizations. Here are her stats: 16 lb 10 oz (92 percentile) 24.5 inches long (45 percentile) and I can't remember the number for her head, I only know it was 98 percentile. whew-whee! She is taking after her brother when he was her age! She did great at the doctors, and I was instructed to really try to start to give her more solids. I've tried once, but later on that day she had HORRIBLE stomach pains (or so I assumed, because she was screaming bloody murder) So, we'll give it another go!
To my fellow readers, do you have any suggestions to this problem:
Bradley still views the highchair as HIS own. Not hers... AT ALL. We've tried having him sit on "big daddy chairs" so on and so forth, which he likes UNTIL we "threaten" him by having Evelyn sit in "His highchair." I tried going to a resale shop to see if there were any mini-highchairs that screw on the table that we could distinguish between "his" and "hers." Unfortunately, there weren't any. Do you have any ideas? The problem is that he still sits in the chair occasionally (ie to do play dough, play with beans, or some other activity that's prone to get messy.) Should I wean him completely from the chair, get another chair, or make him learn the word "share" in his not-yet-two-year-old vocabulary?
See you next time!
I had two sick kids for a while. Bradley had a fever for 5 days! Oh no!
Bradley loves to play with ants
Army Commando Bradley
6 comments:
Sorry I don't have any highchair advice...but I had to comment and say that I loved that picture of you with both kids on the floor. It's so cute, you're such a cute mom!
Bradley and Evelyn are growing up so fast! I can't believe it! They are so adorable. Good luck with the high chair problem. We were at a friends house the other day and they put Brooke in their daughters high chair and she was so upset! It was hers she said. The only thing that helped was just being patient and helping her learn that she had to share. They wouldn't take Brooke out, and eventually she realized that being upset wasn't going to change things. I think that the idea of sharing can be really hard, especially for the first child. Good luck!
Highchair advice...we never had a highchair, but the seats that hook up to another chair. It saved us on a lot of room. Each boy had their own. They looked the exact same. They have trays as well that hook onto them, so Bradley could play there with his play-doh. It just gets more complicated I know. Our bigger thing was the crib. We had Taylor in the port-a-crib for 9 months and then took Jonathan out of the big crib and put him in a bed. He kept climbing into the crib and saying it was his. It took about 4-6 weeks to wean him off the crib. Good Luck!
I totally thought I already commented on this one...duh!! LOVE the pics. Evelyn's smiling is just so sweet and contagious! And little Bradley in the army shorts waving...too cute!! He looks like a little man! Can't wait for more videos and pics! When's your next trip to Cali??:)
With my girls, I had to buy Katie a booster chair (it still had it's own tray) and just attached it to one of our chairs and she loved it. We called it her big kid chair and reassured her that high chairs are just for babies. With her own tray, she was still able to eat in her own messy way and do play doh and other activities in it. As she grew, we were able to take the tray off and sit her right up to the table. With that, I still liked being able to strap her in so that when I left the room to do something, I felt she was safe in it. That's what worked for us - good luck!
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