There are times when feeding the kidlet can be a trial.\u00c2\u00a0 I get quite tired of hearing “I don’t like that” at dinner time (usually referring to some kind of non-processed, non-ground meat).\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, when I asked him what he would like for lunch today he asked “Well, do we have any broccoli?\u00c2\u00a0 And carrots?”\u00c2\u00a0 I said “That can’t be all you want, that doesn’t sound like a filling lunch” and he responded “I want some mango too, mom” (with a tone that suggested “Duhhhhhh!” ;)).\u00c2\u00a0 It’s hard to get too irritated and to complain about a picky eater when the first thing he asks for\u00c2\u00a0 at meal time are vegetables and fruit.\u00c2\u00a0 He may not be open to every food out there, and his diet might seem boring to me, but the fact that he eats fruit and veggies (even if its the same ones) every day puts him far ahead of some.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Baby L is becoming quite a good eater as well.\u00c2\u00a0 She has 12 teeth already at not\u00c2\u00a0quite 13 months.\u00c2\u00a0 She actually prefers things with more texture to things that are gooey at this point.\u00c2\u00a0 She shovels in diced chicken, happily crunches on lightly steamed veggies.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes a little coaxing to get her to eat avocado, banana, mango, etc.\u00c2\u00a0 Once I get her to taste it, then she’ll keep eating it, but if I don’t help some into her mouth so she can see how good it is, she will touch it and recoil and leave it on her tray, heh.<\/p>\n
She is also starting to communicate and you can see a real little person with her own personality developing now.\u00c2\u00a0 She says “DaDa” and “MaMa” and “book” (well, its more like OooK).\u00c2\u00a0 She says “ess” and nods her head once sharply for “yes” and is signing “more”, “done”, and “milk” — although to be fair, her signs aren’t what you call precise, and she tends to use them even if they don’t quite fit.\u00c2\u00a0 She’ll do “more”, when she is hungry before she has had anything, so technically its not really *more* its just *some* \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
Sleep training Baby L has\u00c2\u00a0been a total dream compared to what we went through with the Kidlet.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course he had a lot of other issues given his early life.\u00c2\u00a0 I put off the sleep training for as long as I could, partially in dread, but mostly because I’m a believer in co-sleeping and attachment parenting.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, within a couple days her agitation at being put down was down to minutes.\u00c2\u00a0 After two weeks it is down to a few seconds of fussing.\u00c2\u00a0 She is also sleeping through the night and not needing feeding at all, so, in theory, I should be getting more sleep.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n
Except of course I am not getting my naps.\u00c2\u00a0 Today when the baby went down, Kidlet and I cleaned out the homework corner.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s amazing how much junk accumulates in our drawers there.\u00c2\u00a0 We also culled out all the materials that were too easy for him.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve always supplemented his out of the home education.\u00c2\u00a0 Much of it is a bit of the “unschooling” approach –\u00c2\u00a0“sneaking” in education while playing.\u00c2\u00a0 He doesn’t realize the mathematical applications of baking muffins, science experiments are just cool fun, he loves art projects (today he was doing some coloring and he says to me “I think I’ll do this one like Marc Chagall and use crazy colors”, it gave me a little glow :)), helping me write shopping lists for the foods he wants, etc.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But we also have file folder games and workbooks, piles of reading materials and so forth.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of what we put away\u00c2\u00a0was actually geared for first graders, and he is beyond it already =0\u00c2\u00a0 I kept out a grade one reading comprehension workbook (flash forward reading) although only the second half looks worth using, and one on maps (from scholastic); the rest of it is now shelved and waiting for the baby to get there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There are times when feeding the kidlet can be a trial.\u00c2\u00a0 I get quite tired of hearing “I don’t like that” at dinner time (usually referring to some kind of non-processed, non-ground meat).\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, when I asked him what he would like for lunch today he asked “Well, do we have any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1315"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1317,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1315\/revisions\/1317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pcgirl.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}