Milestones

As I am writing this blog, I have been going through my old facebook posts to help jog my memory and I came across something really interesting. Chandler, our child that is now in speech therapy because he needs to focus on talking, used to be a talking fool. I had forgotten that! I can't wait to see what other forgotten memories I uncover.

But "talking" wasn't the only milestone. We were hitting them rapidly. All too soon, it was time to start feeding the boys more than just bottles. Did I really think feeding them bottles was a challenge? In theory, I was so excited to start spoon feeding them. In reality, I didn't know if we were up to the challenge. So, again, we cheated. We used the ill advised infa-feeders for their first cereal. We spoon fed too, but first thing in the morning and the last feeding before bed were using the infa-feeders. The way I figured it, they were learning how to use a spoon just fine. But we needed those two feedings to be nice and calm to survive. Judge me if you will, but it worked.

Most parents both look forward to, and also dread the day their baby starts crawling. I felt exactly that way. We had reached a nice balance and I knew that any day it was going to change. But, surprise of all surprises, life got so much easier when the boys began to crawl. They were suddenly able to come to me and solve a few of their own problems. A little child proofing and we were set!

And then it was time to tackle our sleeping situation... We knew that they had to start sleeping in their cribs. So, we set a date and were determined to stick to it. The date came and we panicked! We had gotten used to a fair amount of sleep and weren't prepared to give that up. So, we packed the boys up and went to Babies R Us to find something, anything that might give us an advantage. And we found the Slumber Bears, or as I refer to them now, Mommy's best friend. They were motion and sound activated to make a soothing sound which really helped calm my babies. And they worked! Tyler slept all night, the very first night. And Chandler only woke a few, brief times. Success!!!