Saturday, April 17, 2010

Well, it's that time again, my 2 year old is ready to be trained. He shows all the signs of being ready. He goes to another room to do most of his business, he tells me when he pees or poops, he doesn't like to be wet. So how the heck do I train him, entertain a 3 year old, and take care of my wanting-to-be-held-all-the-time 6 month old?

I'm pretty sure we're going to try the 3-day method to start off with, and go from there. If you're not sure what that is Cafemom.com's blog The Stir has some information about it. Also, here's the official 3 day website.

Good luck to all the mommies potty training now, or in the future.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

If you have a preschooler or toddler like I do (ages 2 and 3, now), you know they have no attention span. I try to provide activities throughout the day, but they end up getting bored. I let them find things to do on their own, and they get bored. I let them watch a movie/T.V. show, they get bored.

So I started looking for online games for them, since they are obsessed with touching and playing with the computer anyways. I found kneebouncers.com, it's for toddlers to play with the keyboard. You can play to wake a monkey up, learn colors, abc's, numbers, trucks, fish and more. My son LOVES it (he still only will play for about 5 minutes because he has to be moving all the time, I'm beginning to think he's add, lol).

Another toddler website is avenscorner.com. This one teaches how to use the mouse. We haven't played with this one yet, because I just found it, but I think he will have fun with it for 5 minutes.

For the preschooler, I found zoodles.com. I love, love, love Zoodles. It has it's own internet server, so it eliminates the chance of stumbling onto non-kid sites. You fill out their age, and they pick games from all over the internet that are geared toward that age (I believe the ages they support range from 1 to 8). They have Disney, Nick Jr., PBS, Starfall, etc.. games. Your child would never know that they are learning how to read, math, science, life skills... My 3 year old would play Zoodles all day, if I would let her.

Check them out, and have fun!

Monday, March 1, 2010

Wow.

Well, Zeke is almost 5 months old. Where has the time gone? He's almost through the "boring" baby stage, and getting into the just starting to be mobile stage. I love the boring baby stage, but the mobile stage is so much more exciting. He just rolled over from tummy to back last Sunday. He did it 5 times in a row, then a couple more times for daddy. The little stinker has not done it since, though.

He is definitely our noisiest child. I know Hazel was noisy, and has always been a talker, and Zeb only screamed and squealed for the longest time, but Zeke doesn't stop making noise. Even when he was born he was making all sorts of noises. I called him our little Squeaker, now hes squealing and screaming and giggling. So cute.

We also baby him the most. By now we had the other 2 on cereal, whether they were ready or not, as soon as they turned 4 months out came the spoons. We decided to wait until Zeke was ready for food, because he clearly is not. He also gets held more, walked around more, etc... Perhaps it's because he is the baby (he is our last), perhaps we know a little more than we did before, I don't know really. We are making sure to enjoy these stages a little more, because we won't be going through it again.

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