Elijah's speaking is getting much better at more than 2 and a half, so I want to write down all the cute things he says that I will miss. Nicollette said a few of these too.
Matato = Potato
me pummin' = I'm coming too/ I'm coming with you
'cado, my'cado. a'cado = avocodo
me do that thing = I want to do it myself, let me do it myself
it too heaby = it's too heavy (you carry it)
me too also (he says these words correctly but says too and also together even though I have tried to explain it is one or the other since they mean the same thing)
Lub you = Love you
Nikki Let = Nicollette
None = can't, don't - as in: Quentin none play with that, or None Nikki do it
He mostly says it correctly now but for a long time Quentin sounded more like Poonten
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Saturday, August 6, 2016
Q is 9 mos
So I am still horrible about keeping this updated often, but I do love having it to look back at. I have been keeping a list of things I want to update to the blog on a digital post it note on my computer so I dont forget something in between posts. I am still taking monthly photos (ok not always on the exact day but close and he is hard to get a photo he just wants to move), now I just need to get them all on the computer and then on the blog into several posts.
Quentin in now 9 months. So mobile, crawling at super speed it seems, pulls up to standing often with just one hand, and then can sit back down, starting to do some pretty confident cruising along the furniture. Should be too long before he is standing unassisted, he might turn out to be the earliest walker of the three kids.
Around 7 months he starting talking more, saying ba-ba often we felt towards daddy, then moved on to saying ma-ma and da-da closer to 8 mos. His siblings have taught him to roar like lion and a few other strange noises. Recent we were playing duckies in the bath and he starting saying something that sounds like quack, and now says it all the time which is kinda funny. Another funny thing he does is blowing raspberries on my knee. He make plenty of cute faces but his most common is sucking in his bottom lip.
Still no teeth just but still the occasional teething pain and his bottom gums just look like they hurt. A skim through this blog show he is little behind his siblings in this area. Started on Cheerios and Baby Puffs but he doesnt seem too into or good at eating them, more of them end up in his chair or under it. But they help keep him busy in a high chair.
Sleep is still an issue, some nights he goes into his crib peacefully and spend at least the some of the evening and first part of the night in his crib and others he spends all evening sleeping held on the couch and most of the night in our bed. So going to sleep on his own in his crib doesn't happen but a good night is one where he spends most of it in his crib. And getting him back into his crib after a wake up to nurse is another challenge.
He is at that age where he doesn't want new people which was no good for being in the nursery during VBS, lots of crying. Elijah did fine in the nursery during VBS minus really wanting to just be with the bigger kids. Nicollette did really well for her first year, minus the end of the first day when she was almost inconsolable about not seeing me all morning even though I explained before I was with one of the older groups. She did well with learning the songs to sing in church the Sunday after it was over. As cute as they were, I am glad not to have to listen to them anymore.
Nicollette and Elijah are letting Quentin play with or around them more but still have to be reminded to be gentle. Also working on keeping "not-baby-safe" toys away from Q when they are gotten out, as much as possible I try to keep to safer toys like Little People sets or the LeapFrog Animals. Elijah just had his first haircut, just a trim to get it off his neck and ears. Nicollette still doesn't want hers cut. She starts her second year of preschool soon, going three mornings a week. Hoping to work in still going to the forest and library most weeks.
Nicollette is always stalling at bedtime, being able to get herself ready for bed but not doing any of it on her own but her bedtime stories are very important to her. Elijah is usually a little easier minus tantrums about wanting mommy. He usually goes to bed in his toddler bed and stays there. Occasionally waking up in the evening or night and going to the gate at the door to have someone tuck him back in. The hardest part is just two of us juggling giving each of the three of them personal time at bedtime. Even more challenging if Patrick is out of town.
June was spent at the Forest and Library summer programs. Ending the month with her week of "princess ballerina" class. Our major trip for this summer was a roadtrip up to Indiana around the 4th of July to clean out storage and see family. Bedtime in hotels was the hardest part. They did pretty well with the driving but they did get a little antsy at times. Then the week of VBS.
All of the summer programs are over and School year programs dont start for a few weeks. The last thing we have for the summer is a weekend trip planned for the Iowa State fair.
Now I need to make a new post about all the toddlerism that Elijah is outgrowing. You know that cute things they mispronounce that you will miss later.
Quentin in now 9 months. So mobile, crawling at super speed it seems, pulls up to standing often with just one hand, and then can sit back down, starting to do some pretty confident cruising along the furniture. Should be too long before he is standing unassisted, he might turn out to be the earliest walker of the three kids.
Around 7 months he starting talking more, saying ba-ba often we felt towards daddy, then moved on to saying ma-ma and da-da closer to 8 mos. His siblings have taught him to roar like lion and a few other strange noises. Recent we were playing duckies in the bath and he starting saying something that sounds like quack, and now says it all the time which is kinda funny. Another funny thing he does is blowing raspberries on my knee. He make plenty of cute faces but his most common is sucking in his bottom lip.
Still no teeth just but still the occasional teething pain and his bottom gums just look like they hurt. A skim through this blog show he is little behind his siblings in this area. Started on Cheerios and Baby Puffs but he doesnt seem too into or good at eating them, more of them end up in his chair or under it. But they help keep him busy in a high chair.
Sleep is still an issue, some nights he goes into his crib peacefully and spend at least the some of the evening and first part of the night in his crib and others he spends all evening sleeping held on the couch and most of the night in our bed. So going to sleep on his own in his crib doesn't happen but a good night is one where he spends most of it in his crib. And getting him back into his crib after a wake up to nurse is another challenge.
He is at that age where he doesn't want new people which was no good for being in the nursery during VBS, lots of crying. Elijah did fine in the nursery during VBS minus really wanting to just be with the bigger kids. Nicollette did really well for her first year, minus the end of the first day when she was almost inconsolable about not seeing me all morning even though I explained before I was with one of the older groups. She did well with learning the songs to sing in church the Sunday after it was over. As cute as they were, I am glad not to have to listen to them anymore.
Nicollette and Elijah are letting Quentin play with or around them more but still have to be reminded to be gentle. Also working on keeping "not-baby-safe" toys away from Q when they are gotten out, as much as possible I try to keep to safer toys like Little People sets or the LeapFrog Animals. Elijah just had his first haircut, just a trim to get it off his neck and ears. Nicollette still doesn't want hers cut. She starts her second year of preschool soon, going three mornings a week. Hoping to work in still going to the forest and library most weeks.
Nicollette is always stalling at bedtime, being able to get herself ready for bed but not doing any of it on her own but her bedtime stories are very important to her. Elijah is usually a little easier minus tantrums about wanting mommy. He usually goes to bed in his toddler bed and stays there. Occasionally waking up in the evening or night and going to the gate at the door to have someone tuck him back in. The hardest part is just two of us juggling giving each of the three of them personal time at bedtime. Even more challenging if Patrick is out of town.
June was spent at the Forest and Library summer programs. Ending the month with her week of "princess ballerina" class. Our major trip for this summer was a roadtrip up to Indiana around the 4th of July to clean out storage and see family. Bedtime in hotels was the hardest part. They did pretty well with the driving but they did get a little antsy at times. Then the week of VBS.
All of the summer programs are over and School year programs dont start for a few weeks. The last thing we have for the summer is a weekend trip planned for the Iowa State fair.
Now I need to make a new post about all the toddlerism that Elijah is outgrowing. You know that cute things they mispronounce that you will miss later.
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