My poor blog has been quite neglected. I mostly blame Timothy dropping his morning nap. Two naps a day felt like quite a luxurious amount of time for me to accomplish things, but now that he's only taking an afternoon nap (that has been getting shorter and shorter lately) I try to spend that time doing cleaning/organizing tasks that are difficult to do when he's awake. He likes to help me with whatever I'm doing which is fantastic most of the time, but some tasks (like cleaning the bathroom for example) I don't feel comfortable letting him help, or his help would be too much of a hindrance (like folding clothes, he hasn't mastered folding yet and prefers to throw/scatter my neatly folded piles instead) to be worth trying.
The biggest news from 2019 is that we found out we'd have a new little ginger arriving in April! Timothy is very excited about his baby sister coming soon, and talks about "when baby all done growing in Mommy's tummy..." He's particularly excited to play cars with her and have her ride in the backseat of the car with him!
Timothy is quite a talker now. He remains very sweet and easy-going most of the time, but turning two has definitely brought out a new rebellious streak sometimes, so we are continuing to work on obedience even when he doesn't want to do what we say. He has gotten a bit more picky about eating, but still eats pretty well most of the time! He is daytime potty trained, and often wakes up dry from naps/overnight even though we still use a diaper back-up while sleeping. He can even push down/pull up his own pants, although sometimes he doesn't like to do it himself.
He loves reading and singing, requests certain books and songs over and over and likes to march and dance to the Mickey Mouse theme song. He's still obsessed with anything car/truck, and has added to that an interest in other vehicles like trains, airplanes and rockets/space ships. Our neighborhood park is a lot of fun, he loves to walk there and play, "go down slides!" is his favorite part. We also enjoy story time at our library.
We switched to a toddler bed quite a while ago, and that went swimmingly, he still doesn't actually get out of bed until we come into the room to get him. He usually sleeps through the night from 7pm-8am. He also climbs into his carseat by himself now, which is great because I prefer to avoid lifting him (he weighs 28 pounds!) as much as possible.
Currently I'm 30 weeks pregnant with baby sister, and nesting is in full gear. We had to add a wall to our home so that our upstairs bonus/loft area could become a nursery. We contemplated some other solutions, but ultimately decided that Baby will need her own space for a bit, once she's ready to move out of our room, but before she'd be big enough to share a room with Timothy. I'm very excited to have the wall completed, and eager to get to painting and setting up the rest of the nursery!
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| Baby bump and Timothy on a walk! (He wanted to hold my hand, that's rare lately!) |
I'm also trying to stock my freezer like I did before Timothy's arrival. I have a few meals already frozen, and I'm aiming for adding at least 2 per week until she gets here. I found some crockpot meals that I've been doubling, so I make one to eat now, and one to go in the freezer for after Baby arrives! We're really looking forward to meeting her, and I know Timothy is going to be one sweet, fantastic big brother!
