I’ve been trying to get Milo on video singing his abc’s for like 2 months now. He’s obsessed with the phone though (what i take videos with) so it never works out. Sometimes I can try & hide it & take video of him but we usually only get half way through the alphabet before he realizes what I’m doing & goes bananas for the phone. The only reason I want to get him on video for that is because when he gets to L,M,N,O,P it is straight up monster growling sounds that come out of him for some reason & it’s hilarious.
But, I figured I’d give a little Milostone update & this video is part of it, which I was only able to shoot that much because I was behind him & he didn’t know I was filming him!
He’s actually known how to identify his ABC’s for a little while. I have NO CLUE how he picked that up so easily but he did. He can do the same with numbers one-ten. Colors? FORGETABOUTIT. Like he knows green, 80% of the time & that’s it. He can identify a few shapes but it’s extremely hard to understand him saying “triangle” so I’m the only one that actually knows what he is saying. Goes without saying that I’m very proud of him, obviously that’s why I’m sharing this, & this is the place where I document things like this happening.
One thing other than general learning that I’m proud of is that he’s been really well behaved when we’ve needed him to be in public lately. We’ve had him at two weddings in the past three weeks & we received a handful of compliments at each wedding about how good & well behaved he was. That makes me really happy. Especially at the wedding last saturday because he was solely up to his Dad ALL DAY saturday. I wasn’t there to help keep him on track & in line what so ever & he did an excellent job with his Dad & Gramma Linny. Also- side-note: Saturday night was the first time I’ve ever sent Milo home with someone else & had them put him to bed for me. He left the wedding with my Mom around 9:30 & she brought him home & put him to bed for us. I was grateful because we got to enjoy the rest of the night & she didn’t mind at all, neither did Milo apparently. I’m a very attached parent, so that was a pretty big deal for me. Milo has never spent the night anywhere, aside from when he was a few months old when we went to LA for the weekend. That was the only time we’ve not put him to bed really.
I think we are getting closer to a point where potty training is a realistic idea. He’s extremely interested in what happens on the toilet. He follows us, looks in the toilet, grabs toilet paper for us, & this is really gross but when the dog goes outside he is just as interested in the dog going to the bathroom which is something completely new. So maybe in a week or two we will try it again & see how it goes. No pressure on him of course but man oh man it will be amazing to not change & buy diapers anymore.
So there’s a little update on Milo, he is 27 months today.
Big things have been happening around the Hawks Nest this weekend.
Saturday morning we came to get MJ up out of bed and noticed that he thought he was Baby Tarzan once again. We didn’t want to risk him getting hurt and since he had previously proven himself to be a rock-star at sleeping, we decided it was big boy bed time.
I consulted the Twittersphere and was advised that straight to a twin bed was the best way to go. We spent all Saturday preparing his big boy bed. Saturday night? Seamless, I tell you. Mercer and I did many a high-fives after he was in bed, gloating around with celebratory wine in hand, and maybe a few tears from me.
Snoozin’ away in his big boy bed. Oy, my heart is a puddle on the floor. My baby is growing up too fast. He needed ALL his ‘babies’ and favorite blankies with him that night.
Saturday was a bit of a treat. Sunday I was out for a few hours at a Bridal Expo with my BFF who is getting married in July! (squeeeee) Daddy had to do the first nap in the new bed. Nap didn’t happen. OK, OK. We expected this a little. Night time was rough too. It took us an hour to get him to sleep Sunday night, finally conked out after I rocked him for a few minutes. Monday, no nap. Bedtime went much faster though. Cried for 5 minutes at the door, I picked him up, rocked him to sleep and he stayed that way for the rest of the night. Once he’s asleep it’s no problem. Today, Tuesday, is the first time he has napped. I put him down about 30 minutes ago. He came to the door & whined for a few minutes, shut the door and is now sleeping!!!!! Baby steps of success! I should add that Sunday we moved a baby gate to the outside of his door. We didn’t want to risk him waking up in the middle of the night & him getting into something that could hurt him.
In other news we decided to impromptu potty train this morning. He was playing with his potty in the living room and we took his diaper off of him. He refused to put it on for three hours. Three hours later, no accidents. No potty. I put him on the big potty and then ended up moving him to his little potty in the bathroom. HE PEED! He PEED!!!! I was so proud of him I kind of startled him with my shouts of happiness! When we are at home I think we are going to let him rum diaper-less from now on. I’m home with him all day, he’s starting to “get it”. There’s no reason why I can’t make the effort to make this work. I’m tired of buying diapers and even more tired of changing diapers. Last night he had the nastiest blow out ever that ended with him in the shower with his pajamas on. OVER THAT! I know this is just the very start of a long road but, I’m excited about it.
We have had so many Milo-stones the past few days. He’s totally growing up. My fears I had while I was pregnant, of him not thriving like he should and not knowing what to do with him have been squashed, and that’s a great feeling!
I feel as though it’s time to call out babycenter on their stupid “milestone” charts for kiddos. They are dumb. I used to feed into them, especially when Milo was “mastering” all of them early. Now? I realize they are kinda bullshit. Kids learn things at their own rate and it doesn’t mean they are dumb if they aren’t mastering what babycenter thinks they should be. THIS is why we created “MILOSTONES” a long time ago. We decided to make our own. The fact of it is that the babycenter one is a wreck and he’s all over the place with it. some of the “emerging skills” a 23 month old should be doing Milo had mastered like 6 months ago. Throwing a ball over hand? Are you serious???
My blog theme is set up funky so please click the chart to see our MILOstones larger. I mean seriously WHO cares if he can feed a doll. He doesn’t even own a doll but he’s been feeding the dog for like a year now!
We heard of our friend Emily and Poppy doing “Happy Feet” and that was just way too cute to NOT get Milo to do. He’s not learning 10 words a day, well at least not learning to SPEAK 10 words a day. But, the kid understands virtually EVERYTHING we say to him. He’s smart, I know it. He’s been opening doors for about 5 months now. SEE? This is not a good assessment. We know what’s up with our children as parents. Don’t let a stupid chart make you believe your child is WAY behind, or the next baby Einstein. Especially if you are a new, first time Mom – it’s easy to get caught up in these charts, or worse, comparing your kid to others! I even had a hard time with that. My kid is awesome. He’s smart, and that’s all good with us!
