Sorry for the lack of blog content lately. As many of you know, Jonah, Jason and myself have taken turns being sick with congestion and with stomach bugs over the past couple of weeks. Nothing real major to report I guess. We’ve been lazy.
We finally took down the christmas decorations this past weekend but they’re still sitting in boxes in our kitchen, waiting to be stuffed back up into the attic.
Since Jonah got sick, he got his way quite a bit (cause I knew he didn’t feel good) and he’s apparently decided that he should ALWAYS get his way, so now we’re fighting off multiple major melt downs a day. He screams “none” or “done” or something like that if he disagrees with what you’ve told him to do or offered him. He runs to another room and will bang his head on the wall or door and reapeat “none” over and over again… or he’ll fall out in the floor and shake his head back and forth violently… arching his back, pulling away from us, all that fun stuff. I guess at 21 months, I should have expected that the “Terrible Two’s” would be cropping up any time now. Oh joy. I’ll have to video tape one of these fits some time, just to document it and share it with you… maybe then you, like Jason, will discover why it is that so many parents seem to just give up on discipline and let the tantrums run rampant… it’s exhausting!
On the baby front, I’m now 28 weeks along and I only gained 1 lb since my visit last month (thanks to that stomach bug no doubt!) I am measuring right on schedule, and hopefully we’ll be setting a c-section date at my next appointment. That’s 4 weeks away, and then she says after that I’ll be on the every 2 weeks schedule and then once a week… that’s how you know when you’re getting close!
With impending baby on the way, I have been trying to do as much as I can, ahead of time, to organize a little birthday party for Jonah with some of his playgroup pals. I’m thinking I’ll mostly invite the boys close to his age, and let their older/younger sibling tag along. We’ve decided to do a Train theme for the party because we’re going to get him the LLABO train set from Ikea, and he likes anything with wheels… so choo-choos are fine by him. I’ve got a lot of cute ideas for the cake, and invitations, party invitations, and a couple of age appropriate train-themed activities for the kids. I think it’ll be a lot of fun. I guess the one thing I fear, about having a train theme party, is that everyone will assume it’s because he’s into Thomas the Train. He’s got no clue who Thomas is, and I’d rather keep it that way. I just really hate character branded kids items… they’re usually cheaply made and overpriced because they have some cartoon character on them, and I’d prefer to just have generic toys as long as we can help it (hence why we’re getting him the ikea train and not a thomas train) but that’s another rant for another day.
Right now it’s time to make dinner and get ready for Jason to get home from class. I’ll leave you with a random picture… Jonah chillin’ in the storage tub that his duplos are supposed to be in:
Silly Boy, Tubs are for Duplos!
Since having him, I feel like I’m actually happier seeing him get his gifts than worrying about what I get myself. So seeing so much love poured out on him just makes my day. I really do appreciate you ALL!
hahaha now to find a place to put it all! It was a miracle in intself, just being able to get it all into our van to bring it home!
