The will turn 3 next month and we are planning a party. The nice thing about kids this young, and I encourage all parents to do this, is they don't know the calendar or their birthday per se. So we can celebrate it whenever it works for us. As it turns out, we are planning to do so the weekend after their actual birthday because of schedules and such.
We have three battles we need to fight with the kids.
- pacifier
- sleeping in their own bed
- potty training
Natasha is pretty much potty trained. We have noticed a vast reduction in the amount of diapers and genie inserts we were going through. Once Boris is finished, I should have enough to pay for the electrical upgrade.
Some time ago, the kids stopped sleeping in their cribs and always wanted to sleep with us. i hacked their cribs into daybeds and that kept them interested for a few weeks and then the novelty was over.
I bought a bunk bed for the kids thinking that would please them, we even switched their room with the guest room. No dice.
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| Buy the good mattress as you will end up sleeping with one of them |
Today my mom said she was going to "wash her hair, have another cup of tea" and then go home for a few hours. 90 minutes later she is still here, even though her hair is washed and her tea is drunk. Of course i also ran out for a quick 30 minute errand and as I expected she wasn't going to leave while I was gone.
I've flat out asked her not to be here when I WFH and every week its a different excuse for hanging around. What is really incredible is she shoots herself in the foot by holding her ground. She has errands and things she needs to do and being able to do them during the less traffic laden hours of 9-3 are optimal. But when you waste half of that time just hanging around your son's house because you want to prove a point, it's hard to get everything done.
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