This month has been full of holidays, travel, new baby, and toddler shenanigans.
Lottie started rolling from front to back this week. 😳 She has started losing her ‘newborn look’ and is looking more and more like an infant each day. We are starting to introduce the bottle once a day next week, I’ll let you know how that goes.
When Ted was born, I was working, so I pumped & he took bottles at childcare during the day. Jr was born in 2020, so he was with me 24/7 and we didn’t need to pump/bottle, but that meant he was with me ALL THE TIME, even as he got older. So we decided that we’d do a mix with Lottie, so I could go out alone as needed, while not having to wash bottles 900 times a day.
We had a very merry Christmas, and the boys have had a blast playing with their toys since we got home from Grandma & Grandpa’s house. We went with minimal, high impact toys this year, that I know will bring hours and hours of creative play.
There has also been meltdowns a plenty. The holidays being BIG emotions all around & it is easy to be overwhelmed. I know I am a highly sensitive person (HSP) and am easily overwhelmed by sounds and visual stimulation, and I think some of my kids are too. We need to take sensory breaks throughout long visits, usually in a quiet place without a lot of other people, to recenter ourselves. This is much easier to do in the summer when we can go outside for a walk, to work in the garden, or play in the sandbox, but is much tougher when the weather is single digits °F and the house is full of people.
We have been taking the end part of this week to decompress and get back into our routines. We don’t have any family plans to travel again until summer, so we will have plenty of time to get ourselves figured out.
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