Veronica had her three-year-old checkup yesterday. We finally decided to split the twins’ appointments up with this one, because it was becoming very long with both of them, and everyone left the office very crabby. (Colin goes in next week.)
I think Veronica enjoy it being an outing for just the girls, even though she was very nervous about going to the doctor. Colin tried to reassure her as we were leaving. “I go to the doctor all the time,” but I don’t think that helped. We talked about everything that the doctor would do as we walked over to the office, and she was very brave. You would only know she was nervous by the way she needed to hold my hand or be very close to me, and by her racing heartbeat.
As we already knew, Veronica is doing great developmentally, and is showing many signs of being another smart cookie like her big brother. Like him, she has an ability to look at a situation or a series of facts and put the pieces together very quickly. (I think Colin is very smart too, but his brain works differently than the other two so he won’t suffer as much from being compared to Ethan.)
Veronica weighs 31 pounds, which puts her at the 60th percentile on the CDC growth charts, and is 38.25 inches tall, which puts her at the 75th percentile. And she is very proud of how tall she is getting. She tells us at least five times a day how much taller than Colin she is. (She’s lucky that for now, that doesn’t bother him — he is unaware of the stigma that is often attached to being short in our society.)
You would never know, watching Veronica, that she was born three months early. She is all caught up and not looking back at all. You go girl!
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
But I like to talk
While we were camping, I was going to bed with the twins so they wouldn’t have to be alone in the tent. (They were staying up later, so it worked out nicely for tired Mom.) They each have a very different style of self-soothing before sleep, which was very apparent when I was laying in between them.
Colin fidgets. He tosses and turns, plays with his buddy, endlessly adjusts his blanket and his water bottle. This can go on for an hour if you aren’t able to get him to hold still. But once he finally stops moving for more than three minutes, he’s out — and he usually stays that way all night.
Veronica talks. And talks. And talks. (No, really, she isn’t just like me. Why do you say that?)
One of our first nights of vacation, as I was telling Colin to lay still and Veronica to quit talking, she turned to look at me and said, “But I like talking.” Five minutes later she was asleep … midword.
Colin fidgets. He tosses and turns, plays with his buddy, endlessly adjusts his blanket and his water bottle. This can go on for an hour if you aren’t able to get him to hold still. But once he finally stops moving for more than three minutes, he’s out — and he usually stays that way all night.
Veronica talks. And talks. And talks. (No, really, she isn’t just like me. Why do you say that?)
One of our first nights of vacation, as I was telling Colin to lay still and Veronica to quit talking, she turned to look at me and said, “But I like talking.” Five minutes later she was asleep … midword.
Friday, July 5, 2013
We’re back
I’ve been a terribly negligent blogger, but it’s been a crazy busy two months for us and blogging just fell off the bottom of the list. So here is a quick rundown of what’s new in our world:
Potty Training Success
After a bit of a rough start with Colin, and a little setback with Veronica, we can now declare daytime potty training a success. They both are now telling us when they need to go, and are staying dry 99% of the time. We’ve even mastered staying dry through naps (including a monster three-hour nap one day).
Veronica still has issues with going poopy on the potty, but she’s getting a little better with that. She also overcame her fear of public toilets this week while we were camping. (That makes travel so much easier.)
Colin has developed an obsession with going to the bathroom whenever and wherever he can. Every time we stop somewhere new, he asks if they have a bathroom, and then announces he has to use it. He also was so interested in the outhouses (or porta-potties as he called them) at the campground that at one point he was asking to go every five minutes. He has stayed dry most nights over the past two weeks too.
Early Intervention Graduation
Colin has officially “graduated” from Early Intervention now that he is three, and has no recommendations for continuing therapy. He remains at the 5% level on the growth charts, and still has some struggles with his gross motor skills, but these are things we should be equipped to deal with at home.
As part of our goal to keep him challenged in developing those gross motor skills, he and Veronica are taking gymnastics this summer. They just missed the cut off for the three- to five-year-old class, so they’re very much the big kids in this class. Veronica could easily do a more advanced class, but this seems good for Colin’s attention and she had fun at our first class so it’s not a problem.
No More Bottles
Yes, we still were giving them bottles at nap and bed time (Colin needed the extra calories, and it was just a lot easier for us to continue the habit), but this week we ended that habit. We had told them the bottles were ending when they turned three, but we actually dropped them a few days early to coincide with our camping trip. Since their routine was going to be different and one of us would be sleeping with them anyway, it seemed like a good time to make the change. And since we were successful, I think we made the right call.
Turning Three
This week the twins celebrated their third birthday (where did the time go) with a camping trip in Wisconsin. They slept like champs, ate like crazy and generally had a good time. (They also were typical three-year-olds and, along with big brother, had me threatening to cancel the trip several times a day.)
The campground (Lake Kegonsa State Park) had a nice playground, and a great beach (with another nice playground), and after we went to Walmart in Stoughton to replace all of the things I didn’t remember to pack (including their outdoor cars and trucks), they had a lot of fun playing at our campsite too.
Ethan and I were able to get in some good hiking, and he and John went fishing one morning. (They didn’t catch anything, but Ethan claims he had four nibbles.) We all went swimming once, and at more s’mores than was healthy. The weather was about perfect (just a little chilly at night), and surprisingly the mosquitoes weren’t too bad.
Both kiddos are continuing to make great strides developmentally and surprise us regularly with the new “big kid” skills they’ve learned. Now if only they would sleep through the night consistently.
Potty Training Success
After a bit of a rough start with Colin, and a little setback with Veronica, we can now declare daytime potty training a success. They both are now telling us when they need to go, and are staying dry 99% of the time. We’ve even mastered staying dry through naps (including a monster three-hour nap one day).
Veronica still has issues with going poopy on the potty, but she’s getting a little better with that. She also overcame her fear of public toilets this week while we were camping. (That makes travel so much easier.)
Colin has developed an obsession with going to the bathroom whenever and wherever he can. Every time we stop somewhere new, he asks if they have a bathroom, and then announces he has to use it. He also was so interested in the outhouses (or porta-potties as he called them) at the campground that at one point he was asking to go every five minutes. He has stayed dry most nights over the past two weeks too.
Early Intervention Graduation
Colin has officially “graduated” from Early Intervention now that he is three, and has no recommendations for continuing therapy. He remains at the 5% level on the growth charts, and still has some struggles with his gross motor skills, but these are things we should be equipped to deal with at home.
As part of our goal to keep him challenged in developing those gross motor skills, he and Veronica are taking gymnastics this summer. They just missed the cut off for the three- to five-year-old class, so they’re very much the big kids in this class. Veronica could easily do a more advanced class, but this seems good for Colin’s attention and she had fun at our first class so it’s not a problem.
No More Bottles
Yes, we still were giving them bottles at nap and bed time (Colin needed the extra calories, and it was just a lot easier for us to continue the habit), but this week we ended that habit. We had told them the bottles were ending when they turned three, but we actually dropped them a few days early to coincide with our camping trip. Since their routine was going to be different and one of us would be sleeping with them anyway, it seemed like a good time to make the change. And since we were successful, I think we made the right call.
Turning Three
This week the twins celebrated their third birthday (where did the time go) with a camping trip in Wisconsin. They slept like champs, ate like crazy and generally had a good time. (They also were typical three-year-olds and, along with big brother, had me threatening to cancel the trip several times a day.)
The campground (Lake Kegonsa State Park) had a nice playground, and a great beach (with another nice playground), and after we went to Walmart in Stoughton to replace all of the things I didn’t remember to pack (including their outdoor cars and trucks), they had a lot of fun playing at our campsite too.
Ethan and I were able to get in some good hiking, and he and John went fishing one morning. (They didn’t catch anything, but Ethan claims he had four nibbles.) We all went swimming once, and at more s’mores than was healthy. The weather was about perfect (just a little chilly at night), and surprisingly the mosquitoes weren’t too bad.
Both kiddos are continuing to make great strides developmentally and surprise us regularly with the new “big kid” skills they’ve learned. Now if only they would sleep through the night consistently.
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