Power Struggle

We had the battle of wills with Femi tonight. He has been really picky with his eating lately, and then he got sick and had no appetite at all. Now that he is better he is still refusing to eat unless it is something he wants when he wants it. Well I had enough tonight and made him sit at the dinner table for about an hour until he ate his dinner. Then we were taking a bath and he kept tooting and I asked him if he needed to potty and he said no. Well about a minute later I saw turds in the bath. Can we say YUCK! I had to yank Deji out of the water, and I made Femi sit on the potty even though he kept saying he was done. I probably messed up as a parent doing that, but I really didn't care. I know that he knew better, but he chose to poop in the bath. And the other night Ryan was getting ready to put on his Jammies and he peeped on himself and Ryan. That is what babies do! So I know he knows better, but he is just testing us. And on top of it all we put him to bed at 7:45 and at 9:00 he was still up. Can we say power struggle. Well he needs to know that mommy rules the house and no two year old is going to take over.

Home Sick :(

This morning Deji woke up and started throwing up. I first thought it was just spit up with chunks, but then after having breakfast he threw up again. This was right before I left for school, so I took him up there to get a sub and make sub plans. Right before we left he started throwing up again. . We got home and he wanted to eat and I thought an egg would be easy on his tummy, but three bites into it he threw up again. I have called the doctor, but that maybe it is just a 24hour thing. Poor baby, last week was rough and now this.

HAPPY AGAIN!

Deji is back to his old self again. Last week was just horrible. He was cranky, and crabby, and just plain not happy. He didn't laugh for days and that was hard to deal with. I am wondering if it was just his teeth hurting. He has four coming at the same time. Two are in and the other two are half way there. It is just nice to have my smiling, happy boy back.

Big Boy

Femi is growing so fast. Today he went number 2 at daycare. We have been trying to get him to go for a couple of weeks now and finally he went! He was so excited to tell me. He is really working hard to get all his marbles so he can go to the farm again. He had so much fun hanging out with his Paw Paw and cousins. We got see Cameron play basketball while we were there over MLK weekend. I decided not to do the chart again because he filled it up quickly last time and by doing marbles in a jar, he has to really earn his way to the farm. We are trying to get him to tell us that he needs to go, instead of us asking him. Not only is he learning to go potty, but he is just a great big brother. He just loves Deji and tries to include him in his play. Femi has really started to do imaginary playing. He pretends he is a frog hopping, he pretends he is an airplane flying all over the yard, he pretends that he is Dugary from speed racer, and I have to be Mock 5 and Deji is the green car. He has been asking to go to the park lately, but it has been so cold. Saturday was a great day, it was about 50 degrees and we spent a couple of hours outside. It was just nice being outside without have fifty millions layers on. I can't wait for Spring!

No More Bottles!

It is official. Deji is no longer using a bottle. I didn't mean for it to happen so soon. We have been cutting back on the number of bottles he has in a day. Basically he had one in the morning at night. Well we went to the Farm this weekend because Femi filled his potty chart and I forgot to pack a bottle for Deji. He did fine without it, so when we got home we packed up all of the bottles. My baby is not a baby any more. :(

Mom's Little helper

Femi loves helping in the kitchen. Whenever I am cooking he is there to help cut, stir, or taste. I love that he likes to help. Not only do we spend time together, but he is getting trained for his future wife.

I year check up and Blue mouth.

Deji Finally had his one year check up. Of course his is perfectly healthy. He had to get four shots today. :( Poor baby. I felt so bad having to hold him while he was crying. It is funny that with Femi's first year check up, I was telling Dr. Morris that I was pregnant again. Well Deji weighed 24lbs and is in the 75th percentile, he is 31 inches tall and in the 85th percentile. He is catching up to big brother! Speaking of big brother, he got a hold of a marker and ended up with a blue mouth for the night.