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Today is Babywise Friendly Blog Network Day and I'm guest posting about the topic of adoption over on Christine Keys ...today Katrina from Mama's Organized Chaos is sharing about the topic of undergoing life changes with a strong willed child. Have you had any big life changes recently? Moving? New baby? Death in the family? Just a lot going on? Those things all can take up your time. They can make you stressed. They can impact your day to day life. The end result impacts your child as well. Your child gets less attention when these big moments steal your time and your focus. Your child feels the mood changes if you are stressed. Your child then begs for attention and starts acting out. You suddenly feel overwhelmed. Not only are you dealing with huge things in your life right now, your child has chosen this time- this of all times, to start acting out. Well it's no coincidence. This is what is currently happening in our house right now. We are moving. It'...
I'm VERY blessed with a husband who will gladly keep the kids so I can run errands. Once a month we work it out where I go get groceries in the evening after he's home from work. Typically if I have other errands to run I'll do them on Sunday afternoons while the kids are napping. But, on occasion, I do take the kids with me. I ENJOY running errands alone. I like blasting some of my old school songs and having my thoughts to myself for the drive there. I like taking my time and browsing the shelves without having to rush back for a nap or meal time or something. However, I also think it's important to take the kids with me often enough that they will know how to behave in public. If they are always at home with Zach when I go out and about, how will they learn what behavior is expected of them? Just like eating out...we don't eat out often but we try to do it enough where our kids have the opportunity to learn what's appropriate when out to ...
This month of Kye's life was awhile ago and also took place during a major move, a major surgery, and the holidays. Poor kid got neglected when it came to writing down things, taking pictures, and videos. So much so that I thought I'd just combine his two monthly posts into one! Words: Kye's vocabulary continues to expand at rapid speeds each month. While I know I missed writing down many of the words he started to say here are the few I did write down (I actually save them in a memo on my phone): water (now says the actual word instead of "wateee" like he used to), milk (says "malkt"), "g o away cat/doggie/mommy " (here's a video ), Gramma (says "mama"), 2-4-6 , 4-5-6 , push , blue , help . He enjoys saying "Bye bye" to everything (box, door, cat, doggie, etc). He also enjoys asking for help and will do so all the time. It's MUCH better than whining though so I'll take it ;) Fears: Those toddler fears are...
