Now that my daughter is now 1 year and 10 months old I have gotten into a quite constant routine and have been flying through the days enjoying almost every minute of it all.
She is a typical terrible two and she isn't even 2 yet as she is only 20 months. She is climbing anything and everything she can get sher feet and hands on. My dressing table draws are her preferred area at this moment so toddler proofing was needed ASAP. Oddly enough she still cannot climb in and out her cot so that a big bonus for me. She has grown into a srweet polite girl with many words to say. She can speak four to five word sentences, can recognise the primary colours (red blue yellow) and purple too. She loves to sing in her cot or where ever she is. Baa baa black sheep and twinkle twinkle are she favourites and she like some of mummies music too. Over this month she has been trying so hard to dress herself but she is confused by all the different hole part so I found her in her room with one shoe on and her two legs in the collar part of her t-shirt. She looked so proud of herself and gave me the cutest smile and said mummy look. Moments like those are priceless. My love for her just grows more and more each and every day. Although my heart ache knowing the one day she will be all grown up and will not need mummy as much as she does now. A part of me also is excited to see her grow into a woman and mother like myself.
Back in my past blogs I had lot of problems with breastfeeding and most of all SLEEP! To my amazement this has all sorted itself out with consistency following the same bed/nap time routine (slightly altered as she grew). I read the most help book two books and i recommend these to any first time mum or a mother needing a reminder. The no~cry sleep solution by Elizabeth Pantley. The New Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford. These books created a even more content baby and saved this mummies sanity. It took me a long time to get where my daughter and I are at now but I keep to it because I wanted her and I to have a good night's rest and to a smooth running day. I dont stick to the strict routine but I do make sure my girl gets her nap at 1pm-3pm everyday and stick to her night routine of shower time at 6ish and in her room to read book before 7 so she is tucked in and alseep by 7:15pm. I have my routine in a previous blog if you want it in detail. Do a routine that works for youself and your family remember that it is only a guide.
It just so lovely now to read a few book to my daughter then lay her in her cot and sing her twinkle twinkle and kisses goodnight then lights out and she either rolls over and closes her eye or she lays there smiling back at me saying nun nite mummy and plays quitely with her soft toy til she fades into dreamland.
The gentle approach of weaning her off breast before bed was a whole year process but I finally got there so there is hope at the end of the tunnel I thought I'll never get there BUT I DID.
