Our Kids

Okay so I am embarrassed to admit it but Lela still has cradle crap.  I know, I know, bad mommy but let me defend myself.  When the girls were almost one we went in to the pediatrician and she said just to leave the cradle crap because as they started to eat more food it would just get worse from them smashing food on their heads etc.  The girls did not have any hair forever, like until they were about two.  I just ignored the cc and went on my business.  Well then Lela got a strong aversion to having her hair washed.   We have tried lots of things but it is still very traumatic for her.  Recently we got a special visor and we managed to wash her hair without any water hitting her face but she still did not like it and was very upset.

Anyway, the cradle crap is still in Lela’s hair.  But now when it comes out it takes chunks of her hair with it.  How horrible am I?  Now that she finally has hair, it is attached to the cc and comes out.  Thank goodness she has enough hair to cover up any little bald spots.

Oh and I have learned my lesson, if the new baby has cc I will scrub it out BEFORE she gets any hair:)  I think because the girls were so small for so long I thought scrubbing their heads would be horribly mean.  We are slowly getting all of Lela’s cc out by brushing and blow drying once a week, but it is definitely harder when they have hair!  HA!

Lela has always been more sensitive than Piper about everything.  She can sense when someone is down and is the first to help out.  When my grandma was here and fell at night, Lela woke us up and alerted us to what happened.  She is also the one that is scared easier, a little more shy and needs a bit more time to adjust to change.  None of it is unwanted behavior, it is just how she is different than Piper.

Well she has started to sway when she is nervous or thinks she might become nervous.  For the past couple weeks I have been saying “do you have to potty” all the time until I figured out it is her coping mechanism kicking in for whatever reason.  When she was really little she would hit her head, gently, on her car seat or high chair and the doctor said it was just her coping mechanism.  She still does it but it has become a cute little sway that she does.

I have been such a bad blogger lately and I know that only those I really care about have suffered:)   My longtime readers, AKA my family!  Well sorry for the bad blogging and although I can’t make any promises I will try to be better.  I think I am spending most of my downtime flat on the sofa which is not near the computer;)

Anyway, on to the topic at hand.  The girls have made some major changes lately, ones that I thought would never happen, or just seemed like they would never happen.  But happen they did and the changes I thought would never happen did not turn out to be the life changing events I built them up to be.  For example, I thought the girls would never stop asking for milk any time they were anxious, hungry, tired or whatever.  All emotions led to milk, which led me to deny milk, incur a two year old wrath and try to distract the angry little ones.  Well they don’t ask for milk anymore, they ask for food.  That is a major deal, they have started to say “Piper want something to eat” or “Lela need to eat” instead of just asking for milk and me telling them they need to eat.  It is quite cute.  The other day Piper came up to me and said “Piper need some tofu.”  Hysterical.  We are on to a phase where they will ask for about 12 different things to eat and then have one bite of everything and leave a bunch of food behind so that is the new thing.  They still drink their milk but I no longer have to ration it out.  Yeah!