There have been a few things I've been adjusting to since we moved. The first is that the boys now share a room; this has been an adjustment and has made naptime a real challenge. Now, I know enough moms with two kids to know that having had them nap together for so long is a freaking miracle and I should be grateful it happened even once, much less almost every day for the past 8 months, but c'mon, if a unicorn showed up on your doorstep every day and laid a golden egg you'd be thrilled but also sad if it suddenly stopped, admit it. So I've been working on it but it is a challenge especially when Nathan wants to nap early and James is not ready and the getting James wound down winds Nathan up and it's just a THING. (Just now I spent twenty minutes listening to them giggle and Nathan throw things into James' crib and then demand, "That's mine, Baby James! Give it back!" and when I finally went in Nathan insisted the bunny hopped into James' crib of his own accord.)
The second thing is housekeeping- we were in a house before that was too big and we paid way, way less than market rent for and as a result we had a housekeeper and it was glorious. We gave up the housekeeper and now I am trying to get on top of it all even though I couldn't even figure out the mop for like a whole afternoon. One thing I did was buy the best smelling stuff I could find- and y'all, Method's almond floor cleaner is killer. But the other thing I did was kill two birds with one stone. When the boys were not napping the other day I said, "Okay! Let's clean the bathroom and then nap!" So they had to sit in the hall and watch me clean the bathroom and when I was done they were ready to sleep. I felt very sneaky.
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In other news, there is a boy in Nathan's Mommy and Me who is even bigger than Nathan. And they Get Into It every week. Usually the boy will sit on the train tracks and instead of saying, "Hey, get off the tracks, Percy is coming through!" Nathan will go into hysterics. Or, vice versa. They both HATE when the other Plays Wrong with something and want their way. Sometimes it even gets physical- today the other boy raced to the door ahead of Nathan and Nathan told him he had to wait for his mommy and the boy ignored him and Nathan shoved him, and before we could intervene the other boy shoved back and since Nathan wasn't up against the door he fell on his bottom. On the one hand, I think it's good for Nathan to have to learn to use his words and am glad it's someone his own size, more or less, that he is Getting Into It With. On the other hand, they will both be in preschool in the fall and I'm wondering if I should warn the office? I mean, I don't know if it would be good for them to continue to Learn to Work It Out (they do love each other) or if it would be too much for the teachers to deal with every week, so I wouldn't be telling the school they had to be apart. Just warning them. On the third hand, my past as an academic adviser has left me wary of parents or students who insist they know who should be in what class or even what matters in putting classes together- I am sure what you consider when putting a preschool class together is different than a college writing workshop, so my instinct is to stay out of it. But they are both so big and opinionated I feel like the school would appreciate the heads up, right? As long as I just present it as information they can take or leave, I won't seem like one of the helicopter moms, right?
The second thing is housekeeping- we were in a house before that was too big and we paid way, way less than market rent for and as a result we had a housekeeper and it was glorious. We gave up the housekeeper and now I am trying to get on top of it all even though I couldn't even figure out the mop for like a whole afternoon. One thing I did was buy the best smelling stuff I could find- and y'all, Method's almond floor cleaner is killer. But the other thing I did was kill two birds with one stone. When the boys were not napping the other day I said, "Okay! Let's clean the bathroom and then nap!" So they had to sit in the hall and watch me clean the bathroom and when I was done they were ready to sleep. I felt very sneaky.
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In other news, there is a boy in Nathan's Mommy and Me who is even bigger than Nathan. And they Get Into It every week. Usually the boy will sit on the train tracks and instead of saying, "Hey, get off the tracks, Percy is coming through!" Nathan will go into hysterics. Or, vice versa. They both HATE when the other Plays Wrong with something and want their way. Sometimes it even gets physical- today the other boy raced to the door ahead of Nathan and Nathan told him he had to wait for his mommy and the boy ignored him and Nathan shoved him, and before we could intervene the other boy shoved back and since Nathan wasn't up against the door he fell on his bottom. On the one hand, I think it's good for Nathan to have to learn to use his words and am glad it's someone his own size, more or less, that he is Getting Into It With. On the other hand, they will both be in preschool in the fall and I'm wondering if I should warn the office? I mean, I don't know if it would be good for them to continue to Learn to Work It Out (they do love each other) or if it would be too much for the teachers to deal with every week, so I wouldn't be telling the school they had to be apart. Just warning them. On the third hand, my past as an academic adviser has left me wary of parents or students who insist they know who should be in what class or even what matters in putting classes together- I am sure what you consider when putting a preschool class together is different than a college writing workshop, so my instinct is to stay out of it. But they are both so big and opinionated I feel like the school would appreciate the heads up, right? As long as I just present it as information they can take or leave, I won't seem like one of the helicopter moms, right?
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