While I fix their food, they eagerly await...
Lm chews on a paper label until I prepare his highness his evening sup.
"Hey, where's my order?" Lk shouts.
"Mmmm, ravioli!"
"I think I'll dip my hands in it and wear half my dinner..."
"Yumm! Cottage cheese and applesauce, oh my!"
Obviously baths are taken after dinner!
"Cookie!" Lm shouts as soon as he's done. He knows he gets a vanilla cookie or graham cracker.
Fortunately they are too young to know that fresh fruit is good for them and potentially something I want them to have. So I pretend it is "dessert" and say they can't have it until they've eaten their dinner. So they are clamoring for fruit; Lk's favorite is "gapes."
From some of the pictures it's obvious that Lk's face is chapped around his lips. With the weather being cold and less humid, his use of the paci at nights and naptime are causing this. I have put lots of moisturizers and Vaseline on him (which he hates) and taking the paci away, but he does not want to give up the paci at all.
I tried last night to put him to sleep without it, but he had a hard time with that so I decided to sneak it out of his mouth when I went to bed later. But at 11pm, he was still sucking away on that thing to beat the band. In the dark, I popped it out, tiptoed out of his room and hid in the hallway. He was half asleep and I could hear him rolling around in the crib. "Oh, paci, oh!" he cried. I heard sniffling. I went back in and he was sitting up rubbing his eyes, sniffing and looked on the verge of tears. So I let him have it back.
Meanwhile I've been trying to kick my Lunesta habit and have failed at that, so I thought it hypocritical to take Lk's paci when I can't give up my own "paci," the Lunesta. I did manage to go 2 nights without it this week, and had the best of intentions last night. I went to bed and just lay there awhile with thoughts spinning through my mind and then I thought I heard Lk crying a couple of times, but when I got up, he was fast asleep. This happened a couple more times until I admitted defeat and took a Lunesta and called it a night.
4 comments:
Wow he's chapped from the paci? He must really go to town on that thing. I have been trying unsuccesfully to get S off it too. She is so majorly addicted to her pac I'm certain she'll still be sucking on it when she's a teenager.
Cute pics.
He DOES go to town on it! Now you know why I quit nursing 8 weeks after giving birth. My left boob was in tatters! I can only hope he'll quit the paci by the time he goes off to college...he and S are alike in SO many ways.
My two LOVE grapes too! They think that they are a treat as well. So great when they do not know any better.
The paci thing is hard. My ped said that they become emotionally attached after a year and that makes it very hard. I just thank God that neither of mine took to one and I do not have to worry about that...For what it is worth, I never had a Kindergarten student that came with one in the 6 years that I taught Kinder!
Too funny! Hannah is the same way! I'll fix Hannah dinner first and than eat afterwards. Big mistake! She want's my dinner too! I literally have to hide to eat or she will grab my food! LOL She yells "cracker" if she hears wrappers or some kind of noise while I'm in the kitchen. LOL
I hope you are able to wean Lk from the paci without too much trouble, I know it's not easy since it's hus security device. I'm happy Hannah never took the paci as I would probaby have the same issue. The only reason I introduced it to her is because I didn't want her sucking her thumb and thankfully hasn't done that either.
Is applesauce mixed with cottage cheese good? I give Hannah fruit with her cottage cheese but not applesauce. I suppose it tastes like apple cheesecake? LOL I will have to see if Hannah enjoys it as much as your boys!
As usual, very cute pictures of your boys!
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