Ages and Stages - I need some advice!

September 30th, 2007

Vacation was nice, but it is good to be home.  Hudson is 100% potty trained and dropping naps so my life is a bit different these days.  Because they share a rooms right now, they don’t have individual places to have quite time.  I have been experimenting with different ways to have them quietly working and playing together during the mid day so #1 they have down time and more importantly #2 I have down time.  We live in a townhouse with no yard so we have limited space. 

I came to a realization this week.  Because our kids are super close in age, they all feed off of each other and it may be this way for ever I don’t know.  The youngest wants to be like the oldest, the oldest wants to be like the youngest, the girl wants to be like the boys and the boys want to wrestle so the little peanut of a girl is always getting bumped too hard. They all fight to sit on Mommy’s lap for family reading and the reality is they all can’t fit at once anymore.  When a “take turns” policy in enforced, crying commences for what seems like hours. I can’t be three places at once and three children speaking at once for some given food product, even in quiet voices can be deafening.  

I find myself extra tired these days without Hudson napping.  He is all boy and a mile wide and can wear out a Saint.  Let’s just say at Sea World he WALKED most of the day, all day, and didn’t nap and had the energy that my older two together don’t have.  So I am getting geared up for the week with a trip to the Planetarium with our local PEC group.  Hopefully a good nights sleep and a good dose of vitamins will give me the “umph” I need. I will post picks if I have the energy.

Any thoughts, tips and encouragement would be appreciated:-)

Peace to all~

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