Wow. October flew past. My trip to Arkansas to visit my grandparents really took a chunk out of it for sure. The trip was great. Myles got to meet about 9 other male cousins between the ages of 2 and 7. He preferred the 7 year olds. The effect of Mark letting Myles knock him down while wrestling means that Myles thinks he can topple anyone, regardless of size. So he made the 2 and 3 year olds cry and moved on to the 7 year olds. And when they tossed him around like a sack of potatoes, he didn't cry, he just climbed back on again.
It was great, but I'm glad he's not surrounded by that type of roughhousing frequently - he'd become a little thug. He not only got to meet his great-grandmother and great-grandfather, he got to see my dad again, who hadn't seen him since he was about 3 months old. What a shock for him. He went from seeing a baby to a full-fledged toddler. He's sort of macho, so he was impressed with Myles' showing of testerone.
Yesterday Myles slept through the night til 7:30! Seven thirty I say, people! His best so far is usually 6:30 just before Mark wakes up for work. He then has to stash him someplace for an hour until I get up when he's leaving for work. Today, I hear, "all done, dada." I'm thinking he's complaining about a tv show ending in the living room, but nope, he's in his crib still! Glory be! All ye nations sing and rejoice. Sleep!
I think he usually wakes up due to poop and I've been avoiding giving him any apple juice or juice in the evening, but he's been the king of diarrhea due to teething for the last couple of days regardless. We were sick for the last two weeks so things have been thrown off, but he's a great eater now. He'd started to really drink a lot of rice milk once he learned how to use a straw cup, but after Arkansas he got sort of iffy about milk. We temporarily switched to almond milk since rice milk didn't seem to exist there and he wasn't having it! I however, have now switched my morning drink to hot vanilla almond milk, sprinkled with cinnamon, nutmeg and maybe a pinch of turmeric. Yummy! Works well with rice milk too, but the almond milk already has a nutty aftertaste. Hot chocolate without the chocolate. I'm a little afraid of chocolate since this pregnant is fraught with stuffy noses, nasal headaches and migraines. I don't want to add an actual migraine trigger if necessary.
He's also not nursed (it was down to once a day before nap, mostly comfort nursing) in about 3 or 4 days now. Yay! I was pretty sick of that. He's getting to the point where he hasn't even asked and when he does use a word that he uses for milk, I can hand him the straw cup filled with rice milk and he doesn't freak out. Sometimes he initially cried for 20 seconds, but quickly sucks it up and accepts the milk. I'm not even attempting potty training 'til December or January. We're still just trying to get the vocabulary down - to get him to express himself and understand what we say about poop and pee and diapers. I'm sure it helps if he can tells us that he's got to go before he does it, so the more we get him talking, the better. When we do potty train, it'll probably be us staying home for a week, with him running around naked with no diaper for the beginning.
Facebook has made me not so good about updating this blog. I think I like the instant feedback I get versus writing here and never knowing if anybody's read it or not. But I'm going to go back and put in some non-worded picture posts of Halloween for you all. Cheers.
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