Here we go again!!! Too lazy to write about my first pregnancy
and too tired to write about the second ... until now!!!
Isn't it funny how sometimes things just fall into place?
It doesn't happen often ... not in my household anyway. Don't get me wrong ... a lot of things FALL in my household ... I have clumsy pregnant fingers and The Toddler, well he is just clumsy (he *obviously* gets that from his father).
And lately as I enter the Third Trimester I have lost the ability to pick up the things that fall.
I'm speaking literally here ... this isn't a metaphor for life ... if I drop something on the floor I usually just wait for The Toddler's Father to come home from work and ask him to pick it up.
This can get gross obviously (yesterday The Toddler ate some Floor Lunch Toast as his dinner entree) ... but normally, in these circumstances I psych myself up for a few minutes then crouch down to pick it up. I don't waste the opportunity either ... once I'm down I may as well stay down and clean the entire bottom half of the house.
Anyway ... I've gone slightly off-topic.
Things have fallen into place ... just as I lose the ability to bend over, The Toddler gains the ability to pick things up when I ask!
Finally, I can say "pick that up and give it to Mummy" and off he toddles and does as his told! Yay!! He even wipes up spilled water with a teatowel (he usually spills the water so it is only fair) and he surprised me the other day by heading to the kitchen unprompted to get the teatowel himself. Wow.
Obviously this is just the first step. There are many more things I won't be able to do as my belly expands ...
Here are a few things I need The Toddler to learn to do in the next 12 weeks:
- Cut my toenails.
- Lift heavy things - a problem when the heaviest thing I frequently lift is in fact, him.
- Climb into the car seat. And, just as an added extra, do up the harness too ... those twisty straps give me a headache.
- Speak ... and recognise numbers ... just enough to read the scales when I stand on them. The belly is already in the way and the numbers change when I lean forward to look.
- Cook dinner ... this isn't really pregnancy-related... I just can't be assed anymore.
Am I asking too much of The Toddler?
What did your toddler surprise you by doing before the next baby came along?
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I had my 16 month old DD loading the dishwasher for me, putting the washing into the basket in the laundry and then loading it into the machine and turning it on (with a tinsy bit of help)
ReplyDeleteWithin a week of DS being born she knew when he cried to go and find my feeding pillow and bring it to me too!! She also learnt to take my cereal bowl from me and into the kitchen when i was feeding DS. I had put child locks on the dishwasher so she could no longer pack it without supervision (sharp knives worried me)
So many things she learnt to do just as i was getting worried about how i was going to cope. It was truely amazing.
DS is now the same age as DD was when he was born and there is no way he would be as helpful as little miss!
Suzie W ... that is amazing! What a gorgeous girl you must have there!
ReplyDeleteThey can sometimes surprise you ... they are more capable than we give them credit for!