Breakneck Speed, Part Two: The Boys

Back with part two...

While we're in the middle of and looking ahead to many projects around the house, we're also moving at breakneck speed to keep up with Drew and Garrett. We recently mentioned that we made the decision to cut out naps in favor of an earlier and hopefully smoother bedtime after Garrett, then Drew decided to stop going to sleep without hours long battles. Going on a month later, it's a bit of a mixed bag, but overall we seem to be falling into a routine that works better than what we had, and that is good. It's quite a change for me during the days not having that break, but the earlier bedtimes and the extra time it gives Jim & I in the evenings is most welcome, so I suppose it evens out.

This year is going to be full of changes and milestones for the boys. In just a couple weeks they will turn 3! Such big boys. For their birthday we are planning to repaint their room and make the switch to toddler beds. We've been extremely lucky that they never have made any attempts to escape their cribs, so why disrupt a good thing... But now that they are turning three, and we have these matching race car beds just killing time in the basement... I suppose it's time. It will be a big change, not one we're sure we're quite ready for, but so it goes.

Also just around the corner, at least for Drew, is going to be potty training. Drew seems to be just about ready, though Garrett is not so much. Hopefully seeing Drew figure it out will spur him on. Now if we can just figure out how to go about getting Drew started....

The other big milestone coming up for the boys this year is preschool. Should all go well, they will be attending a Waldorf school in the Fall for three mornings a week. We're in the middle of signing them up now, having found and visited the school just in the past month. If you've never heard of a Waldorf school and are interested, click here to learn a bit more. We're very excited to have found the school - it seems like a great fit for us and how we live, how we want to raise the boys. There aren't too many around - the only other one in Ohio is down around Cincinnati, and if we hadn't moved to this new house, we would likely have been too far away as well. Sometimes things work out. In any case, it will be a big change, a big milestone for us. I don't think it's quite sunk in yet that - should all go well and they get out of those diapers - they will be going to school in just about half a year from now. A bittersweet thing.

It's shaping up to be quite a year. Stay tuned!