Baby is Good, Toddler is Toddling, 2-Year Old For Sale!

The little bean in the belly is looking fine my friends.  He or she does not have an overabundance of fluid in the neck and the technician could see the baby’s lovely nasal bone, which most Down Syndrome babies do have in any visible manner at this stage.  The thin fluid in the neck is really good, although we do not have the blood test back, because it points to a low risk for DS and also a low risk for heart defects, which is our main concern.  Sophia was born with many tiny holes in her heart and has a miracle muscle )or part of the heart muscle) on the other side of these holes.  It is multiples of the normal size for this muscle and it is blocking all of these holes.  This miracle muscle is preventing the need for surgery on my beautiful little girl.  Needless to say, I was nervous for this preliminary test, just as I will be nervous before my high risk ultrasound at 18 weeks to look at the developing heart in detail.  Still – this baby has a heartbeat and is looking beautiful so HOORAY!  My cervix is still not quite in the right place so I may have more ultrasounds to check it and monitor but we shall see!

In big news…and I promise a video is coming tomorrow…my giant now toddler Miles is actually toddling.  At almost 30 pounds and 30 inches he is a giant little man and he is FINALLY almost walking.  Sophia walked at 11 months.  This guy is so big he barely moved at 11 months.  I am praying that when he walks he will get his face out of the mud on the ground and we may be able to spend some time outside without me having to pull bugs out of Miles’ mouth.  With my general nausea this would be greatly appreciated.  I am really grossed out by the stuff that I have taken out of his mouth.  This is a huge step!

Unfortunately, all of the positive is almost outweighed by the attitude my absolutely adorable 2 year old is toting around.  I may have to do as my mom always threatened and sell her to the gypsies!  She will not go anywhere without a full tutu or a dress on.  A party dress in her words.  It does not matter to her that this means her tush is chapped from all the trips down the slide and burning hot swings.  As a joke I told her that “Beauty is Pain” while doing her required ponytail.  She did not forget his and quotes it to me when I ask her to at least put shorts on under her dress.  She must always have jewels on, or if Miles is in reaching distance, in her purse so he cannot touch them.  These jewels consist of Mardi Gras necklaces and some costume jewelry from her Nanna as well as 3 plastic silver rings with heart jewels in the middle.  She must always have a purse with her…at all times.  She is on a sort of hunger strike that could rival Gandhi yet she always says she is hungry.  She just refuses to eat.  Unless it is an apple.  Okay so she is not Gandhi.  But one must eat more than apples.  She whines and whines and whines through time outs through quiet time through anything that is not what she wants to be doing.  We can fill a whole day with activities she loves and in the 5 minutes I have to take to pee or to get something for Miles she will be whining.  She has not taken a nap (other than the one I mentioned on Saturday) since she turned 2.  Seriously.  And we have tried everything.  Brushing her teeth would qualify for the WWF – toddler style.  It is a fight.  Her bedtime routine is never ending and I can’t figure out how to cut it off.  I could go on but I feel bad now.  

Besides these problems, she is a beautiful girl who is completely potty trained and has a good singing voice.  She knows a lot of songs and will use them to console babies who are crying.  She loves babies.  She can speak extremely well and is very funny, if extremely bossy.  She likes to be called Sophia but never addressed as or called a “kid”.  She will let you know that she is a Princess, a Mermaid and Kitty Cat but not a kid and never a boy.  This is more funny than annoying.  She is incredibly social and l love that she loves to hang out with little kids, big kids and grown ups.  She loves dancing and doing gymnastics moves.  She loves tea parties and talking on the phone.  She loves to brush my hair.  She is my best friend…she is just…a little bratty.

How do you control the bratty in really headstrong kids without curbing their creativity and enthusiasm?  Suggestions welcome!

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