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Travel Tips, Tricks, and Time Tickers

9/17/2021

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I did my first solo-trip with the kids to Cape Cod, which from my area is about a three and a half hour drive. I did a TON of research and asked polls on my Instagram to figure out the must-have items to make travel easier and the dos and don'ts. I took what you all recommended and used most of it and have weeded out what works and doesn’t work (at least for my three and almost two year old).

SPOILER ALERT: the three year old rocked the entire trip and the two year old was a human nightmare. The difference between the two was actually insane from start to finish. She was cranky in the car, hated anything given to her, made a mess, didn’t sleep at the house we rented, refused most meals we ate out, and just struggled overall with the change in routine. He slept, he ate, he was comfortable, and he had no problem with any of the trip! The difference a year can make!
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Sleep & Layla

7/9/2020

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Layla's sleep journey began much differently than Lincoln's because I was educated. I knew all about wake windows and naps, but most importantly, I knew that the newborn stage goes fast and instead of HATING each wake-up, I had the mentality of "this too shall pass" which was honestly refreshing after having such a hard postpartum period with Link. I felt lucky to have such a happy peanut instead of dreading crossing the room to feed her.

However, my kids are only 15 months apart and that brought on some new struggles that I was not fully prepared for. I did the one thing I said I would NEVER do: co-sleep. Unlike with Lincoln, I now had a 15 month old to chase while cluster-feeding, changing dirty diapers constantly, and bonding with a newborn. When Link went to bed each night, I wanted to, too, since I was exhausted. The first waking each night, I'd grab her and put her in bed with me so I could fall asleep while feeding her and she'd fall asleep after feeding.
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Sleep & Lincoln

7/6/2020

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​Let me start by saying that I went into this baby sleep with zero knowledge. Literally. Wake windows meant nothing to me (I hadn't even heard of this term until I began searching for help). Every nap from the time Lincoln was born to 4 months was in my arms. He was in the pack'n'play in my bedroom with a sleep sack and white noise, but that was it as far as my knowledge of sleep for babies. 

At 6 months this is an example of his day: 
  • 6:30 wake
  • 8:20 nap for 21 minutes
  • 10:52 nap for 31 minutes
  • 1:26 nap for 26 minutes
  • 5:15 nap for 21 minutes
  • 7:00 down for night
  • Wake at 10:07, 12:43, 2:10, 5
  • 7 wake 
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Small, Medium, Large Nature Project

6/12/2020

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  • Chalk to make your categories
  • Any item of varying sizes
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Let me start by saying that this project is probably better for children 3 and up. He was able to understand small and big, but I felt like it was a little over his head. (He's 21 months here). 

I created three different sized circles on the ground and labeled them S, M, L to symbolize small, medium, and large. Lincoln has been really into rocks lately so I explained that we were going on a rock hunt and needed to find big and small rocks. He was all about it!
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He didn't quite understand that I wanted him to organize them by size and I had to do a lot of showing him where I was placing certain rocks and why. We then moved onto pieces of bark and focused on filling up the circles with items from nature and how some circles had more or less than others. 

​The main goal from this activity was to understand size discrepancy and use proper terms to describe it. 

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