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Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Spring!!!
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Goodevening |
My youngest is now pulling up on furniture now and walking while holding on to it. She has been doing that since the middle of April at least. She just looks so cute doing that. She is still in 0-3 months clothes, so she is really petite. She just looks too little to be trying to walk yet. She got her first tooth on May 1st. It makes me sad. I love their toothless grins when they are babies they are just too cute. I am not ready for her to grow up.
I am trying to convince my husband now that we should home school Allison. The school that she will go to when she turns five has scored an F the last two years on the state exams. I also worry about the way they are running the schools in our area now. A friend of mine has a son in kindergarten in the same county and I don't like what they require. They do not get a nap time, they basically have to know the alphabet, how to write their first and last name in full, they have to know their home address, their home phone number, their colors, shapes, and how to read a little bit before they can start kindergarten. I know that in January they were doing addition and subtraction, locating the states by their shape, and identifying coins on black and white printouts. I know it sounds really good but they do not have the time they need to play and be kids in the public schools in this area. Kids that young need the unstructured play time to pretend, learn how to solve problems, and work with others. I have even seen articles where employers are talking about the problems they have with employees not being able to work well because of being overly structured when they were kids.
Breastfeeding Sidney is still going good. I look forward some days to the one year mark and some days I don't. I will miss the time I get to spend holding her when she is eating. It feels weird now that my milk levels have evened out. I don't feel the tingling feeling during the let down any more and they don't feel full anymore. It was much easier to tell that she was getting milk then. Now I feel empty all the time. I am still not used to it yet. It does feel good to not have to wear nursing pads all the time, but I guess having to wear them had its benefits. I also miss not being able to pump as much as I used to. It really came in handy. The best advice I can give to anyone that is breastfeeding is during those first few weeks to pump every chance that you get because then you will have enough to be able to go out for a night without the baby and not have to worry about not having enough milk stored up. That's the main regret I have this time around.
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