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Surely, you have heard of the `Terrible Two's`. Two year olds can be trying and taxing, but they can also be exciting and loads of fun! Rather than looking at your two year old as `terrible`, try to see him as `terrific`-even on trying days! Both you and your child have come along way in just two short years! Look at how much you have taught your little one. He sure has learned a lot! Over the next year, you are going to need patience, awareness, firmness, love, humor and wonder. Parents need patience to deal with the many mood swings of a two year old, awareness to ensure that his surroundings are safe, firmness to make sure your child listens and follows directions and humor to laugh at yourself and your child. Love should be never ending and you should show your child love daily.

Immunizations should all be caught up at this point, at least for a few years. Regular check-ups with the doctor are important to keep your child healthy. Your pediatrician can often find problems before they become serious through well visits. Keep your child's health record in a safe spot so that it is easily accessible for day-care and schools.

Thumb sucking is a common behavior of children through age six. Thumb sucking is one way that your child has to soothe himself and he finds security in his thumb. As long as you do not pressure your child to stop, he will probably stop by himself. Parents are often worried about dental problems from thumb sucking. You do not need to worry about dental problems until the permanent teeth erupt, around five or six years old.

If your child has not yet shown an interest in toilet training, he probably will very soon. Providing a child-sized potty on the floor will give your child a start and make it easier for them to get started. Remember that toilet training takes time, patience and praise. Do not scold or punish for accidents. They happen. The majority of children will stop dirtying before they stop wetting. It is not uncommon for children to be daytime toilet trained for a while before becoming nigh time toilet trained. Occasionally, it may seem that your trained child has regressed. This is common when changes take place in the child's life-a new baby, a family move, visits from family, etc. Do not start toilet training until your child shows signs that he is ready. The process will go smoother for everyone involved!

Interact with your child as much as possible. Take every opportunity that you can to teach your child about a variety of things. Be a teacher for child-you will be amazed how quickly children pick up on new skills. Read to your child often and talk about the images on each page. Most importantly, take time to have fun with your energetic two year old!

Developmental Milestones - 25 Months Old

Physical

• Looks at feet while walking
• Can walk backwards
• Wants to walk-not be carried or ride in stroller

Intellectual

• Likes schedules and routines
• Understands sentences, but can not use them yet
• Uses two-three word sentences
• Points to pictures in a book
• Can sing some of a song
• Can draw a circle
• Attention span is growing
• Can follow simple demands
• May ask to use the toilet

Emotional

• Does not share well with other children
• Likes adult attention
• May hit others

Age Appropriate Toys

• Ride on toys
• Bath toys
• Building materials
• Art supplies
• Sorting materials
• Games-matching, sorting, counting, etc..
• Dolls
• Cars
• Pretend play
• Interactive educational toys and games
• Barns and animals

Comments:

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anon - Monday, 31 Aug
What bottles are you using? I saw some 'new?' bottle at target that really looked kinda...'real' I know that spenny hated the evenflos, the only ones we could get him to use were the soothies.

anon - Monday, 31 Aug
We have the radio flyer wagon, he loves it! I'm just too lazy to push him around in it! lol And welll, um....whoops on your sil! lol She'll get over it. she has to realize if she's staying in someone else's house for free, she needs to be considerate. And if you're not allowed to vent about stressfull situations to your friends, then wtfever. And I have no idea on the switching/combo feeding. We just tried it with Spenny and he ate so much better that that's what we stuck with...plus it was easier to add teh ceral to it since my cereal dispenser was broken on my boobs. E dropped more and I can barely waddle, let alone walk. Please hurry up these next 38 days!

Jaydens-mommy - Monday, 31 Aug
okay, i need some suggestions girls. First. jackson has been strictly breast fed. My mom came over last monday and he had his first two bottles of formula ever. he even hates bottles. takes forever just to get him to eat breastmilk out of a bottle. however, for the last two weeks he has been up every two hours eating. i needed a break so my mom watched him friday night. he only ate 3 ounces while he was there and slept maybe 3 hours. he was there from 5pm till 11am. i know if he would take formula he would sleep and go longer without eating... How do i do it without having to hear him scream for 45 minutes? any suggestions?

tabatha - Monday, 31 Aug
cass-it was really nice. esp yesterday..keith and i went to my parents house, left the kids with them for sev hrs and pigged out on pizza!..my dad has set up a mini neverland in their backyard, so gabe and aiden had a blast!..i love it there..really shady play area=awesome..it was in the 70's, too..so that great!..i hate our backyard..no shade at all..the kids can't be outside for more than 20 mins, on a blistering day, before they are sweaty messes. we bought them on of those radio flyer wagons and they love it. i really had my doubts that gabe would stay sitting in it, but he did! wish we had gotten it sooner..if the weather is nice today i'm gonna push them around the neighborhood..god knows i need to. i ate too much pizza!...oh, and keiths sis still hasn't called us!..i know she's read my rants on here. i feel kinda bad now. i know she isn't on break. its just gonna be really awkward now. i do not want drama with his fam.

anon - Monday, 31 Aug
How was everyone's weekend?

cait - Monday, 31 Aug
I am not sure if any of you like Celine Dion but this is such a cute song! I was looking for a song for or about little boys/sons cause there are so many of daddy's little girl...I found this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZdEDNpRihc

annas-momma - Sunday, 30 Aug
Wow I am behind. First of all, Cara I am so sorry you had a shitty day. :( I'm jealous everyone is getting fall weather... the other day it was 80 degrees by 9am. Gaaar I hate the hot. Its so bad that I feel like we are stuck in the house... even walking from the van to the store yesterday Anna kept saying, 'Eewie. Momma its hot. I no like hot. Eewie.' Can't blame her... it makes me crabby, too. But she was a frickin ANGEL in the store!! I was sad I only needed a handful of things because she SAT in the cart with her little sunglasses on and ate a cookie. She jibber-jabbered and talked to me and herself... she was actually kinda cute. So I got her a Spongebob balloon on the way out for being good. What else... oh yes we have a gun in the house and we have ammo but they aren't together. Brandon has showed me where the gun is and where the ammo is in case anything were to happen while he was out of town. Its where Anna can't reach it and I even need a step stool to get to it... so I feel okay with having it. Anna has lately decided that she wants to watch The Little Mermaid and NOTHING ELSE. I seriously just keep looping it. Its driving me nuts. We think we found a house in Illinois... but its not really what I wanted. However, we would be renting it from people we know and they are charging us next to nothing for rent. They told us that they would do a rent-to-own... so that way when we want to move we can rent it out ourselves. Its in a good area. Its just kinda small. Its a 2br 1.5ba... but it has a FULL basement that Brandon and Chad (the guy we would be renting from) would convert into an extra bedroom AND a playroom. So it really is a good deal and we shouldn't pass it up... but I'm mostly just wishing we could get something bigger... every time I mention having a second baby in that house would be a struggle... Brandon brushes it off. I am still trying to decide if that means he really doesn't think we would have a space problem, or if he is second guessing having another baby again. I'm probably thinking too far into it. Anywho, there is my million mile long comment. :)

claires-momma - Sunday, 30 Aug
I don't know WTF is up with mother nature but I am NOT complaining. I think it's only like, 72 degrees today! I love love love it. It was so chilly this morning I actually got to put the kids in long sleeves & pants. Praise the sweet baby J they are taking good naps right now. I thought they were bad during the week...yesterday was quite possibly one of the worst days we've had in a long time. Chase even lost his cool with them & when they are acting up, he can usually somewhat corral them & get them to settle down. Add into the behavior that Claire found Chase's bottle of sleep aids in the nightstand & brought it to me with the cap off then told me that Carter put one in his mouth & I was a f'ing lunatic by bedtime. I had to dig around in his mouth & tried to make him throw up, just in case & the little effer bit me twice & then clamped his mouth together so tight I couldn't pry it open. About 6:30 I went outside & told Chase {who conveniently was doing yardwork all afternoon{ that I was headed to Wendy's to get the kids dinner & to the liquor store to get mine. And then as soon as dinner was over & Chase was inside with them, they were the sweetest, most well behaved kids you've ever seen.

kel - Sunday, 30 Aug
Have you girls seen the sight dontdatehimgirl.com It's some pretty funny stuff. i could not believe there was a sight dedicated to telling other women about jerk men.

anon - Sunday, 30 Aug
Tab--maybe she had a week break! lol Spencer is being SO WHINY!!!! today. driving me NUTS. LIke naptime should be here now instead of in 3 hours. And I'm still spotting off and on. I wish that i would either just freakin go into labor or not. I know that it's still too 'early' but jfc i'm so sick of not being able to do anything, and I constantly feel like I need to be cleaning/moving/organizing/throwing away stuff and then i get yelled at for doing it! UUUUGGGHHHH! I think I need a coffee and some shopping. Ready, GO!

tabatha - Sunday, 30 Aug
kel-i don't see the pic anymore :)..off to see the parents we go..my dad put a big play structure for the kids,complete with a gravel pit, so i know gabe will have a ball!! i'm curious if keiths sis will break down and call today..she never came down last week!

amyeliz - Saturday, 29 Aug
we dont have any guns either. With Ron being gone a lot for work, I should have something, but guns scare me. I think we need an alarm system installed.

kel - Saturday, 29 Aug
Can you still see the pictures on my FB? The thing is I'm not even good friends with her. She's just someone my husband and I work with. We just kinda hang out every once in a while. She's the girl next to me in the picture. My husband says I can't ask her to take it down because its not my pic. WTF? I don't care its me in the picture and she didn't have my permission.

cait - Saturday, 29 Aug
We have no guns here. In Massachusetts it is so hard to have a legal gun in the house. Growing up we had like 10+ guns in my parents closet but the cops took them when my dad wanted to kill my mom, sure he has them back now.

claires-momma - Saturday, 29 Aug
Kel, so glad you guys are OK! I'm with you on the not wanting to take the kids out. I don't blame you one bit. We have 1 gun @ the house but it isn't loaded...not even sure if we actually have ammo here? I asked Chase to buy me a small handgun because there are times during the fall/winter seasons where he will be gone anywhere from 3-7 days hunting with his dad & brothers.

tabatha - Saturday, 29 Aug
kel- i found this!!! click on privacy settings...select profile...select photos tagged of you...then select customize and only me. It makes all the pics you have where you have tagged yourself not visible...but it will stop other photos where your friends tag you from being visible. To make yourself visible in your photos...un-tag yourself. It's a bit of work, but it's the only way.

tabatha - Saturday, 29 Aug
awwww, kel-facebook needs to change this! we should have the right to untag photos regardless of if we posted them or if someone else did..i have a friend who tagged a 12 yr old drunken photo of me..i emailed her and threatened her life! why would someone do that..she knew better..plus my ex had his fug mug up in the pic..seriously..wtf?

tabatha - Saturday, 29 Aug
we have like 50 guns in our home..i have one high up in our walkin, that i can't even reach without a stool..the others are in a gun safe..keith is a gun freak..but yeah, if someone ever busted up in here i would shoot them. no problem.

anon - Saturday, 29 Aug
We have 2 here. We have more, but most of them are locked up at his dads house in the safe. We have hte handgun (unloaded) on the top shelf of our closet in our bedroom and the clip is in our bedroom in a dresser so we know where they're at, but not together. Then we have a shot gun which is just hanging out in the closet, we have some shells for it around here somewhere (and some in my trunk lol) but i would have no idea how to use it. J's family collects guns so they have probably a couple hundred thousand dollars worth in his dads house they've collected over the years.

kel - Saturday, 29 Aug
Don't you hate when someone on FB post pics with you in it and tag you when it is the most god awful pic you have? This girl post a pic when we went out on the boat. I was only 7 weeks post pardum well I guess almost 8. But anywho my boobs are huge from not pumping or feeding for 3 days because we just found out Dawson couldn't breast feed anymore. I'm white as a ghost and still have flabby wrinkle belly and stretched out belly button. Why in the crap would you think that I would 1. want that picture post. 2. Want you to tag me in the photo? I almost think she did it out of spite. Out of all the pics they took that day I am in several. I'm going to ask her to untag me from the photo. if I want the pic on my wall I will tag it myself. I'm sorry for sounding so crabby. But she just had a baby last year. You would think she might be a little more sensitive. Then again maybe I'm blowing it out of proportion. But either way i still want it take down or atlease untagged from my photo book.

ady-and-maylies-momma - Saturday, 29 Aug
Alex has his shotgun in his closest. I don't think it's loaded or anything though. Kind of useless if anybody were to break in though, right? lol.

kel - Saturday, 29 Aug
Well they didn't catch him last night but are telling everyone not to worry they have a 'perimeter' set up around the woods with the swat team. Uhm, ok what about if he got passed that 'perimeter' before you have the whole swat team and officers out there? I know how these things work. So, now today I don't want to take Saige outside in the back yard. If it was just me, I'm kinda stupid that way and say if its going to happen. its going to. But with the kids I feel totally different.I can keep them from harm by being smart. lol I know thats weird.

cait - Saturday, 29 Aug
How many of you all own guns or have them in your house??

cait - Saturday, 29 Aug
Kel- oh my god! That is so scary, I don't think I would be able to sleep or if so with both my babies with me.

ady-and-maylies-momma - Saturday, 29 Aug
hKel~ You alive?! lol. About 5 years ago (when I was in highschool), about 3 guys broke out of the county jail and stole a van. They were missing for 3 days and said to be around our area. There were state, county, and town police EVERYWHERE not to mention helecopters with search lights. One night, these guys crashed their stolen van into a guys house that I went to school with (which was like 5 blocks from my house!). They caught one guy, but the other two took off. So scary! They caught them two days later in the next town. SCREW THAT!

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