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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 - Friday, 28 Aug
J refuses to get snipped too...'why do something permenant if you can just take a pill everyday' Well, buddy, obviously that didn't work, did it?! I htink I'm goign to go with the Minera, i actually NEED the hormones, or I go loopy. The hormones keep my prozac levels down to 20 mg vs the 50 I was on when I wasn't on bc or pregnant. Please tell me I don't need this milky way sitting beside me! And mean it! lol Amy, here's a hug! And Kel, how long did it take for Saige to grow out of her tummy issues?

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
i have the paragard, too..i was on sev diff birth control pills..i just can't take the hormones in them or the mirena..vomit and migraine city..i hate how it is affecting me..my skin has started breaking out now. wth?..everyone is diff with it though. ali is having good luck with hers..i hope mine turns around or else i'm gonna have to have something permanent done..i can't even say the word. it bothers me. i really wish keith would get snipped..after all, i've gave him two boys..c'mon..gimme a break here, man!

jessiferrabbit - Friday, 28 Aug
Hugs to all you ladies! Tired, irritable, sick kids suck. Ali- you always make me realize why I love y'all so much. No way 'in real life' would anyone I know, myself included, ask a friend about her lady bits. Except maybe my sister and my best friend. I guess we've spent years in this group (has it been 3?) talking about blood, vomit, pee, poop, (sometimes ours, sometimes not) sex, other bodily functions that its n big deal here haha love it.

amyeliz - Friday, 28 Aug
someone shoot me now...please.

kel - Friday, 28 Aug
So we took Saige to the dermatologist doc and I actually have a ray of sun shine. I think he has finally found an answer to her skin. He says some of it is eczema and some of it is psoriasis. He put her on a med for both. So now she has been pretty good for the past few days and you can see a marked difference in her attitude for the better. Dawson on the other had is still pretty colic and acid reflux is no better on Zantac. But the doc pretty much says as long as he is 50% better that she is happy with that. OK? Why don't you come and spend the day with him then. If hes awake he is fussing. Piont blank. Very few times is he very happy. So I guess I'm just going to sit back a wait for him to grow out of the tummy problems like Saige did. I tell you ladies not that I would ever take back having my son now. But because of my daughter I really didn't want another child. I didn't want to go through it again. However although it is very hard. I'm better at dealing with it this time so it seems a little easier. This time around I'm alot stronger. But I'm glad this will be the last child I have to watch go through this. It's hard on both of us.

chases-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
I have a paragard. My periods have been pretty much normal, a day longer and a bit heavier. I ahve bad cramps now, vs NONE before, but nothing some tylenol cant handle. I didn't want the mirena, because I need the reassurance of a period. I don't think I could handle it! Plus...no hormones is mas freaking bueno.

anon - Friday, 28 Aug
Which IUD do you ladies have? I'm getting one after E is evicted and now I'm scared! But i'm nto ready to make the decision to get my tubes tied yet. Although I've been reading alot bout this 'essure' thing, that seems to be kinda neat. Guess we'll see!

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
o-m-g@ali!! i was on the rag for like 12 days..the doc said it was normal..and that it should ease up, but it might not..seriously? i'm used to 5 day periods..for that one day i was having to change a super plus tampon every 20 mins..dumb man doc just smiled and nodded..fsake? seriously..if i continue with days like that i will have to stay confined in my home hovering over the crapper. he did say that if the clots stayed that large to come in because i could become anemic..would have to check my iron. i'm praying it lets up..he said give it at least 4 months.

chases-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Oh and Tab..Did your lady bits quiet down?

chases-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Amy, the only thing that gets Jimmy down is rocking in our office chair. Not the glider, he doesn't like how smooth it is.He likes the abruptness of the office chair. This thing has been saving my life! He is taking his long nap now, how he is when he gets up in usually a good indication of the rest of the day. I'm scurd...hold me.

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
nita-i frequent the 24 hr walmart on friday nights..after the kids are in bed i usually go..but i'm really thinking of skipping it tonight..keith will be home early tomorrow, so i think i will go fight the crowds then..i'm just soooooo tired. 5 hrs of sleep..i've been going to bed by 10, but i toss and turn till midnight..what the F..i'm running on major caffeine and sugar.

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
omg..gabe hates word world..i am probably gonna get convicted on multiple counts of piracy soon..i have been scouring the nets in attempts to download any frackin thing that gabe will watch that doesn't have to do with a damn monkey!! i am so sick of curious george..i burned and now have him watching ice age dawn of the dino's now..its actually really cute!!

anon - Friday, 28 Aug
ok, hate was a strong word that has been cured by a 'queen' sized twix. I share one bar with my co-worker so that way i'm not eating it all. I'm really period crampy today...pretty sure I have pms. Oh wait.

anon - Friday, 28 Aug
Nita. I hate you. Welcome to the place where words come alive! WORD WORLD! We have a dvd of it, with dog's birthday, and Shark...omg, its stuck in my head! lol Spenny loves it.

amyeliz - Friday, 28 Aug
Ugh Nita...I tried to run 4 errands...I got 3 done ten had to come home. I didnt get to the grocery store so it looks like I'm not cooking tonight! Carson is back to his mad self. He isnt crying but he is whiney and REFUSES to nap. This is getting old. I knew yesterday was a fluke.

annas-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
So Brandon was home and is already gone again. :( This sucks. He promised Anna he would be back in time to do bedtime stories. I hope he knows that she understands what he just promised... because if he isn't home by 8 she is going to be sooo sad and asking for him. I was supposed to go grocery shopping by myself but thats not happening either. I was going to just take her with but after the last two days and the meltdown she just had with him leaving... I'm gonna go with no. Maybe I'll just hit up the 24 hour Wal-Mart late tonight. Oh and random, but Anna's now in love with the show Word World. Her cousin loves it and shes watched it before, but now shes absolutely in LOVE with it.

ady-and-maylies-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Oh poor Ali (and super poor jim too!) I hope that it helps. Poor little guy. Maylie had a little reflux up till about 3 months ago but the docs wouldn't do anything about it because she was still gaining weight. I hope that you guys cut a break soon!

annas-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Oh and of course the first thing she asked for this morning when she got up was for chocolate milk. No way. Chocolate milk before Momma gets her coffee is just asking for trouble...... I don't need her bouncing off the walls before 10am.

annas-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Ooooh dear, Ali! I really hope the Zantac helps. Like Tab said, Jim really is a trooper for hanging in there. Anna and I both have little runny noses, but the weather hasn't changed here in Florida much at all. Once we take our trip up north, I know she and I will both sound like Gabe. Our family is like yours... the weather change ALWAYS makes us sick. Even Brandon. Speaking of, he got home this morning at 9. Yay! He is watching The Little Mermaid with Anna... because I just can't handle watching it a billionth time. He was going to take her swimming, but at 9am it was already over 80 degrees outside. I hate Florida... too hot. Anna was up before 6. I heard her in the livingroom whimpering, 'Momma! Momma!' I asked her what was wrong and she just said, 'Iz dark.' No shit. Its not even 6am. Go to bed. Of course she didn't. Yahoo for the Early Risers Club. We should have jackets.

amyeliz - Friday, 28 Aug
ali, both my kids were given zantac and it didn't help. we also went to prevacid. carson is still on it...until 9 months. carson is still spitting up too. drives me f'n nutso! I have to have a sheet on the floor where he is playing. its getting better but I am getting tired of doing laundry and shampooing carpets.

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
oh no, ali! that is awful! gabe was a major reflux colic baby..i just sat around crying along with him most days..at least jim was a trooper..keith and i had major problems during that time..he just couldn't handle it at all..hope the zantac helps him..gabe was on zantac, but went to the prevacid dissolving tabs. worked wonders!

tabatha - Friday, 28 Aug
i woke up his morning to the sounds of, what sounded like, lindsey lohan screaming 'mooooooooooooma, help..george'..then i realized it was gabe..gesh..he sounds like a two pack a day smoker, y'all..i think he's getting sick..its this weather changing..we always seem to get ill when this happens..suck suck suck. he won't eat breakfast and is rolling around in the floor..at least it hasn't affected nugget yet. he seems happy thus far.

chases-momma - Friday, 28 Aug
Wow. Looks like everyone is having good days. I came home from work last night and Jim was in tears. Jimmy cried ALL day. Literally. Jim's nerves were totally shot, I felt so bad for him. He was out in the yard playing T-Ball with Chase and just trying so hard not to cry. So I loaded Jimmy up in the car and we went to the Dr. Ears are fine, blah blah blah. Why can't my kids ever have anything with a direct remedy? So our Dr thinks that it still reflux. He was diagnosed with really mild reflux as a newborn (colicy as hell), and she thinks that over time his throat and whatnot have been getting more and more irritated. He's not sleeping, he's not happy unless he is in your face (and upright). So we are bak on Zantac to see if it makes a difference. I no likey.

amyeliz - Thursday, 27 Aug
Ryleigh doesnt talk back really...The worst I get is the word 'no' ALL THE FREAKIN TIME!

ady-and-maylies-momma - Thursday, 27 Aug
I'm right there with you all on the talking back thing. I was talking to Ady saying that she couldn't play with Maylies diaper rash cream because it was medicine and would get all over...and she looked at me with her squinted eyes and said, 'well, tough' GREEEAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!!!

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