Toddlers…gotta love them…yes, you gotta love them even when they drive you to distraction!

We have a full blown toddler on our hands.  19 months old, full of curiosity, mischief, tantrums, giggles and mayhem!

The biggest challenge we are currently having with our toddler is the lack of language…lots of babbling but no words.  Lots of grunts, squeals, cries, crankiness but not words.  Lots of communication but no words.

Now this is the child who does things his way.  I experienced 2 weeks of prodromal labor with him and it wasn’t until he was ready to make his appearance, and then he came in just over 2 hours (fastest labor of my life!).  He walked on his knees for 2 months until he decided one day that he was ready to walk and then he stood up in the middle of the living room with no support and took 10 steps!  I have a feeling that this is going to be how talking goes.  He will babble and make noises until he is ready and then it will be complete sentences!  I’m just waiting till he is ready…

Parenting these multiple age and stage children is a challenge and sometimes I feel like I need to go back to parenting school with the youngest because I forget what each stage is like but we just keep plugging along…also I am a different person in my forties that I was in my twenties and that contributes to my parenting.  I’m not sweating the small stuff anymore.  I may go gray before he’s five but I’m not going to overthink everything!