When Sebastian was two years old, he still slept in his crib. We gently laid him down after his bedtime routine, and lifted him out into a hug in the morning. He wore diapers full time. He used a pacifier to help him sleep. He needed our help to get dressed and put on shoes….
Category Archives: the new normal
He’s almost three, you know
When Sebastian was three months old, a dear friend came to visit along with her almost three-year-old. The two ages seemed (and were) worlds apart. I was astonished, for example, at the completely understandable sentences my friend’s daughter could say. It was hard to imagine my little proto-human ever being like this walking, talking, little…
Ten days
It took ten days. Ten days before bedtime was not a blur of tears and exhaustion. Ten days before the raging beast we thought we’d seen before – but truly never had – finally went back into hibernation and left our toddler in its place. Ten days of wondering if we’d made a huge mistake….
Bedtime
It started out as a bath, book, bottle-of-milk-before-bouncing-him-to-sleep routine. That was when he was so small that his entire little body still fit on my lap. The bouncing turned into swaying. The swaying turned into holding him for one song on his lullaby cd: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” then kissing him goodnight and putting him…
