My Baby is a Toddler!

HOLY CRAP! Baby Bear is now Toddler Bear! We survived year one. Still breastfeeding.

Toddler Bear prefers running to walking, even though it leads to more tripping. He finally has teeth! Two on bottom, one out and one just peeking out. I'm actually glad that it has taken this long for him to get teeth, he really hasn't been extra cranky. No tremendous amounts of drool. The only teething related crying was when he fell on his behind and bit his tongue. So thank you Universe for that.

Diaper changes have become a challenge if I try and do them laying down. So lately I've been doing them standing up in the bathroom. I'll put TB in the bathtub and have him pee (I clap and say "Yay, pee pee!" when he pees) then I take him out, wipe him up and let him air dry, then try to snap a diaper on him. Half the time its a breeze, the other half is either difficult or impossible.

We got a Prince Lionheart potty for him for one of his [my] birthday gifts. I'm not trying to potty train him, just get him used to the potty. If pee goes in it excellent. If he goes on the floor next to it, at least he was close. I just like emptying his bladder before I put another diaper on him. Might as well do it in a potty. The only trouble with the potty is that his feet don't touch the floor and it is awkward for him. So I'll probably put it away for a few more months.

Besides that, I'm looking into cloth diaper training pants because I need something that pulls on. This chasing the kid around the bathroom is getting old. Mostly because I'm always hitting my head on the counter. I'm going to have to seel the diapers I already own to afford the pull ups so I want to be sure that I pick the right ones. I've got it narrowed down to the GroVia My Choice Trainer or Sprout Change Cloth Trainers. I've been leaning more towards the Sprouts, but I discovered the GroVia ones today and they look pretty cool. So I'm torn. If anyone has experience with these can you tell me what you liked and did not like about them?

Paleo/Gluten Free

So I've been really good about sticking to this Paleo thing. I've had a few things that aren't Paleo, but I've made sure that they were gluten free.

I've only been doing this for about a week and a half but I'm already seeing results. I didn't have to run to the bathroom once today. When I did feel the need to go it wasn't an I-might-shit-my-drawers situation. That used to be the case about 4-5 times a day. Sometimes I'd have time to hand Baby Bear off; many times I had to bring him with me and give him a you to play with on the floor.

I must say that today was a fantastic Friday the Thirteenth. Not only was I able to refrain from nearly crapping my pants, I also got all my swag from finally selling my iPhone in the mail. My awesome diaper bag arrived, it is soooo pretty! And my badass planetwise owl wetbags arrived! Yay!

So my mood has greatly improved as well. My mom said that I haven't been as cranky as usual the last few days, and that's pretty awesome. Sometimes I'm just crappy to be around.

BB has his two bottom teeth coming in but they are doing so at their leisure. I can see them in his gums, they are just taking their sweet ass time to pop out. I read somewhere that it takes a week on average. Four days for the tooth/eeth to erupt and three to get used to them being there. I think we are on day five and the teeth are just lurking in there. I know that the "average" isn't a rule, but c'mon teeth! Give my poor baby a break!