The Adventures of Baby Arthur

by Lincoln



Arthur officially passed the 21-month old mark. While he's not quite two yet, I felt like it was time to give a status report on how our "parenting agenda" has gone, as has been described on many of my posts. In other words, did any of this crap work?!

Eating Picky-ness: We have stayed true to Dr. Frenchy's food training methodology on picky-ness. He's never eaten baby food and we always "let him eat what we eat". I don't really have any criteria to base the success of the tactic on, but while Arthur is not aggravatingly picky, he's definitely picky! It wasn't until last week did he begin to consider eating meat. I guess he figured out how to use his molars! Before then, it was almost exclusively rice, macaroni and vegetables. Getting him to deviate much was a task! Grade: C+

Food Training: In terms of eating by himself, Dr. Frenchy's tactic has been a resounding success. Arthur eats all by himself with limited assistance and everyone is impressed. Grade: A

Sleep Training: It's been up and down, but as of today, Arthur still cries for at least a few minutes every night before he settles down. This is a source of worry for me, as I think he will outgrow his crib soon. I'm worried that he'll just crawl out of his toddler bed, bang on the door, and pass out on the floor! We'll see what happens.. Grade: B

Tantrum Aversion: We've been doing as Dr. Karp says! While Arthur is not yet 2 years old, it's too soon to tell if we've averted the terrible twos! But there haven't been very many intolerable tantrums. Arthur is definitely a good kid. Grade: A

Reading: I haven't specifically blogged about this, but Liz has been religiously reading to Arthur and trying to teach him the ABCs. While Arthur is not reciting the alphabet yet, he's repeating after us now and he can identify a handful of letters! I think this one's working out pretty well. Good work Liz!! Grade: A

In other news, Blogger.com has decided to change the way they work, which is going to negatively affect this blog! I need to figure out to adapt to their changes.. so this blog will be going into official hiatus. I'm not sure for how long, 2 weeks, maybe a month? But it'll get done!

Stay tuned and thank you for reading! I'll be back.

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So the title says it all. After Liz read my post about Man Showers, she was upset with me. OK, she was PISSED. You can probably guess why. For the record, life is not a prison and Baby Arthur has been a joy like I never could have imagined. I wasn't trying to complain either! I wrote in the spirit and honor of the best show ever, Married With Children.

So Liz, I'm sorry! And in closing, words of wisdom from Al Bundy:

• Envy me. That's my wife. Those are my kids and I sell womens' shoes
• We're closed and, much like my life, the day is over. (MORE HUMOR!)

LET'S ROCK!

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Some of you may have noticed that this blog just appeared out of thin air. Some of you may have even noticed that there are only two blog posts, from January 2009! Well I actually wrote those while figuring out how to slap the blog onto GuessYourBaby.com. This is still a work in progress, but we'll get there.

Anyway, thanks for visiting and I hope you'll check back in again when the work is done. The two posts that are published are the first of many to come, and they come from the heart!

-Lincoln & Liz

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