Mena is now 2 years 9 months old. She weighs 33.6 pounds. She is wearing size 4 tops and size 3 shorts. She's excited that she's got a couple of dresses to wear. Now we have to teach her to keep the dresses down. Mena gets a dose of Miralax each night before bed and is doing just fine eating anything. It's difficult to get her to drink as much as she should but the Miralax helps keep her regular so we don't have to worry about it.
The newest change in Mena's life is that she's pretty much given up napping. We weren't intending for naps to be done this early in her life, but she was taking an hour to fall asleep at night and an hour to fall asleep at nap time. Sometimes she just wouldn't fall asleep at nap so I started letting her get up before the other kids. We noticed on the days she didn't nap she went to bed much easier at night. In order to keep Mena entertained and quiet while the other kids sleep I let her watch a Barney video from the library. If she's really tired she'll fall asleep during the video curled up on my rocking chair. As she gets used to not napping, she's falling asleep less and less during her video at nap time. For the most part her bedtime continues to be 8 pm and she gets up at 7 am. She sleeps in on the weekends so we don't have to get up that early everyday!
