The Ezra train of destruction rolls on. On the plus side, I was finally able to locate Ezra’s baby clothes (they WERE in that tub in Ezra’s closet). Ezra was helping me sort through them but after awhile got bored. He likes to close the door to his room when I’m in there so I can’t see what he’s about to get into. I kept sorting through clothes until I got worried enough to go see what he was doing. I should have checked sooner.
We keep our eggs in the cartons on the kitchen island so they are easy to access. Ezra thought so, too, because he had thrown all the eggs on the floor for the dogs to eat. I would hazard that there were 14 or more broken eggs on the floor. Can’t be sure because I don’t know how many the dogs ended up eating. Mommy was MAD! Ezra had an extra-long time out that day.
The next morning, Jess and I were in bed and Ezra went upstairs for about 5-10 minutes but he was laughing way too hard for someone who didn’t have access to a computer or tablet (they were in time out from the prior day’s egg throwing). I got up and the dogs came downstairs with what looked like vomit on them, but also kind of smelled like vanilla. Ezra had squirted grainy mustard on them and then rubbed them down with a sample size of the vanilla lotion. I think I traumatized Luca with the bath as he’d never had one before. (Note to self, work on bath manners with the dogs.)
Then I was getting out of the shower to hear Jesse yelling at Ezra. Ez had grabbed a full treat bag off the counter and flung it all over the kitchen floor. The dogs were ecstatic. I think we had more than four time outs that day.
The next day Ezra went out to get eggs from the coop and didn’t come back inside with them. I went to check on him and he had smashed them into his sandbox (which was also filled with water) and the dogs were snapping the remains out of the water. Another time out.
The day after that I went outside because I had spotted Ezra with an egg in his hand coming back from the coop area. He looked very guilty and when I asked if there had been any other eggs he copped to smashing them in his sandbox again. I gave him another stern talking to and he said, “I won’t ever do that again,” and I said, “I find that hard to believe because that’s what you told me after you smashed eggs yesterday!” Then later on that day he brought in two more eggs, though he had rinsed them in his sandbox water first. So either we need to be super diligent about what he does when he’s outside, or we need to put a lock on the coop door so he cannot get into it.
Some people are saying that Ezra is acting out because there is a new baby on the way, but really I don’t think he registers much along those lines. I think, and Velvet agrees, that it’s just because he’s three. I don’t know why they call it the Terrible Twos. He is much more inclined to mischief and pushing boundaries now than when he was two. I don’t think he’ll get too jealous of the baby until it’s here and taking up our time.
Along the baby front news, my stomach was moving around the other day and I asked Ezra if he wanted to feel the baby move and he agreed. He put his hand on my belly and quickly took it off again. I said, “You have to leave it there for a minute,” and put his hand back on my belly. Pretty soon Leo was rolling around and Ezra exclaims, “That’s magical!” It was way cute.
I had an ultrasound a couple days ago and Leo is measuring over 7lbs. His femur is measuring at 40 weeks, and head and belly at 38 and 37 weeks I think it was. So far, so good. He’s just going to be another big kid. I’m not focusing too much on his purported weight right now as I know that late-term ultrasounds are something like 60% accurate.
I have been reading up more on shoulder dystocia and talked to my OB about it and she sounds super confident about handling SD so if it comes to it she has steps in place on how to manage it. Apparently at her other practice they had 1-2 SDs a week so she’s had her fair share of working with it. Not sure why she didn’t mention this a couple weeks ago when she was freaking me out with worse-case scenarios.
I worked a little on training the dogs with regard to Sit, but am not counting it toward the 1,000 Treat Challenge since it wasn’t the skill I’m wanting to work on. However, I did find they both need major work on Sit. Both of them will Sit and then almost immediately go into a Down position instead of staying in Sit. I have some good ideas from my training forum on how to combat that.
I also spent time sewing the freaking dog bed again. They love that bed so I don’t know why they insist on chewing holes into it and pulling out stuffing! This time around I actually took out the pillow and sewed that first, then sewed up the cover. It pretty much took the entire length of the Labyrinth movie to do. There was a small hole on the fabric side of the bed but decided to let it go because I was too tired to mess with it any longer. Yeah. Hindsight is a bitch. This morning I came upstairs and there was a small amount of fluff on the floor. Looks like they chewed through the pillow in that area! Jesse says to just let it go and if they don’t have any stuffing then we’ll throw out their bed and that will be their punishment, but I don’t think dogs think in consequences like that. So now I have to do more sewing. I hate to sew.
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