McKenna Toddler Summary: 29 Months Old

A full summary of life for this 29 month old. Find out what daily life was like and find a 29 month old toddler sample schedule to follow.

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This is a summary for McKenna from 28-29 months old.

EATING

McKenna is still eating well. She seems to be over the timidness with food she had last month. She wants to try everything.

She is loving our food from the garden. Do you ever just assume your child won’t like something so you don’t even offer it? I find myself doing that sometimes, then I remind myself that McKenna likes everything and so far she does. 

As for prayer, she now takes turns saying the prayer, which really has helped her be more reverent during prayer time. 

PLAYTIME

Playtime is still going well. She plays with friends well and siblings well. She plays on her own well. 

Learning time is starting to be more fun with her–she is getting more able to do things on her own. It is so fun to watch your children progress!

>>>Read: How To Do a Learning Activity of the Day

SLEEPING

Sleep is good and there is nothing new or interesting right now. I am thinking about the need to move her to a big girl bed. I think we need to do this, like, today. 

But I am torn because of beds. We own a toddler bed that we could use right now and use for free. However, I really prefer to just move to a twin bed. But that means buying a twin bed and a twin mattress.

Really, within the year, we need to get the twin bed anyway. So I guess I just talked myself into it. I can be so, um…frugal?…sometimes. I think the transition will be smoother in the twin than in the toddler. I had better wrap this post up so I can start my online twin bed pursuing!

 >>>Read: Transitioning from a Crib to a Bed

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DISRUPTIONS

August was our busiest month yet. She did really well with the disruptions. 

I have to tell you a funny story. One night, we went camping. We put McKenna to bed first like we always do. We then took Kaitlyn to bed a while later. Well, in retrospect I realized we did it right at transition time, so it woke McKenna up…and she thought it was time to get up.

At 10 PM, she and Kaitlyn were still chit-chatting away. I told Kaitlyn to ignore her and go to sleep, which I am sure was hard, but she did it. At 12 AM, she was still awake. Brayden and Kaitlyn were sleeping while she yelled their names over and over to wake up. 

She stayed awake until about 2 AM. Yes–2 AM. That is quite literally the worst night of sleep she has ever had in her life. She is the type to get her 12 hours once she is down, but Brayden and Kaitlyn were up at 7 and it woke her up. So my 12-13 hour girl got 6 including her power nap the evening before. 

Wow! Good thing that wasn’t our first camping trip because it might have been our last! We learned to be more mindful of the transition time. And we all took a nap the next day–even I. 

LOOKING AHEAD

Brayden is in full day school, Kaitlyn will be in preschool a few days a week, and that leaves McKenna and me as little buddies. I think it will be really good for her to get some one-on-one focus from me. 

>>>Read: What to do with a young child while siblings are at school

I plan to try potty training later this month. I plan to do the crib-to-bed transition. So it should be a busy month with lots of changes for us! 

>>>Read: 5 Tips to Make Potty Training a Little Easier

29 Month Old Toddler SCHEDULE

We have actually stuck to our summer schedule for cool weather. 
8:00–Wake up and eat breakfast
8:30–Music time/learning time review
9:00–Get ready
9:30–Chores
10:00–Walk or bike ride
10:30–Independent Play
11:30–Learning Activity
12:00–Lunch
12:30–Outside play
1:30–Nap
4:00 or 4:30–Get up–or free play. I have cut TV out completely this month.
5:30–Dinner
6:00–Family Activities
7:30–Get ready for bed
8:00–Bedtime

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9 thoughts on “McKenna Toddler Summary: 29 Months Old”

  1. See if you can still catch Labor Day sales on twin beds?!? That's what we did for Elijah's mattress at this time last year…

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  3. Is 'transition time' when she is falling asleep or has been asleep for a while and enters a light sleep state? (We're about to have #3 so I'm interested in how to do differently-timed bedtimes).

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  4. Dani, it is when she has been asleep for a while–about 45 minutes. If she gets woken up at that point, it is essentially a power nap.

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  5. Hi, Val. So, I'm having issues with my 27 month old. For about a week now her naps have been terrible! She usually goes down at 1 and sleeps until 3/4. She's not falling asleep right away or when she does she's only sleeping 1 hour-11/2. I'm wondering if she needs to go down at 1:30. She wakes at 8 and is down at 8. We have a 5 month old as well and I'm noticing that when I go in to get her for a feeding during my toddler's nap time that is waking her as well as the baby is more vocal now. When she has a bad nap or doesn't nap at all we put her down between 6:45/7. I'm afraid to do any earlier as I don't want her waking early but I don't want her to be OT. Also, she has more molars coming in (3 right now) and I haven't done tylenol for naptimes only at night. I wonder if this is part of it? Thanks!Jessica

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  6. Jessica, do you have them napping in the same room? I wouldn't do that anymore if you are. Molars are definitely a possible culprit. I would do painkiller.

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  7. Val,They are not in the same room but their rooms share a wall 🙁 My 5 month old has a sound machine. Thanks! I'm pretty sure it was the molars because I did tylenol and she was sleeping better! I think she's over that now but unfortunately she has a cold now 🙁 always something, huh? :)Jessica

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