Young Parents With Two Toddlers

Parenting is never an easy thing for anyone but adding the fact that we are young and our kids are only 1 year apart definitely made things more difficult. Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way. I love my kids and my husband no matter how hard things are for us. What doesn't kill you make you stronger and my family has definitely made me a much stronger person. We have a very unique family, and though it's never going to make things easy, I think any other life would be boring.

Neither of our children were planned but that doesn't mean we didn't want them. We wanted children and planned to have them in the future when we were finacially stable. But the desire to have kids despite our fanancial situation caused us not to be careful enough in preventing pregnancy. Two years and two pregnancies later I was still in disbelief that all that had happened so fast.

The reality of being is hard to grasp, at first. Even after 2 and a half years of motherhood my children surprise me everyday with the things they learn. They just absorb everything so quickly and half the time you don't even realize they are doing it. Suddenly, two weeks after you accidentally swore in front of them they trip and out flies the same word. I don't care what anyone says, even at 6 months old they understand more than anyone gives them credit for.

Currently my son, Aiden is potty trained even through the night at 2 and half years old. Sure he has accidents still but only occasionally. Keeley is just easing into the idea of the potty right now which is fine being that she's only one and a half. Both of them are walking, running, jumping, feeding themselves, drinking from straws, laughing, clapping, kicking and throwing balls, and spinning in circles like pros. Keeley has started talking instead of only babbling and Aiden is talking so clearly that most anyone can understand a lot of what he says now. Aiden can now open the bathroom and bedroom doors which has caused problems since their door has no lock. They still won't nap together and some nights they refuse to go to bed because they want to play since they share a room. For now separating them works but soon Keeley will learn to get out of her playpen so we need to give them separate rooms soon.

Having kids so close together was very hard at first but as they get older and more independent it gets easier. What's hard now is finding couples our age with kids our age who actually love their children and take care of them.

We actually found a couple our age with kids the same age and it's creepy how similar everything seemed at first but we've started to see the huge differences now. Neither of their kids are even close to using the potty and they don't take naps most of the time. They are not really picky eaters and the little girl loves slides and playplaces. That is all the exact opposite of our kids. And yet it's just great to know someone our age with kids the same age who is actually possible to spend time with.