Happy Valentine's Day!
I got a new Mother's Necklace with three children on it (I had one with two before...) and Jim got a special cake. It is chocolate with mint frosting in the shape of a heart. Yum!
Doug and Andy ended up having two parties because they are enrolled in two classes at school so that they are five days a week. They came home with candy as I expected but a lot less of it was chocolate than I expected (darn...less chocolate for me to eat but on the other hand that's better for me in that I won't be as tempted to steal candy from them). I was realizing how kids' Valentine's cards have changed. When I was little the cards were pretty simple and some kids put a few candy hearts in their little envelopes. Almost every card that Doug & Andy came home with had something with it whether it was a pencil, a fake tattoo, a sticker, or some candy. Doug took cards that had a picture of a car with stickers you could use to personalize it and Andy had stickers that made a puzzle picture of Lego vehicles.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Friday, February 13, 2009
Ahhhhh!!!
Ok, Josie passed her ear re-check with flying colors.
Doug did not...
He failed half of the hearing test again and the ENT said his ear drums were depressed (or something like that). He was within normal limits on a listening test for normal speech. So we have a nasal spray and go back in 6 weeks. The funny part was in the space of about two or three sentences the ENT mentioned coming back at 6 weeks, then he said 8, and then he said 4. So I asked him which one was when we should come back. The ENT said he was waiting to see what the nurse wrote down and she said she was wondering which one was right too. So the ENT said, "Let's do 6 weeks that's the average of all of those."
Oh, and we dropped Jim off at work this morning so that we could pick him up and head directly out of town. This meant the kids were up early and we had enough time to grab some breakfast at McD's. While we were there I heard a song playing that I like and had forgotten about and have no idea what group sang it. So of course now I can't remember enough of the lyrics to actually look it up and it is going to bother me until I either find it or get something else to focus on.
Doug did not...
He failed half of the hearing test again and the ENT said his ear drums were depressed (or something like that). He was within normal limits on a listening test for normal speech. So we have a nasal spray and go back in 6 weeks. The funny part was in the space of about two or three sentences the ENT mentioned coming back at 6 weeks, then he said 8, and then he said 4. So I asked him which one was when we should come back. The ENT said he was waiting to see what the nurse wrote down and she said she was wondering which one was right too. So the ENT said, "Let's do 6 weeks that's the average of all of those."
Oh, and we dropped Jim off at work this morning so that we could pick him up and head directly out of town. This meant the kids were up early and we had enough time to grab some breakfast at McD's. While we were there I heard a song playing that I like and had forgotten about and have no idea what group sang it. So of course now I can't remember enough of the lyrics to actually look it up and it is going to bother me until I either find it or get something else to focus on.
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Scary
Yes I love having independent children and it is exciting to see how Doug & Andy are becoming more capable. Sometimes however, that excitement reaches a new level. They had dental hygiene week at school last week. So now they, especially Andy, have started spontaneously brushing their own teeth at random hours of the day. That wouldn't be so bad except for the fact that they put an outrageous amount of toothpaste on the brush. They are so so with spitting so I really don't want them swallowing that much toothpaste (even the toddler kind because even it has fluoride in it).
I also just discovered that Doug had apparently pooped in the potty. That's a good thing...except that he tried to wipe himself off with about a third of a roll of toilet paper (maybe a slight exaggeration...but not by much). There are enough other things I have going on with this house besides thinking about possibilities of plumbing issues. Let's hope that it all goes down. I did actually fish out some of it....
I also just discovered that Doug had apparently pooped in the potty. That's a good thing...except that he tried to wipe himself off with about a third of a roll of toilet paper (maybe a slight exaggeration...but not by much). There are enough other things I have going on with this house besides thinking about possibilities of plumbing issues. Let's hope that it all goes down. I did actually fish out some of it....
To-do list
Today is a to-do list day. I have just a ton of stuff to get done. (yeah...blogging is not really on the "to-do" list but oh well...a short break).
- catch-up on grading the classes I am teaching
- catch-up on inputting the attendance for the classes I am teaching
- figure out what I need to be doing in each of the classes I am taking (this could be its own to-do list by itself)
- clean the living room
- get Josie (with brothers in tow and taking into account potty training needs) to the doctor for the recheck to make sure her ear infection is clear(ing)
- While at the doctor make sure to ask if Doug's files have been sent to the ENT for the recheck on his ears and hearing tomorrow
- Get the kitchen in order
- Get the laundry done
- start thinking about packing for going to the in-laws this weekend
- make sure the boys get to do the last little bit for their Valentines to give to friends for their party tomorrow (and Friday)
Monday, February 9, 2009
Sunday, February 8, 2009
Someone's moving in!
Someone is finally moving in the house across the street from us. It has been empty for a very long time. The previous person moved out less than a month after we moved in (it wasn't because of us...)
Anyway, I meet her father yesterday. She is a single school teacher.
Unfortunately in the space of time in which I stood on the edge of the street talking to him the kids were downstairs by themselves (I was just taking the old kitty litter out). Andy had been helping me by using the small tank vacuum to suck up kitty litter in the hallway.
When I got back I could "smell" the vacuum and they had dumped about a third of a big bag of cat food into the cat dish and all over the hallway floor and then managed to suck up about 4 cups of it into the vacuum hose. They were just starting to drop individual pieces of cat food into the cat water which Josie had dumped from the small bowl into the big tub that is there to prevent spills on the carpet.
Another example of kids being "help more work".
Anyway, I meet her father yesterday. She is a single school teacher.
Unfortunately in the space of time in which I stood on the edge of the street talking to him the kids were downstairs by themselves (I was just taking the old kitty litter out). Andy had been helping me by using the small tank vacuum to suck up kitty litter in the hallway.
When I got back I could "smell" the vacuum and they had dumped about a third of a big bag of cat food into the cat dish and all over the hallway floor and then managed to suck up about 4 cups of it into the vacuum hose. They were just starting to drop individual pieces of cat food into the cat water which Josie had dumped from the small bowl into the big tub that is there to prevent spills on the carpet.
Another example of kids being "help more work".
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Raising Star Wars Fans (and other issues)
Jim laid down the law with the boys last night. When Doug said that he pooped in his underwear because he was too busy playing Jim and I pretty much decided that that was it and that it was time to be potty trained completely.
So today Andy did great and Doug got 2 out of 3 bowl movements in the potty (sorry to be specific for those of you easily grossed out...but when you get to be a parent these things matter). Both boys got all pee in the potty between a combination of them figuring out that they needed to go and Jim and I telling them that it had been awhile and perhaps they should try. So progress there!
We got Star Wars: Clone Wars from Netflix also and are now in the middle of the third time watching it. We had already started watching the series on Cartoon Network so both Doug & Andy are in to it. We have long talks during the show about good robots versus bad robots and Doug has informed me that he has a green "Light Saver" while Andy says he has two "Knight Swords" with one being green and one being blue and that he does "great moves" to fight off bad guys. They now want various Star Wars themed paraphenalia such as the Star Wars backpack that one of the other kids in their class has, and they are both coveting the Star Wars underwear we walked past in Wal-Mart....so I do have a bribe for potty training.
So today Andy did great and Doug got 2 out of 3 bowl movements in the potty (sorry to be specific for those of you easily grossed out...but when you get to be a parent these things matter). Both boys got all pee in the potty between a combination of them figuring out that they needed to go and Jim and I telling them that it had been awhile and perhaps they should try. So progress there!
We got Star Wars: Clone Wars from Netflix also and are now in the middle of the third time watching it. We had already started watching the series on Cartoon Network so both Doug & Andy are in to it. We have long talks during the show about good robots versus bad robots and Doug has informed me that he has a green "Light Saver" while Andy says he has two "Knight Swords" with one being green and one being blue and that he does "great moves" to fight off bad guys. They now want various Star Wars themed paraphenalia such as the Star Wars backpack that one of the other kids in their class has, and they are both coveting the Star Wars underwear we walked past in Wal-Mart....so I do have a bribe for potty training.
Friday, February 6, 2009
TGIF
I'm so glad it actually is Friday now.
I felt like yesterday should be Friday and that this should be at least the end of the second week of February, if not the end of the third week....not the end of the first week in February.
It's been a long week (or long two weeks if you include the last part of January).
All three kids and Jim have been on antibiotics. I think I am getting better but it would help if I could get more sleep (perhaps then I would be less emotional...which is probably contributing to it seeming like a long week).
Highlights (or low points depending on how you want to phrase it):
Monday- Jim used a sick day to go to the doctor and was told to stay home two days to help recover.
Tuesday-I went to the dentist for a filling (forgetting that the last time I had dental work the Novocain lasted 9 hours) so I got my filling, came home and threw-up, skipped the classes I was supposed to teach (I had others who covered them, sort of), slept for 90 minutes so that the Novocain actually wore off, but also managed to bit my lip while it was still numb so I am still recovering from a fat lip...I didn't know I had bitten it until I saw blood.
Wednesday- Andy got fillings and did great, but both boys pooped in their underwear right at the end of our evening at church so that took some clean-up
Thursday- I spent about an hour crying after the director of the preschool asked me to put the boys in pull-ups when they came...at least until they were doing pretty well with things at home. Apparently Andy pooped in his underwear at preschool and it was messy. They apparently didn't realize that there were also pull-ups in the kids' backpacks and sure enough when they got home Andy didn't want to put underwear back on. He did pee in the potty but it felt like I had lost a week's worth of potty training. I wrote all sorts of blog posts but didn't publish them.
Friday- I don't know about today yet. I was extremely conflicted between the benefits of taking the boys to preschool in pull-up versus keeping them home in underwear. Doug loves going to preschool so I knew he would want to go. Andy enjoys it while he is there but is not quite as in to it. I ended up taking them and Andy ended up staying.
I felt like yesterday should be Friday and that this should be at least the end of the second week of February, if not the end of the third week....not the end of the first week in February.
It's been a long week (or long two weeks if you include the last part of January).
All three kids and Jim have been on antibiotics. I think I am getting better but it would help if I could get more sleep (perhaps then I would be less emotional...which is probably contributing to it seeming like a long week).
Highlights (or low points depending on how you want to phrase it):
Monday- Jim used a sick day to go to the doctor and was told to stay home two days to help recover.
Tuesday-I went to the dentist for a filling (forgetting that the last time I had dental work the Novocain lasted 9 hours) so I got my filling, came home and threw-up, skipped the classes I was supposed to teach (I had others who covered them, sort of), slept for 90 minutes so that the Novocain actually wore off, but also managed to bit my lip while it was still numb so I am still recovering from a fat lip...I didn't know I had bitten it until I saw blood.
Wednesday- Andy got fillings and did great, but both boys pooped in their underwear right at the end of our evening at church so that took some clean-up
Thursday- I spent about an hour crying after the director of the preschool asked me to put the boys in pull-ups when they came...at least until they were doing pretty well with things at home. Apparently Andy pooped in his underwear at preschool and it was messy. They apparently didn't realize that there were also pull-ups in the kids' backpacks and sure enough when they got home Andy didn't want to put underwear back on. He did pee in the potty but it felt like I had lost a week's worth of potty training. I wrote all sorts of blog posts but didn't publish them.
Friday- I don't know about today yet. I was extremely conflicted between the benefits of taking the boys to preschool in pull-up versus keeping them home in underwear. Doug loves going to preschool so I knew he would want to go. Andy enjoys it while he is there but is not quite as in to it. I ended up taking them and Andy ended up staying.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Do they have kids of their own?
Sometimes I wonder if designers have children of their own.
Case in point...we have a very cute set of overall that are 24 months size for Josie. Someone gave them to us. We do wear them; however, you have to undress the child every time. There are no snaps in the pants and the shirt actually has loops for the overall straps to go through. So no matter whether you are changing a diaper or having a child sit on the potty you have to completely undress him or her.
Also, now that the boys are (mostly) wearing underwear I have noticed that some crazy person decided that the really cool picture should go on the back of the underwear and not the front. So 90% of the time that Doug & Andy put the underwear on by themselves they put it on backwards so that they can see the picture.
Case in point...we have a very cute set of overall that are 24 months size for Josie. Someone gave them to us. We do wear them; however, you have to undress the child every time. There are no snaps in the pants and the shirt actually has loops for the overall straps to go through. So no matter whether you are changing a diaper or having a child sit on the potty you have to completely undress him or her.
Also, now that the boys are (mostly) wearing underwear I have noticed that some crazy person decided that the really cool picture should go on the back of the underwear and not the front. So 90% of the time that Doug & Andy put the underwear on by themselves they put it on backwards so that they can see the picture.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
More Potty Progress
We have pretty much continually been in underwear since Wednesday afternoon. We have had moderate success. Doug sometimes goes on his own and will stay dry if you remind him to go.
Andy seems to do best when you make sure there will be pee there and help him to relax. He is getting better about relaxing faster too.
Tonight during the Super Bowl I told him to go potty. He told me he wanted to pee on the grass. I asked him if he thought he could do that (he has not had success standing up to pee so far) and he told me he couldn't do that with the door closed. LOL
So, knowing that we live on a pretty quiet street, I let him out the front door. He was only in his underwear so he stood at the edge of the porch, got his penis out the fly of the underwear, thrust his little hips out, and peed on one of the bushes.
Then Josie wanted to pee on the grass. I took her outside and set her down on the grass. It was a little, but not too much, chilly outside. I told her to squat down and pee and she looked at me like I was crazy...then said "potty."
Andy seems to do best when you make sure there will be pee there and help him to relax. He is getting better about relaxing faster too.
Tonight during the Super Bowl I told him to go potty. He told me he wanted to pee on the grass. I asked him if he thought he could do that (he has not had success standing up to pee so far) and he told me he couldn't do that with the door closed. LOL
So, knowing that we live on a pretty quiet street, I let him out the front door. He was only in his underwear so he stood at the edge of the porch, got his penis out the fly of the underwear, thrust his little hips out, and peed on one of the bushes.
Then Josie wanted to pee on the grass. I took her outside and set her down on the grass. It was a little, but not too much, chilly outside. I told her to squat down and pee and she looked at me like I was crazy...then said "potty."
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