Well blogging world, we haven't talked in a long while.... I've been working 60 hour weeks and I was kind of tired at the end of the day and not really around nor energetic enough to make comments and/or observations about my happy little life.
But here I am!
I can't say no to people, so I naturally said, "Sure I can help you full time until you find a replacement for the shampoo tech that ran off with a man she met on the Internet...." Nine weeks later the replacement has arrived, I've been upgraded to assistant and grew tired enough that I quit one of my jobs (bye bye smokey salon!) and now work the two day a week schedule I originally wished for. I'm happy to be a stay at home mommy five out of seven days a week with weekends free to be with the kids while Randy is in classes. No more babysitters!
Better and more interesting news... Be prepared for a little toddler humor...
We decided to potty train Rowan. I sat down and realized if I got him out of diapers I could then have an extra thirty dollars a month to fund my soda habit.
Not really. Well the thought did cross my mind but at Mikayla's insistence I am hitting the soft drinks less and less. I'm grimacing a little as I type that.
Really it was just time or so I thought. You see, we knew we would have Randy home for two months to help out on this venture and what better time than summer to let your two year old run around naked. Every little boy's dream right? NOPE. Apparently Row likes to be covered up. We have a modest toddler on our hands. And we had to break him in slowly. I guess underwear feels really different after a soft padded diaper? Either way. The first week Randy was home we started. Five days later there had still not been any activity in the specially purchased toilet that sported the tire seat, engine roaring handle and urine shield (useless thing really.) Alas one evening I realized Rowan was about to do his business in the bath tub... I snatched him up and popped him on that nice padded tire seat. Seconds later I had Row stand up, he looked around to see what I was excited about and immediately popped out with,
"Look, it's a hot dog! Mommy, it's a hot dog!"
Gross. But whatever. Apparently he made the connection and that was all it took for that round. Next we had to tackle peeing. This took a few more days but he finally made the connections and we are on the road to being diaper free. We just have to get rid of the night diaper. I'm not generally an advocate for night diapers, but I just do not want to clean up stinky sheets all the time. At least he can do a nap without a diaper. That's good right?
He's been accident free for severaly days with the exception of not tucking things in and spreading his love a little to freely if you will... I love Lysol wipes. I need a purse sized set to go in my giant albeit very adorable luggage sized handbag that has grown so huge it is embarrassing. And half the time I still don't have what I need at that critical moment when someone looks at me expectantly thinking that I of all people should posess whatever it is they need.. (it's usually my kiddos looking at me like that. Poor things!)
Mikayla is a reading bug. She's read seventy books so far this summer, and her goal is one hundred. My guess is that she will hit that before June is over. We still have her read them out loud in case we need to correct any pronunciations but she seems to have it down! Rowan couldn't care less about books. I think if we get him a baseball book we might be able to reel him in.
More on baseball later!
And Randy is almost done with his summer semester of school. WooHOO!
