So Adina received a whole pile of babies for Christmas. Each time she goes up for a nap or bed, she makes sure all the ones she can find at the moment are in bed with her and nicely covered up with blankies. One of her favorite babies, though, is a tiny little one she got that goes with a stroller. It's not even a baby with a hard head and a soft body, like all the others; instead, it's a baby with an entirely hard body, and quite a bit smaller than her other babies. Anyway, she loves this baby the most right now. She'll drag the baby, the stroller, the bottle, and two little cardboard boxes that came with it all over the house - upstairs for nap, downstairs after nap, out into the addition (like Matt wants to see her baby and accessories), all over the house, and back upstairs for bedtime.
Yesterday and the day before, she was wanting to wrap baby up in her tiny taggie blankets. I usually help her do this so baby gets nice and tight; otherwise, she gets frustrated and will just throw the baby because it'll fall out of her blanket. She'll wrap the baby up, grab the bottle, then start her "mommy-bounce". It's something I haven't even thought of...it's been so long since I've had a baby to sit and bounce. But she'll just stand and bounce/rock her baby, saying, "shhh, shhh", then give it a little sip of the bottle she's holding, then, bounce, say "shhh, shhh", and just sit and smile at me. It's darling. I wonder where she saw this? Maybe at Wendy's house? I truly have no idea...we haven't had a baby around the house for her to see me "bouncing" yet. Anyway, it made my day. :)
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Potty Training Update:
We're making some progress. She always likes to poop on the potty, because she doesn't like the feeling in her diaper. The last two weeks at least, she's pooped every time in the potty (except when she was ice fishing with Matt and he had to bring her outside for her business). Sometimes I do have to bribe her to sit on the potty because if I ask if she has to pee, she'll say, "Yater, Mommy". Then, she'll have an accident later on. So I try and bribe her to sit every couple of hours if we're doing well. One day we went out to help with chores, and she held it for almost four hours...I was really nervous she'd have an accident in the tractor (because I sort of forgot to put a pull-up on her before we went outside, and she was left wearing undies), but she did very well and went right when we got in the house.
She's also starting to figure out when she has to actually go pee. It's taken a while, but she can tell right before she has to go, or she'll tell me as she's going (which we then have an accident, but I still feel like it's progress because she's acknowledging that she's peeing and really wants to be on the potty doing it).
So, we've made a little progress....hopefully when I'm in the hospital with baby next week, Grandma Juli and Grandma Carmen will be able to keep up with pottying some. I don't expect them to sit and train her, but I don't want her to go backwards, either, so I hope they'll work with her a little bit.
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Bob and Mark came over last night to help with house stuff. At 4:30 this morning, all three finally went to bed. They'd finished laying flooring in my hallway and part of my bathroom. I'm so excited about it! It looks wonderful! Now all I have to do is varnish my wainscoting and Matt can get that hung up in my addition. Progress is slowly coming together. My office is nearly ready to be moved into - Matt just needs to hook up the outlets and put trim up. How wonderful! I'll be moved in before baby comes (I think and hope!). Yay!
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It's been really hard to clean the house up to get ready for baby this time around...mostly because I don't know where to put things. I need to go through and just pick up and vacuum and whatever, but I don't feel like I can really organize anything in preparation because of my mess out back. Oh well...hopefully Matt will just help me do it when the time comes. So if you come to visit us when we get home, sorry for the cluttered mess everywhere! I'm just trying to be patient until I have room to spread the clutter around. :)
Other than that, though, I think I'm ready for this baby...I don't sleep very well, and I'm so sore all day long. I feel like an awkward stiff old person moving around. Yesterday I made banana bread and lunch with the kids, and just standing in the kitchen for over an hour made me all stiff. It was hard to get moving around again. I'm just plain ready for baby. Tuesday is the day....come see us if you want!
Have a fabulous weekend!
Saturday, January 12, 2013
Thursday, January 3, 2013
Clarence saw a coyote...
We were sitting in the living room yesterday, and all of a sudden Clarence starts talking about the night before.
C: I saw a coyote last night.
Me: Really? Where?
C: The puppies were barking and the coyote ran up by the river, by the chicken house - but didn't eat any chickens - and over there (pointing out by the barn).
Me: It ran over by the corn bales?
C: Yep, then it ran back down by the river. The puppies chased it.
Me: Wow, really, and you got to watch that?
C: Yep. And I saw a timberwolf, too.
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Funny what kind of stories he can come up with. He didn't really see a coyote; he was talking about the night before when it was dark out, and he sleeps like a log, so no dog-barking ever wakes him up. And we do have timberwolves close to our house, but definitely not close enough to see; and if Clarence did see one, I think he'd be too scared to go outside for quite a while. :) I'm glad to see his imagination's hard at work, though! He was totally serious when he told me his whole story; it was as if it really had happened, because he never missed a beat or acted like he was telling a story.
Today, we're picking Clarence up from preschool at 11, then heading to Grand Forks. We meet Dr. Brown today, who'll be delivering the baby on the 15th. My doctor, Dr. Lays, is due with twins in February and went on bedrest a couple weeks ago. I was kind of disappointed because I really like her and how easy she is to talk to, but oh well....it's not like I can do anything about that situation. :) Matt and the kids are coming with. I'm excited to pick out tile for our entryway floor, get stain and varnish for wainscoting, maybe look at a bed (Slumberland's having a great New Year's sale right now), then take the kids to a movie before coming home at a decent time. We thought it'd be fun to take the kids to a movie and do something special with them before our life is interrupted again. I hope they like it!
Have a super Thursday!
C: I saw a coyote last night.
Me: Really? Where?
C: The puppies were barking and the coyote ran up by the river, by the chicken house - but didn't eat any chickens - and over there (pointing out by the barn).
Me: It ran over by the corn bales?
C: Yep, then it ran back down by the river. The puppies chased it.
Me: Wow, really, and you got to watch that?
C: Yep. And I saw a timberwolf, too.
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Funny what kind of stories he can come up with. He didn't really see a coyote; he was talking about the night before when it was dark out, and he sleeps like a log, so no dog-barking ever wakes him up. And we do have timberwolves close to our house, but definitely not close enough to see; and if Clarence did see one, I think he'd be too scared to go outside for quite a while. :) I'm glad to see his imagination's hard at work, though! He was totally serious when he told me his whole story; it was as if it really had happened, because he never missed a beat or acted like he was telling a story.
Today, we're picking Clarence up from preschool at 11, then heading to Grand Forks. We meet Dr. Brown today, who'll be delivering the baby on the 15th. My doctor, Dr. Lays, is due with twins in February and went on bedrest a couple weeks ago. I was kind of disappointed because I really like her and how easy she is to talk to, but oh well....it's not like I can do anything about that situation. :) Matt and the kids are coming with. I'm excited to pick out tile for our entryway floor, get stain and varnish for wainscoting, maybe look at a bed (Slumberland's having a great New Year's sale right now), then take the kids to a movie before coming home at a decent time. We thought it'd be fun to take the kids to a movie and do something special with them before our life is interrupted again. I hope they like it!
Have a super Thursday!
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
How We Started 2013
Sorry, I'm not even going to be creative and hold you in suspense...
We started it by painting our addition!
I'm so excited about it I could scream, or something. :) My mom came over today and we painted the entry, hallway, office and most of my bedroom. We would've finished my bedroom, but we ran out of paint. All that's left is the laundry room (which my dear husband is priming right now) and the bathroom (which is going to be wainscoting and wallpaper and will be finished a little later.) Matt even hung up one of my pretty new light fixtures. He's wonderful!
We didn't go out last night to celebrate New Year's Eve. We decided to stay home - mostly because Clarence had been running a fever for the third day in a row and we didn't want to expose him to other kids - and also because we wanted to get all the rooms primed so Mom and I could really make progress today. I'm so glad we did it. I love the colors we chose and how nice it all looks so far. Now we're on to flooring, wood on the ceilings, and wainscoting in the entry and hallway. Progress is going great!
Sorry if it seems like all I do is talk about my addition. I'm so excited for the extra space. Some days, I'm so overwhelmed with the mess in my regular house I could cry. And I have a hard time telling Matt how I feel because he's doing all he can to get things done for me. The thing I'm most excited for is finishing the office...right now, my office desk and file cabinet are in my kitchen, one object on each end of my kitchen table. Things get a little tight when we have company over for a meal (which explains why we've been pretty stingy with our invites this fall and winter).
My dad came up after chores today, too. He spent the afternoon working on making a skating rink out in my yard for the kids. It's really thoughtful of him; he knows it's a long drive in to Hallock to take the kids skating, and he wants us to get them skating so they can play sports. :) Grandpa (well, all the grandparents) is excited for the kids to get involved in sports so they can start having someone to cheer for again.
And, as I'm sure you already know, baby #3 is arriving two weeks from today. Oh, dear! We've got so much to do before he/she gets here. I'm excited though, to meet this baby. I don't have a strong feeling either way with what it is. I can't wait to find out! It's hard to believe how fast the time has gone. I'm ready to be done being pregnant again, too. I get really stiff if I sit too long and really seem to waddle when I get back up to walk again. I'm sure it's quite a sight...and totally cliche...the "pregnant waddle"...I totally feel like I have it these days. Oh well.
Adina's been doing okay with potty training...today we had six successful bathroom trips and no accidents in her undies. My only challenge is convincing her to sit on the potty. She's such a headstrong little girl that I have to find creative ways to get her to sit for a while. I ask if we can sit down and look at books together. A couple times, I let her play with her plastic scissors and cut up a few pieces of paper (which she does, then asks for another and another...). She's very content if she's got something to do while she sits there, but sometimes it seems to take forever to convince her to go potty. Hopefully if I just keep on top of it, she'll get the hang of it and love being a "big girl" wearing undies.
Hope your 2013 is starting out great!
Tomorrow's agenda: finish painting! (I think.)
We started it by painting our addition!
I'm so excited about it I could scream, or something. :) My mom came over today and we painted the entry, hallway, office and most of my bedroom. We would've finished my bedroom, but we ran out of paint. All that's left is the laundry room (which my dear husband is priming right now) and the bathroom (which is going to be wainscoting and wallpaper and will be finished a little later.) Matt even hung up one of my pretty new light fixtures. He's wonderful!
We didn't go out last night to celebrate New Year's Eve. We decided to stay home - mostly because Clarence had been running a fever for the third day in a row and we didn't want to expose him to other kids - and also because we wanted to get all the rooms primed so Mom and I could really make progress today. I'm so glad we did it. I love the colors we chose and how nice it all looks so far. Now we're on to flooring, wood on the ceilings, and wainscoting in the entry and hallway. Progress is going great!
Sorry if it seems like all I do is talk about my addition. I'm so excited for the extra space. Some days, I'm so overwhelmed with the mess in my regular house I could cry. And I have a hard time telling Matt how I feel because he's doing all he can to get things done for me. The thing I'm most excited for is finishing the office...right now, my office desk and file cabinet are in my kitchen, one object on each end of my kitchen table. Things get a little tight when we have company over for a meal (which explains why we've been pretty stingy with our invites this fall and winter).
My dad came up after chores today, too. He spent the afternoon working on making a skating rink out in my yard for the kids. It's really thoughtful of him; he knows it's a long drive in to Hallock to take the kids skating, and he wants us to get them skating so they can play sports. :) Grandpa (well, all the grandparents) is excited for the kids to get involved in sports so they can start having someone to cheer for again.
And, as I'm sure you already know, baby #3 is arriving two weeks from today. Oh, dear! We've got so much to do before he/she gets here. I'm excited though, to meet this baby. I don't have a strong feeling either way with what it is. I can't wait to find out! It's hard to believe how fast the time has gone. I'm ready to be done being pregnant again, too. I get really stiff if I sit too long and really seem to waddle when I get back up to walk again. I'm sure it's quite a sight...and totally cliche...the "pregnant waddle"...I totally feel like I have it these days. Oh well.
Adina's been doing okay with potty training...today we had six successful bathroom trips and no accidents in her undies. My only challenge is convincing her to sit on the potty. She's such a headstrong little girl that I have to find creative ways to get her to sit for a while. I ask if we can sit down and look at books together. A couple times, I let her play with her plastic scissors and cut up a few pieces of paper (which she does, then asks for another and another...). She's very content if she's got something to do while she sits there, but sometimes it seems to take forever to convince her to go potty. Hopefully if I just keep on top of it, she'll get the hang of it and love being a "big girl" wearing undies.
Hope your 2013 is starting out great!
Tomorrow's agenda: finish painting! (I think.)
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