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!
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