We’ve had a busy week. I’ve written about 5 posts but never to completion. Here are the highlights…
-Claire got sick. She’s a little trooper but it has still been tiring having the three of them sick at the same time. I got sick as well but I was able to function which was fortunate since I was dead set against John calling in sick on his first week of work. One thing I never considered when signing up for this parenting thing is how you never ever get a sick day no matter how crappy you feel. I often daydream about how much I would pay to send the girls off to daycare for the day and lie in bed all day in peace.
-Tuesday morning I decided to potty train Emma. I put her in undies. She peed herself 5 times but I stayed strong. After nap she just got it. She has been peeing and pooping in the potty ever since with only a couple of accidents. She even wakes up dry from naps and overnight (but I still put her in pullups). We’ve even taken her out in underwear and she used a public toilet no problem. Emma has been ready for a long time but I’ve been holding off due to pregnancy, newborn and then finally laziness. People are right when they say that when they’re ready it’s easy. Hopefully I haven’t jinxed myself with that statement.
-Due to all her recent issues, I decided to sell pullups to Leah when she asked for undies. Sure enough she is following Emma’s lead. She had no accidents in her “cinderellas” today and told us a few times that she felt a pee pee coming. She has pooped in the toilet for the past four days without major drama - which is a big deal around here! She has a follow up appt on Wednesday.
-So with all this snot, pee and the usual spit up from Claire, our washing maching broke on Tuesday night. It’s a front loader and the seal broke spewing water all over the laundry room. By Friday morning I was completely disgusted with the mound of dirty laundry but thankfully they were able to fix it. I spent Friday doing laundry to catch up.
-We had a busy weekend. John’s aunt Tina stayed over last night and we had a nice visit. Yesterday afternoon John went out shopping by himself and today Claire and I went out for a few hours.
-We are going to Windsor for Easter next weekend. The girls are getting excited.
-The computer is messed up again and I can’t download the pictures off the camera. I’ve got some good ones of Claire - she is such a happy little girl. All you have to do is look at her and she starts to coo and giggle. I’ve finally started putting up some old pictures on Flickr. John has always said Claire looks like Leah but I didn’t see it until I was going through the pictures from when the girls were first born. Claire’s face has thinned out a lot in recent weeks and the resemblance is very strong now.
