Well Ryan has been keeping it real over here. He is making progress....I think! He has pooped a couple more times in the toilet but never voluntarily. He wears a pull up at night (my only kid to need to do that) and the last couple of mornings he has woken me up to go pee in the toilet rather than in his pull up. That is progress for sure. I was tempted to throw in the towel a few times last week but I figured it's January and what else do we have going on? It is the perfect month for potty training. I guess who cares if it takes him forever. He is also my first child to color on the walls.
We had another snow day on Thursday. I was talking to Corbin's teacher and she said that a colleague told her that in 30 years of teaching in Boise that they have never had 2 snow days in a row (we had 5 in a row) and another teacher said in 18 years they have had 6 snow days total (we have had 6 this month). To say this is an unusual Boise winter is an understatement.
That night I went to a freestyle handwriting class. My friend signed up with another friend who bailed so I took her stop last minute. It was fun-ish. I am not very creative and forced creativity hurts my brain and stresses me out. Ha. I am better at copying other people's ideas rather than creating my own. We made Valentine cards at the end and I was running out of time and was stressed big time. Ha. I will show the cards our class made next week. My 8 week calligraphy class starts this week. That will be interesting! I hope I like it and survive it.
Our family went to our friends' house last night and had dinner with them and hung out for the night. It was fun! Lucky for me I was able to talk Ryan (stubborn cuss) into wearing a pull up over there so I didn't need to stress about him. Yay! We went to the UU church today and he wore a pull up and has been wearing it all day. So far he has been telling me when he needs to go potty. Maybe since he is going to take a whole month to get it pull ups will be good for him. He is just keeping it real for me by not cooperating and doing it like his own way that's for sure!
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| Gabby lost another front tooth last week. Look at that gap! Haha. |
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| The good news: it forces me to do some touch up painting. |
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| F-O-X...name that movie. Ha. |
My guess is Fantastic Mr Fox - am I close??? I got a cleaning product called Miracle that will take crayon off the walls. Repainting is a pain. All my kids colored on the walls - well, actually they wrote their names. Dumb kids. If they were smart they would have written their siblings names. It just seemed like a rite of passage to have walls with their names on them waiting for Mom to clean it off. I got Gabby's letter about losing another tooth - we will have to start calling her "Big Gap Gabby". Come on - teeth; grow back in! Your blog is wonderful, Mitzi. I love having a "present" to look at every week. Love Nana
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