We put my son on the potty when he wakes up and after meals. He'll often poop in the potty rather than his diaper if we give him this opportunity. Sometime in the last month or two, he has started to only go if he has privacy. So I'll put him on the potty and leave him in his room for a few minutes. I did this today after he finished breakfast. My husband went into the room to see if he had gone yet and found that, not only had he gone, but he had picked up a piece of poop from the potty and was playing with it!
I'm glad he did this when my husband was around, that was someone could hold his hands while I ran to get wipes to clean him (and the carpet!) off.
Ick.
My son has been trying to be a little helper the past few days. Yesterday, he decided that I needed the coasters that were on the end table. He picked up the coaster tray to carry it to me. But it has an open end and all the coasters fell out. No problem, he just sat down, put the coasters back in, and stood up again. And they fell out, again. He kept repeating this (and surprisingly, he did not get frustrated). He even tried wrapping a burp cloth around the coasters to keep them from falling out. Eventually he did give up and started bringing them to me one by one.
And then today he helped with laundry. I would hand him a piece of wet laundry from the washer and he would throw it into the dryer. Just the smaller items like his clothing, washcloths, socks, etc. Near the end he got kind of excited and started flinging the items any direction he pleased. He also started putting them into the laundry basket rather than the dryer. It's a start, at least!
I was tagged by Three Greggs.
The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.
1. What was I doing 10 years ago?
I had just finished up my first year of college. I was taking summer classes because tuition was cheaper for some reason in the summer and I could get boring classes done in 5 weeks. I loved summer term. The whole campus was a lot more laid back than during the school year.
2. What are 5 things on my to-do list today?
* Go to either Target or the library (went to Target)
* Wash my son's dirty diapers (they're done, but still in the dryer)
* Go through the grocery ad for next week and start on the grocery list (our mail does arrive until 3pm, so I haven't done this yet)
* Go to Church
* There isn't really anything else, so I guess relax during the afternoon!
3. Snacks I enjoy...
I snack too much. I love fresh, perfectly ripe fruit. But I'm more likely to eat something less healthy like tortilla chips with cheese. Or if I'm stressed out, cookies.
4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire....
Pay off all of mine and my husband's debt (car, school, house, etc). Put money away for our son (and for some future kids) to go to college. Go on a nice vacation (and pay for a nice vacation for my parents). I wouldn't want a huge house, so we'd either stay here or get a similar sized single family home (we're in a townhome right now). If I were to stay here, I'd want a kitchen remodel.
5. Places I have lived....
Chicago
Michigan
Minnesota
6. Jobs I have had...
* Volunteer Tutor
* "Coach" at a learning center (similar to a tutor)
* TA at a summer school program for youth
* TA in graduate school
* Consultant in a Statistics clinic. I mostly helped grad students in other programs with the statistics for their thesis work.
* Sales associate, cashier, and stock room girl at The Limited (not all in the same day)
* Temp worker at American Express
* Online Faculty for one of those schools that has campuses nationwide
* Analyst at a dairy company
* Part-time accountant
* SAHM/Housewife
7. Bloggers I am tagging who I will enjoy getting to know better....
I'm pretty sure most of the people that read this have already been tagged by other people. So I'll just say that if you want to do this, consider yourself tagged!
This weekend we bought lots of delicious fruit at the grocery store. We got some perfectly ripe cantaloupe and some big red strawberries. I cut open the cantaloupe yesterday morning (little Wiggles started begging for some as soon as he saw me cutting it open) and then used a melon baller to make chunks. I had never used my melon baller before. I got it free at work, and who turns down free? It was so much easier to scoop out little balls using the melon baller than it is to cut off the rind and cut into chunks.
Then, yesterday evening, I was cutting up some strawberries to eat with dinner. I hate cutting the tops of strawberries. I either wind up with too much fruit cut off, or not enough stem cut off. So, remembering the ease of the melon baller this morning, I took it out of the drawer again and used it to "ball" off the tops of the strawberries. It worked great! It just got the stem leaving me with plenty of strawberry left.
And as a free tip related to strawberry cutting--when cutting strawberries up for little ones to eat, use your egg slicer.
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My garden could very well be growing with silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row. I have no clue what some of the things growing in the garden are. So I'm posting pictures and asking you for help! No laughing at my jungle of a garden.
Mystery Plant 2 is maybe a type of lavender? No clue. Any help?
Mystery Plant 3 has no blossoms as of yet. Maybe it's a ground cover? Maybe it's a weed?
Mystery Plant 5 has the same description as #3. It kind of looks the same at first glance, but is different when I look closer.
First up is the Bleeding Heart Bush. Which is more bush than bleeding heart. Some of the blossoms have fallen off already, but this seems way more bushy than I remember my mother's looking like when I was growing up. How do I properly care for this?
Then there are my flower-less day lilies. No flower stalks. Just massive amounts of leaves. Big, giant leaves.
I leave you with a peony blossom. Not all my yard looks like no one has lived here for years.
I'm slacking in posting. I just don't seem to have anything that seems worthy to post about. I don't know if that means that my life is boring or if I'm just not creative enough to see what would be good to write about.
My yard looks like a jungle right now. Everything really grew in the last three weeks. I need to go and pull some weeds. The problem with a garden that you inherit (it came with the house) is that I don't know what is weeds and what is flowers. Given that our peonies didn't open until yesterday (one opened yesterday, there are two more today), I don't think I can just say "Whatever isn't blossoming and pretty goes". The day lilies don't even have flower stalks yet. I don't know if I should really wait longer, because if any of these plants are weeds, they really should go now and not when they've had a chance to grow even larger.
*Sigh* The garden is too pretty to just get rid of, but I don't think I can keep up with it. I'm so not a gardener.
You know how kids often whine about something not being fair? And how the typical response is "Well, life's not fair" or something along those lines? I ran into an even better response:
I have a 10 year old at home, and she is always saying, “That’s not fair.” When she says that, I say, “Honey, you’re cute; that’s not fair. Your family is pretty well off; that’s not fair. You were born in America; that’s not fair. Honey, you had better pray to God that things don’t start getting fair for you.”
I found a food that Wiggle Worm won't eat: Scrambled Eggs.
This kid will eat anything. Chili, raw onion, quinoa, tuna melts. But scrambled eggs? Nope. I put a bit in his mouth, he made this half hearted cry, and pulled it out.
My son doesn't talk much. He can say "da-da", but almost everything he likes or wants is "da-da", be it dad, mom, a dog, or the tiger at the zoo. But one thing he can do is make car noises. Give him a toy car, and he'll push it and go "Brrrrrr". It must just be something boys are born knowing how to do.
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