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October 27th, 2010Long time…
March 23rd, 2010I haven’t really felt much desire to post much, as you may have figured out. I just wanted to say if you have us on Skype, I’m going to start leaving it online in the evening when we get home (around 6:00 PM Pacific=8:00 PM Central), so if you’d like to give us a shout and see us online, please feel free. If you need our Skype info, please email me.
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February 6th, 2010It has been awhile, hasn’t it?
Well, I’m still enjoying Seattle. Had a great Christmas vacation in Tejas. I got to spend a lot of time with the folks, a little time in Austin, but I missed a visit with Misti. That sucked. I miss her.
The transition back to Seattle was pretty intense. The night before we flew home, Isaac figured out he can get out of his toddler bed. So as soon as we got back, the bedtime routine disappeared and the 3:00 AM bed switches began. That battle is still going strong today. I’ve tried many different things. I’ve stayed consistent with the pre-sleep routine part. It’s just gone. I’ve resigned myself to night time misery. He gave me peaceful sleep for 2 years. That’s pretty good.
Work has also gotten extremely intense. In a good way and I can’t really discuss details, but it is intense.
And now to the reason I am posting. Isaac showed slight, but fleeting interest in potty training shortly after we moved here and hasn’t given it a second thought since. He will sit on the big toilet sometimes, but just to get me to give him some toilet paper. I’ve had a little portable toilet sitting in the living room collecting dust since we moved in. Basically, I’ve continued buying diapers in the mega-giant-we’re-going-to-need-these-for-awhile size. Today after he woke up from his nap, he asked me to take his pants off. I obliged. Then he asked me to take his shirt and socks off. Obliged again. Then he asked me to take his diaper off. I agreed to it and didn’t even bother mentioning peeing in the potty. I just grabbed a towel from the bathroom and had him sit on it at the table while he had lunch and then on the couch. Then I asked him if he wanted to go to the potty and he said no. I grabbed the portable potty and put it in the middle of the room and said “Pee here if you need to.” Then I went to put a movie in the DVD and turned around to see him standing over the portable potty peeing. He learned how to do that by watching his friend Cannon, but he hadn’t imitated it or showed ANY interest in it ever. I was astonished. I flipped out a little and clapped and celebrated and gave him a peanut butter rice crispies snack. It made me hopeful, but I’m trying to remain realistic. We’ll see what happens.
Life … is intense.
Dreams Do Come True
November 19th, 2009Today marks the day when Isaac became my errand boy. I was cuddled up here on the couch enjoying my blanket and laptop while he built another car train. My nose began to dribble a little, as it has been prone to do over the last couple of days. I thought to myself, “He has wee little hands that know how to carry things, he knows what toilet paper is, and he knows where it is. Hmmm.” We sat for awhile when suddenly another thought hit me. It STANKS of poop in here. Someone pooped their pants and I might be comfortable in my non-snuggie blanket, but I’m not that comfortable. And then I immediately realized I could ask Isaac to go get me toilet paper to blow my nose with. I asked him and he enthusiastically agreed and ran off to the bathroom. He came back with a tiny shred of toilet paper and gave it to me with such contentment in his eyes. Then I asked him to bring me more toilet paper, “the whole roll” I said as I gestured the approximate size of a toilet paper roll. He was again overly excited about his quest and ran off to get the toilet paper for me. He came back with another tiny, microscopic scrape of toilet paper. Then I said, “I need to blow my nose, so I need mo…” and he immediately got it. I saw the light bulb brighten over his head as he acknowledged “Oh!” and ran off to get it. Then he did indeed bring the entire roll and said “blow your nose?” Amazing. A month ago our conversations were one way and boring. Now we talk. Now I enjoy approximately 93% of our conversations. Hurray for tiny little humans. Hurray for this one, especially. (Minus the poop.)
Countdown
November 13th, 2009I’ve started a countdown of my Christmas trip. Not really a countdown, exactly, because I don’t know how many days there are and if I did the math I’d forget by tomorrow so what’s the point in that, really? I guess I just mean I’m really looking forward to it and I’m thinking about it a lot. Every time I hear someone talking about holiday plans, I think about it. People happen to be talking about holiday plans a lot since it’s almost Thanksgiving.
Everyone should be pleasantly surprised at how easy it is to talk to Isaac now. It’s full on conversing. Seriously. I can be stuck in some compromising situation where I’m in dire need of a dish towel, a broom, and two cookies, then ask him to go fetch those items and he will say “Okay mama” and fetch them. I haven’t really been in that kind of situation, but you understand it portrays his comprehension level, right? He understands me! And I understand him! He asks real questions that I can give him real answers for and he actually uses his brain to crunch my answers into understanding. He is a real person! Did you guys know babies turned into that? Damn it’s cool!
He was having several bits of what some people call the terrible twos. I just think he was being an asshole. Either way, we had some cussing and discussing of boundaries and why they exist and why you can’t just throw them out the window all willy nilly whenever you please. There were a few rough days and one day I almost had a mental breakdown and was very tempted to ask his daycare teacher if we could just put him in his little cubby for the night. Luckily the really awful days were short lived and the things he FREAKED out about are no longer meltdown issues. I doubt we’re done with the whole phase, but I can hope.
I hope everyone is doing well. We will be in Texas from Dec 16-Jan 5. The first weekend we are there I am planning to be in Austin for 2-4 days. The rest of the time will be at the folks with a small chance of making a run out to Midland for a few days. We will see how things work out. Send me an email or IM or whatever method you choose if you’d like to hang during that trip sometime and it isn’t already planned. <3