Well, Ella did get Vaseline on the rug that Sunday afternoon and it does desperately need to be cleaned. Maybe I'll do that in the meantime. We (read mommy; daddy is out of town and couldn't care less) decided that since Ella is a big girl now, potty training must commence. She really could have done it months ago, but I put it off since she wasn't "big" yet. She always tells you when she's finished and usually brings a diaper and wipe and says, "Change-a my diaper, mommy." We decided this was a clear indication of her ready-ness. Saturday, September 13th -- We spent the day outside in our panties, playing and pottying. She cried every time she sat on the potty and pottied immediately after pull-ups were replaced. After we came in for the evening, while coloring me a pretty picture at ...
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Can anybody guess why all of the rugs in my house look like this? Please pray for me! ...
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It’s in the details
I don't know if any of you have visited The Nienie Dialogues but it has quickly become my favorite blog. Not long after Sue & Amy introduced me to the world of blogging, I stumbled across this sweet read by accident. It is a young (27 years old) mother of four, who is incredibly creative, fun-loving and obviously LOVES motherhood. Not quite a month ago she and her husband were in a horrific plane crash and both suffered serious burns over most of their bodies. They are in stable condition in Arizona and the children are living with her sisters. Despite the fact that I have never met this family, I have been deeply concerned for their well-being and check for updates from her sister daily. My husband thinks I'm crazy because I record news snippets, scour web-pages and talk about them ...
Breakfast of Champions
This morning Ella requested banana, breakfast bar and yogurt. I obliged. Only Ella doesn't like it when you "break" her food. We don't cut sandwiches in half. We don't cut up fruit. We certainly don't break our breakfast bars in half. When the breakfast bar broke in half, Ella declared herself done, despite the fact she'd only eaten two bites. That, my friends, is even more neurotic than me. ...
Crappy Birthday to You!
Well, our actual birthday wasn't so great. I had visions of laughs and good times. Ella wore her birthday outfit to school, we sang the song in the car. We were going to Burger King for playgrounds, crowns and chicken nuggets... what could possibly go wrong? Tummy ache. MAJOR tummy ache. She skipped her nap and cried instead. She refused to go to the bathroom. We went to Burger King, it was sort of a disaster. Molly spilled her orange soda right after we got there. Ella wanted to sit on the potty. Twice. She screamed the whole time we were in there! Then she ate about two bites before going outside. She cried. She cried if I didn't play on the playground. She cried if I did. She cried when we took a picture and when we went down the slide. She cried. When we got home we were going to ...
Happy Birthday, Ella!
This is what we were doing two years ago today! ...
Christmas Hippo
Gran called me at work a few weeks ago to ask me what I thought about getting Ella a nap mat for Christmas. "Sounds good," I say. It turns out to be a really cute pink hippo mat from a local monogram shop. Great, she'll be sleeping on a mat by Christmas and can use it for preschool, too. Fast forward to yesterday. I get to Gran & Poppy's for family night supper and they are all out playing on the front porch. There is the Christmas Hippo laying out on the ground. Ella, of course, is thrilled and practices napping for me. I said, "I thought this nap mat was for Christmas?" "It is," my mother assures me. It seems that the Christmas Hippo had been making the rounds yesterday afternoon. Poppy & Ella had practiced napping on the porch, in the kitchen and the sun room. I just laughed, ...