1. Today is trying to recover from the stomach flu day. Hopefully it will just be G and L who are victims. I am not sure about the baby, but she sure did spit up more than usual yesterday. The older girls had an overnight illness with a hiatus from 1-7am so we could all get a little sleep. Now we are at nap/quiet time after a small lunch of toast and applesauce. We will see how the rest of the day goes.
2. The baby had her first five hour stretch on Wednesday night. However, it was from 9:30pm-2:30am; I was only in bed for three and a half of those hours. Too bad, but it was followed by a three hour stretch. Yay!
3. In honor of The Hobbit coming out today, I will share this: Hitler and the Hobbit.
4. I thought L was taking the new baby really well, that was until she started hitting us all this week. I think maybe she needs more attention and is seeking it by being crabby and violent. Oh children, there is enough love for you all. Balancing time for all three children is a little difficult. We have been taking G on little one on one parent dates about once a month, maybe it is time for L to have her own as well. Plus, I need to remember how to parent a two year old. She is also asking to potty train, and I think we are not quite ready. Our plan is to start on that after Christmas.
5. How many people can say that they are still using diapers on their second and third children that were given to them for a baby shower for their first child? We can! The best thing about cloth diapers is that they are lasting us for four years and three children. The only thing we are needing to replace is the larger size cover for F once she gets to the size L is currently in, unless I can revamp them for a second time and fix the snaps I put in (to replace velcro) that did not quite take. Diaper fixing projects take two hands and I do not often have two hands for projects.
6. We are going to put up our tree with its lights this weekend. Gaudete Sunday! Ornaments will be hung at a later date. I would normally wait until the fourth Sunday, but we will be doing that at my parents home and I want to come home to a treed home after our travels.
7. I am praying for all those effected by the shooting at CT elementary school. The killing of children is one of the worst evils in the world (born and unborn).
Confessions of a Catholic Mom and Philosopher's Wife
My daughter was really into the potty around 21 months. It seemed early for potty training to me, plus we had just had a baby and had just moved and also I didn't want to. Fast forward 4 months to her crazy hard as nails stubborn period and boy let me tell you I wish we had done it when she interested (we didn't make any progress; she flat out refused to sit on the potty). So we had to wait another 6 months before trying again.
ReplyDeleteI guess I thought that would be helpful but maybe it's not? Obviously right before Christmas is a bad time to start, but if she's is interested I wouldn't wait too long. Blessings to potty training mommas everywhere.
Oh and we're putting up the tree Gaudete Sunday too, because that's just when we do it. We always did that when I was younger, and it also seems to be around the time they give free trees to the military members (first come first served) so now it's tradition.