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Accidents and Such

Potty Training Update: The non parents in the audience might want to skip this.  Elizabeth has some really good days (no accidents, no reminders to use the potty) and some not-so-good days.  Today was the latter.  We had a little friend whose dad teaches with Derek come over for a play date, and Elizabeth was having so much fun with Abby that she wet her panties twice, at which point I switched back to pull-ups.  That was a good call, because she proceeded to have three more accidents in the next four hours.  Then she was dry until bed.  I’m still kindof in disbelief that she’s so close to being potty trained, having been numbed to the process by 18 months of fighting with Tommy, so I don’t really care about the accidents.  I still keep her in pull-ups whenever we go out and about, and I’m holding off getting the carpets cleaned until we’ve gotten a few more accidents out of the way.  And at some point today, I just gave up on putting clothes back on her.

Susanna isn’t having accidents per se, but she does have a new favorite place–the exersaucer!!

Bedtime Puzzles

Lately we’ve been telling the kids if they tidy up quickly before bed, they can use the rest of their clean-up time to do puzzles in their jammies.  It works pretty well as an incentive, and both kids are getting really good at all our puzzles.

One of those days…

Yesterday was one of them.  Elizabeth has a “ban-ban” on her finger because she sliced open her knuckle on the living room mirror that Tommy broke a couple weeks ago by running the shopping cart into it at full speed.  We didn’t go in to get stitches because Susanna was due for a nap.  In retrospect, I probably should have skipped the nap.  Do you know how hard it is to keep bandaids on a toddler?  She’s also insisting on wearing Lucy around on her back because I had Susanna on mine.

In other news, the kids and I decided on a whim to try to feed Susanna some rice cereal.  She wasn’t really a fan.  We’ll try again in a month.

And Tommy ended the day by announcing at 7:15 that he wanted to go to bed (?!), got into bed, and fell asleep by 7:30 (?!?!).  When he woke up at 10:30 with a 100.8 fever, I thought it would be a long night, but he only woke up a couple more times and felt fine by morning.  Weird.

Bath Time

This weekend, the kids gave Susie a bath basically by themselves (with me right there in case something happened)!

Toast and Tea

It was a Prufrock sort of morning, so we decided to have a tea party in the kitchen.

Headbands

Elizabeth has always been into accessorizing, but she really cracked me up when she emerged from the bathroom with not one, not two, but three headbands on!

Av Setting in the Evening

After dinner, Derek took Tommy on a long walk, and the girls and I played outside.  I’d heard that hour is great for outside pictures, so I pulled out my camera and took 150+ pictures on the Av setting.  Here’s what turned out:

It’s actually not too exciting, as we haven’t done anything new to our room except stick in the treadmill and the old tv/vhs unit (because I’m more likely to walk on the treadmill if I’m watching some BBC miniseries).  But here’s the master bedroom!  The doorway with lots of light coming through is our bathroom.  The doorway on the other side of the TV is our closet.

Looking through our doorway, you can see the hallway and the doors to the big kids’ room on the left and the nursery/guest room on the right.

Family Worship

If it were up to the six churches we’ve visited out here thusfar, the kids wouldn’t have a clue what a hymnal was.  Thankfully, both big kids love our nightly family worship time, in which we sing the hymns we never get to sing anywhere else.  They run for the family worship shelf, grab hymnals for each of us, blissfully open them haphazardly, and sing along to our hymn of the week.  Recently, we’ve all learned “I Know That My Redeemer Lives” and can belt out the refrain convincingly:

I know that my Redeemer lives–
glory, hallelujah!
What comfort this sweet sentence gives–
glory, hallelujah!

Refrain:
Shout on, pray on, we’re gaining ground–
glory, hallelujah!
The dead’s alive and the lost is found–
glory, hallelujah!

He lives, he lives, who once was dead–
glory, hallelujah!
He lives, my everlasting Head–
glory, hallelujah! (Refrain)

He lives, to bless me with his love–
glory, hallelujah!
He lives to plead for me above–
glory, hallelujah! (Refrain)

He lives, all glory to his name!–
glory, hallelujah!
He lives, my Jesus, still the same–
glory, hallelujah! (Refrain)

Conversations in the Mirror

I generally don’t like having a foot of mirror at the edge of our living room wall, but sometimes it provides the evening’s entertainment.  Last night, as if talking our heads off wasn’t enough, Lizzie had a long and emphatic conversation with herself there…

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