The Potty Rebellions

The boy's potty trained, but now we have to worry about the (extraordinarily stubborn) girl. It's getting to be the time to potty train again!

Monday, August 20, 2007

We're mobile!

Genevieve is now mobile! She can roll over front to back and back to front, and she's also scooting/army crawling. No fair! Where'd my baby go, and who is this mobile creature that's replacing her???

Matthew is teaching himself how to swim without his swim floaties on. We were in the pool today, and he has already become confident enough to swim all by himself with them on, but today he decided to try to swim WITHOUT them on. *sigh* He's becoming such a big boy.

Nothing really new with Hannah..just being her sweet, adorable self (when she's not trying to convince me that she's the spawn of Satan....). ;)


Also, Genna is now eating solids. So I need to get a highchair for her. She's refusing her bottle though (stubborn little chit, isn't she? :) ), but has taken to her rice cereal like a crack addict to a fix. She's obsessing over it. And tries to grab whatever food I'm eating, and eat it herself. Uhm, no sweetie. Gotta cut some teeth first, love. :)

And Tim is gone again, after being home for a week. It's so nice when he's here, but it's also nice to have a break when he's gone. And he's never gone too long. Just long enough.

Sunday, August 05, 2007

My boy's sick

Yesterday, Matthew came to me and told me his tummy and "froat" hurt. :( He fell asleep at 5 last night (he was up 'til 10 the night before, so he was exhausted. So I wasn't too surprised at that). He was also running a low-grade fever. So I went to Walmart to get groceries (the upstairs neighbor watched the girls down here while Matthew was sleeping). She then called me to tell me that Matthew was throwing up. Great. So I grab what groceries I *NEED* right now, and tried to come home. But I couldn't. Because my key wouldn't turn in the ignition. *GROAN!* Some good Samaritan came by, and tried to help, and then gave me (and my groceries) a ride home. Matthew was sleeping again when I got home, and he (and our puke bucket) slept in my bed with me last night. And he puked every time he tried to drink ANYTHING. Nothing would stay in his stomach. This went on until 1 am.

This morning he woke up and finally was able to keep liquids down. Hannah was wonderful and watched tv by herself in the living room, or snuggled up to me in my bed, but let me (and Matthew) snooze 'til 11. Genevieve was awesome also and slept 'til then. YAE! Also, my father-in-law (FIL) somehow fixed my car, and delivered it to me. WHOO HOO!

When he woke up, I noticed a weird rash on his body. We got up, and he came and lay down on the couch. The rash didn't go away-in fact, it got worse, and spread down his legs and arms. So I got the kids ready, and took the girls to my MIL's house. Matthew and I went to urgent care, and apparently he has a double ear infection AND strep throat. The rash was "strep rash". Who knew.

So anyway, he's konked out again (passed out at 7) after having a wonderfully nutritious dinner of orange jello. Hehe.