In celebration of Mommy's birthday this week we did some celebrating, happy birthday singing, candle blowing, and... of course, sweets eating!! Kaelyn loves birthdays so we took advantage! Mommy got to go to the spa and daddy made a yummy dinner (mussels and shrimp in a saffron tomato cream sauce over fettucini). It was laid back and happy... another year gone by....
Only 8-9 weeks to go...and feeling it! Kaelyn's brother promises to tip the scales. At 27 weeks he measured 30 weeks (head measured 33!!!) and we are now approaching 32 weeks. Kaelyn loves to feel him kick her when she sits on my lap to read a book. And we are starting to talk about when he "comes"....so she knows he will soon be coming!
And in other news, we are doing serious potty training this week.... to very minor success (much to my disappointment). Kaelyn has shown nothing but signs of complete readiness, including pooping on her potty while we had brunch guests over ;-). But this week she seems to want nothing to do with it. I'm trying not to strangle myself. But here are two funny stories.
First story: One day last week (when Kaelyn was still in diapers full time) I was trying to get out of the house to run a few errands and meet Mike for lunch. A good friend called who I hadn't talked to in a while so I chatted for a bit. Kaelyn was entertaining herself so I wasn't completely watching her during this period of time. We then got in the car, ran a few errands, ate lunch with Mike, and got home about 2 hours later. Overall, about 3 hours had passed since the phone call. When we walked into the house, Kaelyn says "ohhh my gosh!!!" (which I had never heard her say before) so I ran in to see what happened. There was a big puddle of pee pee in front of her. I couldn't figure out how that much pee ended up on the floor through the diaper she had on. So I took off her pants.....and there was NO diaper. No nothing. Just a naked bum. She had removed her diaper, held it for 3 hours, and then peed on the floor once we got home. You can see why I figured she was ready for training!!
Second story: today I was quite frustrated with the potty training and trying to get out of the house. Finally I gave up, closed the garage door and told Kaelyn we were staying home and I was going to take some alone time in the back yard (in the sun). After harassing me a bit, I told her to please go inside and do WHATEVER she wanted to do as long as I could have some alone time. So she went inside and peed on the floor. I said calmly "Kaelyn, I'm not going to help you. You will have to clean that up yourself. I'm having alone time." She took off her panty, got a towel, cleaned herself off, cleaned the floor, then threw the dirty towel/undies in the sink (like I do). She came out and asked if we could go go go. I said - if you get a new panty and put it on by yourself, we'll go go go. So she did. And we went went went. And now I think I'm going to just leave the potty training up to her. ;-)
