Vaht a Veek! October 25, 2008

Okay, it’s late, I’m tired, but Tom’s doing his Navy duty this weekend so I don’t really want to go to bed. Besides, all the kids are asleep, so this is a perfect time to do this. 🙂 Anyway, I plead insanity as my excuse for that awful accent up there. Honestly though, it’s been quite a week! Tom’s sister Cindy came to visit from OR with her husband Dan- yay!!!! We had tons of fun with them, and I don’t know if the kids wore Dan out, or Dan wore the kids out… they were all sorts of wild, when they weren’t busy reading anyway; Dan and Cindy both were super nice about that!
And then Sam and Elena were invited to a birthday party on Thursday, and got to wear their costumes- They had a blast and came home with small pumpkins they decorated. Then Sam went to another party this morning- a SURPRISE party- what fun!
Lily did something really funny today- she’s really growing up! She’s talking more and more- I realized something tonight- we’ve been surprised that she doesn’t say dad, or even dada (Well, Cami comes out kinda like dada, but different, slightly.) and tonight she was talking to Tom and she was calling him ‘Papa!’ isn’t that cute! And I realized later, she calls me Momma a lot too- it’s actually a great big long thing, like “momma-mom-mamma…” but she called me just plain Momma several times. Funny girl. Anyway, so the specific funny thing I had in mind; she took a bath this afternoon, and after about 20 minutes when I went in (again) to see if she was ready to get out, she had a present in the tub for me. Yup. For some reason, in spite of doing so well, (she’s doing amazing I think!) with potty-training herself she….didn’t this time. so she finished on the toilet while I cleaned the tub, then we got her back in again to get clean. She was in at least another 20 minutes. When she came out she was holding her hands out in front of herself and looking worried, “momma-mom-mom-mom”-ing me, and over the next half hour or so she kept looking back at them confused and worried. I realized it was because her hands were all wrinkly from being in the tub so long! Funny Girl!!!
And that’s just some of what’s been going on- Cubmaster Tom had to do Pack meeting thursday night, and he left tonight for the weekend. I’m trying to get my songs in order for Sunday…Oh wait. I don’t think I’ve mentioned that…I’m the Primary chorister now. This’ll be my 3rd week, and and adventure since I’ll be at church without Tom and thus will have Cami with me. Hm, it’s just primary though, right? I’m enjoying it so far though, I was called the week after the program, so I didn’t have to worry about that. Phew! So far we’ve just been getting to know each other- trying to have fun and figure it all out. Anyway, now its way way way past my bedtime- ttfn!

Bleghck…. Hurray! September 25, 2008

Alright, I’m going to have to add a picture of my big girl  later, but I just had to share this.  While Lily was taking her second bath of the morning (she likes water- a lot) I was in the kitchen cooking some eggs for her and Elena.   After a couple minutes Lily came up, trying to hold a towel around herself, along with a wet washcloth, and a toy or two.  She was telling me she was cold “Ho- hhhooo!” and shaking to show me.  She came to stand by me while I finished, then all of a sudden she goes “bleghck!  Yeck! bleghghgh.”  I look down, and sure enough, she’s left a little…something on the floor.  I said something like “yeah that is yucky! That’s why we do that on the potty, let’s run in the bathroom,  hurry!”   We ran in the bathroom, and I couldn’t find all of her potty- (the most important part was missing-the bowl) So I just grabbed the seat and stuck it on the toilet She sat down and much to my surprise, when I got back a minute later from cleaning the floor-  she had finished her job in the toilet!  Hurrah!!!! So I made a big deal of her doing poo-poos on the toilet and gave her a little cup of marshmallows. She was VERY proud of herself, even if she didn’t comletely understand it.  I know it was mostly luck and timing, but she did know enough to stop and hold it until she got on the toilet.  Yay for  Lily!!!  Hurrah!