The next three weekends are going to be CRAZY. This weekend, we're going out to Lake Panorama to celebrate my grandparent's 60th wedding anniversary. All of my extended family - Coulson side - will be there, including Emily's cousins, and we'll be there for 3 full days. The next weekend, we're traveling to Minneapolis to celebrate a wedding of a few friends from our days up there. The weekend after that is Travis's 10-year class reunion, so we'll be in Barnum that day. So, I had hoped for a nice quiet weekend at home to mentally prepare for all of this, and I guess technically I got that, except Travis went canoeing and camping Saturday and part of Sunday. It was harder than I thought it would be, being alone with Emily for that long, and I was exhausted by the time he got home. It would've been easier had I not known that he was hanging out with our friends (including MY family!) and having a really great time. So, we had a little chat when he got home, and I went out and bought expensive shoes. Just when I think I'm not a real girl. :)
The potty training experiment last week didn't go so great, but I had my expectations set low so I suppose I wouldn't say it was that disappointing. She peed twice on the floor and once on my lap. The last time, she was standing right next to the toilet, and said, "Uh oh..." So, I took it as a learning experience for her, to know what it feels like to go without a diaper on, and to learn that that's not a good thing. Those are things to learn, so, success, right? After her afternoon nap, she actually was willing to sit on the potty again, and she did go in the potty!! So, another success! Since then, she's been in diapers, but she LOVES to read one particular book about going potty, and it's about 3/4 of the time that if I suggest sitting on the potty she'll get all excited and run after it. The rest of the time, she says no, and I just let it drop. She hasn't actually gone any time since then, but I always tell her she did a great job and how proud I am of her. She likes sitting backwards on her potty upstairs, which is just a little adaptor seat on the big toilet. It's pretty funny to see. We're still working on learning not to Dip, Dip, Dip anything EVER in the potty, which may end up being more frustrating than learning to actually go. Eh, whatever. I don't mind spending the whole summer like this, cuz I think she's learning, little by little. At some point, I'll stick her in big-kid underwear for the day (which she loves to put on, btw) and she'll put it all together. Not yet, but perhaps before she turns 2. We'll see!
Emily has bunny ears on a headband, and a similar flower headband. If she puts one on, then I get to be the other. :) She's so fun to play with! Today, she did a great job of self-play, both in the car and at home. She got a new little shopping cart yesterday and she has spent nearly every waking moment after receipt of that pushing it around with her favorite doll in the front basket. She also likes to wear my old purse when doing so - adorable! I should get those pictures posted...
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