I wish I didn't have to title posts. I never have a point, you know.
It's been a fairly uneventful week at the Sullivan house. Travis decided not to go to the football game today, which was nice. It was Homecoming weekend, so it probably would've been fun to go up and socialize, but I just haven't felt up for it this year. So we had a nice Saturday at home, on a beautiful day. Travis did a bunch of landscaping, and I did some sorting and other things that are hard to do with two children underfoot. I picked up Indian food for supper tonight, and after the kids were in bed, I made molten lava chocolate cakes for dessert, just the two of us (I only used 1 egg yolk instead of two, and some unsweetened chocolate in place of the semisweet, and it was still plenty rich and sweet!). The girls were driving us nuts for a good portion of the day so it was especially nice to work in the kitchen without being bothered, and then enjoy a treat without it being such a big deal.
I guess the biggest thing is that Audrey has fully unpottytrained herself. OhCrap told me to do a reset, so we're doing disposable diapers for two weeks. Next Saturday will be the new Day 1, and hopefully she's receptive to it and not uberpissed like she was when I gave it up. She seemed really concerned the first few times she used her diaper, but I just changed her and hugged her and sent her on her way. Now, I think she really likes how easy it is... so this may be tough. But she's gotta do it sometime, and it's gotta be soon. I'm a little worried about setbacks the following weekend at her birthday, but that's a long way off. I've gotta say that it's been really nice to not have Audrey's bladder on my mind constantly, but I hate diapers. I really, really hate them. I think the train went off the rails when Audrey had several accidents in a row, and she decided she was terrible at it and didn't have any idea what she was doing, and didn't want to try. It wasn't true, but I couldn't convince her. When I reset, I'll have to be careful of her ego, and make sure that I do my best to help her have a whole string of successes right off the bat, and then make a big deal of accidents or successes, either way, so it's not such a big deal to her if she succeeds or fails. Easy, right?? Sure...
Wednesday was fun because Grandma Sullivan came to spend the day with us!! We really made it special by going to Old McDonald's for lunch and then to the spice store, which the girls really enjoy because they have a table set up to color at. They may have enjoyed that more than the playland at McD's, which was loud and full of obnoxious children. Then we made rainbow cupcakes, wihch we are still working through. I should've sent them to daycare on Thursday because I'm sure tired of the whining and fussing for multiple cupcakes every day. And while they were a superawesome treat when they were fresh, they look particularly unappetizing now and i just keep finding more fingerprints in the frosting. Gah!!
Emily has been really enjoying her piano books. We don't do it every day, but probably every other day we sit down together and play things out of both books. One book has 4-measure exercises that are supposed to sound like the action that the stick-figure that accompanies it is doing, like Walking or Skipping or Rolling or whatever. Yesterday, Emily played 5 out of the first 6 in the book! I was SO impressed!! She was delighted and said, "let's play the other book!!" so we did a little of that, too, and all in all it's less than 10 minutes of work, but I can tell that's all she's up for. It's crazy how a short period of intense learning can really make a difference, and really wear her out. But then after supper yesterday, she sat down with a baby book with me and she worked on reading off her letters. The book is so simple - a picture of something with the word printed underneath. She would read off the letters, and then say the word because she knew it from identifying the picture. Today, I covered up a picture and asked her what the word said, and she looked at me so funny, as though, how could she know without the picture?? So we sounded it out together, and it was so fun then when I uncovered the picture and she was right. What a great grin that girl has! And again, we can't do that much of this before she gets squirmy and it's obvious she's at the end of her attention span. But it's hard for me to hold back when she's picking up so much of what I'm telling her and we're having such a good time! Oh yeah, she's only 4, and it's ridiculous that she's doing this degree of sitting-still learning.
And we're still trying to get Audrey to talk, but she's getting a little braver. She knows, she just won't do it. I wonder if she practices at Ms. Teri's? She's gotta practice somewhere!!
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