Well this has been the month of being sick for the kids. Samuel has had the stomach flu twice this month. We have decided to keep him away from nursery until the sicknesses calm down. Eliza has now been sick since Wednesday with fevers, congestion, coughs, pink eye, and now nausea. Luckily the fever and pink eye is dying out. Samuel luckily just has the cough. I am going to be glad to be able to get out of the house a bit more. Dale will be glad for me to get back to work with the short sales. I am way behind on that for sure! Luckily Dale can't fire me, and you know he has tried!
This month I have noticed a few items Dale and I purchased have been breaking down. I figure we bought most of these appliances when we got married almost 6 years ago. So maybe it is time for an update. So hopefully we will slowly replace them all when the budget can afford it... vacuum cleaner, phones, washer, and microwave. It is just funny that it is all happening all at once. I do want to try to fix our 1,100 dollar washer if we can. It cost way too much to just toss aside. So if someone knows of a good repair man let me know!
Samuel has now figured out how to get out of his crib. Yes, he is 2 years old and could definitely had figured it out a long time ago. But we had his portacrib in the closet. It was a tight squeeze but it helped him sleep. We figured out the closet worked really well when we visited Denney and Jonnie in Illinois a year ago this month. Also it kept us sleeping a lot as well! Samuel is my insomniac kid. He has a hard time falling asleep.... so we try to do what we can to help him sleep. Well I was so sad to see his portacrib go! Fortunately Samuel is a really laid back kid. Now he will just hang out in his toddler bed with books till he falls asleep, which can be a long time. I have told him if he gets out he will get a swat on his butt. Which is hard to do because he is such a cute kid. Well 3 days into this toddler bed and it has been really nice! He has been so easy to train! I think having a #1 has helped #2 know what to do. NICE! He actually just grew out of his naps for the most part so it does make going to bed pretty easy as well. HE IS EXHAUSTED!
Also Samuel my little 2 year old and I have been practicing with potty training since he was 12 months old. I don't let it take over my life it is just introduction and usage before the tub. This worked really well with Eliza so I feel like a pro now. I figured now since he has grown out of naps and his bed. Maybe he is ready to really practice being potty trained. Plus I am home bound due to Eliza being sick. Today is day 3 and he has had 3 accidents. Not one the first day if you can believe that! He can hold it like I have never seen. Day 2 was in training underwear.... he was in shock about that. Today he has been drinking 5 - 8oz cups of milk. That doesn't help the bladder so that is when the accidents has happened. I feel he is not mature enough to be potty trained at this point. I think I am going to just keep on working on it though. I figure I am saving on diapers... at least!
I am now seeing Samuel vocabulary and comprehension double every month for the last 2 months. It has been fun to see him talk and grow. He told me that the baking soda on the floor is snow! Is snow ..Mom? I am like no... he gets so mad. Eventually I just say it is snow because it there is no point arguing with a 2 year old. He has learned duck, "is anyone home?", Raina (NINA), choo choo, cake, cookie, sorry, sleep, hello, stop, no, mickey of course, pee pee, is poop mom?, nana, papa, baby, puppy, dog, swing, car, tv, cracker, and tons more. Also he is learning a ton of sign language... milk, all done, more, thank you, please, food, dirty, bath, wash hands, car, shoes. He is learning so much and so fast. It is fun to see him grow and understand what we are saying.
This month has also been the first month without our personal assistant. Stephanie has been working at our house for the last 5 months 40 hours a week... helping with kids, cleaning, cooking, and errands etc. I first had two jobs when we hired her and then it went to one part time job. It was getting hard to justify having someone so much and the money we were paying. It was nice my house was always emaculate and someone I could trust with the kids. Well one things lead to another and it didn't work out very well for both of us. So starting Dec 28 or so I have been trying to keep up the house to the amazing standards as before. I have been doing great... but now I have been slipping keeping up with the sick kids. I honestly before just lacked motivation and had a hard time with depression. It is hard day after day same routine. Stephanie helped relieve so much stress! I am now trained quite a bit with the office. Which is suppose to help Dale with his work load. Unfortuately it hasn't quite touched it. Hopefully soon next week I can get back to work when the kids get better. My neighbor and I trade and I pay her a little to watch the kids. So hopefully I can get on the ball and the kids can get use to the routine.
Eliza has had two preschool teacher this year... Rebekah and Cortney. Cortney is moving and is pregnant. So I have decided to enroll Eliza in Rebekah's school. Eliza needs constant interaction and social events. If not she gets rebellious and starts acting out. I notice the busier I keep her the less trouble she gets in. This school so far has been nice. I hope Eliza can learn not to just attach herself to one kid, especially when her one friend is having a bad day. She tends to get in fights that way.
Hopefully we will find out soon if our offer is accepted on our Mesa house. It is in Dale's parents neighborhood. It can be scary neighborhood I know.... but we are excited. We will be more excited if we get the house for 35,000! Cool, for sure!
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