Time sure flies when you have little ones!! Some days I cannot believe the day is over and it's past my 'bedtime'. These past few weeks I've been busy working around my house. Trying to catch up for the 15-18 month period where I just maintained it. Just did what I had to do to get by. Also trying to get myself back on a schedule for household chores and working out. The working out schedule is coming along nicely thanks to some good friends. Household chores are not coming along so well. I use to have a routine I did that helped keep the house tidy. Falling back into that routine has been hard. Really it's because I'm a procrastinator. There I've confessed...I am a procrastinator. I like to put off for tomorrow what can be done today. I am working on this and it's hard.
Along with the renewing of self discipline I've been taking the girls out more. Going on bike rides, walks and to the park. We've been doing a lot of sliding. Maddie LOVES the slide. The minute she sees one she say "WEE, WEE!!" and runs right for it. It amazes me how many times she can go down the same slide without ever tiring. In fact I get bored and have to encourage her to move on. Sophie enjoys the whole playground. I think she is a bit like me. Something can keep her attention for so long then she is bored of it and moves on. She does love to slide too. Just not as much as Maddie does.
Maddie has also been doing a little wee, wee in the small potty. Since the end of Feb. she has been using the potty when asked if she needs to go. It started as a before bath or during bath ritual and moved into an every night before bed ritual. Then one weekend she had a terrible diaper rash that needed to air out. Since she could follow direction and knew when she wanted to use the potty I had hubby pull out the training potty. I placed it in the kitchen and told her if her diaper was off she needed to be in the kitchen and to use the potty when she needed to. She did! Much to my surprise because I really expected to be cleaning up 'accidents' while letting the her run around diaperless. But now she is using the potty two or three times a day :smile: We are not pushing it, just encouraging. I'm toying with making potty training a focus, but don't want to push...we'll see. Time to get down the potty training books I read with Sophie and crack them open again.
On a personal note. On March 7, 2008 as a gift to my hubby for our anniversary I got my hair styled. No longer is it super long and blunt. It now is just below the shoulders and has layers. It's been a big adjustment since I've had my hair the same for about two decades. But I like it. Other people like to too which is affirming. Who doesn't like to be affirmed?!? Also as of tonight I am part of a book club. Some of my girlfriend and I went to dinner and were talking about books. Well....they were...I'm not much of a reader...the procrastinator part of me has trouble with finishing a book. So one of them asked if any of us had thought of being apart of a book club or starting one. Then before we knew it we were at Borders looking for a book. I'm excited because I do well with deadlines and commitments to others. I don't like to disappoint or not follow through when others are involved. It's funny, but it's me :smile:
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