Oh! The joys of having girls!
At school, Keira sits by a boy named Seth. She said they always talk. He bumped into her a couple times, but it was okay because he said he was sorry. She loves school, but she gets so excited when she knows she is going to see Seth.. He was gone for a couple days because he was sick and she was just so sad ;(.
One day after school, Keira and Seth were playing around and Seth bumped into her head, she started crying. Her teacher wanted to know why she was crying, Keira told her what happened. Ms. Kelly just looked at me and said, "Seth is Keira's boyfriend!" Hmmmmm
This Friday after school, the kids and I went to the "W" store (Westfield Mall) and had some Cherry on Top frozen yogurt (the kids' favorite). We were on our way home and Keira says, "Oh mom, I just had such a great day." I said, "I'm so glad you had a great day, you did great at school, you had ice cream, and you get to go see grandma later tonight." She says, "no mom, I had a great day because I got to see Seth." Uh oh!
She just can't stop talking about him. I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing. I'm glad she has made a good friend. It's her only "boy" friend at school, all the rest are girls. I drop her off at school every day, we usually get there about 5 minutes early, we usually have to wait outside the door with all the other kids until the door opens, while we are waiting she usually has about 5-7 girls circling around her talking to her. It's so cute to see her talking 5 year old talk.
Wednesday, October 5th
A couple of things to tell you today. I guess I can't have a day without more than one bad thing happening.
It was about 9 a.m. and I was getting in to the shower. Keira and Aden were sitting at the kitchen table coloring and Taygen was still sleeping. I get into the shower, wash my hair, put conditioner in my hair and Keira runs into the bathroom, "mom, I spilled my drink." (She must have hit it with her coloring book or something.) I get out of the shower, soaked, my hair still has conditioner in it, cold...with only a towel on, run down stairs clean up her mess, make sure the kids are settled back to coloring, run up stairs and get back in the shower.
I was so tired and I was laying on the couch with Keira and Aden. Taygen was up playing and running around. She got ahold of a green, glass flower vase, I asked her to bring it to me...well, she did. When she tried to give it to me she knocked me in the face (by my eye) with it. Not going to lie...it hurt!
Monday- October 3rd
Yes, another Monday, at least it is a good day this time.
We were headed to Keira and Aden's swimming lessons when I saw a butterfly sitting on the front porch and I noticed it wasn't moving when I got closer. I called Keira over because she loves butterflies and always tries to catch them and hold them. Her face lit up when she picked it up and it didn't fly away. It was something out of the ordinary and I love seeing the kids' faces light up when something unexpected happens. One of it's wings was broken. Keira held it for a little bit and it flew from her fingers, she got so excited because she thought she "healed" it by holding it.
It is getting a little easier. It has been a busy couple weeks for us with the Keira's school and the kids' swimming, dance, and art classes. When we are at home it is much easier to potty train Taygen. When we go out in public it is a little harder. She is doing amazing. She has only had 2 accidents this week. One was at the Church day care, which was out of our control and the other was while we were driving, also out of our control. Other than that, she only wears diapers at bed time and at nap time. I will give her a couple more weeks in Pullups and by the end of October, beginning of November she will be in big girl panties!
My routine for potty training Taygen when we leave the house....
- Take her potty before we leave the house then pack her potty
- Take her potty as soon as we get to the place (restaurant, school, dance, swimming, etc)
- Take her potty every 10-15 minutes (depends on how long we are there)
- Take her potty right before we leave the place
- Repeat if going somewhere else (Take her potty when we get there and take her potty right before we leave)
Saturday October 1st, we decided to go to Sunken Gardens. It was fun. It was a very nice day, a comfortable 73 outside and not too windy!
The kids loved it! They love to be outside. There were a lot of bees around and Keira seemed to be worried about them stinging us, so she didn't want to go near the flowers that had bees.
Here are a couple pictures from our family adventure. Aden is not a camera person so I had to sneak a couple of him.. Taygen loves getting her picture taken so she just sits still. Keira loves to pose like a "princess."
I'm going to start a weekly post called 'Best Day of the week.' It will be a post about 1 (or many) good things that happen during the week. Since every day with my kids is the best day, I will pick something out of the ordinary that happens.
Sunday, September 25
My pastor (woman) told me that I looked beautiful. My pastor: "Well, you look beautiful today!" Me: "Thanks! As apposed to any other day?" (just joking around). She says, "Well, (kind of speechless) I don't know, today you just look sexy." Made me feel pretty good since I was up at 7:30 a.m and didn't shower, just combed out my hair and got dressed...(When you have 3 kids to get ready before 8:20, then you tend to forget about yourself sometimes.)
I will start a couple new weekly posts. One will be called 'Bad Day of the Week.' And the other will be called 'Best Day of the Week.' I will post these on Saturday mornings, so be watching for them ;).
I will start off by saying that 'the worst day of the week' is not necessarily the worst day, it could be something funny, bad, or just plain sad that happened during that week.
This week, I happen to have 2 things that happened on Monday. Yes, it had to be on Monday. Happy Monday to me, I guess.
Monday-
I was giving Aden and Keira a bath. Aden was in their bathtub, while Keira was in our bathtub. I was in my room doing laundry, so there was laundry sitting on the edge of my bed. I went into the other room to check on Aden. I hear Keira yelling, "mommy", so I walk in to the bathroom (that Keira was taking a bath in) and I see clothes in the bathtub. Taygen had taken some clothes that were on the edge of my bed and threw them in the bathtub with Keira. I just laughed. What else are you supposed to do? I just took the clothes out and rewashed them.
Also Monday...
Taygen is potty training... She had a marker in her hand, I took her up to her potty, sat her down and left the bathroom, not thinking anything about the marker in her hand. I opened the door to get her and she had taken the cap off the marker and written all over her mouth, face, legs, hands, & arms (green, of all colors..why couldn't it have been purple? ) :) Put her back in the bath tub (had a bath earlier that day, before she threw the clothes in the bathtub with Keira).
If this is the worst thing that happens to me during the week, I am grateful!
