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h a daddy phase when he hurts himself or feels disappointed joel is the one he asks for william waits with great anticipation for joel to walk through the door after work and he especially loves when we get to take joel some lunch during the day more times than not joel is also the first one william asks for when he wakes from his nap and as of last month william is potty trained i know i know i m a little crazy he was just barely two and a half when i started with him even though my other kids were about that age when they were potty trained i didn t expect william to grow up so fast but i knew that he had the ability to control his bodily functions and i knew that this coupled with his natural gift of obedience and compliance we would have a pretty easy time fortunately i was right mostly william for whatever reason was scared of the toilet neither of my other kids were even though i trained them at the same age william watched everett and ashley use the toilet with no bad consequences many times but that didn t sway him he was genuinely frightened since i didn t want something like that to stop him i did what i swore i d never do i bought a little potty chair fortunately walmart has a cheap o one that turns into a stool william helped me pick out some thomas the train underwear and we were set i set up the potty asked ashley to demonstrate which she did with pride and let william see that she earned a marshmallow he sat right down and used the potty succesfully a few times yes 1 and 2 stayed dry and i cheered within myself this is going to be so easy i thought i was wrong sort of william is extremely sensitive i was as careful as i possibly could have been to not pressure him and to never let irritation creep into my voice but somehow he decided that the whole potty thing was too much pressure and he clammed up the second day was awful i played game after game with him i read books i sang songs i fed him fluids we watched movies but he didn t go to the bathroom for eight hours not in a diaper not in his underpants and not in the potty he didn t cry he didn t whine he didn t get mad he just sucked his thumb and refused to talk about it i felt terrible for his poor little bladder and i almost gave up several times he is too young i m scarring him for life are my expectations too high but i knew he could do it i let him play in a bowl of warm water i tickled him i tickled him some more we watched more shows i got absolutely no housework done and i think we had eggs for dinner finally i tried a bowl of warm water again and he relaxed and smiled proudly as it all came out after that hurdle we haven t had any trouble he went right from wearing diapers all the time to wearing his favorite underwear all the time and stayed dry during naps and overnight with no trouble but there was one last issue william was still scared of any life size toilet this was a problem i didn t consider him fully trained if we couldn t even leave the house so i took him to the store let him pick out a pack of hotwheels cars and told him that if he used the big toilet he could choose his very own new car from that pack he took a breath and climbed right on that was all it took he quickly used up his supply of cars and i was worried that he d feel he needed more but he never even asked after one week he hit that magical sweet spot where he asked to go when he needed to go without waiting until the last minute and i didn t have to remind him all the time anymore the main drawback to potty training a two and a half year old is that he is too short to reach very well when he is standing up i had the same issue with everett at that age so i have to lift him whenever he needs to use the bathroom but that is a small price to pay he is awfully proud of wearing underpants just like everett and ashley and he is proud of what he can do in the toilet he even comes in sometimes while i m using the bathroom good job mommy he ll say as he hands me a piece of toilet paper overall it was a success if i could do it all over again i m not sure i would do anything differently seeing how well he really got it down that s my william he is doing great and i am really enjoying him right now and even though he has observed everett and ashley s angry habits and taken to yelling when he is mad he is genuinely sweet and easy to please posted by elise at 6 20 pm 0 comments fall leaves the kids have been enjoying fall so far i think everett enjoys the fact that i don t make him walk home from school with me every day anymore it isn t ever too cold for me yet but some days are chilly enough that i worry about the little guys in the stroller with the wind in their faces but we still do go out when the wind is not too nippy we ve also been raking leaves our city comes by to collect leaf piles by the curbs of all the homes it is fun to watch a large beast of an orange machine creeps along the edge of the roads while maintenance workers move an enormous vacuum hose which sucks all the leaves into the deep cavity of the truck william is always fascinated by it i think he is also slightly worried that those men might suck him up the tube and actually that hose is definitely big enough to fit him through one day after william watched joel painstakingly move all the leaves to the front yard and after william had run through them jumped in them and rode his scooter into them for days on end he was extremely disappointed to see that the monster leaf eating truck was back no he yelled they are taking my pile and so the leaf piles are just a memory we have a few leaves left but not enough to make a big enough pile to have this kind of fun in you know you ve been having fun when large amounts of leaves hitchhike on your shirt william s favorite activity was riding his scooter through the piles and feeling wave upon wave of leaves crest over his knees and crash under his back wheels and then he d do his best to rake it all up again james our little eat everything within reach baby was confined to party in the swing he still seemed to enjoy watching everyone else have fun posted by elise at 5 30 pm 0 comments tuesday october 23 2012 last bits of summer the end of summer is not a painful event for me i anticipate the crispness the foodie ness and the sweater ness of fall all year long but i will miss watching the kids do some of the things they loved so much this year we planted a few vegetable plants this year i am a horrible gardener and i do not say that lightly i don t have the patience for it which may or may not have something to do with the fact that it is monopolized by four little beings in my house heaven help us what i mean is i love having the plants in theory but i am not meticulous enough for much to flourish as a side note i did have four lovely little herb plants that were doing great until i went to utah for five weeks during a blistering iowa heat wave which effectively turned them into very usable tinder we began summer with twelve tomato plants yes i realize that is overkill but i was hoping that after losing 1 the ones i neglect and 2 the ones our local critters eat we would still have enough for me to can a few quarts of stewed tomatoes tomato sauce or salsa after one month the deer ate all but four one of those four never really took off another turned into a behemoth monster which uprooted its sturdy cage and grew large beautiful green tomatoes that only began to think about ripening after we experienced our first frosts what we had left was a cheerful cherry tomato plant gangly and awkward as a fifteen year old who is not yet used to his stretching body and a grape tomato plant which half heartedly produced some delicious bell shaped fruit what you see here is our dandy cherry tomato plant this picture was taken at the end of september so the plants have declined significantly from their peak i did not expect it to grow so well apparently the deer aren t as interested in plants so close to the house and the soil conditions must have been perfect i am hoping that one day everett doesn t come to me and explain that this was the spot he used nature s restroom when i wasn t looking but all the neighbors were of course everett and ashley came out here almost daily to pick and savor the juicy sweetness of a sun ripened tomato sometimes they d pick a small bowl full but interestingly enough it was usually empty by the time i got to it they never tired of it as far as i could tell it was these moments that made pulling weeds all three times ahem worth it to me i had grand visions of everett pulling weeds to earn money this summer since we haven t yet started him on an allowance as it turns out there is nothing everett wants badly enough to have to pull weeds for it everett is holding a red pepper from another one of our plants the peppers did well but were a little slow to get going we had red peppers and purple peppers and rarely did any of them make it all the way into my kitchen somehow i didn t mind occasionally when william was not napping and when he was fast enough to compete with the older kids he d proudly score a treat as well the kids loved to goof off with the veggies we grew yellow squash zuchinnis and cucumbers as well i use the term grew loosely someone tell me why do so many people have these veggies coming out of their ears but we only ended up with a few oh right my horrible gardening skills i will have to sharpen up and plan better for next year the kids also had fun digging burying things and making rivers and fairy villages in this huge dirt mound joel spread a lot of mulch in our yard but i never wanted him to cover up this pile the dirt that abundantly seasoned my kids hand picked veggies worked its way under their fingernails and turned to sludge at the bottom of our bathtub was too valuable to lose mostly though i loved the dirt pile because william loved it for playing cars he could entertain himself for hours out there on any given day making car tracks moving construction vehicles and burrowing buses never stopped giving him a little thrill posted by elise at 10 05 pm 0 comments sunday october 14 2012 homecoming parade we are lucky enough to live within walking distance of our local high school so when it was time for the homecoming parade which everett had heard all about at his school and was dying to see we trekked on over and found a good place to watch i painted the school colors on the kids cheeks they thought this was fantastically cool even though my lame attempts at face painting are really not all that fancy everett was thrilled to be there the air was brisk and it was one of the first days we could really smell autumn in the air we had a few minutes to wait before the parade came by so the kids had fun playing catch with various items we also had fun being a little silly william brought along a few cars surprise surprise and was happy to play with them for a little while the parade floats were not intricate or fancy or expensive but the kids didn t mind and everyone still cheered when the homecoming royalty came along in their corvette and mustang convertibles of course the parade floats were nothing compared to the excitement of discovering the participants threw candy out to the spectators we were at the end of the route so our kids didn t score much candy but they were unaware of the inequality and were thrilled anyway and when i heard later that some kids came away from the parade with pillowcases full of candy i was relieved i didn t have to contend with so many sweets when we got home james was pretty happy the whole time i will be sad when my kids are all too old to snuggle with me when we are out james was pretty intent on watching all the big trucks come by it was fun to see him so interested of course other than the times william was sucking his thumb no one could match him for enthusiasm the police cars were his favorite william loves to point out police cars wherever we go his exuberance is contagious i think the parade made the biggest impression on our little william we went home had some hot vanilla milk it was a pinterest experiment but wasn t great and the kids went to bed happy it was the perfect start to fall posted by elise at 11 45 pm 0 comments tuesday october 2 2012 miss ashley goes to preschool ashley started preschool last month it was an exciting day for her unfortunately ashley s first day was everyone else s third day she woke up vomiting early in the same morning she was supposed to start school i had to keep her home for two days which meant that since they started on a thursday she had to wait until the following tuesday to experience her very first day of school by the time we actually got to that morning she was quite annoyed that i felt it was necessary to make her stand for pictures this is the best picture i took all the rest look more like this william misses having ashley around and tells her so every day when we pick her up i missed you ashley he giggles jubilantly as she climbs into her car seat ashley seems to really enjoy preschool she greatly dislikes discussing the details of the day and will expel a groan of exasperation anytime someone asks her what they did that day but she is always happy to go and is proud of the projects she brought home i strongly considered keeping ashley home this year and doing preschool lessons with her myself the way i did with the kids last year but i knew the socialization would be good exercise for someone who is so naturally an introvert i ve had a couple of conversations with her that really illustrate this characteristic of hers shortly after the first day of school i asked ashley how it was fine she replied then said there are too many kids who do you like to play with at school i asked one day nobody i just play by myself ashley answered you do huh do you like to play by yourself i wanted to know yeah does it make you feel happy or sad to play by yourself i further questioned hoping for a clarified response happy ashley answered matter of factly that was enough for me if she was happy i wasn t worried one day i dropped ashley off late for school when i opened the door to the playroom so she could join her class for their beginning segment i heard a few girls shout excitedly ashley i asked ashley about this later who were those girls who were so happy to see you this morning when i dropped you off ashley gave me an exasperated sigh nobody she stated decisively a shy smile played at the corners of her lips betraying her real feelings another time when i was talking about ashley s day with her as i tucked her in bed she told me soberly all of those kids in my class make me feel frightened all of ashley s comments have given me great opportunities to discuss some of these issues and set small goals with her ashley s goal this morning was to find out someone s name and report it to me after school and she was so proud of herself when she said not one but t...