Sunday: no nap

Mr. Isaac didn't take a nap today.  He happily talked in his crib...for an hour.  He must have been playing with his water bottle, because that's all that was in there.  He does love his water bottles.  Anyway, I heard him say "Pee!  Pee!"  and thought that maybe it was time to get up.

We proceeded to have a pretty rough afternoon and he feel asleep early while eating a late dinner.  Hooray!  I even manged to do a diaper change while he was sleeping.  Now I just need to hope that 1) he keeps the blankets on because he has no pants and 2) he doesn't wake up too early.

Friday: blowing

A few days ago Ben and Isaac were playing by blowing water bottles over.  Since then I've noticed Isaac trying to move all sorts of things by blowing on them.  The problem is that he's not a very good blower yet.  So this morning when he kept missing the little piece of paper that he was trying to blow his hand would sneak out and move it closer to the edge.  He would try blowing again, and it might move.  But if it didn't, his hand would sneak back out to help it along.

In other good news, Isaac managed to tell me that he needed to go to the bathroom before going to the bathroom for the first time today.  We still have lots of accidents, but we have lots of successes too.  And rarely needing to deal with dirty diapers has been a treat.

Thursday: snow!

It snowed last night...and this morning.  I wasn't expecting any accumulation, but when I woke up we had a small inch!

Surprisingly, it didn't melt during the day either.  It just snowed a little bit more and never got warm or sunny.  A lot of trees where in pretty rough shape since most leaves haven't fallen yet and the snow was just sticking to the leaves.

Wednesday: on-task

I had a really hard time keeping on any task today.  Between a cold that is knocking me out, continued potty training, and normal Isaac care it felt like just as I started something I was pulled in a different direction.  This wasn't too bad if all I was doing was a single step process (i.e. moving something from point A to point B) or something that is an on-going task (i.e., keeping the kitchen clean), but for anything else it felt like I was pulling teeth.  I was trying to get a package together to send out and it probably took me three times longer than it should have.

But...Isaac and I took a really nice nap this afternoon.

Monday: food

Isaac was funny with his food today.  During breakfast, he thought his oatmeal was too hot.  So I said, "drink some water."  A minute later I look back and he had poured the whole (small) cup of water into the bowl and was trying to mix it.  :)

Then for lunch I thought I'd try peas again.  He eats them at daycare; why not at home?  So I tried to get him involved...
Amanda: "Can you help me put some of the frozen peas in the bowl?"
Amanda: "Shall we warm them up?"
Isaac: "No."
Amanda: Uh..."Are you sure?"
Isaac: "Yes."
Ok...and he ate most of them.  So maybe the texture of frozen peas is nicer than that of cooked peas.  It's easier for me!!

Sunday: some sucess

Sick of potty training stories yet?  Well, it tends to be the big news around this household.

Today Isaac did really well.  There were still a few accidents, but he got a ton better about going to the bathroom when he was put on the toilet.  (And he often went promptly.  Sometimes within a minute!)  He still hasn't figured out how to get to the toilet if he needs to go though.

Saturday: kitty watering

Isaac has started to give water to animals in his books.  Last night he also tried to give Flurry water.  Never mind that they couldn't even see each other; Isaac would hold his sippy cup towards her.

Potty training continued to have ups and downs today.  Isaac went on the toilet several times, but hasn't quite figured out that he needs to tell us before he has an accident.  I still feel as though we're making a little bit of progress, so we'll keep at it.