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The captain and her first mate
Originally uploaded by sscopela
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
Friday, August 15, 2008
Hunting deer
Hunting deer
Originally uploaded by sscopela
I guess we need some guns, they love them. Here they are "hunting
deer". And yes, Rainey is outside wearing a tshirt, panties, and last
years black patent dress shoes. She has her own sense of style.
Stick em up!
Stick em up!
Originally uploaded by sscopela
We have lots of baby dolls, stuffed animals, toy strollers, dress-up
clothes and such but we don't actually own any toy guns. For some
reason there were 6 guns on our front steps last night when we got
home. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with the eight boys that
live either next door or across the street. Yeah eight neighbor boys
and no neighbor girls - we are already worried.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Ironing
Let's see, we've lived in our house for 4 1/2 months now and this morning I finally got around to unpacking the iron. There are still about 10 boxes in a closet that haven't been unpacked, so I knew the iron had to be in one of those - just to clear up anyone that was thinking I haven't ironed because I didn't know where my iron was. I knew where it was, I just didn't want to unpack it.
I totally despise ironing. The only reason I decided to do it this morning is because I was pulling out a shirt that was really too wrinkled to wear (which is a pretty low standard around our house). I was about to put the shirt back in the closet, when I realized that I would probably never wear this shirt again unless I got the iron out.
My mother-in-law LOVES ironing. She irons everything, pillow cases, jeans, t-shirts... Don't get me wrong, I would much prefer our clothes to be ironed, but apparently I don't care enough to actually do any ironing more than a few times a year.
I don't usually solicit comments - but drop me a comment and let me know where you stand on ironing. I'm wondering if this is a generational thing and most women my age don't really iron - or if I'm just lazy and need to get my rear in gear on the ironing.
I totally despise ironing. The only reason I decided to do it this morning is because I was pulling out a shirt that was really too wrinkled to wear (which is a pretty low standard around our house). I was about to put the shirt back in the closet, when I realized that I would probably never wear this shirt again unless I got the iron out.
My mother-in-law LOVES ironing. She irons everything, pillow cases, jeans, t-shirts... Don't get me wrong, I would much prefer our clothes to be ironed, but apparently I don't care enough to actually do any ironing more than a few times a year.
I don't usually solicit comments - but drop me a comment and let me know where you stand on ironing. I'm wondering if this is a generational thing and most women my age don't really iron - or if I'm just lazy and need to get my rear in gear on the ironing.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Saturday, August 09, 2008
Only in my dreams...
Only in my dreams...
Originally uploaded by sscopela
> Jessica has really cool software on her iPhone that made me look
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Friday, August 08, 2008
Thursday, August 07, 2008
Almost Famous
Click THIS LINK.
It's an article and pictures from a party we went to for a family friend. I know that Leslie, Jessica, and I pretty much steal the show with the fab picture at the top of the page, but make sure you scroll down to see our husbands featured as well.
It's an article and pictures from a party we went to for a family friend. I know that Leslie, Jessica, and I pretty much steal the show with the fab picture at the top of the page, but make sure you scroll down to see our husbands featured as well.
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Put on your big girl panties
Well, I *think* Rainey is well on the way to finally being potty trained. I mean, she's not 100% by any means, but she hasn't worn a diaper except to sleep in since Sunday. This is very good news, especially considering she will be 3 in two months.
I was just adamant about not pushing her to use the potty until she was ready. When Carlisle was 2 years 5 months old we moved in across the street from our pediatrician whose son was a month younger than Carlisle. Molly (our pedi) decided she was ready for Matthew to use the potty and just took his diaper off and that was that. I decided that if Molly was doing it, I should probably do it too. So off came Carlisle's diaper. After several days of puddling on the floor she pretty much caught on. And after those first few days she NEVER had an accident away from the house (school, walmart etc..) But at home was a different story. It was over a year later until she stopped having "accidents" at home. She actually didn't stop until we went to Spain and after being away from home for over a month, I guess she finally got out of the habit.
I was convinced that the year of struggling with home accidents was pretty much to spite me for *making* her use the potty, and I swore that I wouldn't make Rainey. Of course I also thought that since Rainey is pretty much a prodigy ;) and since she really looks up to her potty using older sister, that she would be ready fairly early to potty train. Wrong. She has had basically no interest in the potty, actually pretty much disliked the potty and any suggestion that she should attempt to use it.
But Sunday morning she came in and told me she needed to go to the potty, she used it, put on panties and we haven't looked back.
So, I'm sure this post is of little interest to my friends and family who don't have children of potty training age. But for those that do - don't let other people (your mom, mother-in-law, best friend whose child potty trained at 18 months etc...) stress you out. It will happen.
I was just adamant about not pushing her to use the potty until she was ready. When Carlisle was 2 years 5 months old we moved in across the street from our pediatrician whose son was a month younger than Carlisle. Molly (our pedi) decided she was ready for Matthew to use the potty and just took his diaper off and that was that. I decided that if Molly was doing it, I should probably do it too. So off came Carlisle's diaper. After several days of puddling on the floor she pretty much caught on. And after those first few days she NEVER had an accident away from the house (school, walmart etc..) But at home was a different story. It was over a year later until she stopped having "accidents" at home. She actually didn't stop until we went to Spain and after being away from home for over a month, I guess she finally got out of the habit.
I was convinced that the year of struggling with home accidents was pretty much to spite me for *making* her use the potty, and I swore that I wouldn't make Rainey. Of course I also thought that since Rainey is pretty much a prodigy ;) and since she really looks up to her potty using older sister, that she would be ready fairly early to potty train. Wrong. She has had basically no interest in the potty, actually pretty much disliked the potty and any suggestion that she should attempt to use it.
But Sunday morning she came in and told me she needed to go to the potty, she used it, put on panties and we haven't looked back.
So, I'm sure this post is of little interest to my friends and family who don't have children of potty training age. But for those that do - don't let other people (your mom, mother-in-law, best friend whose child potty trained at 18 months etc...) stress you out. It will happen.
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