busy days.

hi all,

i feel very busy over here, although if you were to actually ask me what i was doing, i wouldn't be able to really lay out a whole lot that would justify feeling busy. such is life i suppose.

i'm going to start by checking to see if blogger has figured out how to acknowledge my vertical pictures yet.


nope. new version of blogger still can't deal with vertical photos (although the old version could - go figure, right?) i guess you'll have to turn your head sideways.

as you can see from the photo above, micah was much less happy about snow this time around. i'm not sure why. josiah seemed to like it. the other photo shows another Micah annoyance of mine - he loves throwing things away. . . .

he also has been interested in throwing things in the Potty, but he gets BIG time outs for that. i think he understands the concept of No, but i have to be REALLY stern with him or else he ignores me.

okay, gotta go fix lunch. . .

ciao!

potty training on a snowy day

Hey all,

Hello from snowy Lubbock, where the locals have been terrified by the media frenzy of "Prepare for the worst storm of the century!!!!! 12-16 inches!!! Store a months worth of water, canned creamed corn and emergency flares in your storm cellar!!!! Buy a shovel!!!!" The white stuff is admittedly coming down at a chipper pace, but I'll put my bets right here that we get a max of 6 inches.

The bigger news is that today Josiah decided he wants to wear underwear. We've taken a VERY relaxed potty training route, totally Josiah driven (I've wanted nothing to do with it), and after two accidents today, I calmly suggested putting on a Pull-Up, and he was absolutely horrified -"NO, I WANT UNDERWEAR!!!!!!" Okay. A snowy day when we're not doing anything is as good a day as any to go full speed ahead. (Of course, as I'm typing now, Josiah is complaining to Jim that he doesn't like this pair of underwear and wants another. . . ).

Jim is doing the dishes now right now as I plod about on the internet. AND he let me sleep in today. What a husband!!

Okay, I'll leave with a few more pictures. Mom wanted pictures of the carpet, so here are a few (on the second one, Josiah is putting a Christmas Stocking on his foot. . .):

Terrible Threes

Josiah has officially entered the Terrible Threes. He seems to have skipped any awful 2 year old stage, and piled it all onto RIGHT NOW, and is driving me batty. For two weeks, he's been sick, so I've chalked it up to that, but the past two days he's been over the sickness - Micah too - and yet he's so TERRIBLE!

Nothing he's doing is atypical toddler behavior, but it's really not typical of him - my sweet, mellow, obedient, happy-go-lucky son. He's constantly whining, throwing tantrums, taking toys away from Micah, boxing Micah out and preventing him from getting where he wants to go, not obeying simple requests nor stern rebukes.

Anyhow, I thought I'd vent. Here's a picture from happier times:

traveling and post traveling blues!

Okay, not really that blue. Our travels were quite nice, busy, and that's why you haven't heard from us lately! We were in Pittsburgh for about 6 days, then Philly for another week - in Philly, we picked up a few bugs - first a stomach bug, then a fever/aches/congestion bug that we're JUST NOW getting over. Actually, everyone but Emily was hit with both things, which is quite the contrast to the usual. I'm wondering if it was Airborne, which I've been taking more or less diligently for over a week now, twice a day. . . .

Either that or it's that I've been so sick so frequently in the past that I've just had these bugs already. . . .

But I shouldn't speak too soon - I feel a sore throat coming on.

Anyhow, I thought I'd post a little jot and a few pics, just to say that we're back, and on the road to normalacy. . .

Oh, and Lubbock has suffered an "ice storm" which is bemusing Jim and me. We've had three "snows" now in Lubbock this winter, and Philly is still at zero, I believe? Yet people here freak out about just the little coating and tremble about how all their neighbors don't know how to drive in winter weather.

Silly Texans.

Oh, and the above pics are highlights of the trip. . . .