We have a deadline!
Next fall I am putting Caylee and Natalie in a program called Classical Conversations. It is not a school or a co-op, it is a support program for homeschooling. Well, I have to enroll Macy and Bethany in the Mother's Day out program at the church. (Which is so freakin expensive! I choked internally when the lady told me it was going to be $20 week per child. That would end up being $80/month per child. Jennifer had told me she thought it was $12 and I was thinking that was a lot. The CC program is already costing a bunch, but Asher and I had decided the sacrifice would be worth it. I hope he doesn't get too upset. I guess we will just have to sacrifice a little more. It is always hard to backwards rather than forwards.)
I am getting off track. Well, the lady at the MDO program told me that she wants to put Macy in the 3 year old room because the two year old room is pretty full and the three's have lots of room. The only dilemma is that she has to be potty trained. Ahck! We had a good success yesterday, but today nothing because I have been running errands. But I have a goal now. I have to be more dedicated to the cause. I think she can do it. I just have to get myself more disciplined about it.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
MACY GOT AN M&M!
Today I have been much more diligent about putting Macy on the potty. This evening before dinner after I put her on the potty she kept telling me that she had to go sit on the potty but I did not want to stay with her for an indefinite amount of time so I had her sit out in the living room with Asher and the girls and had her watch them play with legos. It did not take her very long to actually go. We were so excited. She was excited because we were excited, but then I gave her an M&M. Her eyes lit up when I told her that every time she goes in the potty she will get another one. I could tell that she could not believe that I was actually giving her candy because she usually only gets candy if she manages to steal it. After she made the connection between the potty and candy she did not get up until dinner time. She sat there about 10 or 15 minutes, which is like an eternity in her world.
I hate to make predictions, but I am really hoping this potty training will go quickly. Then I will only have two in diapers. Yeah!
Today I have been much more diligent about putting Macy on the potty. This evening before dinner after I put her on the potty she kept telling me that she had to go sit on the potty but I did not want to stay with her for an indefinite amount of time so I had her sit out in the living room with Asher and the girls and had her watch them play with legos. It did not take her very long to actually go. We were so excited. She was excited because we were excited, but then I gave her an M&M. Her eyes lit up when I told her that every time she goes in the potty she will get another one. I could tell that she could not believe that I was actually giving her candy because she usually only gets candy if she manages to steal it. After she made the connection between the potty and candy she did not get up until dinner time. She sat there about 10 or 15 minutes, which is like an eternity in her world.
I hate to make predictions, but I am really hoping this potty training will go quickly. Then I will only have two in diapers. Yeah!
I have been watching my children very carefully just trying to fully assess their personalities. I want to be able to fully identify their strengths so that I can help to guide them in their lives. This is what I have come up with.
Caylee is extremly hard working. I can just give her a job and I can expect it to be done. She wants to please Asher and I so much. She really enjoys doing her chores because she knows it will make me happy. She actually volunteers to clean her room right when she wakes up. She picks up anything that might be left on the floor and makes everyone's beds. Caylee also seems to have a strong heart for God. Even though we are all born sinners, I believe that some people just seem to have a more natural connection to God. They just seem to be naturally more interested and it seems their relationship is easier. I have known other children like that too. Caylee has been vividly interested in the divine since she could barely talk. She loves God and wants to please Him just like she wants to please her parents. She sometimes tells me not to talk to her because she is going to talk to God. I hope her love only grows deeper as she matures.
Natalie is appropiately nicknamed Sunshine. She just radiates joy when she is happy. She feels her emotions so strongly like her daddy. She is passionate about everything, but she is also dreamy and whimsical. She reminds me of Cinderella in the beginning of the movie when she is singing dreamily as she does her chores. Natalie does that quite often. Natalie also has a very active imagination. She is always imagining things. The other day she told me that she saw God in the sky.
Macy is just out there. I really have to keep an eye on her because it seems like she is always getting into trouble. Stealing food is problably her worst and most common offense. We put cabinet locks on and have moved the food higher, but she still seems to find ways to get around our efforts. Despite her naughty side, she is a sweet girl and everyone who knows her just adores her. She is very outgoing and friendly. She will go up to anyone she knows and ask to be held. And if one of the guys are laying on the floor she will go up and plop right down on top of them.
Bethany is a fiesty girl. She pretty much has to be with Macy as an older sister. She has mastered the evasion technique with anything she is holding. I can already tell that she is going to have a great sense of humor. But it is a little harder to fully know her personality yet because she is so little.
Of course Serenity is too little to known very much. All I know is that right now she is pretty laid back. I am looking forward to seeing who she really is on the inside and see what she is going to add to our family.
Caylee is extremly hard working. I can just give her a job and I can expect it to be done. She wants to please Asher and I so much. She really enjoys doing her chores because she knows it will make me happy. She actually volunteers to clean her room right when she wakes up. She picks up anything that might be left on the floor and makes everyone's beds. Caylee also seems to have a strong heart for God. Even though we are all born sinners, I believe that some people just seem to have a more natural connection to God. They just seem to be naturally more interested and it seems their relationship is easier. I have known other children like that too. Caylee has been vividly interested in the divine since she could barely talk. She loves God and wants to please Him just like she wants to please her parents. She sometimes tells me not to talk to her because she is going to talk to God. I hope her love only grows deeper as she matures.
Natalie is appropiately nicknamed Sunshine. She just radiates joy when she is happy. She feels her emotions so strongly like her daddy. She is passionate about everything, but she is also dreamy and whimsical. She reminds me of Cinderella in the beginning of the movie when she is singing dreamily as she does her chores. Natalie does that quite often. Natalie also has a very active imagination. She is always imagining things. The other day she told me that she saw God in the sky.
Macy is just out there. I really have to keep an eye on her because it seems like she is always getting into trouble. Stealing food is problably her worst and most common offense. We put cabinet locks on and have moved the food higher, but she still seems to find ways to get around our efforts. Despite her naughty side, she is a sweet girl and everyone who knows her just adores her. She is very outgoing and friendly. She will go up to anyone she knows and ask to be held. And if one of the guys are laying on the floor she will go up and plop right down on top of them.
Bethany is a fiesty girl. She pretty much has to be with Macy as an older sister. She has mastered the evasion technique with anything she is holding. I can already tell that she is going to have a great sense of humor. But it is a little harder to fully know her personality yet because she is so little.
Of course Serenity is too little to known very much. All I know is that right now she is pretty laid back. I am looking forward to seeing who she really is on the inside and see what she is going to add to our family.
Hurray, I am finally back on. I think I will be able to blog more during this summer because we are not doing school. Today we are pretty much having a free day. We spent time making stories for the girls' blog, but I cannot get my scanner to work. When Asher loaded everything on this computer I think he forgot the scanner programs so I will have to find it and do it myself.
I am very excited because sometime in August my friend Tegan and I are planning to run in a 5k race. I know that is not very much, but we are starting slow. I am not the best runner by far. I have to stop pretty often because I cramp up. But Tegan is patient with me and just keeps encouraging me to keep going. When she first suggested doing the 5k I honestly looked at her like she was crazy. I am certainly not the athletic type. But after thinking about it I liked the idea. I know Asher would support me and it would give me a goal to work for. I don't want to get out there and poop out on such a little race, so that will inspire me to work harder.
I am finally getting serious about potty training Macy. Caylee and Natalie were fully potty trained by this point and I have seen too many other families that have a lot of children wait too long in my opinion, so I am getting on this thing. By the looks of it Bethany might be trained before Macy. Bethany will already tell me she is poopoo if I ask her. Macy definitely has an interest. She gets on the potty by herself and wipes and flushes, but there is nothing to wipe or flush. Today I decided I would take her every hour. I did that twice with no results, but then later she told me poopoo a bunch of times and peed on the floor. I would have been excited but I was in the middle of scolding her because she had gotten out in the front which is a constant problem. Her older sisters are allowed to play out there so she feels like she should be able to also. She tries to tell on them when they go out there and then gets mad when I don't punish them. So hard to be the little sister.
I am very excited because sometime in August my friend Tegan and I are planning to run in a 5k race. I know that is not very much, but we are starting slow. I am not the best runner by far. I have to stop pretty often because I cramp up. But Tegan is patient with me and just keeps encouraging me to keep going. When she first suggested doing the 5k I honestly looked at her like she was crazy. I am certainly not the athletic type. But after thinking about it I liked the idea. I know Asher would support me and it would give me a goal to work for. I don't want to get out there and poop out on such a little race, so that will inspire me to work harder.
I am finally getting serious about potty training Macy. Caylee and Natalie were fully potty trained by this point and I have seen too many other families that have a lot of children wait too long in my opinion, so I am getting on this thing. By the looks of it Bethany might be trained before Macy. Bethany will already tell me she is poopoo if I ask her. Macy definitely has an interest. She gets on the potty by herself and wipes and flushes, but there is nothing to wipe or flush. Today I decided I would take her every hour. I did that twice with no results, but then later she told me poopoo a bunch of times and peed on the floor. I would have been excited but I was in the middle of scolding her because she had gotten out in the front which is a constant problem. Her older sisters are allowed to play out there so she feels like she should be able to also. She tries to tell on them when they go out there and then gets mad when I don't punish them. So hard to be the little sister.
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