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| Recently, Nate-Nate got moved into the daycare class that uses Pull-Ups only. So to reinforce the potty training at home, we have started bribing him with Tic-Tacs when he goes in the potty. He gets one Tic-Tac for pee-pee and two for poo-poo. This was the conversation Tues night: NN: NN go pee-pee?
Me: You need to go pee? NN: Yaaaaah! Me: Ok, let’s go. NN: Two peppermint? Me: No, one peppermint for pee-pee. NN: Two peppermint? Me: No baby, only ONE. You really need to go? (Sometimes he just wants the Tic-Tac, and he’ll pee a little in the potty, but he doesn’t really need to go) NN: (Thinks for a moment) Pee-pee now. Two peppermint, Okay? No, I did not give in and give him two. He got one. | | |
| I don't know what brought this on, but since about two weeks ago, Nate-Nate is suddenly Elmo obsessed. He wakes up and wants Elmo. He eats and he wants to watch Elmo. I don't know how he is at school, but as soon as the car stops in the garage, he's already asking for Elmo (we have two stuffed Elmos, an Elmo CD player, Elmo and Alphabet Jungle DVD and a Elmo coloring book). We started recording Sesame Street on the DVR so we're not watching the same DVD over and over and OVER again. Most of the time, he's pretty good about watching the other characters, but when he's cranky, he wants you to fast-forward to the Elmo's World (at the end). Here's Nate-Nate looking serious (and skinny) in his Elmo chair, taken sometime around Christmas. 
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| My mother-in-law found these pictures of W and J when they were babies...matched up with these pictures that we've taken of Egg and NN....what do you think? Other than the 30 yr picture quality difference, could they pass for twins?  
 
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| Ok, maybe not...but another section fell last night, this time in Nate-Nate's room :o(
The pictures are here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/krazymonkeygrl
I screwed up on the order, so it starts at the bottom, not top.
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| Hi everyone, from reading yall's posts, it seems like everyone survived Ike. We did too, the house though, got hit. We were only out of power from Sat 2am to about 6pm that night and we had water and gas and a little portable gas cooker (the ones normally used to cook hotpot) available. The front and back yard are ok. We had two trees uprooted and we lost a few sections of our fence. The house lost some shingles during the storm, so we had some leaking Sat morning. But with the extra rain on Sunday, the extra weight of the water was too much for the sheetrock. We woke up yesterday morning to a snowfall of pee yellow insulation and sheetrock in the front foyer. The daycare was open again so my inlaws took NN to daycare and came back and helped us clean. They left and what do you know, two hours later, another section of sheetrock collapsed with another snowfall of insulation. Wayne and I cleaned that up and thought that was it....nope. When both of us were out of the house, ANOTHER section falls. So now we have a gaping hole in our ceiling that's about 6x10 and the house smells like wet carpet...fun. At least the roofers came by yesterday to nail a plastic tarp over the exposed parts. They can't do anything permanent until the insurance adjuster takes a look at damage. We're really grateful we got power back so quickly. My sister and parents in Memorial are still without power, but they have gas and water. They had several trees topple in their front and back yard and one of them hit my sister's not even a year old CRV. She said it was all cosmetic, some dents and the back winshield and one of the tires.
I am back at work today, Wayne's off the rest of the week. Funny note: I went to Walmart on Fri to stock up on water, bread and milk. When I got to the bread aisle, it was complete empty except for the breads that were "Extra Fiber". I guess people were worried about losing water (and toilet)?!? | | |
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