We finished watching LOST Season 4 in one long, 5 episode, eye-bleeder of a night. It was awesome. We've decided to take a break from LOST for awhile so we can have a few evenings to do other things. Plus the next season's not out on dvd yet so we'd have to finagle this Hulu stuff we've been hearing about in order to watch it. We'll probably just wait for Heather and Julie to come over and then have them some how make it happen. We have until January when Season 6 starts on tv.
We had a very fun Labor Day weekend. My sister Cecylia spent Friday afternoon with us and we took her out to dinner for her birthday. Then Jeremiah and I had a backyard campfire after the kids went to bed, which was very relaxing. The night was beautiful.
Saturday Jeremiah and I traded the kids back and forth so that we all got good playtime in and also some stuff done around the house. I also taught a program at Masonville which J. enjoyed (on rainbows). Then James and Lisa Y. came over with adorable Sarah and cutie-pie Jonathan (you might remember him from such "dang"s as "the kid that was delivered by his own mother on the bathroom floor"). After the girls all cuddled and read books together, we put them into bed and headed outside for a nice backyard campfire. I got to hold Jonathan for several hours and it was heavenly. I snuck in a few Itsy Bitsy Yoga moves on him and it went pretty well, so
that's good.
Sunday we all trekked over to the Renaissance Festival for a long hot family fun day. I
really love it there and the girls do too, though we all go through periods of being overwhelmed by all the people and sights and sounds. My personal highlights were putting all the girls on pony rides and enjoying a nice peach cobbler. Low moments were getting stung by a bee and feeling that hopeless freakout when you witness too many young kids going both up and down a narrow staircase at the same time and not being able to fix the problem bc you can't put your hands on other people's kids and their parents are nowhere to be found. Creamy middle was just being together as a family, showing the kids magical things like puppets and fairywings and theatre, and hanging out with the Y family, who totally go at our same kid-centered speed.Monday Jeremiah and I both worked in the morning and the Y's headed home. Then we carted the girls off to my dad's house to visit with lots of my family members for a Labor Day cookout. It was great to see everyone since I hadn't seen half of them since April! We all had fun chatting with everyone, playing with the kids, and going through really old photos.
Best moment of the week: it would have to be the campfires. So calming. A good time for me to integrate all of my experiences and plans and thoughts with the act of peaceful sitting. I could say, I was having a good sit.
Worst moment of the week: the potty regression. in the clothes. on the chairs. on the floor. on the sheets. on the new couch!!!!! (see below)
Thoughts of the past week:
J. had her first day of preschool where I got to leave her to be independent and take C. home for a nap. It worked out really well. She had no problems saying goodbye and I heard reports that she did really well. She experienced some potty training regression this past week which went along with the new life change of starting school for the first time. We saw it for what it was when it started happening and just kept changing her clothes and encouraging her to try on the potty.
But then she stopped telling us if she had an accident and we got fed up with dealing with the accidents all over the house. So we started making a big deal about her being such a big girl now and how proud we were of that and yadda yadda. All positive things I thought. But it wasn't helping.
So then it started to snowball. I ended up worried that maybe there was some new medical issue that was forcing her to have accidents. Luckily, Lisa Y. and her family were coming to spend the weekend with us and she's a pediatrician so I was going to pester her for a medical diagnosis instead of springing the $40 to take J. to weekend physician care.
But, mere hours before Lisa and family arrived, I talked to Jessie and she solved everyone's problems. She explained that making a fuss over how J. was a big girl now was only fueling the issue. J.'s issue was that she was nervous approaching preschool and all that that entailed. She was regressing bc she needed to feel the security of being a baby again, just for a little while, so that she could get herself all pumped up and charge ahead as a preschooler.
Um, ok... I guess I'll try it. I let her wear a pull-up again and it made both of us feel so much more relaxed, knowing that when the inevitable accident happened, it would really really be ok. Though I swear I read in 100 different places that once your kids says goodbye to pullups, you should never go back! But for the rest of Sat and Sun I let her pick- underwear or pullup. She mostly chose pullup, which made our day at the Renaissance Festival a lot easier for everyone (since she had been averaging one accident per hour all day).
And then today, Monday, she chose underwear and didn't have a single accident all day, even though we had a long car ride and weren't even at home (which on occasion have been challenges for her).
Whew. And by the way, Lisa completely agreed with our diagnosis and Jessie's advice. Thank goodness I have such smart mommy friends to bail me out!
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