Busy Back Yard

We’re having a busy week over here. I took off from work most of this week with the exception of Monday. We had decided to use some of this time to make some big changes to David’s bedroom. We repainted the walls, removed the crib and replaced it with a toddler bed that is shaped like a car. Pam continued the car theme with a rug that looks like a matrix of city streets and some other car-themed decorations. David loves cars, so we thought this might make his room even more exciting for him. The painting was a lot of hard work and most of it had to be done while David was away at “Mother’s Day Out.” Pam and I worked very hard on his room and I continued the work while Pam went out to pick the kids up from their schools. We’re happy with the finished product.

Our next big worry was transitioning David from a crib to a toddler bed. We didn’t know how he was going to react to having a bed that was lower to the ground and had no cage to keep him in. He got his first experience in his new bed today during his nap. He had fallen asleep in the car, so Pam picked him up and placed him in his new bed. David woke later in his new bed and seemed happy with it. Then, the real test came this evening when we put him in his bed while he was still awake. He got sad for a few minutes, but quickly figured out this was time for him to be sleeping and he went right to sleep. What a good boy.

Abby has been doing a lot of fun things lately. She’s still an insatiable book reader. She is learning more and more at her karate classes and she has been spending some quality time on the computer playing some games she likes. She’s getting really good grades in school and she is very cheerful and helpful at home.

David is learning a lot of new words and he is helping us potty train him. He is getting better at telling us when he needs to do his “#2” business. He comes up and says, “poo poo” and that’s our signal that he wants to go sit on the potty. He gleefully runs to the bathroom and lets us put him on the toilet. He almost always does something for us; not always what he told us he needed to do, but the cooperation is remarkable to me. We have not “officially” started potty training on him. I just put him on the toilet each night before his bath as a matter of habit and preventative measures. I don’t want any “foreign objects” floating in the tub, if you get my drift. He has caught on to the process and has been branching it out to other times of the day at his request, so this is great.

I’m hoping to use some of my remaining vacation time to work on my music hobby and hopefully have some quality time alone with Pam. We’ll see how this pans out over the coming days.

Rob