Potty training..
Ah she looks so innocent right? Or rather she looks like she knows what she is doing right? Well I have probably bitten off more then I can chew. I am trying to potty train Kyboo it seemed like a good idea. We are moving in about three weeks and where we are moving to the wooden floors have just been refinished and I did not relish the thought of potty training Boo on those pretty wooden floors. I let em run around naked when they potty train so accidents do happen.
Where we currently live we have all concrete floors which makes clean up really easy. But the real kicker is Kyboo is only 21 months old. So she could be to young. I know other toddlers have been potty trained this young and girls are “supposed” to be easier to potty train. I just don’t know how it will go with Boo we are only on day two. She has not done to bad so far. The first day she peed in the potty once and tried to poop once and only had three accidents. But she has not started to really to run to the potty by herself and pee. I plan on holing up in the house for four or five days and see what progress she makes. If she is not getting it we can always go back to diapers but I hope we don’t have too.
Stressed….
So we are moving in less then a month and I am excited SUPER excited but stressed all at the same time. Number one the move itself I dread oh I how I dread it with this huge crushing dread. Mostly because of where we live now…
.. here in an old mill on the third floor, but because the ceilings are 16 feet it’s more like we live on the sixth floor. We don’t have a freight elevator anymore the morons that own this place boarded it up when they built phase two. When we moved in you just scheduled a time to be at the dock backed up your moving truck and used the freight elevator. We got all our furniture in two trips when we moved in. Now when you move in or out you have to use the normal elevator that everyone else uses.. So you are trying to cram a sofa in the elevator and it barely fits and people are glaring at because you are holding up the elevator. They act nice about it but you know they are inwardly cursing you. I know this because I have done my fair share of glaring… So needless to say the whole moving out process from this place is gonna be hell.
Anyway here is where we are moving to…..
A big old house. I have this phobia about big old houses. I LOVE them I really do and I love the idea of them.. the tall ceilings the wooden floors the big spaces, but they creep me out too. Yeah the big spaces the creaking floors totally freaks me out. And that is exactly what we are moving into a big old house… built in 1928… yeah no really I am excited…..
Kyboo and the Sourcream
This is Kyboo eating supper last night she was being really quite and I went to check on her she was painting her arm with the sourcream!
Our 4th of July weekend…
Well we had a great 4th of July we decided to celebrate it with just our little family. We didn’t do anything extremely exciting but just being together was fun. It was the first year that Kyboo could really appreciate the fireworks and all the goings on. We all slept in and I fixed a yummy breakfast of home made sausage biscuits it beat Hardees’ any day! We went to see “Up” it was such a cute movie. It had enough adult humor to keep our attention and enough kids stuff to keep Chicken. Kyboo slept through most of the movie yeah!
After the movie we went to get some McDonald’s which I blame on one of my Twitter friends because he mentioned McD’s. The Chickens ate with gusto and played on the playground. It’s really neat to see Chicken and Kyboo play together so well.
After we gorged ourselves on yummy McD’s an American tradition we went home to vedge for a while. Watched some tv and the Chickens ate more healthy food..
donuts! This is Kyboo hamming it up. So after hanging out at home for a while we decided to brave downtown. There were so many people there we had to park way out but we found free parking which is hard to find when they are having events downtown. We ditched the stroller I put Kyboo in my sling Ben had Chicken and we headed out. We ended up having a lot of fun Kyboo was not quite sure what to think of all the people I think it’s the first time she has been in such a crowded area.
We got to see Mac Arnold perform I loved his music.
Then we saw some awesome fireworks downtown near the Reedy River. Chicken really liked them Kyboo was not scared but she was more interested in watching the other people’s reaction then watching the fireworks.
Then we finished the night at Sonic a regular hangout for the Moffets. Kyboo had just heard a firework go off and was a little dazed in this picture. All in all it was a great day!
Siblings….
For the longest time I told Ben that I only wanted one child…especially right after having one… I was not sure that I could take double the crying and diaper changing and getting up in the middle of the night. Then as Mason got older I was like ok when he is 4 then maybe we will try and have another one. But when he was 14 months old I got this wild hair and informed my honey that I thought we should have another one now. He did not agree, he pointed out that Mason was just now walking and starting to talk and sleeping through the night why would we want to mess up this good thing we had going?
I tried to point out the up side they would be close together they could play… He pointed out the lack of sleep having two in diapers not to mention the added daycare expense. I was working at the time and the cost of two in daycare can be quite staggering. So I said alright lets take a week and think about it.
When the week was out hubby and I compared notes. And we had not come to the same conclusion.. He completely surprised me by saying he thought we should go for it. My reaction was crap.. I had started to think about the ramifications of a second Chicken.. I remembered what it was like to be pregnant, the morning sickness the getting big. And this time it would be different I could not just come home from work plop my feet on the sofa and watch tv. I would have a toddler to take care of so I had come to the conclusion that any sane person would that we should wait. But the fact that Ben had completely done an about face really got me to thinking… so I was like ok .. and a month later I was pregnant with Chicken number Two.
And it was the best decision we have ever made. We all adore her and she is spoiled rotten. Mason loves her so much if he has a toy and she wants it 9 times out of 10 he will give it to her. He calls her his baby and gets excited every morning when we get her out of the crib… And she as you can see from the picture above she adores her big brother.. She tries to do every thing he does. And I am so glad that Mason has a sibling…..
Like my new earrings?
So Kyboo got her ears pierced today… I know that a lot of people do not agree on getting babies or toddlers ears pierced. I am not trying to debate that fact on this post. I am just sharing our experience every family has to decide what is right for their little ones. I for one was tired of people asking if Kyra was a boy.. I was just asked last month on our vacation to Atlanta. She was dressed from head to toe in purple (for Maddie) and we still got “oh he is so cute”. Ahhh. Another reason I decided to do it was because she was so young and I was hoping she would not mess with them. I got mine pierced when I was 8 and I kept touching them and they became all red and were very sore. So I asked my husband if I could get it done and he finally said “ok, but I can’t be there”. He can’t stand to hear his little girl cry.
So we decided today would be a good day to do it. Mason and Ben were going to a baseball game at the Greenville Drive. We dropped our boys off and headed to the mall. We decided to go to the Piercing Pagoda the two girls at the counter were very nice and very informative and I felt comfortable having them do it. They made over Kyboo saying what pretty eyes she had. I decided on small gold studs for Boo and white gold studs for me since I was planning to get my ears pierced too. I was not going to put Kyboo through the pain alone. I had to go for a third hole because I already have a second one.
So when it was our turn to sit in the chair I sat Kyboo in my lap. I got mine pierced first, and I have to say it hurt a lot less then any other piercing I have had after it was not even sore. Then it was Kyboo’s turn and yes she cried it was really hard for me when she did. But they gave her a lollipop and this is her happily crunching away a few minutes later.
She was such a trooper and did not even cry when I cleaned them before she went to bed, and she has not messed with them at all. When we picked our boys up Mason kept telling her that he liked her “new earrings”. And her Daddy thought she was awefully pretty! Now when I dress her from head to toe in purple people should say, ” What a cute little girl.” =-)
Enjoying a slushie naked.
Kyboo sitting in her Daddy’s lap enjoying a slushie. Why is she naked? This was after church and she was wearing a white dress sundress and the slushie was red!
Finishing my “Leaf” Bracelet pt. 1
A friend of my husband’s Melissa Ringler is a blacksmith. She made my beautiful “leaf” bracelet that I got from the Chickens on Mother’s Day. We left the Chickens with my mom for a couple of hours and went to Melissa’s blacksmith shop Magic Metals to get my bracelet finished. It had not been sealed and the colors had not been brought out in the metal yet. When I first saw some of Melissa’s work I thought she added the colors to the metal with a varnish, I was surprised to find out that the colors already existed in the metal and all she does is heat it up with a propane torch to bring them out. The different colors are determined by how long you expose it to the heat. She asked if I wanted blues or if I wanted more purples and browns. I, of course, asked for Purple for Maddie.
The bracelet turned out beautiful it’s a pretty wheat color and yes there is some purple in there too. We made the following video to show the process of her finishing it up. It was fascinating to watch her work. I was even more surprised when she told me that I was going to make an arrow head. We took a video of that too. Tune in later for Part 2 my first blacksmith lesson.
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