Friday, January 16, 2009

Everyone else is doing it

It seems like everyone's doing a bullet point post, so why shouldn't I? I do need to fit in to the bloggy world, right? ;)

  • Potty training's going well with M-A. He's got the tee-teeing down pat. #2's not great, but he's had a few successes. He is, however, in underwears full-time during the day. He's still in diapers at night and nap, but that's because I'm not brave enough to do undies at night. He wakes up dry 95% of the time, but he's still in a crib, so we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
  • Like I said, Marc-Adam's still in his crib (which I'm hoping I can make last for a few more months at least), but we moved his crib into the boys' room this evening. We tried this once before, but put him in the toddler bed. That went over like a lead balloon, so this is round 2. So far, they're all in there being quiet, and I bet at least 2 of them are already asleep. I have 3 kids in one room. LOL! Ah, the joys of a large family in a small house.
  • So, you're probably wondering what's up with what used to be Marc-Adam's room. Well, obviously, it will be Evie's room. I wasn't opposed to having her share with one of her brothers for a little while (hopefully we'll be in a bigger house by the time it's important for her to have her own space), but if we can make this arrangement work, I think it's the best scenario for now. I'm flexible, though, and will mix things up again if we have to.
  • Speaking of Evie's room, the bedding's here!. It came in and I picked it up from my mom today. Y'all, it's even better in person. It's so well-made, so plush and soft and pretty and girly and....it's just perfect. Mom and I found a lamp that we fell in love with at Target today, and if the colors match the lamp shade, we're so getting it. It's perfect.
  • We've decided to go with pink for Evie's room, but I'm worried about that. I'm afraid of it being "too pink" or Pepto Bismol pink, or just nauseating pink. But we've got a limited number of shades to work with out of her bedding. Anybody have any experience painting a room pink? Care to share?
  • I feel like this pregnancy has taken FOR.EV.ER. And I still have at least 16 weeks to go. This is by far the slowest pregnancy I've ever had.
  • I've decided to ditch part of our homeschool curriculum. I've been agonizing over this for days now, but I think I've finally come to the conclusion. It's really a great curriculum, it's just not working for us right now, so we're going to shelve it. I definitely plan on pulling it out again when the kids get a little older, though. I think they'll like it better in a few years.
  • So, until I figure out what else we're going to do, I guess we'll just be sticking with the 3 R's: reading, writing, and arithmetic. And lots and lots of play.
  • Pray for Sweet Hubby if you're the praying sort. He's not been feeling well lately and went to the doctor on Wednesday. They drew a bunch of blood and so far all those tests have come back normal. He had a CT scan today, but we don't have the results of that yet. On the one hand, I'm glad the tests have come back normal so far, but on the other hand, he still feels awful and we have no idea why (and therefor no way to make him better). I would have rathered something come back abnormal in his blood tests than the CT scan. If the CT scan comes back abnormal, then that means there something going on in his head, and well, I don't have to tell you that that scenario's a bit scary. So pray that he either starts feeling better, or that we found out why he feels so crummy to begin with.
  • That's all.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Congrats on the potty training! I'm not looking forward to training Liam at all.

Your hubby will definitely be in my prayers; I hope you guys get some (good) answers soon.

KatieBug said...

So many things to comment on!

I have three kids in one room, too. THEY like it like that. We have a bedroom that no one sleeps in and Peanut has his own room.

If you are afraid of too much pink you could paint one or two of the walls pink and the other walls white or green. Or you could just paint the bottom 1/2 pink and do the top 1/2 a diffrent less scary color.

Good for you for realizing the cirriculum was not working and doing something else. That is hard to do sometimes.

Poor Hubby! I hope you get answers soon!

Anonymous said...

I have to weed out stuff in our homeschool science cirriculum. It's not easy figuring it all out, is it?
Praying for your hubby now.

nicole said...

I would use a lighter pink, even if it is not an exact match to the bedding. The idea to paint only one half of each wall pink is good too, but would take more work.

I'll pray for your husband. I'm sure this is a scary situation.

Yay for potty training. My 3.5 year old just told me he will learn to use the potty "in a little bit; in five minutes." If only it was that easy.

We will eventually have three kids in one room too, when Butterfly is a little bigger.