The breakfast bar is cleared! No,you don’t understand – since I first saw the house every thing was piled on the breakfast bar.

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I’ve always had a little project Pile in the house. In the old house it was a section of the kitchen table. ( ww will not see the picture of the built-in buffet right now for that reason)

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PeePee in the Potty!

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All on his own thinking too!!
Here’s how the drama unfolded…
AAA: “Stickers?”
Dad: “we only get stickers for peepee in the potty”
AAA: “Gummi?”
Dad: “Gümmi’s for sitting on the potty”
AAA: “uh-huh”
Dad: “ok! Get on the potty”
(me walking skeptically to the bathroom, taking off the diaper and pjs….Adam scrambling into the potty…maybe this will happen)
AAA: “Gummis?”
Dad: “yes, gümmis for sitting on the potty”. (hand him 2 to keep each hand busy)
AAA: (smiles and looks around and points to stickers) “stickers?”
Dad: “only when we go peepee in the potty. We get gümmis for sitting there but stickers for peepee”
(then Daddy sings the peepee song)
(AAA grins with a half eaten Gummi in his teeth)
**NOISE: a clear, strong squirt into the toilet**
Dad and AAA: “yyyyeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh!!”
(Dad requests the peepee song with glee and spins while singing, puts a Lightening McQueen sticker on Adam’s leg)
AAA: grinning “more”
Dad: “huh?”
AAA: “chic?”
Dad: “chic sticker too?”
AAA: “uh-huh” nodding
(Dad places sticker on other chubby knee and repeats Peepee song. Then sits, realizes moment and snaps 2 pics because the 1st shows too much skin)
Adam also received a Carz pull up diaper.

Big thanks to daddy Eric who has had to explain the philosophy ad nuasea to me.

Post script: the time it took me to write this out and came back in the bathroom behind the door and pooped without telling me. One victory at time : /

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My happiest moment today:

Organizing things in the house. I know I’m a dork! But hear me out – I moved in and remember that I had to slow up when AAA was having a hard time adjusting.Today, when he got up to the breakfast I realized all the small projects I could feasibly get done. I need the bar cleared for us; it’s gone on too long.

Then it morphed into sorting clothes that the housekeepers stuffed into boxes and bags when we moved. I had them it all organized in the old house and they were oblivious to that and commingled.

Good stuff – The house isn’t perfect but it’s logical and can be improved a step at a time now.

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AAA climbed up on the bar chairs (1st time) and acted just like me – something to drink and something to read

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I need to clean off the breakfast bar since he’s up their now : (

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My happiest moment today:

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“now my turn” & “now your turn”
It’s a weird new game that us only fun for us, I think. Adam fills little plastic cups at the sink and endlessly pours and fills and spills and drinks. He drinks the warm water and his stomach gurgles moments later.

Look how happy he is

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My happiest moment today:

Oddly it was this morning when we left on time. It felt good, no drama, day 2 of Adam taking his backpack and ready for the day. It’s been a few months since we’ve had that.
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My happiest moment today:

A kiss without solicitation after dinner – and dinner wasn’t that good. Later I got a hug just for laying down on the sofa and watching Carz.
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My happiest moment today:

A fussy night but a full half hour of cuddle before bed. It’s being restless and needing to be held to unwind.
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My happiest moment today:

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Pulling out a new emergency toy to get through the afternoon – where it was too hot to be outside, and a Sunday without Emily. It turned out to be a lot of fun and we each had a truck to race with.

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“bye zack, we lug you” – adam as we left the house and all on his own. It was too hot to take Zack with us for our errands.

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