Week in review

Well, this last week has been interesting. Squeeks doesn't want to take naps anymore. I do put her in her room at least an hour a day but she just uses that time to destroy her room. The rest of the day she terrorizes the house. I feel like all I do is run around putting her in time out, making her clean messes, clean messes myself, do regular household chores, take her off counters and other things she has climbed on, and so on. Every single day I am exhausted but have nothing to show for it. Thank goodness for great computer games that I can use to teach the older kids, because doing book work has been impossible with Squeeks around. Thank goodness this is just a stage! While it is a very annoying stage, it is also an incredibly adorable stage. She is coming up with new words and things every single day. She is using the potty like 40 times a day it seems. She is saying 3-4 word sentences such as "I wan sit there" or "I wan go pawee" I just love to hear the new things coming from that adorably cute little voice. And oh the new things she can do! Such as: Pushing chairs around so she can climb on anything she wants, using step stools, trying to pour her cup into her sister's, pouring water out of the bathtub, stealing other's food, taking her clothes off, attempting to put her clothes back on, and so on.

This week we started going back to the Y. It is so incredibly important for the kids to be in the pool and I am so sorry that I have gotten away from that these last few months. It sure feels good to be back there, if only that it is a couple hours I don't have to be picking up messes! Squeeks is a swimming fool! She loves that pool even more than the other two did at this age. Mo of course loved being back in and just took off to the other end of the pool. Although at first she forgot that you only need to take the swim test once each day. So she would do the test, go jump off the diving board, swim back and say "I'm taking the test" and do it again. Since Tara (the lifeguard) and I were talking and not paying attention, it took like 5 or 6 swim tests before we realized what she was doing. It was pretty funny. Bubba just has a thing with the Y pool. He can swim across any other pool but not the Y one. I think it is a mental block just cause he has been in that pool since he was a baby and has the mentality of "I can't go in the deep end." The first day he tried and tried. Every single time he would stop and grab the wall. Sometimes 5ft off the wall cause he needed to talk or ask Tara a question. Other times it was at the half way mark. We tried everything we could to get him to swim the whole pool. Even told him if he went half way and then back without touching the wall that it would be the same and he could then go off the diving board. Even that didn't work. When it was time to go, he was distraught. He was crying, mad, and didn't want to get dressed to leave. I promised we would be back the next day to try again. The next day a good friend, swim teacher and swim coach was the lifeguard. Bubba was having the same problem. Some of it was loss of stamina from a few months away from the pool but mostly it was confidence. Seeing that, Keith gave him a 1 bubble belt. The belt didn't really do much for him except build the confidence. He swam the pool right away, and went off the diving board. In order to go again, he had to go without the belt. He still "couldn't" go the whole way so he did half way and back. He was so happy to be going off the diving board!

On Wednesday the kids had a performance at AU music class. It was very cute. Bubba danced and sang, Mo played the malletts. They were very proud of it and excited that dad took his lunch break at that time so he could come watch.

Mo also had her first Occupational Therapy appointment. Of course it went well and she had a blast.

Then we all got sick....A stomach bug consumed us all. Thank goodness it was just a quick 24-36hr thing but as I type Daddy still isn't feeling well. He is on day two and appears to be getting worse, not better. At least everyone is healthy again and Mo didn't miss seeing the Nutcracker. Mimi took her to see it today and since it was her first time, it was a huge deal to her. So thankful she didn't have to miss it! She got a new outfit from Grandma P. to wear, and went through mommy's jewelry boxes to find matching jewelry. She ended up with Grandma R's clip on earrings & brooch for her hair, and mommy's necklace. She felt super special and beautiful!