Thank you all so much for your responses re: potty training. I really do know that it will work a lot better if I let her do it on her own time. But there’s that weird insecure groan that you hear in your head when you find out that some kid the same age as yours is already potty trained.
Anyway, just this morning, I took off Emma’s diaper before naptime, and she said, “pee-pee potty! pee-pee potty!” – ran over to her potty and sat down on it. She squeaked out a few “farks” as she calls them, and that was that, but I was still happy that she wanted to sit on the potty. Some days, she acts like it’s a snake ready to bite her rear.
And I know, it’s not proper for a 22-month old to say “fart” but it was one of those things she picked up from us, and it’s so cute to hear her say “Oh! Emma fark!” that we just let her. Bad mommy award.
Anyway, one of my comments was from Teresa @ For Crying Out Loud, and I am SO getting this t-shirt for Emma when it comes out …
Thanks, Teresa & Erin!!
So where have we been the last couple of days? Well, our internet was down yesterday, Ken was in Charleston on a business trip, and I have NO clue how to fix our computer stuff when he’s gone. He got home around 10:35pm and had it fixed within 2 minutes. Go figure.
Anyway, I used the downtime to work on our square foot garden, and I have it almost all finished! I decided to do tomato plants instead of seeds, so I just have to buy three of those, and then we’re all set.
We also have 2 thornless blackberry bushes and a fig bush to plant, but I’ll have to wait for Ken to dig holes. Probably this weekend.
All that’s left is putting a fence around the garden, and filling in the grassy area with some kind of mulch because it would be a huge pain to mow between the garden boxes.
Emma helped with the initial mixing of the dirt …
… but that might have been a mistake since she pitched a royal fit when I wouldn’t let her dig up everything this morning.
I already have a box sitting next to our patio that we were going to fill with sand this summer, but I think we’ll have to do that asap before we end up with no garden.
Speaking of outdoors, I also got 2 55-gallon drums off of Craigslist for $30 total (including delivery!) that we are going to use for rain water collection, which we will use to water our garden, and also for our compost pile.
Which brings me to my Thrifty Thursday tip for today — shop Craigslist, Freecycle, thrift stores and consignment shops. ESPECIALLY if you have a kid, because they grow out of their clothes so quickly, the clothes you find there are usually barely worn. I know that Emma had many outfits that she only wore once or twice. You do have to dig and hunt, and sometimes you leave empty-handed, but you just never know what you might find.
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