Sunday, September 21, 2014
Astros game
We had free tickets courtesy of Champoins (thanks Sarah! ) and decided to have one on one time with Ania. We've been wanting to and thought this was the perfect time. I was nervous with the potty situation which worked out great!
We dropped Cameron off at my parents and headed to the game. Ania loved it!! Her face of seeing the field and watching all the action was priceless. She danced to some music and was looking for "that guy" or the mascot. She had a hotdog and 2 ice creams. Yikes!
We had a blast!
Potty training
So I really got serious about potty training last week where Ania wore underwear all last weekend and changed her from her pull-up to underwear after school. She did pretty well! Still a work in progress but I’m overcoming my fear of taking her out in public without on because we went to the store…haha. Now, I need to speak with her teachers at school on her progress. They’ve told me before she goes when they take the kids, Ania just needs to tell them when she needs to potty. We’re working on that. Ania doesn’t really tell us, she’ll disappear and I’ll find her sitting on the potty.
The one thing I’m enjoying is that we haven’t had to change a 2 almost 3yr old’s poopy diaper because Ania’s been going in the potty. Love that!
Sensitive
Ania is a very stone faced little girl to the outside. At home, she’s very loveable, caring, talkative, sings and runs around. One thing I noticed this weekend is that she’s VERY sensitive. She doesn’t like to be told anything ‘bad’ or else she’ll sulk and/or cry. We ran out of yogurt and told her that she can’t have that today and what happens, waterworks. Then I have to tell her not to jump while she’s eating and waterworks. She just doesn’t like it.
Well, she has to get used to it because this is not the first or last time we’ll be telling her something she doesn’t want to hear.
Please don't hit your sister
Cameron has started to get in Ania’s personal space because she’s started to crawl a lot. Ania has been good about telling Cameron ‘No, she can’t do that’ and scooting her away from those items (e.g. outlets, fireplace, etc.). Ania has been our little patrol on the whereabouts of Cameron. Ania will scream “Mommy!! Cameron not supposed to be here” I’ll run and see and either pick her up and redirect her, or let Ania know, it’s okay if she explores the area.
There’s also the situation where I give Cameron something to play with and Ania runs over and takes it from her. Then I have to tell Ania, that she has to share.
Then there’s yesterday, when Ania wanted Cameron to lay down and pretend to sleep. Cameron wanted no such thing because she was crawling everywhere. We tell Ania that Cameron will play later because she’s exploring. Ania continues to yell “baby, lay down and pretend sleep.” Ania gets her wand she got from Disneyworld and starts waving it around, then hitting in on a pillow. Tom and I start getting nervous and tell Ania to stop hitting her wand on the pillow so hard and as we’re telling her that, Cameron strolls over at the same pillow. WHACK!!! At that very moment, Ania whacked Cameron on the head and waterworks. I grabbed Cameron and had to tell Ania why I told her to stop with her wand.
The very first physical fight with these girls. Tom and I were SHOCKED. But man, does Ania have an arm!
Sprint tri numero dos
Right after my first tri I had a high so I signed up for another one with Sarah. Overall, a good race. The run was super hot! But I crossed the finish line. Love it.
A little change of plans
So in my last post, I was sitting in the waiting room for Tom to finish up. The nurses kept coming up to me telling me that it was going to be another hour, another hour and a half. So about four and a half hours later, a urologist finds me and tells me that during his procedure, his bladder tore and he came to repair it. Um, what? So, I had to wait again for another hour because he was in recovery, so I grabbed lunch. When I came back, this hernia surgeon spoke with me about what happened. Basically, his bladder was not where it was supposed to be which most likely caused the rupture. So what was supposed to be healed during the weekend changed a bit. It was still an outpatient procedure and he went home with a catheter and another tube for draining. I learned how to drain it all! We had help for the first couple days, and then during the work week it was a busy, busy time! I was lucky enough to work from home to tend to Tom. I still dropped off the girls at school.
Well during the week, I called 911 for the first time on Wednesday because his catheter wasn’t draining. The fire fighters came, followed by the ambulance. While we waited, I arranged for my sister to pick the girls up from school, packed up their clothes and food, called their school letting them know my sister was going to get them. Tom went to the hospital, while I waited at home for my sister because she needed our car with the car seats. Alma came and got the girls, I went to the hospital and waited. We find out that Tom had to get irrigated out. Not fun. And off back home we went. The girls ended up staying with my parents until that Saturday. Tom had a urologist appt the next day, so we just needed him to be OK for the next 24 hours. Thankfully, the next day at his appointment (which was an all-day event), he healed OK and catheter came out.
The healing process really started, he got his staples out last Friday and back at work today. So to say the least the last two weeks have been a blur.
The girls were AWESOME for me. We told Ania that Daddy had a big boo boo and we needed her to help out. She stepped it up along with her sister!
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