Everything seems to be going so quickly lately. Lexi tries to walk almost everywhere she goes. She made it 14 steps this past Sunday. She hasn’t gotten more than 5 or 6 this week though. Have I mentioned she moved to formula a few weeks back? I still nurse her in the early morning, but that’s it. She does really well on it and it is very freeing for me. She is getting really, really attached to her blankie, She will fight you for it!
I was teasing Emma about something I said I was teasing her and she says My Pappy teases me like that. It was cute. I love when she says “my” Pappy. Today she was looking at our family pictures and she was pointing to MIL and she says MawMaw calls my angel and MawMaw calls me sunshine. It was adorable because MawMaw sings You Are My Sunshine to her. It was almost a teary moment. I hope I remember to tell her when I talk to her next.
So yesterday or the day before I decided Emma just needed to be potty trained. So I started putting panties on her. And today, she told me twice that she had to go on her own and ran to the potty with me. And she went!! I was SO excited. She did poop in her panties but that’s bound to happen at first. I hope with the weekend coming since she isn’t going to be at home as much that she’ll continue it. I don’t know why I must overthink this so much. But I am SO TIRED OF WIPING POOP. I remember another blogger who said almost those same words a year or so ago and I am confident that her little girl is not in a pull-up anymore. I know it will come but I am ready! Really, it’s amazing how much she has improved even just by making her wear the panties. I sort of got the clue that she could handle it when the other day she was getting ready to go (I could tell) and she asked me whether she had panties or a pullup on. Uh yeah, if you can wait for me to answer that question, you can run to the potty before you do it.
So Scott put mulch down where we had the rocks in the yard and it looks SO good. I love it. Then, we bought a metal bench from Home Depot and put it on the front porch. But then because of the railing, you couldn’t see out since it’s such a small porch so I barely mentioned taking out the railing to Scott and not more than 20 minutes later, he had the jigsaw out and cut it out. We are going to wrap some 1×4″s around the posts to make them more substantial. So then D’s friend A came over to show us a design for the yard. She is going to NC State next year to get her master’s in landscape design. She talked to us about some things but didn’t have her drawings. She is supposed to be emailing me the drawings. I can’t wait to see them. She sounded like she had some really good ideas.
Today my grandmother turned 70. I called her today. I think she was pretty surprised. She didn’t send me or my sister a birthday card this year. It was very unusual. When my mom asked her about it, she basically said she thought she deserved a card from us. Uh, yeah. Let’s be 2. When I found that out, I already had some pictures for her in an envelope to send. So I think I got back on the good side with her. I think my sister doesn’t care if she does or not. She already has said she doesn’t support her relationship with her boyfriend and I think this is just one more thing on her list about her. It’s too bad.