Days 8 through 10 of our 2010 summer vacation...
I haven't had a chance to sit down and update our blog lately. Thursday I had my final curriculum day at school, to work on Honors Biology with my colleague Katy. After picking up Elijah from daycare, I rushed home to shower and hit the town with some of my Fairfax ladies. We went out for dinner and drinks in Burlington to celebrate my friend Liz's birthday. My favorite picture from the evening came out all fuzzy, so I posted this one instead. The birthday girl is on the right wearing pink.
Friday we stayed home for the day. There were some families heading to the beach, but we couldn't quite motivate to get there. The weather was nice, Ed worked on wood and Elijah and I went for a nice walk and picked wildflowers along the roadside. We had a babysitter (Molly) coming for the evening, which is always kind of a bad scene as far as Elijah is concerned. He usually starts crying the moment a teenaged girl walks in the house. But last night, he was quite excited- I guess it's another sign of him becoming a big boy. In fact, Molly sat down on the floor to do a puzzle with Elijah and he ran over to me and pushed on my legs, saying, "Go away, Mama!" Then he did the same thing to Ed. We took that as our cue that he was going to be just fine, and headed out! It was such a relief over all the times we've left him crying his eyes out with sitters...
Friday we stayed home for the day. There were some families heading to the beach, but we couldn't quite motivate to get there. The weather was nice, Ed worked on wood and Elijah and I went for a nice walk and picked wildflowers along the roadside. We had a babysitter (Molly) coming for the evening, which is always kind of a bad scene as far as Elijah is concerned. He usually starts crying the moment a teenaged girl walks in the house. But last night, he was quite excited- I guess it's another sign of him becoming a big boy. In fact, Molly sat down on the floor to do a puzzle with Elijah and he ran over to me and pushed on my legs, saying, "Go away, Mama!" Then he did the same thing to Ed. We took that as our cue that he was going to be just fine, and headed out! It was such a relief over all the times we've left him crying his eyes out with sitters...Ed and I were supposed to go to the movies with some friends, but then decided that we'd rather have dinner and meet up with them afterwards. So we went to the Longhorn for dinner, where I ate more than a person twice my size should eat. Then we killed some time at Home Depot,
with the plan of meeting the others at 9:15.
At 9:15, we met Beth, Jim, Liz and Todd at Cody's Irish Pub in Essex for a drink or two. It was a nice way to end the evening, and it sounds like we didn't miss much with the movie (Grown Ups with Adam Sandler), nobody seemed to think it was very good.
Today (Saturday) was overcast int he morning with a deteriorating forecast for the day. Elijah and I hit the playground first thing, to get in some running and climbing before the rain arrived. We made it a little over an hour before the sprinkles turned to showers. The rest of the day was a complete washout, so we played legos-
That shiner on his left eye is from diving head-first off the couch. I was in the other room, when I heard, "Yee-haw!" which means he was riding up on the couch back. Then I heard thud! and silence and finally, "Waaaaa!" Sigh.............What a boy.
"Potty training" update: For several days, Elijah hasn't even wanted to sit on the potty. In fact, he used it twice that first day and then never again. He obviously isn't really ready for toilet training, so I decided to just back off and be really casual about it. This weekend, I brought home the potty that my friend Beth used for her daughter Dianna, just to have another one around the house. I told Elijah that it was a present from Dianna, whom he adores. He asked a couple of questions and then sat down and made his very first "poopy in the potty!" Big news around here...
The potty reward tonight was a chocolate-covered granola bar and an episode of Dora the Explorer.
Heading to bed early tonight- tomorrow morning is the "Paul Mailman 10-miler" race Liz and I have been training for. We ate a big spaghetti supper tonight, hope it works!
That shiner on his left eye is from diving head-first off the couch. I was in the other room, when I heard, "Yee-haw!" which means he was riding up on the couch back. Then I heard thud! and silence and finally, "Waaaaa!" Sigh.............What a boy. "Potty training" update: For several days, Elijah hasn't even wanted to sit on the potty. In fact, he used it twice that first day and then never again. He obviously isn't really ready for toilet training, so I decided to just back off and be really casual about it. This weekend, I brought home the potty that my friend Beth used for her daughter Dianna, just to have another one around the house. I told Elijah that it was a present from Dianna, whom he adores. He asked a couple of questions and then sat down and made his very first "poopy in the potty!" Big news around here...The potty reward tonight was a chocolate-covered granola bar and an episode of Dora the Explorer.
Heading to bed early tonight- tomorrow morning is the "Paul Mailman 10-miler" race Liz and I have been training for. We ate a big spaghetti supper tonight, hope it works!
2 comments:
You've been busy, I can see!
Glad you are really making the most of your summer vacation!
Good luck with the potty training!
Glad Elijah is making potty-progress! There was a couple at the campground who had twin boys and thus, twin potties. I couldn't imagine dragging potties to camp with me - especially for two!
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