week ending nov 26, 2006

Week ending November 26, 2006: This week the kids had two Thanksgiving dinners. Well ok, they didn’t really eat much of anything at either dinner (they seem to be picky eaters when in a crowd or a strange place), but they seemed to enjoy the company. Right now I’m wishing that I’d been more proactive about getting flu shots for the kids. Alex has been coughing since Monday, and since has developed a fever and vomiting. Chloe started coughing on Wednesday and hasn’t had any other symptoms yet. She’s been doing really well with the potty training. She hasn’t had any accidents in a while and she’s getting better about deciding on her own to use the potty without so much hounding from us. We’ve totally backed off on Alex’s potty training. It was getting to be a war to get him to use the toilet at all, so now we’re waiting again for him to decide that he is ready. So far he does all of his BM’s in the potty, but otherwise takes advantage of wearing diapers. This week I dressed the kids up in their xmas finery and took them to a fancy xmas shop to take their pictures for our xmas cards. I brought a puppet with me and the puppet kept them cheerful and looking at the camera, so it only took one session to get a decent picture instead of the several sessions over several days that it took last year. We were up at 5am this morning with sick kids, so I can’t remember too much about what happened this week. I do remember that last week we heard Alex get out of bed at around 9pm and then we didn’t hear him talking so we figured he’d gone back to sleep. We didn’t realize until we went to bed that Alex had gone back to sleep in our empty bed instead of his own. In the month or so that they’ve been in beds instead of cribs, this is one of the only times either one of them has gotten out of bed before morning, so I guess we are pretty lucky. Also last week the kids rode their bicycles about 3 blocks, all the way to the community playground and back. That is by far the longest ride they have been on.