I've always had a really good memory for dates. Though its more from dates in the past such as birthdates of classmates from elementary school and usually dates that I probably shouldn't remember. Today is one of those dates. Today, several years ago I officially started dating my ex boyfriend. Seems kind of weird to me now that I am married that I remember that. However, today is also the day 4 years ago that we had our engagement photos. It was a gorgeous fall day and I was so excited to get photos with beautifully coloured leaves. Our photographer, my friend Michelle did an amazing job. She also did our wedding photos. I loved how she had all sorts of ideas, but also let me give my input and bounce ideas off of her to see if they would look good in reality and not just in my head. She also is very talented in making me look gorgeous. No, this blog isn't some kind of ploy to make you hire her. I kind of just went from one thought in to going on about her fabulous talent.
Today was just nuts. You know when you know you are doing something that's probably not smart but for the sake of your sanity you do it anyway? At the same time knowing it could save or destroy your sanity? Yeah today I made those kinds of choices.
Yesterday I had said that potty training was exhausting? Well now I have other words for it. Words my momma taught me not to use so I won't. Really it was my fault anyway.
Today we did our usual venture out doors for a couple of hours. I decided to put Sophia on the potty before leaving, bring her potty seat, and walk to the plaza we usually walk to. I gave her her milk on the way, figuring that would give her a good 15 minutes to process and then we would try the potty at Tim Hortons.
Well first of all its the tiniest bathroom in the world. I tried changing diapers there once and never did it again because there's just no room at all. So the girls, the stroller and I are all in the tiny whellechair bathroom. I have Sophia on the toilet, Elisa in the stroller and Im trying to bribe Sophia to stay on the toilet cuz I know shes going to pee and I ( at the time) only knew of that specific bathroom
I gave her goldfish crackers. She tried to shove them between her legs ( seriously what is UP with kids shoving toys and stuff between their legs!?) and drop them into the toilet so I said " dont drop em! Eat em!" SO she kept stuffing the crackers ( new ones, not the ones that went between her legs) in her mouth, grinning and saying "eat em! eat em!" She sat, she ate, I sang, Elisa squealed like a pig....about 5 minutes later, still no peeing and Sophia dropped a cracker in the toilet and I thought...oh well...shoppers HAS to have a washroom. So we fought with the "underware" ( underware fashioned cloth diaper), held sophia back from playing with the toilet seat, in the toilet water etc ( anyone who has done potty training has to know what im talking about) and wrestled her into the stroller again.
Did I mention this Tim Hortons is so not stroller accessible? Nor is it really wheelchair accessible. So there's a button to push to open the door but that's where accessibility ends. For those of you who know me well, you know I have a serious issue with wheelchair/assistive device accessibility. It really irritates me.
After our errands, on the way home, we stopped again at Tim Hortons and went through the whole process all over again. Except this time Elisa was livid. Sophia didnt pee. The lady in the stall next to us flushed her toilet which terrified them both and so there was all sorts of screaming. I was sweating like crazy and I thought to myself...why Christina...why did you choose to do this? On the brink of losing my mind I thought "its ok...i can blog about this experience. It'll be fun....Then I bundled Elisa into my wrap ( THANK you Leah) and tried to explain to sophia that she wasn't going to be able to walk cuz little sister needed mommy and trekked home.
Speaking of the wrap....ive watched tons of tutorials, all saying the same thing, and tie is exactly like them but something never seems to be right. Elisa was bouncing like someone who doesnt know how to properly ride a horse. It was kind funny.
Later on, we had supper. Sophia didnt want to eat her beef stroganoff ( like piggy with pasta. all meat that isnt pork is called "like piggy" - meaning pork is called piggy) so I said to Josh, here give her some goldfish crackers.
Her response?
"Eat em!"
What a friggin smart kid! We are so in trouble.
Another funny happening from today....
We were reading her alphabet book. She can read quite a few letters now. She still thinks I is e initially but then changes her mind. Anyway, she was reading I, so I asked her what j was
Her response?
She leaned toward me and very seriously said "twat" and then ran off.
Husbands response when I told him later?
Where did she learn THAT word?!
Its taken me all day to finish this. Tomorrow Im going to talk about how I single handedly will probably keep the pregnancy test industry alive during my childbirthing years.
( im not pregnant. I know cuz I took a test. Again. For those of you that know me well, you are not surprised, and want to smack me)
xo
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