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12/22 Monday Day 1037
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
It will soon be time for this blog diary to come to an end since we are really at the end of this potty journey. I’ve considered Mini Moose done for quite a few months since the poop was under his control. He may never fully be able to go the whole night without a pee which is not unusual. I often get up to go myself. The key point is that he is still waking up to go potty and our accidents at night are rare. I still expect some to happen from time to time over the next few months
12/23 Tuesday Day 1038
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
12/24 Wednesday Day 1039
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
It has really been unseasonably warm and I can’t rememer the last time this time of year when you could practically go outside in shorts. Well, some people around here I’ve een in long shorts, but the rest of us are in pants and light sweaters. After the kids were asleep Daddy Man and I finished wrapping the Santa Gift (Rockenblox that Itty Bitty asked specifically for) with special paper and a gigantic fancy bow. I stuffed the stockings and put the British Christmas Crackers on the tree (I am so excited about these little things. They should be way better than cracker jack prizes and I am a fan of the cracker jack). I put a santa tag with everyone’s names on them in gold ink because it was my Santa Gift. Yeah, I asked Santa for presents. He’s progressive and uses Amazon to ship. I also made a huge gift tag for the Frozen Jeep gift from us and Daddy Man’s parents to go with the big bow. Daddy Man spent a couple of days putting it together and sticking on the stickers. The kids will have a blast with it this spring.
Santa is also left a mess of magical glitter dust from the downstairs chimney, up the stairs and all over the tree. Yeah, I know how to do the Kringle right.
12/25 Thrusday Day 1040
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Merry Yulmashanakwanzaa! We opened gifts in the play room and it is a disaster area, but I think fun was had by all. Then the whole family: me, Daddy Man, kids, brother in law, and Grandmama moved to grandmama’s house for the second set of present spoils at her house. We stayed for dinner. The kids pretty much passed out when we got home after they ran around like crazy people for an hour.
12/26 Friday Day 1041
Night EC: 1 night miss (twice) and 1 morning catch
Mini Moose was quite disturbed at being soaking wet twice in the night. I am not surprised at this since it was a long day and he slept hard. I doubled up his training pants just in case and that helped keep the bed dry!
12/27 Saturday Day 1042
Night EC: 1 night miss and 1 morning catch
12/28 Sunday Day 1043
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
12/29 Monday Day 1044
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
12/30 Tuesday Day 1045
Night EC: No Night pee!
12/31 Wednesday Day 1046
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Yes the kids stayed up very late tonight to ring in the New Year. I encourage it and even poked Mini Moose awake a couple of times so he wouldn’t miss it. We spent the night in watching way too much TV and eating take out. We rang in the new year and then went to bed thirty minutes later.
1/1 Thursday Day 1047
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Happy New Year! I cannot believe that it is 2015 and I feel like all the time is the world is just passing us by. I say this and I let the kids watch old Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman VHS tapes all day. That’s hardly being productive or making use of our time!
1/2 Friday Day 1048
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/3 Saturday Day 1049
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/4 Sunday Day 1050
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Mini Moose and Itty Bitty have been absolute BEARS. I am losing my mind and yelling every day; I don’t want to be a yeller but I can’t seem to STOP. They seem to fight over everything and I am stressed about money and its just not good to have all this happening when stuck in the house. This cabin fever is a horrible thing.
1/5 Monday Day 1051
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/6 Tuesday Day 1052
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/7 Wednesday Day 1053
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/8 Thursday Day 1054
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/9 Friday Day 1055
Night EC: No Night Pee!
1/10 Saturday Day 1056
Night EC: No Night pee!
1/11 Sunday Day 1057
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/12 Monday Day 1058
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
I think both the kids are in some major growth spurts and mental development. Mini Moose is suddenly talking in more elaborate sentences (though I can’t understand most of it) and his memory is sharper. He’s developed a new sudden interest in puzzles. Itty Bitty has some new fine motor control skills she’s been showing off with scissors and drawing and coloring (she can now color in the lines and she was surprised that she could). They are still both at each other’s throats too which is not making for a harmonious household with Dragon Yeller Mommy.
1/13 Tuesday Day 1059
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
I’ve been trying to make a little money through some online review writing and some survey work, but it is very slow going and I don’t think it’s going to go anywhere. I can make a little more doing another text based service, but the kids distract me so much that it is hard to concentrate on that kind of work when it has to be so precise. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I know that I am tired of being in a money crunch. Though we aren’t wanting for anything, there is still stress of not being able to set aside money. I’ve done a lot of smart shopping, saving on gas, cooking everything from scratch. I don’t even buy coffee two days a week anymore, I’ve been brewing it at home.
1/14 Wednesday Day 1060
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Today. I might eat my children.
1/15 Thursday Day 1061
Night EC: 1 night miss and 1 morning catch
1/16 Friday Day 1062
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
1/17 Saturday Day 1063
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Let it snow. We are in a blizzard zone. As if we aren’t cooped up enough. Itty Bitty did go to dance class today and she continues to love that and she and her dad will likely go skiing afterward. She definitely is the outdoors type. I decided not to take Mini Moose because he doesn’t have equipment and he gets very mad if he can’t do what his sister does. I also don’t ski so I would be of no help to him anyway.
1/18 Sunday Day 1064
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Happy 42nd Birthday Daddy Man! This year I had to redeem myself from the Marble Cake Disaster of 2014, so I and my little sous chefs baked from scratch chocolate cake and frosted it with homemade chocolate butter creame and chocolate ganache. While this project wasn’t without its hair pulling and near disasters it did come out delicous and beautiful and we presented it to Daddy Man very pleased with the result.
I also made some fantastic English toffee bars. That, however, didn’t go as smoothly the first attempt. There is a patch of burnt molten sugar outside of the back door. Nothing my grow in that spot for a few years since I am sure it charred right through the slush and to the ground!
1/19 Monday Day 1065
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Snow Day!
It was a HUGE brain burst for the kids and we are in the tail end of it. I’m exhausted and twitching from the lack of sleep. Mini Moose, aside from the puzzles, is also now much more adept at using computers and touch pads. He’s very good at turning on the Rokenbok vehicle and manipulating it much better than he did when they kids first got it for Christmas. He remembers sequences and can follow three and four step instructions. He’s also learned the art of stomping feet and protesting his displeasure with more vigor. His vocal chords can now peel the paint off the walls with it’s shrill.
MiniMoose Wordisms:
I do this self!
I helpa you momma peas?
Shista get out!
Go upstairsh/downstairsh.
I crying, I sad!
Vroom Vroom cars on puta, dad? (Can I watch cars on your comuter Dad?)
Angee Berd (Angry Birds)
No Nebba! (No never!)
Powpoo Gos (Power Puff Girls)
Keyfo (Clifford the Big Red Dog)
Monsta (Monster)
I no wike it. (I don’t like it)
I bruff teef (I want to brush my teeth)
Heppa me yucky (Help me floss my teeth with this dental flosser that gets yucky and goes in the trash when I’m done)
1/20 Tuesday Day 1066
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
My first class of the semester got cancelled yesterday due to the obscene amount of snow we got. I also cancelled Itty Bitty’s second dentist appointment because the weather seems so iffy right now.
1/21 Wednesday Day 1067
Night EC: 1 night catch and 1 morning catch
Pottytunities for Two 