Poops the word

Ok - so as everyone knows, we have not been successful in potty training Ryan. Thankfully, we've seen that Emma cries a lot when she's poopy, so maybe she'll be easier. So here is a wonderful story about today. Emma is on medicine for her ear infection which is making everything a little watery and leaky. So when we got home from the gym today, I had to change all her clothes. But since I was taking her upstairs after I nursed her to put her down for a nap, I just left her in a diaper while I nursed her. I made the mistake of making funny comments about her being naked. When will I learn?? Ryan is at a point where if I say anything about Emma, he feels the need to do it for attention.

Anyway. After I put Emma down, I took a shower while Ryan was watching Curious George. I told him to come up and find me when the show ended - in hopes of avoiding the shouting he does from the bottom of the stairs. When he came up he had only a shirt on. No pants, socks or pullup! And he thought it was hilarious. I must admit, I thought it was funny too. And I told him, that I didn't care as long as he went in the potty. He ran around like that for about 10 minutes while I finished getting ready. Then I got him dressed again so he could help me clean all his bath toys as part of my spring cleaning. This cleaning also included his potty chair.

After we put them both down for naps, I left for the grocery store. When I called later, this is the story that Kris relayed to me. Ryan evidently thought to take his pants and pullup off again. But this time, he pooped right on the floor in his room! Then he proceeded to play with it and spread it all over his room. I asked Ryan why he didn't use the potty or call for Daddy and he said he did (Kris wouldn't have heard him though because he was outside). So when Kris found him, needless to say he was livid! He is now hoarse from yelling so much. Ryan was put into the bathtub (toy free since they were still in the garage) and then put on his bed in a pseudo timeout while Kris cleaned up. Of course, Emma woke up from her nap part way through this and Kris couldn't let her out of her crib because he was cleaning, so she screamed for a half hour. She was pretty happy to see me when I got home. But wow - was I glad I wasn't home for this!

Other things that have happened. We went to the zoo yesterday. We were supposed to go with a friend, but her son came down with a fever. So I bundled the kids up and we went anyway. Ryan had a great time and he walked the whole thing. We were sitting in one of the resturants for our snack when a male peacock outside put his feathers into bloom! Ryan watched for a while and then I had him go out near the peacock for a picture. He also played in the childrens area. Emma wouldn't take a nap in the stroller and ended up falling asleep 5 minutes before we got home.

Ryan's teachers visited yesterday for our second home visit. Ryan seemed embarrassed to be here with them and didn't really want to interact, but I know they were anxious to here him talk at home because he is very quiet at school. Eventually, he opened up and played kitchen with Miss Chris. After that, I put them both down for naps, which Ryan didn't want. So he trashed his room instead. I had told him that I would leave the light on if he would play quietly for an house. Well he was pretty quiet - but pretty messy. And he eventually fell asleep by the door for a half hour. Here is what the room looked like.

Sorry for being away so long!

I'm sorry we've been away from the blog for so long. I have been plenty busy with my new chocolate business and spring cleaning. I've already written this blog once and then hit backspace too quickly and deleted half of it, so I'm writing again.

My chocolate parties are going. I've had 4 parties, some successful and some not so much. But all of them a lot of fun and with some great food. Must be why I've gained a few pounds. I just can't help myself, the products are so good! I'm really hoping for this to take off. I have a lot of work to do. I have been trying to get to the gym as much as possible. I've recently found that if I follow a plan set out ahead of time, I stick to it much better. So I just finished my first 5 week plan and set up another 5 week one. I am gaining some muscle, which is good. I've also started my spring cleaning. I estimate it will take me 12 weeks at the way I'm going to get through it all (and that doesn't include the basement).

Ryan is doing well. He is going to be evaluated at school for help with fine motor and gross motor physical and occupational therapy. I know that he will need it, because he did with Children's - we just weren't willing to pay for it. He will easily qualify for the preschool again next year. His speech has come a long way, thankfully. And luckily, 'I play with Mama' isnt so promenant part of his daily speech! We have been working on playing by himself and he is getting much better at accepting that I have other things that need to be done.

Emma as always is so happy. We found out today that she has a double ear infection - but you would never know. She recently learned to clap and enjoys doing it when every she does anything. She started walking behind things, which creates some fights between her and Ryan over who gets to push the shopping cart. Those legs of hers are getting stronger, but she's not ready to really walk yet. This week we had some great weather so I let the kids play in the sandbox. They both had a great time.

Last weekend, Emma and I headed to MI for Jenny Stone's baby shower. She is such a cute pregnant lady and we're so excited for this baby - especially Aunt Sally! Previously, we've tried to leave early in the morning in hopes that the kids would sleep in the car. But it hasn't worked out as well as we had hoped. So this time I left around 7pm in hopes she would fall asleep. She did, but then alternated crying and sleeping for the last hour. We had a great time. It was wonderful to get to spend some time just with Emma and to have my parents get that chance also. Ryan got to spend the weekend with Kris and from what they have both told me, really enjoyed their time. After much deliberation, Kris took Friday off from work. They got steel for the garage and went to the park with Ryan's big John Deere truck. Ryan attempted to tell me all about the weekend on Monday, but was just missing too many words. At least he wasn't too upset, he was certain that they were going to Grandpa's house and had attempted to 'pack' a few times on Thursday.

Anyway, that's it. Email me if you want to host a chocolate party! Look what's it done to my sister!!